NDA Art Critique Message Boards

The MONSTROUS TERRIBLE XENICA

The Monstrous Terrible Xenica is known for being one of the most aggressive dragons of Berk. These beasts aggression only rivals that of the Monstrous Nightmare. Little is known about these dragons as they are very rarely seen on Berk and other islands have never had any sightings at all. Their closest relation is none other than the Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus, believed to be a smaller subspecies to the gigantic dragons.

They are ridable should a Viking find one atop the Wild Dragon Cliffs. But are extremely hard to train. These dragons should not be attempted to ride by beginner Dragon Riders and should only be trained by the more Advanced vikings.

__________________________________
__________________________________

- STATICS -

Colors: Navy Blue, Orange, Red, Violet, Dark Crimson with small flecks of White or Black in the fray.
Armed With: Dagger Like Fangs (6" in length for the longest) , Strong Bite Force, Long Retractable Claws, and a Powerful Tail. (9)
Radar: Good Senses however a Blind Spot lies at the crown of the Nose between their nose horns. (6)
Poison: These dragons have no form of Poison (0)
Defenses: Extremely thick Hide, Plated Scales and 3 layers of large Back spines (9)
Hunting Ability: These dragons are known for dive bombing flying dragons from Above. Like a Falcon. (10)
Speed: Due to their larger size and stature these dragons take time to speed up, they are mediocre at best in speed (5)
Fear & Fight Factor: Never face a Xenica Alone, Extremely Dangerous (10)

Personality: These dragons, are extremely aggressive and Dangerous. However once a rider has tamed one of these dragons they are extremely loyal and will do anything to protect their riders.

HAH!Factor: Often times these dragons will do anything to cheer their riders up, even if it means acting like a brazen fool.

AH!Factor: DEATH FLAME ROLL - When a Xenica gets a hold of it's prey in mid air these dragons will ignite a ultra hot flame in their jaws and spin rapidly around to increase the heat before thrusting their prey into the ground. The impact is so violent it usually breaks bones and kills on impact.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This lovely Specimen is a Custom HTTYD Dragon Species. The Monstrous Terrible Xenica! Don't ask, I was very bored at this time and I seen a lot of other dragons around I thought I'd throw my own species into the fray. I doubt it would be used.

This particular model is known at Sulenimn and he's displaying the basics for the species. They can vary in areas, namely in the facial structure and spines. Some spines can be more jagged and extremely pointed, while others can be completely flat.

More about the Species will be printed at a later date.

Edit: A couple more Templates for the Species.

Very nice design! And the templates look wonderful

They look awesome!! I'd love to see them colored!!

Two of them were colored you can see them Here

The other 2 aren't going to be colored/inked unless someone from the HTTYD group requests one :3

You really have a habit of not fitting your characters onto the paper entirely, I think you should really try to grow out of that. It makes your pictures all very much the same and gives the impression that you're trying to hide certain limbs, as well as that you have trouble planning ahead with your sketches.

It doesn't make the sketches any less lovely and clean, but it does get in the way of admiring your work a little.

Hey Lhune, this may not be proper to ask here, but do you have a tutorial on how to color something simply? I want to get rid of those rough-draft lines.

Hey gingerleaf, check this out http://www.boribaby.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d28vl3m Good colouring tutorial

I've been trying to grow out of those things for awhile Lhune but even my mom (as she draws as well) cannot fit a full picture on a simple page. I learned from my mom, that's likely where most of my habits come from but still, I am TRYING to get out of it.

Being a Traditional artist hinders a lot of things, especially when you only have a paper to work with. Unlike those with Photoshop or anything of the like who can have a Canvas as large as they want.

I /try/ to fit everything onto the page but I just draw too big. And it's, as far as others see it, a part of the style that I have developed. Sure, it doesn't show everything... I am not trying to hide parts, but that's just how I draw =/ I know, I can improve and all but drawing 'smaller' is a bit harder for me to do ^^;

Fair enough I do have Photoshop (illegally mind, I can't afford it myself either), and it enables me to enlarge or shrink the canvas as I please.

That doesn't mean I never do any traditional pieces however, nor that I have no experience with drawing on paper. If you're limited to using paper only, you will have to learn to plan ahead when you start drawing. Lay out a base for the sketch, plan a composition, plan the proportions. If you find yourself always running out of space, the simplest solution would be to simply draw smaller. What I'd do (and have done) is buy an A5 sized sketchbook (a small sized sketchbook anyway) and simply sketch in it. You will find yourself being forced to draw smaller and growing used to it.

It's a bit of a silly thing to adopt not fitting things on paper as part of your style. It's definitely unique, but that's probably (and I'm not trying to offend you here) because it's not very appealing. That said though, what's important is that it works for you. If it does and you're happy with what you're doing, then forget what I said .

Most of the part of it comes from the fact that it's just how I am used to drawing in general. I'm working on adapting things as far as I can and really I can't get too many small sized Sketchpads where I live (Local Wal-marts only sell the 8x11 sheets and the huge sketchpads, etc.) and going to Hobby Lobby would be far too expensive with my limited budget (I'm the only one currently working in my house, thus I pay 90% of the bills and buy 90% of the food)

I guess just for me it's not all about fitting it on the paper, I tend to leave my imagination for other things. And 90% of the time I get so distracted by details that before I realize much in general I have run out of room. Yeah call it lame but I much rather enjoy details to other things ^^;;;;;;;;

And I think it's a bane for mostly everyone when it comes to feet and such (Ugh I honestly hate drawing them in general) but give me a bit more time. I'm slowly working on adapting and I am taking what you say in mind. It's just going to be a pain kicking an old habit. As they say, old habits die hard.