Handsome!

Splendidly done, my friend! You most certainly put your newfound pencils to good use. As always, the details on the scales are incredible, especially considering that it took you only a single hours to not only draw but also fully colour this art. That's most impressive, even mind-blowing! Also, you must be using some very fine, high-quality pencils to achieve such lovely colours. The blue of the eye and the dark red part on the lower neck are so beautiful that I can hardly believe such can be achieved by mere pencils. As always, keep up the amazing work! ^v^

Thank you, dear friend! Portraits are always easy for me, since they don't need a composition and complex anatomy. I love to see other characters through the prism of my art.
The pencils are special, since they're thicker than usual ones and require a wider sharpener, but they don't break often like the usual colored pencils and the colors are great and vibrant, just like I love. At first I add colors slightly to understand the deepness of the color I need to reach. For example, to color the eye I used the same pencil, so the darker shade of it is the actual color of the pencil! To make such warm red color of the body I used orange color to fill the white gaps and turn 'bloody" red to the 'warm" red the actual dragon has. Darker red is made with a slight usage of the black pencil. That was a challenge to not mess up with the things, hehe!

Thank you for your warm comlpliments, Raiberd! The colors you use for words and sentences aren't visible, but I feel them while reading your texts ;)

You're welcome, and thank you for the explanation. It's fascinating to get an insight into your working process and tricks. Great work yet again :)