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Here is Mageraz. Mageraz is a (self proclaimed) Twilight dragon, and uses magic consisting of both the Light and Darkness elements, which he calls Twilight Magic. He likes to sit around and read, and is very knowledgable.Having spent a large portion of his life alone has made him stolid and impassive to those around him. He found consolement from the loneliness through his books. He prefers solitude, and has a hard time making friends.
This time, i tried to shade the picture in another way using cel-shading (or something), but I'm not sure if I got it right at certain parts. Please tell if you spot any major errors
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Hehe, well, thank you so much for that 
Hehe, yeah, the shading isn't top-notch, but I have already improved
Those curly wavy designs what?
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those curly-wavy designs RULE
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well, thank you, but what is the curly-wavy design? 
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So this is the Twilight Dragon you mentioned..... looks like he's quite the bookworm.
Just for future reference, Light and Darkness oppose each other, so it would be extremely hard to combine them into a single element.
My theory is that this Twilight Element most likely resembles Aether more than anything else, since Aether has the natural ability to pierce just about any defense.
Other than that, this is a really good character and for a second attempt on photoshop it came out pretty well in my humble opinion.
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Hehe, yeah
I know. Normally Light and Darkness oppose eachother, and they cancel eachother out. The hardest part is getting the two elements to avoid cancelleing eachother.
But he doesn't use it as a single element though. He uses his energies to produce both and Light and Darkness attacks, witch does not cancel eachother. He doesn't use it as a single element 
Well, thank you so much for that. It's really nice for you to comment on my picture, as I love to hear your reviews on him. I like detailed reviews on my character 
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No problem, your character and my share a lot in common.
The only real difference is that your's seems to be a solo type, where as mine rules an entire dragonflight that consists of Spirit Dragons.
Well, you do know one thing, they can be used individually for attacks, but if used at the same time the two would cancel each other out, which means there would be a opening between his attacks because he would have to switch elements. My character would be able to see the change in elements due to being able to see the magical aura around his enemy and even if an elemental attack hit him, he would be able to render it completely useless the next time it hit him. See his eyes let him copy and counter any form of elemental attack after just seeing it once, a genetic trait called the Seiji Ryuugan (lit. Sage Dragon's Eye).
There are several elements that i know of off the top of my head. Use this list to your hearts content:
Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Lightning, Ice, Metal, Poison, Light, Darkness, Gravity, Sound, Illusion, Time, Aether, Moon, Sun, and finally Nothingness.
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Hmm... Yeah. Mine grew up all alone. He was originally an earth dragon, but he gor kidnapped and experimented on, which corrupted his body, and made his energies dark. To counteract it, his body started to produce light as well, to keep the darkness in check. And thus, he is seen as a freak, and an outcast.
Mags has two different kind of life-energies in him, and he expends that to attack. If everything dissapears, he dies. And the three rings around his nexk is the only thing that keeps them shackled inside his body.
Yes, most of the time he uses them individually, and alternating in them (He makes rings of light and darkness which he can control, for example), but he has learnt to release both types of his energy at the same time, without them canceling eachouther out, which is his ultimate weapon. Except, he can only use it after his shackles are destroyed, and has lost control of his powers.
Hehe, if your character would see mine, he would see both auras flowing out at the same time
Hehe, you forgot one important element: "The element of Surprise"!
And I guess "Nothingness" is refering to Annihilation.
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This is the link to my character: since i can't draw him very easily i made a model for him using the darkSpyro dragon generator:
[link]
Well...the story behind mine is that he was forced to live without a mother, as her death was kept secret from him. Truth is his father, a gigantic crimson elder wyrm named Innoruuk killed her as his son was foretold to be the one who would become the savior, so his father tried to prevent his birth. As you can imagine, that is what awoke his powers and in the end his awakening to his element was so powerful it tore the city where he lived in half with a fissure of energy and reduced the entire place to a lifeless smoldering ruin.
Nothingness is an element that exists, but at the same time doesn't exist, it works as a sort of energy absorber. My character uses that to his advantage to physically merge with another, just like a ghost. The one he merges with gets power equal to that of a gods in exchange for being his host body.
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Wow, Nice
Ah... 
Ahaa... So nothingness can be seen as Etheralness then, or something ^^
Interesting
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This is the link to that site: [link]
Shenomu Cau has two personalities, one he is a black dragon with a red crest, horns, and tail spike and has bat-like wings. If he looses control of himself (a.k.a. when he gets really mad) he becomes Deathscale the Chaos, a purple Fel Dragon.
Yeah, Shenomu's father was unaware that he had been already born when he decided to kill her, and Shenomu was hiding out of fear the whole time using an invisibility spell during her murder.
Yep, you hit the nail on the head! Nothingness usually takes on the form of black and white thorny looking beams, huge energy balls, blasts of deep azure lightning, and so forth and it can be shaped into weapons.
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Hmm.. Nice, albeit, a bit too restrictive
Ahaha, Dude, that's a pretty freaky, albeit awesome coincidence. Umm, yes, My dragon has another personality too, which starts to awaken every time he loses control of his emotions
Aha, I see... But why would the father try to kill him if he was foretold to be a saviour?
Hehe, thanks
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Shenomu's father is the God of Hate, and he ultimately goes insane and becomes the Chaos WEAPON.
Its the job of the savior, who can use the Omega WEAPON, to destroy the Chaos WEAPON when it appears thus beginning a age of peace that last until it re-appears again.
It would be funny if the two were related... if your're interested, i'll let ya be in a short story i'm working on.
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Aha, I see. So his son was destined to destroy him, so he had to kill him... That's actually pretty sad
Hehe, thank you so much
But, as for Chenomu Cau, could you try to make a reference sheet for him, like you did for kytheros, so that I could see where all his details are? Then I could make a sketch of him for you
Or, I could just make a sketch of him based on the Spyro model you showed me earlier, if you want that
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Either way works fine....i would love to have a bit of fan art anyways. I also just last night drew up a more detailed ref for the Curse Arm so that others can see where the connecting points are and i'm hoping to get that up soon.
Something to make note of... Shenomu Cau is actually the soul of Kytheros reincarnated. See before a Kytheriean dies, they make a new body for their souls to inhabit and then place all their memories, thoughts, emotions as so forth into it. Then they go to the Underverse, a literal parallel dimension to the original universe, similar to when somebody that dies goes to Heaven.
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Okay
Ahaa... I see. That's pretty cool. So Kytheros was the one that was phrophesized to be the saviour then
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well, he's blind, so he doesn't have any pupils in his eyes but they shimmer in a eerie fashion. He can manifest not one, but up to three sets of wings, each one looks as if it is emitting an aura of some kind and they are all slightly transparent like a glass butterfly's wings. His curse arm connects to the top of his left shoulder and while it is out it drips with lethal venom. His tail stinger is just like a scorpion's as far as shape goes. His arms have a pair of spikes that can be used in a armblade-like manner.
Indeed, Kytheros was a very powerful Dark Knight, so powerful in fact that anyone he faced in battle was destined to lose, but the darkness he used began to eat away at him, so he created another version of himself within his mind to contain that darkness, but in the end it became sentient and started acting on its own, thus Deathscale was born.
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Ahaa! I see... I'm not sure at how he looks, but I can try to add all these details onto him, when I draw him
Aha, again. So Kytheros was pretty much a god-like character then, before he died. And that sentient darkness he had was moved onto Sheno, turning him into Deathscale
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yep^^ and because he has the extra arm...a lot of others called him Tri-Edge.
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Hmm... is it Kytheros or Sheno that has a 3d arm? And is the third arm a magical arm, or just a plain old 3d arm?
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The third arm is a bloodline trait and a physical manifestation of the Omega WEAPON, but it is magical, meaning it can be concealed.
Since Shenomu is the reincarnation of Kytheros, he gains the third arm from his previous life.
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Ahaa... And from where does this third arm come? As in, where on the body is it located?
Aha, I see
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Its attached to the point where the left shoulder meets the main body, connected to ball joint right on top of the left arm.
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Aha, so does that mean that his third arm is his curse arm, or has he 3 arms in addition to his curse arm?
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The third arm is indeed the curse arm. Think of the curse arm as being comparable to a permanently activated Limit Break.
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Hehe, that is one interesting way to put it
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yep.... anything out of the ordinary or unique to a certain character can be classified as a Limit Break.
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Ahh... I see the characters ultimate attacks as limit breaks ^^ But then again, Vincent's Limit break was transformation.
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well, if you're interested, i use Windows Live Messenger to stay in touch with people that i can't actually meet and role-play with others. If your feeling itchy to chat, all ya do is go to my profile and look at the address under my e-mail, and if you have a Hotmail/Windows Live Messenger account, input that into the contacts list and send me an invitation.
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Hmm, okay
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hee hee.... at last, now i got a new friend, yay!
One step closer to realizing my ambitions...to say the least...
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Hehe, well, that's nice to hear
Buehehe
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oh great... I just wrote like... a 400 word post and my computer turned itself off...
But the bottom of the line is, that it's never too late to start learning anything! Just pick a topic in drawing that you like and start going. When you feel like you're getting good at that particular thing, pick up another topic that you feel like you lack skill in. I swear there's still a ton of things Im not very good at, but I take 'em one at the time.
I think he looks like a very serious dragon and basing my observation around that, I think you should be careful about how much stuff you put on him - unless he has some hidden passion about jewelry!
I think that the physical appearance of a character should tell the audience something about how they are, and how they live their life. If someone has a ragged appearance it could be because they travel alot or are poor or fight alot. If they have a more elaborate appearance it suggests that they have an occupation that might need such clothing or maybe they have a lot of money and don't need to work so hard.
Also you should consider the logic of the physical appearance and anatomy:
An example could be that Spyro has a little extra mass on certain places on his horns that looks like "rings" at each bend of the horns. These are reinforcements because it is logical to assume that the horn is weaker at the bending points. The body's logical reaction to that problem would be to grow extra horn there to support the bend so the horn doesn't break. Dragons with straight horns wouldn't need that kind of support because the horns doesn't bend and thus doesn't have those same weak points.
It's the same for the rest of the body - like the tail. Is the tail-spade sharp and used for slashing? or is it a thick mass of bone that can be used like a club?
there's so many things to take into consideration when you make a character, it's not just about making them look pretty or cool
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Hookay, thanks for the tips
Yeah, this was the second image I used Photoshop on, so it's not very good, but as you keep drawing stuff, you eventually get better at them, and then you can learn drawing other stuff.
Yeah, I wanted to make him a serious, grumpy, and knowledgable, yet a solitary character. He has been alone most of his life, and is kind of lonely, and so on and so forth. Yeah, I made him in an attempt to create accessories, and I ended up giving him 5 rings (lately I have reduced them to 3), 3 bracers, a cape and a Yin-yang amulet. And yeah, he has a thing for shinies, or sparklies. They fascinate him
Anyway, whenever someone sees him, they go: "Oh look! It's The Chronicler!", and I wonder what I did that made him look like him (I know the colours are the same)
Yeah, I understand the extra mass on the horns, as they are supposed to bend backwards, but I was unable to draw it correctly at the time, so I kind of went with that he is rather young now, and they haven't started to bend backwards yet
The tail blade is sharp-ish. It's not blade sharp, so I didn't add an "edge" to it, and so It can't cut much. But it is still good for slashing.
Yeah, I suppose that's true, so I tried to make it as "anatomically" correct as I was able to at the time. But then again, it was my 3. dragon, and I wanted him to look cool
But yeah, as far as my skill goes, I have this problem that I'm not able to make them look "draconic" or something. If you compare my dragons to yours, you see that yours looks more like dragons than mine does, so I guess that was what I meant with the previous post. It's kinda hard to explain, but you can see it.
Yhank you so much for your helpful tips
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oh so that's how they're supposed to look, a little like Volteers horns right? And I didn't think in blade-sharp, but more like what you explain yourself, as in a pointy tail end, VS blunt tail end.
And of course you'd want to make him look cool! we all wnat that
When I need to make things look a certain way, I imagine how, for example, a piece of jewelry would be made to fit a dragon? where would they wear a piece of clothing and how does the thing work on them.
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Well, kinda Except that Volteer's horns is kinda looping back on the end.
/\ It's not entirely correct, but it is hard to illustrate in the message
/\ vs /\ / sender
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Well, yeah, but I do try to make them anatomically correct, as not to make
the wings unsuitable for flying, or the legs too thin, and so on. Yeah,plausibility isKinda important when designing characters. It's no fun if your character can't
possile live because it's structure doesn't make sense
Yeah, it's true that jewelry and accesories should be made to fit, but then again, say, capes on dragons. How do they manage to put them on? (I usually answer that question with: "magic"
Just another thing, I tried putting crystals on Mags horns (crystals tied to a piece of string, that was fastened around the part where the horns curve upwards the second time), but I ended up giving the idea up, as it would be too much
Oh, and I just noticed, I have done the same OC meme thingy for Mags as you did for Crona
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oh, now I get it
I usually answer that question with "magic" too, I have done a pic of Crona where she's lying down and writing with magic. It makes sense to me that they would do things in a Harry Potter-sort-of-way where even the littlelest things are done with magic.
You did the meme too? hehe I had a lot of fun with it
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Hehe, yeah. Except that is called telekinesis, and is not really magic
Ya, it was fun
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Bah
So yeah, except for his colours, how does he look like the chronicler?
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The horns, wings, and the fact he has books XD
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Hookay then. Thank you for letting me know
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Soo... So you think he looks too much like the Chronicler from Spyro? When people see him they are like: "Cool! Is that the Chronicler?", which is a bit bleh, but anyway
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No,I don't say that he's like Chronicler...
^.=.^
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