Year of the Dragon 2024

A fiery zodiac animal illustration for 2024's Lunar New Year celebration. I like to add a hint of Dungeons and Dragons flavor to my zodiac animals, and since it's the dragon's turn this year, blacksmithing was an amusingly fitting theme for this chunky reptile! I totally missed the actual celebration date because I was in a somewhat experimental mood. Learning loose rendering in secondary areas and details was one of those experiments for time-saving purposes.