Hi here's step by step explaination of how to creat this work.
1. First I already have a general idea in my mind of the pose for this dragon. So I quickly block in big shape and then earase the part where the fire light is gonna expose since this dragon emits light within. Also for the ground I drag in some photo manipulated work that I did before.
2. Since it's in hell, so there should be some magma runing throgh almost everywhere, so I added some magma photo texture on the ground. For the dragon, create another red light layer under the basic dark shape tone layer to resemble the light coming out through the body.
3. Without the directional light from the environment, the dragon would look flat, so adding light reflected surface is needed. And it also definds how the dragon look like in detail stage.
4. Adding some photo texture on the surface of the dragon skin to spice up the flavor of evilness.
5. Final stage is to add visual effect of fire flam and particle to enrich the whole piece.
