Everything was fine, the light at the end of the tunnel was right there, then I realized that there needed to be cast shadows, so that the two of them weren’t hovering in space.
That was fine, and I did that. At about 11:59 on May 8th, I realized that the knight needed to be casting a shadow too, and by extension, the male dragon’s arm.
Or maybe it shouldn’t (I’m very sure that it should). I tried to set up some figures with various amounts of lighting to try and see where the shadows would fall, but really, All I ended up with was a cast shadow about a mile long and the sinking feeling that I had somehow Done Something Wrong, even though everything else looked fine.
Sigh.
At the same time, I don’t know why I’m spending so much time documenting the process at this point, as it’s now due within the next 20-odd hours. I believe I have figured out a solution, if not the best one: