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violetice [2012-01-11 04:40:36 +0000 UTC]

I don't have a paid account, so just pretend I'm using the critique feature, haha.

You've got a well defined color scheme--red and green. Thanks to Christmas, this can often be hard to pull off without conjuring up some kind of holiday sensation, but I think you did a good job of avoiding that feeling here. You've incorporated some hints of yellows and blues here and there to balance things out. The background is quite dynamic, using a visible bright area in the corner and shadows in the opposite edges. I like that you left the outlines green rather than black. Keeping the lineart black would have reduced a lot of the depth I think.

You've done some work to add light and shadowed areas to the dragon. The details, like the feathers and scales, have volume, but the dragon as a whole is rather flat. Scales and feathers that are father away from the light source will be overall darker (and likely less saturated, although there are exceptions) than the scales/feathers in direct light.

Going back to the blues/yellows you had added in--I think you could have made them stronger. Maybe incorporate yellow tones into your highlights and blues into your shadows.

I'm getting a little nitpicky here, but the claws on the dragon's hind legs are brighter than the surrounding body parts. In this, case, the claws should be more or less the same tone as the skin. Or, if you wanted to make the claws glowing (which would be rather nifty), you could increase the brightness, but you'd have to add a bit of light on the surrounding feet and scales.

Well that's all I got. It's been a long day for me, so hopefully this is all coherent, haha

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rachaelm5 [2011-12-31 00:03:36 +0000 UTC]

That is a very unusual approach to this dragon's colors! It makes me think of nearly translucent, carved jade. I've seen some pieces in the art museum that have a similar quality of color and luster. Very nifty that you've captured it in *pixels*!

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