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As part of my Free Arts section I decided it would be a better idea to start a WIP thread rather than keep updating the other one, plus now I can post other random stuff here if I want to. :P

So here is the progress so far on HydraTamer's Sea Dragon request





Here's where I'm at now. What it is is just a basic overview of what I hope to achieve here, so there are a lot of glaring problems with it. I'm having a few issues with understanding the PS3 tools so that's holding me up quite a bit, but I'm learning pretty quickly I think.

Awesome, Conundrum! I really like the backround and the shading is good too! The water is really well done, and having the ground tilted makes it look like he's going in circles! I love it so far!

Thank you Hydra! I'm glad you like it. I've been sort of struggling with it so its good to hear its turning out well so far. :D

Edit: Complete! http://neondragonart.com/mb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6005

Sketch for HydraTamer's OC Firebran. Still working out the kinks in some of the details, but I will be lining this soon. I'm very pleased with how quickly my hand became used to the tablet. I think I may even be better at drawing on the computer now over traditional pencil and paper. Now I just need to speed up my coloring processes and settle on some good techniques.
...oops..forgot to draw him a tail xD

He looks so proud of himself! I really like the pose you put him in, it kinda shows his horsey behavior, if you know what I mean. But just before you ink it, even though the picture I gave you looks like his neck is really thin, it isn't suppose to be. Like I said before, It is last years drawing, and I mean early last year lol.

Now that you mention it I do see his neck is pretty thin. I'll be sure to fix that up. ^^ I'm glad you like the pose, it was actually the first one I thought of. I liked it so much I just stuck with it. :P

It's getting there. Got some help from someone on DA for the anatomy and it looks a lot better :P

I love his back legs! The are very well done; I could never get the hang of drawing horse legs. But his front leg doesn't look right... I don't know how to say it, but it looks like it's coming toward you and not forward.

This still isn't the final linework, so I'm still fussing around with the front leg. I'm trying to get it sort of like a tiger's paw when they're walking, sort of turned in but still going forward. All I can seem to manage with the lines anyways is like he's sidestepping like you said. I may just have too much line definition for the shoulder/chest muscle. Gonna have to play with that some. As for the back legs, I spent hours staring at a horse's backend on google just to get it to look like that, so I'm glad it paid off xD Still not entirely please with the underbelly, but I think those details will come with the coloring and shading rather than linework.

I'm glad you're liking the progress and thanks for being so patient with the time it takes me! ^^

My computer went down for almost a week so I wasn't able to work on anything, but here's the basic colors I've got for Firebran now. I'm going to refine the lineart to include Firebran's features and add some scale detail later.



Let me know of any issues with it so I can get back to work on it.

As for the Good v. Evil request, I'm still thinking up dragon design concepts for it, but once those are done I'll get to work sketching out a basic idea for everything.