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This drawing has been completed with the help of Tony Orzech ( [link] ) wich I thank for the great amount of time he invested in helping me with the shading and texturing and Kylee Nell ( [link] ) wich I thank for her asistance with the anatomy... Thanks guys... I never could have done without you...As for the story... Jon ( the elf ) just finished some really tough survival exercices as he is in training for admition in the elven guild of the riders... and Draghi ( the dragon ) just returned from a sucesfull but exhausting hunt...
So they bolth seattle down for a little rest... that's all there is to it...
Heck... I would like a pillow like that...
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Well now I stumbled across your gallery once again! For some reason I don't rightly recall seeing this work from you before, so I'm only assuming it's new to my eyes, hehe.
Since you're asking for advanced critique on the comments I might as well say my two cents worth, if it's really worth anything at all. :z
And I understand that I'm commenting on a piece that was submitted a few months back, forgive me for being so late in seeing this! xD
The only thing that jumps out at me immediately in need of correcting is the dragon's left foot. The middle phalange (toe) is the same length as the others, if not a hair shorter it appears. Normally in nature, the middle phalange is the longest as seen in most theropod dinosaurs, where as the first phalange closest to the inner thigh is the longest for birds of prey. Simply elongating any of the toes would correct the aesthetic problem, but if that is a characteristic of this dragon then by all means correct me!
The lighting is rather good, though I'd advise on erasing the darker lines bordering around the cones of light. Nyes trees are good... Hm.. The leaf matter adds depth, but all of the leaves in the foreground seem to have the same dark border. Varying opacity and blending would probably do well to touch that up... I'm probably just confusing you, since it's hard to describe what I mean! x_X I'm confusing myself even.
Uhm, I hope I helped in the least, maybe even for future projects(?). I guess I mean to say I hope you found my ramblings useful!
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constructive criticism is always wealcomed...
I totally agree about the toes on his hindfoot... for future projects I will try to be more carefull on that...
ANd I'm still working on the leaves... this was only my first atempt...
THe borderlines on the cones of light weren't sapposed to be there, but I guess I missed a few...
ANyways, thanks for stoping by... and for the comment...
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Long time favorite... Long lasting favorite!
This MUST taken one heck of amoth with all B-BH pecils... and some charcoal i presume?
Friends like these... 10/10
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Corection... HB, H and from 3B up to 8B pencills... + one mechanicle pencill...
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Take a look at it!
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thank you very much... but compared to the rest of the stuff you featured, mine is inferiour... I don't think my drawing desearves the feature... still I apreciate it...
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Are you kidding??
It drove me crazy when I saw the huge work on the foliage and scales and....everything!
It would deserve even more! 
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huh... thank you... but I don't think it's that good...
but it's the best I can do at present...
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believe me,it's so good (if you'd see my gallery would know why 
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well personally I can't do faces even half as good as you...
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I can say the same thing about lighting and woods! 
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woods?!?
At first I thought it was a complicated thing to add so much detaill like leaves on trees or on the ground... but when a goodwilling artist was kaind enough to open my eyes to how it was actually done... I remained stunned to how little skill is invoulved in drawing such efects... I'm not gona say it's easy or simple... but it requires a heck of a lot less care and atentione than a persone's face would...
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I would love to hear more about how it is actually done! I have always just concentrated my practice on the subject floating in white space on a page, because I have no clue to how to do backgrounds decently! If I do try them, they just seem to detract from the main object by being so much poorer in skill, or I go crazy trying to figure out how to execute all the details that I see others putting into their backgrounds! There must be some way of showing some detail, and using that to suggest the rest?? I just have not figured out how to approach it yet! But I am starting to do a bit more experimenting with it--so if you have any tips you could pass along, I'd love to try them!
This is so beautiful in the spirit of it as well as the drawing of it, IMHO! The handling of the dragon's form is so sensitive that I can just imagine how comfy a pillow/mattress he must make, and warm too, I bet! And as I say, the light coming through the trees and leaves makes this a truly peaceful scene!
I will look forward to seeing more from you--I have you on watch now! And you are motivating me to get going on my own practicing again--so thank you! I had gotten a little overwhelmed by all the beautiful things like this that I was finding here, lol! But if someone who can draw like this still feels like he's "just practicing", then I guess I better stop feeling sorry for "poor skills and results" and get to work, too, eh?! ~.^
Thanks for letting me know about your site in our game--this is Miashi, the little green dragon there.
Fayrith/Miashi/Curious Packrat/Jeanie--depending on which site you find me on!
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well, by what I hear, you seem to be aiming to high to early with your backgrounds...
THe first and most important lesson we were thought in the very breaf architecture course I took ( B4 going through computer science ) is that spacing is very important... but you NEVER start doing an overly detailled background... the main idea is to have a phocal point ( what ever character or onject is in the foreground ) and the background should only suggest the fact that that object is sitting on something, and possibly show dimensions by giving something to compare the object to... like trees, cars, buildings and so on.
FOr starters, I would suggest starting very simple... just begin adding in the horizon ( irony isn't it? ) line. The horizon line determines from what angle you look at an object at. Unfortunatelly this is a bit more difficult to explain in words... so, if you have any drawings in the works, feal free to upload them and I'll give you a step by step critick, and help you through the different stages. I certantly hope you have a scanner handy though.
ANyways, after you will be comfortable with the horizon line, yo ucan start to slowly add in some detaills... at first just some outlines of other things in the distance... trees, hills, buildings and so on... but remember to keep it simple, so that the characters don't get "lost"... I had that problem too, when the characters did not stand out from the background...
Then, when you are comfortable with creating these scenes... you can move on to simple shading and shadowing... wich invoulves selecting a light source and sticking to it... again, it's a bit difficult to explain, but if you share your works in progress, I'll be happy to lend what ever knowledge I have on the sunject.
ANd only after you are comfortable with all of the above, do you start adding in textures... at least, that'sthe way I see it... differnet artists will have totally different aproaches, but this is my view.
P.S.
what dose IMHO mean?
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IMHO = in my humble opinion
And thanks for being willing to help me with this. That's awesome! I don't exactly have something in progress--well, I have an idea of a scene I'd like to do for a friend and myself--maybe I can put the one sketch of a part of it that I've tried so far into my scraps for you to see and comment/critique.
I'm a very amateur, hobbyist artist, with not enough talent or instruction to ever really be good, but I can't give it up either, LOL. And now, with having developed a right hand and body shakiness from Parkinson's Disease, I have an added challenge, as of course I am right-handed! ;/ I'll have to submit a drawing I did as an experiment to see what would happen if I "used" that shakiness as part of the drawing technique--it came out kind of interesting. The sketch I mentioned is also done since developing the PD.
I would be very interested in your ideas on starting with simple steps and then learning to build more into a background. That seems quite reasonable. I'd like to continue with you some more about this. 
See you ingame or here again, I hope.
Fayrith/Miashi/Curious Packrat/Jeanie--depending on what site you find me!
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Well, don't threat... i'm doing art as a hobby too... I'm studying to earn my bread from computer programing.
Well, as soon as you have that sketch I'll try to help as best I can.
P.S.
SOrry to hear about yout problem... I know somebody who has PD, so I know what it's like.
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I wish I will someday think the same as you about drawing woods! 
Thank you for the compliment on my skills!
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if you wish I can show you how I draw MY detaills... there's really nothing to it...
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Yes,I'd really like to see how you draw them *_*
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I'll try to draw up a small turorial if it helps... I have progress checks on bolth rest and hunt... but I doubt anybody could learn anything from those...
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I think you underrate your own artwork...
In my opinion a little tutorial can be really useful..and,I guess,not only for me..
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ugh... sorry I forgot all about it... school work and the likes... I'll try to find the time tomorow for it...
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Take all the time you need! I didn't want to stress you
I'm busy with university..so I know how hard is find free time
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ugh... I did part of it... but it's not of a very good quality...
when taking an individual tree, theresoults are rather ugly... their ilusion of beauty is when you cannot focuse on one particular item...
if you want I'll send you what I did do...
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I'd be glad to see it.. *_* Thank you very much for your effort 
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effort... I could hardly call it an effort...
you better save it quick cause I'm taking it down the moment you do... I hardly feal like this is quality work in the least... I'm not good in making tutorials...
The only REAL secret is to draw up the contour of the tree... and then you can think of the leaf texture as a pile of spagety ( or a long, tangled piece of thread )... you start one point and just do swirls... personally I do something like &&&&&&&&& but conected... you overlap each row slightly over the one above... and if it's small enough, you get the ilusion I got in my pics...
The most important aspect of this is... NOT to think about what you are doing... just let your hand go as it pleases... just focus on making the swirls of equal diametre... their angle and direction should be as hazardous as you possibly can get them... thinking about how you do each stroke is a sure guarantee for desaster... take it from somebody who knows...
so here's the doodle... but don't expect something great...
[link]
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Thank you very much! I think it will help me soon 
I saved it
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Wow, that's just amazing!
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thanks... and hopefully I will...
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hehhe, i love it! i would like a pillow like that as well! or better yet i will just cuddle up with my dragon, she loves me like a mother loves her son
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Hiya, just a little message to let you know this piece of work has been featured in Issue 10 of the art blog Devious Dragons
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Great. Just great. Dragon, shading, details...excellent.
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Oh, you deserve it. And I'm being 100% honest.
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Wow.. 0.o It's great!! 
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bine... deci m-am uitat la desenul tau... ce pot sa spun?!? Extraterestrii nu prea fac parte din domeniul meu...
Ny vreau sub nici o forma sa iti stric avintul... dar in momentul de fata, capul respectivului extraterestru arata asa... cam ca un balon cu ochii, nasul si gura desenate pe el... acelasi lucru poate fi spus si despre... cordeluta (?!? ) aia technologica e pe frunte...
DIn nou, imi cer scuze daca ceea ce am zis a fostjignitor...
Acum, fata... fie ea umana sau extraterestra, nu e specialitatea mea... fetele inca imi dau MARI dureri de cap... indiferent sub ce forma sunt...
dar pt un inceput, dupa cum s-a comentat si mai sus, tre sa bagi mai mult detaliu in desen.
Pt inceput, cordeluta aia... pt a evita impresia ca e desenata pe fruntea lui, ar trewbui sa aiba o grosime... adica forma ei sa iasa putin in afara liniei capului, ca sa dea impresia de volum...
Aceeasi problema si cu "stecherele "alea care ii intra in cap... in loc sa le faci ovale, incearca sa le faci sub forma de cilindru... si in loc sa fie aliniate sub forma "- -" ai putea sa le faci sub o forma mai adecvata formei capului sau... ceva de genul "/ \"...
La un cap asa mare, m-as fi asteptat sa aiba niste ochi ceva mai mari...
Gura ii este putin prea apropiate da barbie... desi e extraterestru, poti sa te inspiri din anatomia umana daca tot il faci sa para asa de uman...gura ar trebui sa fie putin mai sus...
Hmm... daca ai chef, incearca sa rezolvi aceste mici detalii, si dupa aia mai vedem...
DUpa cum am spus anterior, extraterestrii nu sunt specialitatea mea, si nu te pot ajuta pream ult... dar daca vaci vreodata dragoni... atunci te voi putea ajusta ceva mai mult probabil...
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OMG that is the best I've seen in a long time. It is really stunning. Well done I must say. I swear it looks almost real. O_o
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well... almost real isn't good enough... is it...
but thanks for stoping by and for the comment...
P.S.
That logo you made... ( the one I favorited from your gallery )... were did you get the original drago nartwork??? I am very courious... for I would want to see more such art...
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eh it was something I randomly found and I turned it into a sig type thing actually. It isn't really much of a logo. It isn't the best of work either to.
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