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cateh123 β Prowling under the nightsky
Published: 2011-03-05 09:59:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 762; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 21
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YESHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!I've done it!!! drawn another dragon.. AND I FUDGING COLOURED IT TOO with a BACKGROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This piece is a first for me. I've never coloured in a way i did before, and i did a background (BIG ACHIVEMENT >.<)
Took me aaages to do this peice tho. spend awhile to draw the dragon it self ( to get the proportion right and all..) then moved on to photoshop.. HEck.. took me another forever to colour.. but i;m glad i managed to finish it tho.
PLease critize my work cause i really need it (eg, does it look like a young-ish dragon?.. cause that's whats i had in mind but somehow it grew older as i was working on it). hurr hurr. On to another DRAGAN!!!!!!!
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I think this young dragon is following something....
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and the thing is unknown~ leave it up to your imagination!
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it looks young, and curious... wonder what it's staring at...
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i see it as a young adult, or teen dragon (but yea, it looks young)
all in all, i like the piece : )
i can see a lot of time and effort into it, and it does show.
hope to see more dragons from you : D
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Hmm, i'm not too sure if i replied to you or did i just commented on my page... but, i'll copy and paste my comment lol
That is good to know that I manage to make it look young!!
Glad you like it!
I'll def be drawing alot more dragons now
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haha dont worry it got through the first time, since my comment was the last comment the page could handle, new comments and even replies got moved to the next comment page i guess.
: )
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o.o
yea that's why i thought i just 'commented' instead of replying your comment
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That is good to know that I manage to make it look young!!
Glad you like it!
I'll def be drawing alot more dragons now
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OMG! AMAZING LA CHI.
It's sooooo good
You mustβve spent AGES ON IT!!!
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yea
i actaully did spend a looooooooong time on it!!
it killed my tablet .and my brain........
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D:
well it was worth it
I hope there aren't brain stains on the wall
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yea.. i had to scrub those out..
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nice coloring! love the skin(scale?) pattern.
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yup scales!!
need to work on them alot harder to make it look convincing >.<
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Eh, that's really good! The colouring must've taken ages D: (reads artist comments - seems like it did~)
I like the shading, and the scales. Colouring is so hard D:
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Colour is a PAIIIIN!
no.. the photoshoping part is a killer!
D:
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I have photoshop CS3, but I always use paint.net instead because I get so confused D:
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i have elements
>.<
really really basic
lol
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At least it's not confusing?
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Ha, I actually made a facial expression on reading that. It was like this:
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stomach looks a bit thin, i think theres too much of as do the upper part of the forearm, but i love the dots and face shape is unusual (in a good way) 
looks awesome overall tho!
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umm.. wat do you mean 'too musch of as do the upper part of the forearm'? >.<
and thanks for liking the scales and the face shape!
yea.. he's walking in water. I was kinda worried that it might come of as 'floating/ hovering' above the water
D:
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I just meant his forearm is a bit too thick that's all
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o.o i see~ proportion is a bummer lol
that's good to hear
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MAN THIS IS POSITIVELY SUPER KAWAII desu ne FOR YOU AHAHA !!
BUT SERIOUSLY,
Wow.
All these scales, they look fantastic - fantastic as it looks like it'd be scaly over every inch of yellow skin and the effect isn't at all overwhelming to look at.
To me the scales are very appealing; well placed by the shadows, mixture of orange-ish+yellow and the variation in size makes it natural. err yeah...you know I haven't seen a dragon irl but you get what I mean, right... ?? ; ;
For crits mmm... I believe the large size of it's hind legs, feet-hands(?) and the long length of it's limbs that betray it as a baby dragon. They're well drawn - just large in proportion to it's head. Young animals/creatures/whatever/etc just have freakishly large heads lol.
As I shouted @ the beginning, the KAWAII DESU NE!
The larger eye (I'd say, in comparison to your usual dragons) and short snout is child-like. Also the eye (to me) looks like it's open pretty wide; it has a naive look I associate with young.. and also cute things.
I really admire how you can draw a balanced, child-like eye. I know I shouted ~kawaiidesu~, however it doesn't look like it's under an anime influence. I admire that alot too.
And also I believe you chose a very good green for it's eye - the lime is bright, curious and energetic which again contributes to the young look.
I SHOULD HAVE SCREAMED THIS AT THE START BUT I WAS TOO OVERWHELMED BY YOUR SCALES OK
!! YOU GODDAMN CG'D AND WITH AN ADDITION OF A BG !!
ALSO I HAVE TO POINT OUT IT'S A
JESUS DRAGON !! AHAHAH-shot-
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The scales was a big pain in the bum!! I had to go over them individually to get the shading right.. but I;m glad you are WOW'ed by it, cause I was kinda worried cause it wasn't what I was planning to go for, but it did come in a simplfied version. lol.
yea.. I edited my caption. It was suppose to be more of a young-ish kiddo dragon. Not exactly baby goo-goo-gah-gah type (it's past midnight, so out come the weirds of my brain). I migth now try to draw a googoogahgah dragon now lol. I feel inspired!!!
RAWR
hurr... The colour of the eye was originally baby-ish blue, but before I submitted this , I played with the hue and saturation. And BAM the colour green appearred. If you look really closely to it, you see like a line of blue lol. It's good you like the eye too
ps.. i think I've asked you this before.. but whats CG? (computer game!! whoooooo FLYFFF)
pps, have you been doing too much art history??lol
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If you want it to look like a baby, or a very young one: the head is usually larger then, so are the eyes, while the wings are smaller, you can check out an example here :[link] It looks like a young adult to me
Overall, nice piece of work, the lightning effects from the moon came off well, it certainly feels like nighttime to me, tough I'm unsure what the light lines are in the right, rain? Or rays from the moon? If it's the later, they could be a bit more soft.
The rippling effect and the water are also pulled off splendidly. The water ends a bit abruply here, maybe you can expand the horizon or draw an edge to the lake/river/sea the dragon is standing in, grass, sand or rocks or anything. Compared to your other digital work: [link] this is certainly a huge improvement, keep it up and happy dragon drawing!
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Thank you so much for such a construtive critism. I needed it
Looking at the example, I get what you mean of having a larger head and all. I'll definetly will work on it for the next time I draw a baby dragon. But yea.. I think I might've use the wrong word..I was going more of a young kid's age. (Need to edit that)
The lines is the rays. But I do agree with you, it came off abit to hard.It wasn't obvious though when I was working on it on photoshop.
I was struggling trying to figure the horizon out. All I managed to do was 'gray' the areas slightly to going in a distance (I failed at that. Lol). But I think adding land on the horizon would definetly enhance the flow from water to sky.
And once again THANK YOU SOO MUCH.
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No problem, keep in mind that there are lots of tutorials here on how to draw stuff in Photoshop, from grass to clouds and rain, like this here [link] I learned a lot trough those
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Thank you so much for being so helpful!!
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