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Published: 2017-04-29 19:28:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 455411; Favourites: 4449; Downloads: 922
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Last year I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to work on a dragon book for Scholastic by way of Becker&Mayer Books. I got to take a crack at designing 16 different mythical dragons from all over the world for a book called Sink Your Teeth Into Dragons.As described to me, the Imugi, a monster of Korean origin, were giant serpents that should they survive to one thousand years old would be transformed into a dragon. When going into this design I wanted to take inspiration from gaboon vipers as they are incredibly dangerous if you agitate them but are fairly benign when left alone. Thats sort of how I saw the Imugi. An ordinarily pleasant creature, however it does possess great venomous fangs if you take one of his french fries(very popular in Korean mythology). Anyways, this is probably completely different than what you imagine when someone says hairy serpent.
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Photoshop CC: 8 hours
Illustration©Becker&Mayer Books
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I'm starving, so I kick your ass for this french fry, I don't even care!
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This is a very cool picture. The creature is interesting.
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Heh. This dragon looks like it's trolling us!
"PROBLEM, MERE HUMANS?"
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I remember they made a bad movie out of this creature called Dragon Wars. There was one dragon and the imugi turned into it during the last 2 minutes of film.
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Oh yeah I forgot about that movie. I don't remember much. I just imagine a giant snake turning into a dragon and having fights in a city. There was something that particularly impressed me. I have seen CG dragons before in movies. This case is unique for having the oriental kind, as opposed to the European kind. That is very interesting.
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It was an okay movie
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try doing a dragon with humanoid characteristics like ao guang or the draconian aliens in ufology
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Can you do the four Chinese dragon gods next?
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I need to show this to my brother. A fluffy snake? He's going to love it.
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Daaaamn, definitely one of my favourites from this group!
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Dude your work is epic. This is one of my favorite paintings of all time
I can't believe you paint these by hand
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Godzilla and Transformers VS Imugi! XD
nice pic though.
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As seen in the movie "D-Wars/Dragon Wars" (though they prefer people forget)
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Once again, awesome.
And for the record, I prefer your design to the one used in Dragon Wars.
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It's called Dragon Wars or D-Wars.
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It looks only partially finished, where is the rest of him?
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Nice work!
Too bad I had painful experience with Imugis.
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