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Published: 2009-05-04 01:38:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 183; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 4
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Well...here's what's been keeping me more or less busy on the artistic end of my life. I believe this is version three of this character concept because I kept messing up. Well worth the effort though in my opinion.This piece is part of the colored serpent series that red and blue serpent are also a part of. I haven't decided on a name for him yet.
Coloring took a while because I was working more on my texturing skills to give him a furry look. (Which I had failed epically on in version one.) I don't think I'm quite there yet with the fur effect but I'm definently getting better. ^^
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Paper - 8.5"x11" White Bristol Board
Media - Prisma Color Pencils, Derwent Colored Pencils, Gel Pens, Chalk Pastels.
White Serpent © to =DarkGryph
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Thank you very much! A Happy New Year to you as well. ^^
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I love the the details you rendered into the design! I think studying the lengths and direction of fur in existing mammals help give you nice idea on how you should you colour fur on your own pictures 
Well I could be wrong, everyone has a different style to drawing, that's for sure!
But I think the image overall looks fantastic! Beautiful design!
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Thanks so much for the fav, compliments, and advice. The blending with the white happened because of the undercoat of color I had added in, it made everything on the top come out lighter. Still a definent learning process on the fur, I was looking off of a bunny pic for a bit there but got a bit carried away after a while. @.@
I believe I also need to work on fur directions, there are some areas I now notice where the limbs were bending and such where the fur should have been pointing in a different direction. I'll pull more refs for my next furry animal and hopefully will take another step forward. Thanks again.
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This is fantastic. I love the huge paws and the wings are so sexy
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Yup I really like how they turned out too. The dark green in the original picture is all glittery ^o^
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ah, yes...
I can see the furry texture that you were trying to convey...
although, I suggest you use sharper pencils (if you didn't already)
it looks almost like you used dull ones...
but I can see that you've been working on the design for a while...
I've gotta say, I like the collar on its neck a whole lot..
the same for the wings, tail and other details you put in...
I would post this as a critique, but I don't have a sub....
so, yeah xD
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Yeah the pencils where sharp, it was the fact that I had the fur color as an underlayer under the details...most of that color was white so it made the colors that went on top of it lighter. And since his fur is white I also didn't want to make the detail lines too dark so I used a grey instead of a black. I will keep the advice in mind for my future pictures. Thank you for the crit and the compliments as well. ^^
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