Updating My Old Artwork....

Good Evening.
...From Philadelphia....

   One of the things I was going over last night. 
   Was the difference between My Current Artwork and My Old Artwork.
   What really stood out is that it took Me some time to really figure out how to create the type of look that I needed when coloring the inked artwork and finishing up the process of whatever I was working on, where...?
   I needed a look that I simply wasn't getting.
​   Here is a Prime Example;

Underworld-HELL Dragoon
​(ULD)

   So as You can see here this drawing of a ULD isn't bad, at least on the surface. My Problem with My Own Drawing, Early-Drawings, was the Fact that the Textures weren't right. When I was coloring My Drawings I didn't get the impression that I was showing the Viewer the differences in "hardpoints" on a drawing, such as scales. Leather. Exoarmor-PVC and PVC-type clothing, gloss, hard or softpoints! 
   There was ​no differentiation on My Drawings where the above...!?
   I did the best that I could with the initial-pencil-drawing and subsequent-inking to show FUR. 
   To show the CLAWS.
   Even the HORNS on Her Head!
   But the Reality was I couldn't really SEE IT TO THE EXTENT THAT I KNOW IT NEEDED TO BE! So while on the surface the drawing is feasible and passable. I wanted and needed to get more into showing the Viewer ​of the artwork contrasting textures that could highlight the artwork. So take for instance with this side-view of a ULD; 

   For the Side-View I did a MUCH BETTER JOB WITH HER FUR! So that part I had NO PROBLEMS WITH, but!? Her body itself comes across more as a HIDE, as in ANIMAL-HIDE. More akin TO A LEATHER-HIDE! 
    Instead of scales.
    Now!?
    Fun-fact, there ARE Dragoons and Dragon-types whose bodies are hyperdenseskin, which tends to look like A TYPE OF ANIMAL-HIDE. But I realized I did not really set out to draw this dragoon with HIDE-SKIN. But with SCALES. 
   It wasn't till AFTER I was done and really looked at Her that I realized that the body was segmented and shows the patterns for Her Scales but because of the way I COLORED HER IT DID NOT COME OUT LOOKING LIKE SCALES.
   It came out looking like dragoon-hide.
   Again!?
   Dragoons and various Dragon-types DO HAVE hide and not scale but My Own Incompetence in paying attention to WHAT I WAS PORTRAYING AND CONVEYING IN THIS DRAWING ALLOWED ME TO WALTZ RIGHT BY MY MISTAKE TILL I WAS COMPLETELY FINISHED!
   ALSO!?
   The Sphere-Pods set in Her Hindquarters don't have the right texture as well. They're supposed to give off a glass-gem texture and tint, which they don't, also!?
   The SOLID-SECTIONS OF HER FRONT SHOULDERS...?
   The Shoulder Wing-Cannons DO NOT LOOK METALLIC-ENOUGH. They show NOT NEARLY ENOUGH SHEEN TO INDICATE THEY ARE A DIFFERENT TEXTURE-MATERIAL FROM THE REST OF HER!
   Add to this the Fact that by side-view You can NOW SEE THE SECTIONS WHERE HER CREW-COMPLIMENTS ARE AT INCLUDING HER COMMAND-BRIDGE AND TOWER ON HER BACK. AND HER UNDERBELLY MAIN-FACILITIES AND SUCH.
   SO!?
​   I decided to start tinkering and tampering and experimenting and I came back with this; 

ULD Brass-Dragoon
of
​Jin-Territory

   I found some metallic-markers, but They were LIMITED IN THEIR COLORS. So the I decided to TEST the easily-obvious ones first like this Liquid Copper that I used for this drawing! NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE!
   Easy to contrast but a BIT TOO STARK, not a problem though! Because in this drawing anybody can see that this lovely little mass-destruction driver is FULLY ARMORED INCLUDING PARTS OF HER FACE!!!!! 
   I did a sky-view/top-down view too;

   The facial-texture on this one is OFF. 
   But fixable!
   So then I began working on being able to produce this;

MADtronix ​Light-MADAM
MAD-1

   I finally found and figured out what markers I NEEDED AND HOW TO USE THEM so that NOW!? You can see the difference BETWEEN SKIN. BRAIDED-BEADED-HAIR! FINGERNAIL-CLAWS. AND THEIR FUSELAGE-BODIES!!!!!
   Where now you can see the sheen and gloss and can differentiate flesh from exoarmor from fuselage-body to weaponry both embedded and extended-deployable!!!!!
    So now that means I need to GO BACK AND APPLY MY UPDATED TECHNIQUES TO MY OLD ARTWORK! And that's coming up NEXT!