Blah, Blah, Blah. If anyone would like to put this or any other images of mine on your own website in exchange for a link back Wolf Ridge's home page, drop me a line. All art here is copyrighted by the artist, but due to the nature of the internet, you're on your honor. Most animals I draw, I know personally, so I can actually touch them with my hands and know how their muscles and hair feel. With a fictional character such as Elim, I can only feel with my imagination.
Some reference is knowlege of human skin, some is occasional experiences holding reptiles.
I can feel the shape of each ridge and scale with my pencil as if I am touching his beautiful face with my finger. I feel the warmth of his skin, and curve of his scales. They are thick, tough, but mostly smooth to the touch. Even a crododilian has smooth scales on parts of its body. He prefers low light, his eyes glow with amusement and disdain of other species.