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 Post subject: Re: Silver Drake's WIPs :D
PostPosted: January 5th, 2011, 12:04 am 
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Hey great job! I'm impressed with your art! I love the feelings the pictures give. The first has a mellow, warm feeling to it, while the second has a light, almost enerjetic feel. THe wings look fine to me though, sure they might be off a little, but really in general, it looks believable to me.

Keep up the amazing work, Silver! :-)

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 Post subject: Re: Silver Drake's WIPs :D
PostPosted: January 5th, 2011, 7:27 am 
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Thank you for the wonderful comments, Weasl :3 I really appreciate them :amused:

And lol, it's nice to know that the wings don't look too bad xD

New pieces coming up soon!

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 Post subject: Re: Silver Drake's WIPs :D
PostPosted: January 5th, 2011, 10:22 am 
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I agree with weasl, I love how you give your pictures a feeling to them! It make me feel like the creature shown. And the rock doesn't look bad, nor the wings on the second picture.

What do you mean a backround idea? :confused:

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 Post subject: Re: Silver Drake's WIPs :D
PostPosted: January 31st, 2011, 9:29 am 
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Ah, thanks Hydra! <3 I really appreciate the comment :D And no need for a background, I found one!

Hoo boy, lots o' WIPS coming up!

First and foremost, something I really need to finish ASAP. It's a secret santa - obviously, at least a month overdue. This is the plan I have for it's tail, but it's not working. Halp, please! He is supposed to be sitting right at the end of a cliff. I know his body is way too long, but it doesn't quite look right with the wings when I bring the tail up :/ Redlines needed!
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Second: Here is another very overdue request of a wolf. I am having a lot of trouble with the anatomy and such. I have never drawn a wolf before!

EDIT: Nooo, it didn't save! ;-; I'll have to draw up another one.

Anyway, third WIP: Chimerasblood's Chimera (lol). There is supposed to be a person on her shoulders/back of neck, but it isn't really working out :/ Help with that would be appreciated! Obviously, the bg is very rough.
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And my fourth WIP is HydraTamer's but I don't have it scanned in yet :/

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 Post subject: Re: Uber-late Secret Santa help please! (SD's WIPS)
PostPosted: January 31st, 2011, 5:11 pm 
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redlines -
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I hope that helped you some, and I did the pose in a side view to help you grasp what I was trying to do. I can write out the critique if you wish.

I don't think I'll be of help much with the Chimera.

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 Post subject: Re: Uber-late Secret Santa help please! (SD's WIPS)
PostPosted: January 31st, 2011, 7:04 pm 
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Here is a very quick sketch for your dragon Oo I do not think the body is too long, but maybe the head should be bigger.

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 Post subject: Re: Uber-late Secret Santa help please! (SD's WIPS)
PostPosted: February 1st, 2011, 6:39 am 
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Ohmai! Two redlines in one day! I love you guys <3

Thanks for all the help, you've both given me something to work after :D

And I'm going to go and change the wing soon. I really don't like where the fingers all connect :/

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 Post subject: Re: Uber-late Secret Santa help please! (SD's WIPS)
PostPosted: February 1st, 2011, 8:42 am 
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Here are some pics to help with the fingers on your dragon's wings :)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/207/4600 ... 11a87c.jpg
http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/u ... 22/bat.jpg
http://fireflyforest.net/images/firefly ... -bat-1.jpg

and just because it's cute:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbvi ... kitten.jpg

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 Post subject: Re: Silver Drake's WIPs
PostPosted: September 10th, 2011, 6:40 pm 
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Hello. I'm back!
Anyway, I have two new pieces that I'm working on.
To begin, here is Balzaar the royal desert dragon (his species is called "Royal Desert Dragon", however he was also part of the royal family). He was primarily an alchemist, although one would say that his first and formost 'job' is hoarding and business (he simply adores precious and rare objects). His life was pretty good until his older brother died, as he then became betrothed to some random person from a far kingdom. Despising his position because he despised marriage (as it would mean no more alchemy, no more science, and no more hoarding 'restricted' precious objects), he planned and committed a rather horrible crime to make him 'unfit' to marry. However, he grossly underestimated the effect of this event - instead of simply being shunned (or, worse case, banished), he was treated with the full traitor makeover.

His 'crown' (which gives his species the name), which is the love and pride of any royal desert dragon, is usually blue and black - the colour sacred to their sky gods (black attracts heat and is also the colour of the night sky, and blue is the colour of the day sky). It was dyed red and white. This symbolizes many things - white is the colour that repels the sky gods, which meant that he was forever lost to them (as white does not attract heat). Red is the colour commonly associated with death and evil, wich marks him as one who killed his peers. The combination also marked him as an exile (white can also occasionally mean 'traveller', or more commonly 'lost', and red means murderer) from his home kingdom. If he is ever seem there, other dragons have full permission to kill him.

Anyone who dares to dye his crown back to black and blue will be murdered, along with Balzaar himself. Anyone who dares mate with him will share the same fate.

Other consequences to his crime include: the white stripes tattooed along his snout and back, the large red jewel attached to his throat, and the removal from the royal family.

Balzaar himself is actually pretty satisfied with his life right now. He lives in the high mountains, located on the other side of the continent, with his impressive hoard of gold, jewels, books, swords, and random trinkets. He does business to both humans and dragons. It usually consists of lending money, but can also vary from giving a rare trinket in return for something even more valuable, etc. He rarely goes out, preferring to do alchemy or read in his spare time.

People who go to him have a saying - a happy Balzaar is a good Balzaar. If he is happy, you are safe. If he is showing even the slightest bit of disappointment, you better be very careful. If you failed to do your part of your business, you better start begging. He isn't kind to people who cheat him. You'll either be dead meat, or have to give something very precious (most of the time it's something that is personally precious to make them pay) to survive.

People have tried to kill Balzaar - however, the long treacherous climb makes it very hard for large parties to go up. Either they'll die by a lack of food or water, from the cold, avalances, or from Balzaar himself (who will occasionally take a quick flight around to make sure that nothing is amiss). There is only one known entrance or exit to his cave.

He is also notoriously hard to kill, for unkown reasons.



Anyway, there is his bio. Here is the picture.
I'm not too sure about his hindquarter's proportions, so any help on that is appreciated!

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Aanndd here is the second one. It's a wolf OC named Trik that someone requested a long time ago.
Redlines would be awesomesauce!

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 Post subject: Re: Silver Drake's WIPs
PostPosted: September 11th, 2011, 4:54 pm 
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I think you should have the wolf's fur pointier. and maybe a little more definition to his form.
I think the dragon is great. :)

Not much critique, but I hope you can use it.

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