Highlighting!
Okay...here's where things start to get really fun. As you can see, I've
used a light pinkish red on the red areas, highlighting the upper and left
parts of each of the large red areas. I use a light gold on the belly scales,
and mottled gold in the ears (which will eventually have ear hair in them).
I've started adding detail with the light purple, but only the neck shields
that are being struck with the light from the left. For the sheilds that
are in shadow (on the back of the neck below the horns), they'll be 'backlit'
with ambient light, which is also a lot of fun to do.
To do these first hightlight areas, I used the airbrush tool at 60%,
but you can use the paintbrush tool, or even the pencil. I like the soft
edge that the airbrush tool gives me in photoshop. For the large red areas,
I used a fairly large fuzzy edged brush. For the horns and shields, I used
my airbrush set on the smallest brush at about 80%. Experiment to see which
brushes you like to use best.
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