"Nemesyth" Dragon Bust

This sculpt started with a very simple but specific idea; a long and slender Dragon head with a very large set of horns, curved and sculpted to the way you see above. What followed was several nearly scrapped experiments, and countless trial and error. But in the end... it paid off more than I thought it would.

Initially this begun as just pure improv, but thanks to Wizzamgm in my Discord, he mentioned Monster Hunter, and so I started looking at the Gore Magala, Diablos, and Rathalos to help decide how to tackle the back of the neck, the scales around the mouth, and general ideas. For the colouring, I knew I wanted something pale and blue with piercing yellow/orange eyes. In the end I decided to take references from Smaug to try and get a very natural-yet-messy colouration. Something to look ancient, like the skin of a crocodile, thinking of a Dinosaur.

The photoshopped image in the end, I was intending for the "finish" of this model to be a profile shot (hence why the neck plating m