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CaraidArt — 'This is my land.'
Published: 2009-09-23 00:29:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 10025; Favourites: 320; Downloads: 158
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The heavy dragon continued his path over the hills, through the seemingly endless plains of grass and forest. He wasn't sure where he was headed, but he knew he had to move on. Dracorex looked up.He spotted the beast sooner than he had heard him. It's big wings made a deep, thundering sound with every beat and to his annoyance, it was coming straight for him.
It was a black dragon. Draco stubbornly strode on, his pride keeping him from turning back or fleeing, despite his slight feeling of insecurity. As the dragon came close, it became clear to him that it was seeking contact. The beast flew past him, but quickly turned and hovered close to him, uttering growling and hissing sounds that resembled speech. Although his species was the missing link between his ancestors, the dinosaurs, and dragons, he was not capable of speaking any draconic language.
"What do you want from me?!" He asked loudly, and somewhat defiantly. He gained confidence as the beast did not seem to be all that aggressive. The dragon appeared to understand, and quickly switched languages; "To know your name, wingless one."
"That's none of your business."
"Oh but it is. This here is my land. What is your business here?"
"I'm walking here!" Dracorex uttered, obviously annoyed. As if he needed anyone's permission to be walking somewhere, he thought.
The black dragon grinned evilly.
"I guess there is really little else you can do, is there?" He replied, and he furiously beat his wings, mocking the grounded dragon with the fact that he did have them. "Be sure to make it a short visit," he added, as he shot away with a speed that Dracorex could only dream of.
As he watched the dragon fly away, he sniffed and cursed him, only to continue his path through the fields. Walking alone again, and he wouldn't want it any other way.
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A gift picture for =GoredGuar and ~Ryuasha , as they both caught my kiriban :3. I tried to imagine a meeting between =GoredGuar ’s Dracorex and ~Ryuasha ’s Ryu. I read up on their personalities and I figured they would probably clash on an encounter, so I tried to capture exactly that. I hope you guys like it : ).
Oh, and Ryu is supposed to be a bit further away into the image, which is why the shading of his wings is not cast over Draco.
Artwork © Me, *Dragoness77
Dracorex © =GoredGuar
Ryu Arashi © ~Ryuasha
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Comments: 83
i lovee your work, and the stories just make it so much more interesting
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I really like Dracorex, his attitude, his design, everything. Really cool looking dude.
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Thanks! Though his design isn't mine mind you 
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hahahaa...Love the expression on the ground dragon's face...just totally ignoring the black dragon and wanting to be on his way/
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Yus, that was my intention with this image
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Oh-so-FANTASTIC Lhune! I'm loving the poses and energy in the characters' movements. Really, really good!
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I'm glad you like it! :3 Thanks a lot!
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really really nice. Love the pose, color and shading. And with that story I just had to fave it!
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Thank you! ^^ I'm glad you liked the story
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Nice! I like the idea of placing the picture within a story
The shading of the bottom dragon is -very- good; great job on the muscles and anatomy.
As for the black dragon: very good texture making on the wings ^^ I really like the color scheme for that one too (Though I know I should probably say that to the owner of that character, but I just had to say it XD)
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Thanks a lot! ^^ I did quite enjoy the simplistic color scheme of Ryu
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Fantastic work! I love your style. The softness of your shading for the muscles is beautiful <3
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Thanks a lot!
.. Your icon is hypnotising.
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You're most welcome!
Thanks XD haha, I could say the same for yours! I like yours better though
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wow, the black dragon turned out exceptionally good! n .n
heh, dracorex hogwartsia ?
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Thanks a lot! ^^
And no, Draco(tyrannosaurus)rex xD. No hogwarts involved x3.
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Dracorex hogwartsia or hogwarstiensis is an existing species or fossil. People are still debating on that.
Anyhow, I love the picture n .n
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Hehee. I looked it up a bit and it made me giggle. Such uproar about how dragons might have existed after all. Dinosaurs are dragons, dragons are dinosaurs, without dinosaurs, there would have been no dragons xD. That's simply how it is.
Dracorex was one of the family of Pachycephalosauridae, "Brother Tuck" from the Jurassic Park movies x3. You can see he's got the same thick skull structure and build.
Looking at the pictures though there are a lot of "dinosaur" skulls or "dragon" skulls that seem very much hand-made. I don't believe everything I see, or everything that's written. It would be quite naive to do so. There are so many people out there who want dragons to be real, so people will transform dinosaur skeletons and skulls into something that might resemble a dragon and get a hell of a lot of attention for it. I won't buy it though, not until someone comes with something that actually does make sense to me xD.
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Yeah, tho' the other end is that when you just can't be absolutely sure about it. O .o
I know about a case - that I might have already mentioned - that some time ago palaentologists found human and dinosaur remains in the same layer of stone. Radiocarbon exams showed that they are of the same age. The rest of the scientific world said that the machine is obviously faulty. So be it, they took it to another one, independent to the first exam's place. And it showed the same results. Then the case got swept under the rug...
Soo yeah, while I do not believe it could be myself, it makes me think why did they do that.
In a case a bit similar, when people were trying to get some hairs found in Australia identified got the result of it being a dog's. They previously have had big cat specialists have a look and they said it's theirs. This had repeated it self about 3 times, when they on purpose gathered some hair from the local zoo. The hair of - as I recall a leopard - a big cat. The laboratory returned the same results however: claiming it was a dog's... If nothing else it makes you think about just how well do they do their jobs...
In any case, I am quite intrigued by cryptids, but keep an eye open about them. Some just might be real after all.
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I've read those stories, and they're especially greatly supported by creationists. Y'know, religion. People who try to prove that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. In that same manner, footprints of dinosaurs and "humans" were found in a same area of a same age, as if they had walked alongside eachother. However later studies proved that if those footprints were indeed human, the humans would've been as tall as elephants and weighed about the same. In other words; they were either not human, or of giant humans. If giant humans had existed however, more evidence of their existance should've been found by now, and I most certainly don't believe they have.
If a human skeleton was found of the same age as a dinosaur skeleton, and it was absolutely sure that it was of the same age, then I'd start having my doubts. But as long as people find dinosaur skeletons that are of the same age as a certain human skeleton (in other words, dinosaur skeletons of only a few thousand years old), I'm not at all convinced. Any natural law we know defies the fact that the world is only a couple thousand years old, it is in all ways absolutely impossible. Unless magic is real, which it quite obviously isn't, there is simply no way. Some people claim that this is just another religion, but I know it to be true. Call me arrogant, but I prefer to trust in people who try to improve and chance their facts to perfection by using logics, than to trust in those who rely on stories passed on and written thousands of years ago.
It's intriguing and definitely interesting, but not very realistic.
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Yeah, what I'm saying is that the scientific world, so to speak, often turns away from the unusual without real reason or without actually looking into the phenomena at hand.
And EEwwww creationists XD
But seriously I don't support them at all.
I'm just not convinced that all of the dinosaurs were extinct leaving only mammals and small reptiles (along with fishes from the vertebrates) alive. It's just too odd, the usually suspected culprits for that mass massacre just wouldn't spare them.
And the sightings of the odd ones like Nessie, or the Mokélé Mbembé make me think.
Also, I would recommend a book for you, catch is that it is most likely only in hungarian - sadly. It's title is "Birth Of Dragons". It elaborates on this topic, using real live scientists' work (as in not creationists but real and recognised scientists) as it take the reader on a trip to what has been swept under the rug thoughout history. (And no this isn't a fictional story, more like a long essay) The writer is Szabolcs Iványi btw.
And also I respect other people's views and opinions, so I'm not trying to force you to think otherwise or change your way of seeing things, just would like to show you something interesting. n .n
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Its nawt pohlite to point! *shakes finger*
lol great piece
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I really love the black dragon! His pose is beautiful, lovely and fluid. I also really like how you picked out the muscles and veins on Ryu, little details like that really make a difference! My only crit is that Dracorex looks a little too grayscale for my liking - you could have maybe picked out a few more colours, like his scales reflecting some bright blues from the sky and greens/reds from below, just to add some variation of hue :>
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Mmmh I guess the image does look a bit too cold, but I had no idea how to put warmer colours in there without it looking completely random and weird.
Thanks Doz <3.
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You could just have blueish highlights along the top edge and warmer colours along the bottom edge, with maybe some sparkly scales : > sparklesparkle!
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Hmmm. Yus. I could have done that xD.
Sparkllllle!
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this is beautiful!
not only are the characters nice to look at but the story just completes it and makes me want to know more about the two of them!
awesome job
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Wow I absolutely love this 
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HAHA cute storey :3
I like the expressions and positioning,
nicely done :3
I also really like that soft white glow round the edges, very sweet
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Thank you! ^^
I'm glad you think the story was cute x3. I guess I should include more stories with my pictures
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:3 oh yeh, I think they compliment your work
and my pleasure ^^
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Really well-done drawings and entertaining story. I like how Ryu is interacting by looking down, but Dracorex is just moving ahead trying to ignore what's looming above. I weren't sure they were supposed to be in the same picture at first, but after reading the story it made perfect sense that they were and that their personalities were being illustrated. Also, the musculature and sense of movement on Dracorex are fantastic.
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Thank you very much for the kind words and long comment!
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I adooore this! The story that goes with it is lovely too! You can clearly see the scene, and I can sorta imagine it all as I read on. You're pulled in. You seem to make your characters so... alive!
It seems there is some sort of texture to their skin! It's something like that I've been trying to achieve, but can't seem to figure out how. Can you make share your secret? ;3
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Oh, and a side note, for this particular image I drew in the little scales on Ryu myself using the hard-edge brush tool on a seperate layer. It's a bit of work, but I figured it would look better.
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Wow! Thanks a bunch! My photoshop is the Photoshop Elements 5.0 so there wasn't any Image-Adjustments-desaturate option, but I managed to make it greyscale with the sponge, so it's all good X3
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