Stories by the Camp Fire

Aeroh took a deep breath, perching himself on the crystal as it was now his turn to tell a tale by the camp fire. It was his chance not only to impress his friends but his Aunties, as he called them.

"I am going to tell you the tale of the ghost flytts." he said as he reared back and sat on his hind legs and tail, capturing the warm glow and deep shadows on his lighter colored scales and feathers as to look more imposing.

As he wove the story Iiotian and Saiya couldn't help but smile as they saw Ripha intertwining her tail with Cain's.

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My entry for 's contest

Originally I wanted to draw a picture of the trio in human form and painting avian puppets of other characters, but somehow the concept shifted into storytelling contest by a camp fire, with Iiotian and Saiya (Aeroh's guardians) supervising

Although I tried to give my best I'm not completely happy with this
First of all is the avians themselves. Iiotian's chin is too short, Saiya's eyebrow scales look off and Aeroh looks a lot older than Ripha and Cain (actually I don't the age difference between them, but still). Also his hands turned out a bit weird
Other thing that was really annoying was their faces. Unlike the rest of their body there's little to no reference on how the scales in their faces are displayed (I know they have them, the detail here proves it [link]), which made understanding the volumetric of the shapes tricky

Th lighting is another thing I'm really displeased at. I don't have much experience when it comes to night scenes, I admit that, but I didn't want the shadows to eat most of the details (reason why I tried to add a 2nd light source from the full moon)
I especially dislike at the crystals. I know yellow light reflected by blue glass looks weird, but even then I don't like how it turned out DX

Avian concept belongs to Go adore her works

P.S: the step-by-step can be found here -> [link]