This model was actually finished exactly a year ago when I did the Spikeshell Warriors and it's been sitting on my desk because I just wasn't sure how I was going to handle the basing. After spraying up the Water Weird I had a good idea of how to use the airbrush to represent the idea of this dragon tortoise coming out of a marsh or the ocean using the airbrush to blend in some blue, green, and white to give the base some color and have the idea of stomping motion.
Alrighty - the trip with Google's Gemini to create artwork based upon my painting of the model was interesting. Here's the first attempt...
Well that's interesting - it went for a very solid grey base and what's up with the additional hole that isn't there. So I told Gemini to remove the hole - and not only did it do so - but it killed the stomp of the dragon tortoise's foot...
Okay, well, next I told gemini to add more blue to the base and have the water splash from the monster's foot - it did both and then some - holy heck!...
That's a bit dramatic - kinda like purposely stomping on a puddle to soak a friend standing next to you while in the rain. And the blue - okay - I said add more blue, not turn it blue. This time I told Gemini to tone it down by adding some light blue - some blue-green - and a little less splash. Alrighty, this I can live with...
Notice that secondary puddle is in the same location as the first image - maybe it's having difficulties interpreting the claw's relationship with the base? What's also interesting is that the background became a little bit more off-white with each request/change of Google Gemini - a bit of strange behavior of the A/I.
Thinking in terms of ShadowDark - I didn't want to make this a "true" dragon - their naming of "dragon" has been misnomered because of their size which has been magically derived from the great tortoises of the world. Therefore there's no range attack with a dragon's breath and it doesn't have quite the same level/hit points - but, it's shell armor makes it a force to be reckoned with as does it's bite, claws, and tail. My imagination goes to a dragon tortoise keeps safe a wizard's tower on an island not too far offshore but far enough that ships know to stay clear, else the dragon charges to sink the boat.
Finally we do get to deduct another model from the Kickstarter Bones pile...
Kickstarter paint total 231 + 1 Dragon Tortoise = 232
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