K'riestoef, stop looking at me like that. I'm trying to be straight over here.

Howdy. I took a break from Nuzlocking and actually drew something for once. (Yes, Throwback Thursdays is on hiatus at the mo. It'll come back once my Let's Play is finished.)This is K'riestoef, one of my dragon OCs who I haven't drawn in ages. In fact, I don't know if I've drawn him at all since the Throwback with him in (below).Boy does he look different. He was in dire need of a redesign, and so I have delivered. With this redesign, I've experimented a little with markings. I had this concept a while back, but it was one of those whims that I quickly decided wasn't worth my time. However, recently I saw someone else's dragon character. He was mostly white, but had a black marking covering his muzzle. Then I thought, "Hey! I wanted to draw K'riestoef showing off his stripes because the others lost theirs when they were redesigned but I always imagined he kept his and this would be a really interesting marking to add to him since he already has some!" It turns out I frequently think in run-on sentences. Anyway, I hadn't drawn a male dragon properly since the redesigns, so I wanted to try it out. And oh boy, uh, it seems dragons don't have to be female to be attractive (no homo). I swear I didn't mean to make him so buff, but it seemed to fit his character. I mean, after I drew The Fox with No Name I thought "Wow, Avatar Guy is kind of handsome," but not like this. I guess it's a dragon thing.At first I wasn't quite sure what to do with the facial markings. I sketched out some options (muzzle, eye or both) and decided that it would be too much to have such dark areas around his eyes, but it didn't look quite right without them either, so in the end I compromised.Here's some background: K'riestoef lives on Earth along with Keritian and Sann-driya. He's the shortest out of the three of them (but still 6' 6"), and the stockiest, or so it would seem after drawing this. In 2011, he published (under a human persona) a romance novel about a dragon who had been exiled to Earth, and fell in love with a human girl. Some critics suggested the main character was somewhat based on the author, and that he was living out some kind of fantasy. In other words, a self-insert. Oh, if only they knew.Oh, of course, the speedpaint! I quite forgot. Yes, I thought I might as well record some timelapses of me drawing, using Bandicam, since I have it. Adobe Premiere did NOT like 8.5 hours of footage sped up by 3500%, but it eventually finished rendering. AT 3:20 AM. Anyway, I slapped some generic royalty-free electronic music on it and uploaded it to YouTube. Here it is! I hope you enjoy.I think it's fairly likely that I'll be doing more. I'll also see what I can do about music. I've got a huge amount stored up, so it's simply a matter of asking the artists if they're okay with me using their music.Now, he IS supposed to have wings, but I ditched them at the last second because this picture looked better without them. You can see them in flat colour below:It's not a full-on "flats" version, because it wasn't meant to be like that. But there you can see that he kept his darkened wings as well as his stripes.Also, here are two looks at it without markings, and without lines. It's tradition by this point that when I upload a shaded piece, I have an alternate view without lines to judge my skill at shading. And I think I'm getting pretty good at it, if I do say so myself.And yes, of course I used references for this. You just can't see them in the video because they were on my second monitor.Brofoo! (That was how I typed it. I don't know why.)