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Published: 2012-12-31 08:19:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 7312; Favourites: 474; Downloads: 0
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This is the very last artwork of 2012!This is my Secret-Santa project for . He has a Deep Sea Dragon that I used as a point of reference, but as usual I wandered off in a slightly different direction. I did keep the shapes of body parts and scales very close to his original design, but then I went crazy with the colors. As much work as it was, I also really enjoyed this project. I learned how to draw a new type of scale pattern, and I used a bunch of colors that I don't usually use together. Great fun!
Created with watercolor and Prismacolor pencils.
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I find that I need a paper surface with a bit of tooth - velum surface is about as smooth as I can go and still get the right blending effects. Smooth surface or hot pressed illustration board tends to be *too* smooth, while medium-toothed drawing paper and cold-pressed illustration board are just right. Velum surface bristol board also works well.
I typically use three or four separate colors for my gradation effects, and I tend to really dig in with the colors so that it's almost like sculpting a layer of very fine clay (though it's wax, of course; the texture makes me think of clay more than anything else). I squish the colors together in several layers until I get the degree of smoothness that I want. There's a lot of back-and-forth to get the shadows dark enough and the highlights light enough to read properly.
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Oh...wow....OoO
What a amazing artwork....TT^TT
You're so....awesome....;u;
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Thanks very much. This was a very challenging piece because of all those scales, but I like the way it turned out.
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I'm a big fan of you art... so amazing once more !
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Thank you! And you know that I am a big fan of your art as well.
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I love the colour and detail in this dragon!
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your welcomes x3 *showers you with cookies* 8D!!!!!!!!!!
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My hand hurts looking at this since I associate coloring with pencils with pain. It's a beautiful picture. Very nice SeSa gift!
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Thanks very much! Whimper-LOL - Yes, I do end up with a sore drawing hand and arm by the end of this kind of project, but I looooooove the results.
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Fantastic, all the wings and frills remind me of one of those lionfish
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Thanks! I used a scorpionfish and the dragonets as my points of departure, and the scorpionfish in particular has those fin-rays on its dorsal fins, though they're not as exaggerated as the lionfish fins are. I think if I'd used a larger format I would have gone more lionfishy. I might try a design like this again and do some fin experiments.
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* Β‘FantΓ‘stico trabajo! Lo hemos destacado dentro de la carpeta "Featured nΒΊ 4 o Destacados nΒΊ 4" en Special-Groups. (Es la carpeta donde se exhiben los mejores trabajos del grupo).
Β‘Por favor, queremos ver mΓ‘s trabajos tuyos en el grupo!
Β‘Feliz AΓ±o nuevo 2003!
* Fantastic work! Featured in Special-Groups in folder Featured nΒΊ 4. (Best works of the group).
Please, We want to see more works in the group of you!
Happy New Year 2013!
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Thanks very much! I shall submit my best works as I create them.
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You're welcome!!
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What an amazing dragon art!! Breathtaking!
Happy New Year, Rachael
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Thanks very much! Happy New Year to you, as well.
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That seems more bird than dragon, but then again....
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LOL - Those wing and dorsal frills do give it a bit of an avian effect, don't they? I meant them to read kind of "finny", too, like fish fins.
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It's an unusual combination, that's for sure. I wanted to see if I could get both "fish" and "dragon" to combine well; I used a couple of dragonet/scorpionfish types as my points of departure.
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It worked out very well.
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It's a well done piece, I feel that the hand/ claw just below his chin is bad placement for the shape of the creature and the design.
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Yes, I had second thoughts about the placement of the hand behind the chin. However, I needed something dark behind the chin so that its light colors would show up better. I will figure out different ways to do this with new pictures, next time.
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I hope you don't mind me suggesting a brown or black beard. I think that would've been really cool.
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