The Kickstarter for “Tiny Dragons Art Book” is live!

You have the opportunity to own three 3″x3″ choc full of amazing dragon art by artists from around the world. This is an art book project by Jon Schindehette and Art Order, LLC. Check out the Kickstarter Campaign here:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artorder/tiny-dragons-art-project?ref=454099&token=09f48aaf

My Rainy Day Dragon drawing was jurried into the “Not So Tiny Dragons” book. In celebration of this and the Kickstarter I’m excited to share with you folks a peek at much of the path I took to create this drawing (which also became a painting).

The Making of a (Not so ) Tiny Dragon

Here are some pages of my brainstorming. I explored in word lists different ways “tiny” could be interpreted and what visual cues might help with scale. I also toyed with the idea of TINY being an acronym of some sort (that’s still on the table for a future project). For one of these ideas I had to research different the look of different boats. This is generally how I work: a combination of word brainstorming, small rough sketches, and research.

While doing some brainstorming and daydreaming on the ride down to Gen Con last August, I came up with the idea of a little dragon getting dripped on from a wet leaf. That ended up being a little dragon huddled under some leaves on a rainy day. This idea stuck because of part of Jon’s instructions in the call for art “…Just have fun and make it really cool…” Having this mindset helped me decide what I wanted to see and what I though was fun.

Next week, the larger sketch.