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Published: 2011-11-05 18:32:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1370; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 23
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Description Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, god of the Aztecs.

Done after a doodle in class. I want to participate in designing our school's yearbook cover, and we need to include a dragon. I personally am very tired of seeing traditional dragons, so I sketched this in class and asked my teacher if this counted as a "dragon." Aparently Quetzalcoatl is a dragon and NOT just a bird with no legs. YES. Now I have a really cool idea of how to design it, with lots of glyphs.

First time using a texture for the back; it's kind of pixelly because it was too small and I needed to stretch it, but oh well. Hope you like! Trying to put my good 'ol Wacom to some more use.
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Comments: 12

catflavored [2011-11-07 01:06:25 +0000 UTC]

The colors are gorgeous!

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tomato-bird In reply to catflavored [2011-11-10 00:43:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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catflavored In reply to tomato-bird [2011-11-10 00:55:57 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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Toreo-o [2011-11-05 21:37:32 +0000 UTC]

ohhh. the colours are gorgeous!

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tomato-bird In reply to Toreo-o [2011-11-10 00:44:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Toreo-o In reply to tomato-bird [2011-11-10 10:58:35 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome!

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lizziecat1279 [2011-11-05 18:54:07 +0000 UTC]

Ya according to one of the books that I own, Quetzacoatl is an "amphithere" along with the other American dragons. There's a mothlike one in North America and a wyvernlike one down in South America.
I love this drawing~

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TheStorageGnome [2011-11-05 18:45:26 +0000 UTC]

Ohhh I loff the colors. You should do more mythology pics! You should do gneisha!

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tomato-bird In reply to TheStorageGnome [2011-11-10 00:45:26 +0000 UTC]

Heh yeah! Cartoon hindu gods yey! Have you heard of "Divine Loophole?" It's a very stylized-cartoon illustrated version of the Ramayana by some Indian guy who works for Pixar. It's awesome, will try to find links for you later.

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TheStorageGnome In reply to tomato-bird [2011-11-11 00:16:42 +0000 UTC]

Ohhh no I haven't but that sounds interesting. I'd like to see it.

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tomato-bird In reply to TheStorageGnome [2011-11-11 01:48:31 +0000 UTC]

[link] it sure is. It inspires me to attempt sad Illustrator attempts.

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TheStorageGnome In reply to tomato-bird [2011-11-12 19:51:01 +0000 UTC]

Ooooh reminds me of Samurai Jack style art. Me like.

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