Adler-the-reaper Art - Blog Posts

So I was rambling to some friends yesterday about how I really dislike Sparks' (that one dragon from Paw Patrol's 'Rescue Knights' subseries) design, right?

Like he's cute and all, fits the kids show aspect of things as well as Spinmaster's toy marketing. But it utterly irked me how his wing webbing technically isn't correct, the yellow underbelly seems a bit too bright, and his horns and brows being this random dark purple color that doesn't really fit with everything else. So, what was the outcome of this rambling, you might ask? Me, on a whim, taking it upon myself to redesign Sparks!

I was originally going to keep his primary red color until I received some input on the palette I was working with and switched it up to this orange that I was pretty happy with! I wanted to pick some sort of yellow to pay homage to his name, Sparks, but I went with the alternative and gave him some bolt-ish markings instead. Fixed his wing webbing too because.. Yeah. The only thing I really kept were his green eyes, albeit altered so they didn't look.. Swampy?? I guess?? Just overall, I'm happy with how this turned out, and I hope other people are as well! Alt ver. without wing