Blog post 25/07/2025 – How long does it take to finish a painting? In this case, it took 3 years. I created the sketch, lineart and draft color in 2022, during that month of January spent creating one dragon after another for the “Dragonary” challenge established by Matt Stawicki. Then the painting remained there, and I always promised myself to fix it, to finish it somehow. And here we are. It’s June 2025 and I have finally completely taken over both the background and the dragon, trying not to lose the personality of this fascinating creature that drifts among the clouds of dust suspended between worlds.
Digital painting (mixed media, pencil and digital), smartphone drawing, photoshop & wacom digital painting, january 2022, PSD + Rework on Photoshop and Wacom tablet in June 2025.
Can dragons travel in space? Why not? This is one of the characteristics of dragons in the Spelljammer universe, a Dungeons & Dragons setting recently (2022) re-released for the fifth edition.
Work in progress and details:
Prints
Prints on RedBubble
Use of this artwork
You can share this artwork on a social media only if you credit me properly in the caption, “Artwork by Elena “Greenedera” Zambelli http://www.greenedera.com”. Thank you for the understanding.
For any other use of this artwork, contact me first. And don’t feed it to the Ais.
If you’re interested in digital downloads without watermark for personal use, licensing the artwork for a new project, or you’d like a custom print, please contact me.
Created on: 20/01/2022 + rework 21/06/2025
Copyright 2022 Elena Greenedera Zambelli, all rights reserved #noai
No, I didn’t win. But thanks anyway to all of you who supported me in this adventure! Honor to the winner, Denilve.art **