Speed Painting 30: The Hobbit 3, The Battle of the Five Armies

With the final Hobbit movie coming out, I decided to make this the speed painting of illustration.  I hadn't painted a dragon in a long time, so I thought why the hell not?  I already created a speed painting on the first Hobbit movie, with a very light tone.  This one on the other hand, is much darker as you can tell by both the illustration and music choice between the two illustrations.

I chose a pretty good reference point of Smaug demolishing Lake Town and played around with a few things.  I decided to add someone in the middle of the lake pointing an arrow where Smaug's chipped armor is located.  I tried to use some of contrast of red, yellow, orange with blue.

The Hobbit Speedpainting

I decided to illustrate The Hobbit and release it during the month the first movie came out. I was a pretty big fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy so I felt it would be worth painting. I also knew I would have a lot of fun with this illustration, there are so many different colors with a fantasy theme. What's not to love for an illustrator? Well, hope you guys have as much fun watching as I did painting it! Cheers!