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Published: 2010-02-09 07:02:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 33912; Favourites: 824; Downloads: 1552
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This little fellow is from a much larger painting I'm currently working on for the upcoming 'DragonSong' book from SQP.As my grannie used to say "Don't play with matches, or highly flammable dragons". Important advice to live by.
Pencil sketch, painted in photoshop.
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Very cool Dave. Are we going to see a Jerry Lee Lewis dragon?
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What a wonderful work, love just everything !!
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And you figured the unique lighting of each individual scale... except the eighth scale from the left on the left rear haunch near the 12th vertebra. If you're going to get that sloppy I don't know how you can expect to keep getting paid.
Say hi to Sal for me...
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Caught me out on that one - and here I thought I'd get away with it! Serves me right for being so lazy!
I'll say hi to Sal, but he probably wont hear me... long distance from Australia to the states.
Our next email exchanges will go something like this though...
"hows the artwork coming along"
"good, I'll have it to you by...(insert relevant date here) and Gladiot says hi!"
"Who?"
Cheers man!
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Nah, me (the other me) and Sal have gone round and round a few times. I have, like, 12 SQP originals (you know, the tasteful non-bondage mermaid types). It usually goes:
"Is that one with the girl available?"
S- "Which one?"
"And if I got that one how much for the other one with the girl in it?"
S- "I'll have to see if I can find it."
"And if that one's not available I'll take that other one on page 15."
S- "Which one?"
"How do I pay you again?"
S- "Whatever ...call me when a check's in the mail..."
Yes, I asked about your stuff but he naturally doesn't have your "originals". However, since you usually start from a sketch you actually have work with your DNA all over it. Anything under your couch cushions suitable for framing?
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I have a real bad habit of doing all (including really detailed stuff) sketches on cheap photocopy paper. I've been told I should change that so I have some art to sell - I really nee to work out some extra revenue streams sometime, coz freelance illustration, at least where I am, isn't exactly lucrative!
I'm doing a cover for a quite well known and collectable character at the moment, so maybe I'll do up my pencils really tight and on good paper and use it as a test.
Oh, and I only keep my spare change under the couch cushions, skeletons in my closet and my sketches either stack up on my drawing table or go in the bin!
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Well, "suitable for framing"... I didn't say it had to be a good frame.
But you are on the Wild World Web, man. There is no where there. Depending on how exacting you want to be with your sketches you could crank out a bunch and advertise right here. A PayPal account and some paper tubes and they could fly to all the corners of the earth. They don't have to be collectable subjects, they just have to have your style. Zen Duck, Oops, Obey, Hogan's Heroes, whatever, if you said they were available they'd sell if they're original pencil to paper... I'd say anyway.
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oh so cuuuute...
I want one too!!
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Unfortunately I'm right out at the moment - they came in a packet of 8 and I burnt the first 6 to a crisp getting the picture right, one got away and the last one I promised to my mother 
Cheers!
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WAY too much photo ref used on this. If I may offer a critique, I think you need to try relying on actual drawing skills instead of tracing photographs of dragons. C'mon now.
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Sure, tracing photos does everybody a disservice - but I think you fail to realize exactly how hard it was to get those photos in the first place. Those little buggers just won't stand still when you're trying to take their picture, particularly when you set them on fire. Burnt 6 of them to a fine crisp before I got the right photo in - and do you know how expensive buying small red dragons are nowadays?? Wait until the client gets the bill for this one!
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What an amazing dragon, I love the colors and the textures on him. My Grandma told me the same thing, it's a good code to live by lol.
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Always important to listen to your grandparents - particularly when then they give you advice on entirely fictitious mythical creatures!
Thanks Armando!
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fabulous work, although i feel sorry for the poor little guy. Young dragons in training should carry fire extinguishers with them at all time! LOL just in case...
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I love how his tail looks like a matchstick - don't see that very much! Beautifuly smooth details as always Dave!
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Thanks ma'am! Used to be a lot more dragons around with tails like matchsticks, but as they were constantly being used to light gas ovens, gun powder and cigarettes, their numbers have seriously dwindled in recent years.
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But they're reusable! How big would they be, dragon sized or pocket-sized?
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Vary in size - the pocket scaled ones (youngest) were in most demand and this led to a blackmarket kidnapping epidemic and some very irate adult dragons. Things got rather nasty and led to a large culling of these magnificent beasts and thus you dont see them around anymore. I just wrote this on the internet, so it must be true!!
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Um, you are the dragon expert, hello! I definitley wouldn't want the job of culling them.
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I love his pose and expression--he looks like he just missed the bus!
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.. Or his tails on fire!
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Oddly, I didn't think that was the problem!
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Hey, I was just going to ask you if you'd seen any of 's work! He's a genius!!!
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I've been following his stuff for sometime now... I am a HUGE fan of Serge's - actually got a plug for him in my most recent journal. Wanted to nominate him for a DD and went to the dA info page, but the category system was so confusing as to who I nominated straight digital paintings to. Fortunately SOMEONE worked it out and nominated him coz he's got one today!
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Where I saw it and went straight to his page! Marvelous stuff!!!
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Too late, my hair's burnt to a crisp.
Nice job as usual!
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Should have listened to my Grandmother!!
Thanks man!
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I haven't been called adorable for ages! Thanks!
Oh, you mean the dragon... oops... Well thanks, and glad you like!
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