Happy (belated) Year of the Dragon! (Patreon)

Why did it take so long for me to finish this illustration, it's already March?

To my credit, dragons should be celebrated every day.

Thank you again to the folks who came and hung out while I inked this! I'm kind of relieved I didn't do any coloring on stream because for some reason I did like 4 color passes on this that I kept trashing so I get to keep my pride as a confident colorist who knows what I'm doing lol.

I just downloaded a free pack of geometric patterns for Clip Studio and I dumped it in the BG for funsies and wound up really loving it... it gives the illustration a bit of a "hard-cover math text book" kind of feel. I added the '明けましておめでとう' (happy new year) just because the grid also looks like a worksheet pattern?? Does it work at all??? Is my Japanese handwriting atrocious?? The answers are all out of my hands ~ ~ ~ ✨