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Published: 2010-01-24 17:22:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 3105; Favourites: 114; Downloads: 64
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It's a dragon with spines on the back of it's neck. Started this piece because I was starting to get a bit tense with my other drawing (that I'm almost finished) and I needed to loosen up a bit. I'm probably most comfortable drawing dragons and dinosaurs, especially since they were what I started drawing when I was little. Anyways this was really fun because I experimented a lot with different strokes, hatching, shading, eraser drawing, textures, etc. A lot of this drawing was improvised, hence the funky smoke.The first piece I've done on Cardstock paper. Works well, because it's not flimsy like printer paper. The texture of the paper is more or less the same, but it's also thicker. Unfortunately the scanner's a pain as always, I had to scan it about 5 times because it kept cropping the image. Then, of course, messing about in PS to fix the lighting, contrasts, sharpness, coloured noise, etc... It sucks because the scanner doesn't pick up the finer details so it doesn't look as good on computer as it does with the naked eye.
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Lovely dev - a fave of course
I will back be soon - faves I make from the getwatchers I later put into the relevant fave folders (makes doing my journal features easier) and visit with more time than that viewer gives you
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Thnx a lot! I really appreciate it! ^^
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I adore the way its been shaded, and how you get a sense he's textured and battle scarred.
Also the bordering technique you used is fantastic! Really effective!
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well even so with the scanner not doing it naked eye justice it still looks good !
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really nice design , i really like the raptor like head and that you didn't draw one of these cute playful dragons.
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Thnx! ^.^
I used to draw a lot of dinosaurs when I was younger and my dragon designs are based on various dinos, so I guess it shows!
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Great work on the details and the texture. The spines on the back are a nice touch.
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Cool! I like the composition with the dragon filling the page and coming out of the rectangle. You have a good range of values here. It's a good piece of work!
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This is great! I love the spines, and the style of keeping it to a rectangular area with things extending past the edges.
I love the textures, especially the slashes on his scales, looks like he's either been fighting, or just has a very cool scale/skin combination.
The only place I'm not sure of is to the left of his eye... is that smoke? It looks like an out-of-place dark patch.
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Thnx.
yeah, it's just supposed to be shade, but I guess I pressed down too hard in that area. One thing a still need some more work on is pencil pressure. I tend to get into the peice a bit too much and end up breaking the tooth of the paper, without realizing.
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This is an amazing pencil work! The texture makes him so real,and the details of the eye, especially his eyebrow, are awesome. The waving motion of his beard is neat
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