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Published: 2009-01-30 20:18:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 1537; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 12
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Ever since *alecan posted her reference sheet of Nauca, I've been looking for an excuse to draw her
She's such an awesome-looking dragon character. So I decided to make that excuse her birthday, which judging by her journal last year is today 
On the sketch I drew contour lines on the dragon's body so that I could ink the scales properly. By the time I had finished with inking the main body, I realized that if I took much longer due to the time zone difference, the day would end before I got a chance to post it! So I just put the sketch in on overlay and shaded on top... I think it came out well.
Happy birthday, Alecan!
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Wow, that's really good^^ I love the golden scales, and adore the expression on his face. Great work
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really nice effort with this piece of work and it turned out great
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Sorry for the repetitiveness, but... thank you!
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Really nice! I like it a lot. Thanks! I never would have thought anyone would draw nauca cause of all her scales XD but you did it great
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I'm not afraid of scales
Normally I don't put very much detail into my work because I go for a more cartoon style, you know? A lot of people seem to omit them, but when you think about it 90% of dragons do have scales on their body somewhere...
Anyway, I'm glad you like it!
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Wow, amazing! The scales along the wings and arms add a wonderful amount of texture, and the smooth, flowing shape complements the character quite well.
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Thank you!
I tend to reuse this particular pose fairly frequently since I always seem to get good results with it, hehe
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Niiiice job 
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Shading metallic things is so much funnnn
Yea I can see what you mean about the eyes... as I'm trying to improve my ability to render things as 3D objects, my old cartooning/anime-derived bad habits seem to continually crop up to get in my way 
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I always forget the damn highlight...
I think actually you could get away with just the one eye on this pic... erase that bit of the head, up until the nearest line on the nose... see what I mean?
No problem
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Heh. Well, I'm trying to start thinking of metal objects as 3D-shaped mirrors, think about everything in the scene that would be reflected in them, and shade them accordingly. That takes a lot of time and mental strain, though, so you can do the lazy thing and cheat by alternating the normal tone for the metal with a few dark, desaturated areas, a highlight, a highly saturated area (if the metal has a color), etc. The lazy thing was obviously what I did here, since I admitted that this was a speedpaint! But I really want to try to do metals properly. If you want to see a gallery with amazingly rendered metallic dragons, go watch =mariecannabis
No, that wouldn't work. It's supposed to be a 7/8 view of the head from above, and trying to make it into a profile view would make it look WAY weirder than it does right now, even though the head fin and chin spikes are a little too upright for the angle I tried to be believable.
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Ok, I'll keep that in mind
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I must say that look in the dragons eyes really made me crack a smile nice one nice one
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I'm primarily a cartoonist, so expressions tend to be my strong point
Thanks
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