Dragons are Hard

First, I should say that I have never attempted to paint a dragon before.  And I am finding this first one to be quite a challenge.  It is a great learning curve and shows me that I would like to learn to do more dragons, as well as other 'creatures'.  Much practice is needed, so I will add it to the very long list of things to practice more of and more often.

This is a very much in-progress shot and the color is off due to on-the-fly-with-bad-lighting camera shooting:

Also, other parts of this piece which are in progress:

Hopefully I will have this done (or mostly done) by the end of this weekend.  That's the plan, anyway.