Gold Dragon Mist

FULLVIEW FOR DETAILS <3
The preview image is fuzzy and eww

I'm finally finished. This has to be the most patience-requiring thing I've done so far ><. For the longest time now, I found that I hate working on something for longer than a few hours total, so I did this to prove to myself that I could still sit down and focus on one image for several days. Not sure of the exact time but I'd estimate about 15-20 hours of work, if you want to include the two hours I spent on the initial pencil drawing.

This PNG took about 4 minutes for my poor PS to save and it crashed said PS once before. This was one MASSIVE file. This PNG, which is 30% of the original size, takes up 1.2 MEGABYTES on my drive, while the PSD file itself is 124 (yes, one-hundred-twenty-four) megabytes.

Watermarks because I worked way too hard on this for it to get stolen >:\

And the green smoke/mist/breath is there because I got lazy at the end

original drawing: [link]