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Artemick [2013-01-03 02:15:57 +0000 UTC]
Just bought a little print of this for my sister's birthday! So gorgeous and nicely packaged. Thank you!
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AmongThorns [2012-09-02 01:09:55 +0000 UTC]
Made me think of Smaug! and a bit of a Phoenix. Is this just made up or it's taken from a tale? Nice one! I
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Valkyrria [2011-11-20 20:00:56 +0000 UTC]
I am in LOVE with your work..
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MischievousPooka [2011-09-16 04:53:32 +0000 UTC]
Great detail and pose. I knew this look familiar. I saw it at dragon con.
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WampusDragon [2011-09-07 13:42:27 +0000 UTC]
I bought the original sketch for this at Dragoncon, and the unicorn too... <3
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WampusDragon In reply to Cinnamoron [2011-09-13 04:27:28 +0000 UTC]
Yep! I love original line art! I'd like to see you do more fantasy type stuff like that, I love it!
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amadihelsa [2011-09-07 05:17:08 +0000 UTC]
lovely!
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Toxicbob2000 [2011-09-01 17:28:47 +0000 UTC]
Lovely! It would make a nice poster.
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Lazytroll [2011-08-30 20:30:40 +0000 UTC]
woooooooooooooooooooow the way you made the smoke is simply great!
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Blue-Moon-Rabbit [2011-08-30 14:31:53 +0000 UTC]
I would KILL to have this as a print! Gorgeous work, I'm just loving the colors you used!
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Caraphae [2011-08-29 07:43:39 +0000 UTC]
Waiiiiit a second....
You're the very first person I Watched on dA and yet I saw this only in Art Nouveau! So I went and checked my watch list and somehow you had disappeared. I thought you'd just stopped posting here! Arggh..
Anwayway- wow, that is a fantastic dragon! And has also helped me re-find one of my favorite artists. Go dragon! But it's the coins here that boggle me. That must have taken ages!:[_____]
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extremendousness [2011-08-29 01:54:27 +0000 UTC]
Hehe, it looks like a Mucha-y version of Smaug from The Hobbit, with all that gold he's hoarding.
Great job on the scales, you get a sense of a realistic bird-reptile fusion. Which makes sense since birds evolved from dinosaurs.
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Lizardhound [2011-08-28 17:07:21 +0000 UTC]
Well, he has feathers, a beak and only two legs, which makes him a wyvern, not a dragon...
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Cinnamoron In reply to Lizardhound [2011-08-28 18:02:34 +0000 UTC]
Well, he actually has four legs, but the back two (plus his tail) are obscured by the rock outcroppings. So really you're only seeing the front half of his body from this angle. ^^
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ChiBurbs [2011-08-28 15:06:56 +0000 UTC]
Nicely done. As much as it resembles old book illustrations, I think it would also look cool as a wine label.
I can also see why some of your other work is compared to Mucha. The color schemes and some tropes are obviously subconscious influences.
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Cinnamoron In reply to ChiBurbs [2011-08-28 17:56:19 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! I did look through some old fairy tale book illustrations before I colored this because that's definitely the feeling that I wanted for the piece.
And I agree with you- Mucha will always probably have some kind of subconscious influence over my work. ^^
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Cinnamoron In reply to rydi1689 [2011-08-28 17:51:49 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! I drew some inspiration from old book illustrations by Ivan Bilibin for this!
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caly-graphie [2011-08-28 07:30:02 +0000 UTC]
Woooooooh o_o !! Amazing !
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Cinnamoron In reply to FrostyOreos [2011-08-28 17:49:51 +0000 UTC]
Oh gosh...thanks! All the little details took me so long to do! I didn't realize how much energy it was going to take to color all of the coins and scales until I started. Needless to say, it's going to be a long while before I can look a gold coins the same way again. XD
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nekokawai [2011-08-28 04:16:25 +0000 UTC]
Wow this is super pro and detailed!
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blix-it [2011-08-28 02:35:46 +0000 UTC]
The thing I like most is how completely different it is from how I imagined it was going to be colored ~ it's so completely the opposite of my imagining. (I guess I imagined purply night colors with fire sparks.)
<3 I love this, and actually it takes Horo's place as being my new favorite Amanda piece.
Now I'm really curious about all the backstory you've created for dragons. oAo
This will look super good as a 20x30 canvas print!
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Cinnamoron In reply to blix-it [2011-08-28 02:46:40 +0000 UTC]
It's so funny how we can look at the same layout and see completely different colors! I was thinking red and orange from the get-go because even from the first sketch, I saw him as a fire dragon! XD
As for the backstory...well, it's really too long to go into on here, but, in short, I've always thought of dragons as being related to birds (or at least, big prehistoric birds). The idea of feathers and all dragons having very bird-like personalities (or at least, in the way they express emotions) has always appealed to me. I've also always imagined they're somehow related to phoenix, or maybe all fire birds are descended from them in some way. The specifics go on and on, really. I've probably thought about it way too much over the years. XD
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Cinnamoron In reply to Treacly [2011-08-28 03:04:44 +0000 UTC]
Are you thinking of Brian Froud maybe? His fantasy stuff is AMAZING and also very inspiring!
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