This creature I did in my favourite style of dark yet colourful. I made the image in greyscale first then colorized it, really helps me to focus on tonal value first, then color second, made for an enjoyable painting process too. I thought it would be helpful to do a tutorial about colorizing black and white images, so I typed one up on my art blog, the link is below for anyone that’s interested :-)

http://dragon84art.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-...