So for some recent designs I've done, I've used this site called colormind.io/ to help with the colours. It generates five colours at random, but uses an AI that's been trained on thousands of drawn images, to make them all complementary, i.e. a good colour scheme. Without it I couldn't have made the boy's colour scheme as well-balanced as it is (I've received one or two compliments directed at his colours alone!). Anyway, I was messing around in it the other day, just clicking the random button to see if anything interesting popped up, and this colour scheme emerged:



I really liked the dusky purples and oranges, and was suddenly inspired to draw a scalie person showing her back. Last time I used a limited palette I said I ought to do it more often, so here we are! I would love to do some more in future as well. Technically I cheated on this one, by also including a darker purple also generated by Colormind as part of a similar colour scheme. I used it for the lineart. This whole drawing only took me two days. The pose came together surprisingly quickly, and despite all the extra details it still took a lot less time than a fully shaded pic.





She was going to be a snake at first I guess, but early on the head shape was giving me a real headache (HA!), so I thought why not give her some cool hair? Then I put some more hair on her tail and arm, then I added a few more little things... yeah, I don't know what she turned into, but she's definitely not a snake, lol. Since (I guess) she's not 100% reptile I debated putting some sideboob in there too, but decided she didn't need it. The design in general just kind of happened as it went along; the arm tattoo was something I definitely didn't expect, and it's something I've never tried before, but I quite like the design I came up with. I was inspired by this one I found online: (link) My design is of course a lot simpler. But then I liked it so much that I decided to do something bigger with it. For the longest time I was at a loss as to what to do for the background, but the tattoo design provided some inspiration.





Ah, and the pose too - one of my most popular drawings is a back pose:

That pic's kind of old, though (but I do think it's held up pretty well), so I wanted to do the best darned back pose I could. I think this is my best work with regard to a face turned away from the viewer. The pose, like all my poses, is original and used several photos as reference, but this time I referred heavily to one in particular, and I think when I first imagined the pose I subconsciously took inspiration from this photo, so I think it's only fair to show it: (link) (contains butt!) It's been in my anatomy folder for a while now (since December 2017, not long after I drew Umbra!!), so I can't remember where I originally got it from. It caught my eye because of the position of the back, so I'm glad I finally got to use it for something.





Anyway, I love how this turned out. I love the colours and atmosphere, I love how well the anatomy turned out... and I love how she looks. The hair, the little fangs, the freckle-like face markings,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶v̶e̶s̶... yeah, she's really cute... I miiiiight have to draw her again. 😅 No promises though.

