HOME | DD
CaraidArt — Lhune - Reference Sheet
Published: 2009-06-06 19:36:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 23153; Favourites: 631; Downloads: 2066
Redirect to original
Description
Here she finally is. My personal character, Lhune.DOWNLOAD PLEASE
I am aware that she has changed much. Although maybe annoying for some of you, I find it quite natural. I came up with Lhune when I was 15 years old. You would not believe how much I have changed since then, as a person. Lhune simply changed with me. But, as my personality and attitude are finally starting to settle, so is her design. She may still 'suffer' from changes in the future, but I don't expect any major ones to come anymore.
A couple of random facts about her that I could not fit onto the ref sheet:
Lhune loves to 'sing'. She can shape her mouth flaps so that they help her 'howl' a tune, much like a wolf or a lion's territorial growl. However, her singing is not as monotonous. Think of it as a mix between a whale's singing and a wolf's howl. She is quite hygienic. Whenever Lhune eats something for example, she will make sure there is clear water nearby, to wash her claws and mouth with. Lhune does not much like 'unnatural colours'. She also seriously dislikes pink. Blue and green are her favourites. More may be added later.Please do not use this character to roleplay with or as one of your own. She is mine, I have put a lot of effort and care into her design and it would greatly disappoint me to see her being used by others.
Lhune and artwork © Me, *Dragoness77
Special thanks to ~s3vendays for the human silhouette.
Reference sheet layout was inspired by =skysealer .
Related content
Comments: 232
.. Redraw the picture o
Wheyy for blue dragonesses x3! We are so full of win. How large is Meko, by the way? :3
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
x333 sooo full of epic win (I mean seriously, how many blue dragonesses have you seen lately xD)
uhmm.... I's say Meko's original size is about roughly the size of an average Clydsdale horse *nods* but she can shift sizes x3
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
D'errrr, apart from us, I know of two xD. Eleana and Sardiryx. And they're both quite epic as well x3.
Ahah, I actually looked at Shire horses to reference Lhune's size from ;D. She would be around that size as well, maybe a bit larger. She can't shift sizes though. She'll always be a big girl xD.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
x333 its almost too weird how much in common we are eh? right down to using big horses for size references x333
yay for epic bluenesses!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Indeed xD. If I ever find the time I should really draw a picture of us :3. Like, one that goes beyond a simple sketch xD.
Yus! Though I love green as well xD. There has been a time when I thought of making Lhune (partially) green, but that just looked weird as I'm really used to blue.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
xD yeah... I tried to see how Meko would do without her markings but she looked so much older and boring xD so I said to myself 'wel this is what she'll look like when she's older'
xDDD lol
:0 you'd draw a picture of us? that would be so very awesome x3
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Woo! Finally a ref 
Now to do fanart!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Ahah, yes. If you don't like blue you're going to hate Lhune XD. Thanks a lot <3.
Fanart O:! *squee*
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Her horns are really interesting the way they shape around her head. And, omg, bobtail. :hearts:
This is a kickass reference. Nice work. 8D
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
Ahah, thanks a lot! x3 Yus, bobtail!
I will heart with you to make you feel even better 8D 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Aw, heart fail.
There. I feel better now.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Lhune is gorgeous! I love the drawing in the "face" section. She looks so very real in this reference sheet. Very impressive anatomy and structure. And I love her horns.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you very much! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I'm so loving her face expressions and the anatomy.
The design is really interesting, so natural and cat-like. :3
But no wings?? O_O *is a fly fanatic*
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Hehe, no wings x3. Not for a while already. She is quite literally a down-to-earth critter.
A few designs back she had large feathered wings. The thing is, whenever I design a creature, I try to make it so that it would be able to live in this world. Since Lhune is quite heavy (always has been, it suits her), she would need enormous wings to be able to fly. This would both blow her out of proportion and make her very unbelievable. Also, when I got rid of her wings, I was actually a lot happier with her design. So I stuck with it ^^.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
That was really a big step but I think if you really wanted every dragon to be realistic in anatomy, none of them could fly because they're all too big and heavy. x3
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Not entirely true :3. If you were to design a dragon that could fly, you only have to look at nature to make it realistic. Flying animals have special traits that enable them to fly, such as hollow bones, a thin bodystructure, little muscle tissue. You just need to think it all out well :3. The more you think it out, the more believeable a design gets.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
That's true but hollow bones are weak. If you want to have a big reptile flying it'd need strong muscles and muscles need energy. So it'd need big prey but to kill big prey it needs to be strong and heavy or it needs to hunt with a pack like raptors. The size is the problem. :-/
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Hollow bones aren't all that weak x3. Also, you can quite easily come up with a (biological) material that is like bone only harder, for example. Also, size and muscle are not nessecarily in comparison to eachother. Compare a rhino to a giraffe; the rhino is much smaller but has tons more muscle weight than a giraffe does.
Almost everything in nature is functional. A rhino does not have it's horn and weight for nothing, neither does a giraffe has it's lean build and long neck for nothing.
A light-weight dragon would not need tons of muscle to get airborne, because it does not have much weight to carry. It does not need weight to kill prey, as it can ambush from above and because of it's lightness, it could probably outrun/fly any prey (think of a cheetah). A simple bite to the neck would then be sufficient (either to suffocate it or to hit an artery and bleed it to death), so large fangs or strong jaws would be required. Eventually, you can always come up with something that does make sense
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
xD Okey you won. I think I'm going to try to make a character that could also live in this world but with wings. :3
Huum just one thing, Lhune is blue. How could she hide in a forest or on a field?
I'm really happy to see someone who tries to make her character more realistic. Someone already yelled at me because I wrote that it's creature wouldn't be able to walk because the fur was much too long so it would fall above it. -_-
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Lhune is not bright blue, she is a faint colour of blue. This is functional in a forest, because she can easily hide out underneath bushes, as blue is the colour of most shades, and her top side is darker than the rest. If you didn't know she was there, you wouldn't notice her.
Also, she is crepuscular, meaning she is mostly active during dusk, dawn and in brightly lit nights. In dusk and dawn she will be practically invisible in bushes or shades, in a brightly lit night she is completely in her element, blending in with the blues of her environment :3.
She runs the fields just because she loves to do so. If she's not hunting there is no need for her to hide out.
Long fur doesn't have to be a problem if it's not in front of the creature. If it's dragging behind and loose, it's still annoying but not nessecarily a handicap (think [link] ). I like it when people show that they put effort and thought into their character and not just thought of a creature, slapped some nice attributtes onto it and gave it some weird colour scheme for the hell of it.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
xD Okey you won. I think I'm going to try to make a character that could also live in this world but with wings. :3
Huum just one thing, Lhune is blue. How could she hide in a forest or on a field?
I'm really happy to see someone who tries to make her character more realistic. Someone already yelled at me because I wrote that it's creature wouldn't be able to walk because the fur was much too long so it would fall above it. -_-
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Very nice.
Lets do an art trade (boredom overrules all thoughts in me)
I have a feeling that Lhune will be changing again in the future, but the designs only get better and better.
As far as made up characters representing the artist who created it, Lhune is quite original.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks a lot Toni
Awh, I would do an art trade but I really want to focus on commissions right now 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
New ref calls for gift art, methinks 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Heheh, you think? xD Well I sure hope so, I love gift art! :3
Thanks a lot! <3
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Yep I do. I may have to paint Lhune once I'm done with my current project. ^^
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
wow that drawing of the face roaring is spectacular, I love the detail you achieved with the tongue! Very well executed work
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
<= Prev |