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Published: 2010-01-07 09:13:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 29378; Favourites: 2331; Downloads: 0
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A painting of an aquatic dragon I've been working on for the past few days. I wanted to create an atmosphere in which the normally alien world of the water appears more calm, hospitable and familiar than the surface.I've been doing a lot of smaller work, getting into the habit of painting every day with the intention of working my way up to bigger, more complex pieces. It's hard for me to work on any one image for long periods of time, so let's see how that goes.
Roughly 4 1/2 by 11
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That's so so cool! AHHH! The colors and the dragon are absolutely beautiful!
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I just love your art, especially Adrift. You have such a talent, I am deeply impressed! You really captured the movement/feeling of water and air!
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I just love your art, especially Adrift. You have such a talent, I am deeply impressed!
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Incredible! The underwater glow is utterly impressive.. I admire your work! There's a lot of life and talent in them. <3
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I find myself automatically turning my head to compensate for the horizon 
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Awesome position! This is so inspiring to me!
The colors are brillant, the greens carried throughout give a swampy- creepy vibe yet the expression makes me feel like the dragon like critter is curious yet calm. So despite the green colors making a creepy feel of 'swamp monsters/etc', It looks frendly or not or anything in the horror scene.
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This reminds me of those ocean puzzles where the dolphins are jumping and it's underwater and surface... except this is more epic. I would buy this as one of those puzzles. And it would be glow in the dark. FFF, more magical..
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Absolutely fantastic!! I adore your use of colors and light
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The perspective! You definitely achieved what you were hoping for with the atmosphere.
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How many sailing ships of old were caught by such "points of ground" in the middle of the night? lol. Okay, I know that's probably not what you were after, but the tales of sea monsters always come up around such images. How neat to see it in this fashion, and think, "maybe the sea monsters have their own similar tales about terrible humans."
As for the atmosphere you wanted to create with this vision, my only thought in the matter is "dead on". Very nice.
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Wow, this is simply gorgeous. I love the composition and the colours. Your work is breathtaking.
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Beautiful, the colours and the wave.
I really like it.
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See the path cut by the moon,
for you to walk on.
Pearl Jam
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The color in this is great, and I like how it manages to show the submarine world, the water's surface, and the sky all at once.
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yay, i like a a lot the colours...
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I think this one is my favourite from the set you uploaded, absolutely love the angle, the colors, the painting style, the concept, also the paper is amazing, it's just... perfect!
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Wow, this is amazing! I love the way you draw your dragons, and how you use different colors to relay different emotions.
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Awesome. My favorite colours too. The colours suit this picture well.
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It's probably a good thing that you cant work for verry long on one painting. A great teacher once told me to never work on one painting for more than an hour or two at a time, after a while i guess you go into auto pilot and make verry bad descisions, its not good to over work the paint either. Great job I love the light and color, warm and cool tones.
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"A great teacher once told me to never work on one painting for more than an hour or two at a time"<<π: 0 β©: 1
Its not that you arn't supposed to stop painting, your supposed to stop looking at the same painting. It's when you've been concentrating on somthing for so long, that you lose relativity, especially in the beginning. You have to stop, step back, and eventually let it rest for a while. Why do you think it is that you dont realize how shitty or awesome somthing really is, or the obvious mistake untill the next day? Because you didnt let your mind rest.
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I see what your getting at, but if you feel the wave, ride it. Stepping back, or even out of the room for a break can do wonders....putting a time limit on 'how long one should paint for' took my breath away at first, thats all! ~Cheers!!
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Totally. I'm with you, I usually end up painting for alot longer than that any way, although im just staring half of the time
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Hahahaaa-- Same Here!!
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this is beautiful! 
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This is awesome. Really nice composition and colors.
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Wow that is fabulous. I love the color. Such a wonderful looking dragon too.
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I love the perspective. above and below water paintings are always special!
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Lovely!
This picture makes me feel nostalgic for some reason. Harkening back to my earlier days when I first fell in love with dragons and fantasy. Good show!!
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holy crap
this is beautiful! your style is one of the best i've seen. i love your dragons especially, they are my favourite.
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I love it,it's gorgeous!
But it appeals to me more like a slimy dungeon instead of underwater...
maybe it's too green for me?
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Mm you really succeeded with this, even with the dragon only surfacing enough to breathe. Chaos above, calm below. Beautiful moods in this piece.
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i really like how you did this piece of work espeically how you have done the lighting too this looks very nice
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Wonderful! It seems so perfect. Wait, it is perfect!
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I really love this....the acid greens contrast so well against the midnight blues. Gorgeous
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I love it, Hibbary! Gorgeous. Keep up the good work. It's artists such as yourself that inspire me to work hard and try and complete something every day!
I love the composition and the frayed appearance of the edge of the painting just makes it that much more special.
If anything what I would suggest is t try out a different shaped composition; perhaps circular or triangular. Could be interesting to see how the shape of the paper/ canvas affects the outcome of the composition as a whole!
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Everything is amazing, but I especially love the slant of the picture! I am not an artist or anything, but I think it really adds to the whole effect really beautifully~
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