@moirae @aleck5andrs does it look more like protecting wing?
The main feeling coming across is a warm, tender moment between human and dragon, but to me there is no peril. I'm not seeing this attack that the dragon is defending against. There's smoke coming of its back, but it's a dragon with glowing fire in its chest! That could easily be mistaken as just coming from the the dragon naturally.
Hope you don't mind, but did a paint over just to demonstrate more of what I meant earlier.
thank you very much for kind words @nesokaiyoh!
thank you @nesokaiyoh! a lot of work ahead though, looking forward to make it better:)
thank you @tomi.taneli.lotjonen, @giagiastoons, @moirae for a feedback!
so finally after a lot of tweaking i getting closer to the feel i like, still long way to go though.
i wanted to make fireballs / stones readable but not distracting from the focal point, i tweaked the wings to feel more lizardish, introduced more "air" between my planes. Should find a new spot for an element emblem.
Honestly I feel like you've lost depth making the wings lighter, especially the one closer to us as it was coming out towards the camera. The texture does suit it but I think you should bring that darker value back to it so it doesn't blend into the mid ground as it currently is. A lot of the nice bits of grass and rock in the foreground also gave it a bit of variety and description for where they are, imo I don't think omitting those added to the piece. Either way, good job with the progress so far!
thanks for sharing you thoughts @nesokaiyoh but i like the wing as it is now, lighter closer to the mid ground, grass and rocks in the middle plane and foreground are gone for good and are not going to come back. im trying to bring everything together and a lot of these things are unnecessary and distracting making my image to fraction, im going to work from general to specific from now on if it makes sense.