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Well I know it's been a while since I've uploaded anything here. I've been having some trouble digitizing my large painting work from second semester and am finally trying my hand at photographing my own work...I know it's not ideal, but bear with me. This is a huge fully-oil painting (20"x30") that I actually did around Thanksgiving of last year. It was intended to be a book-cover format for the Dragonriders of Pern series, a personal favorite of mine. I had the honor of meeting Todd and Anne McCaffrey in California a while back, and Todd and I had had a discussion about how the Pern dragons were originally intended to be more bovine than reptilian in structure. I did this with that comment in mind.
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Ignoring that it is a gold breathing fire - the design along a bovine structure is really impressive.
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The Pern series is one of my most favorite to read. I really like your take on the dragons and am very jealous that you met Todd and Anne McCaffrey. Great job.
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golds dont breath fire fire stone makes them infertile but still really cool
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Purely epic, i personally like the more reptillian look that we normally see, but this is a really cool picture of what they would look like by that comment
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I love the picture and am a very big fan of the books myself...one problem with it is that I'M looking at it! and I'm all for 'nit pick details' but ignore my stupid self, it's lovely! wish I could draw even half as well as you!
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this is one amazing piece the detailing in this is reelly nice a very good job with this piece of work indeed
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Wow, this is a totally awesome. I love this look of the dragons.
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it actually looks really scary now that i've full viewed it. a golden cow O_O certainly a very intense piece
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Excellent. I never liked the look of the dragons on the Pern covers, even though they were pretty good books. The bovine look is unique and doesn't take away from the fierceness, dragon-ness of the dragons. I think I prefer them this way.
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Well, art is so amazing, but...
It's a gold dragon. The queens aren't smoke threads
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yea queens dont chew firestone but they have the flamethrowers attached so they can still fight threads.
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That's pretty amazing. Bovine dragons ftw. I like how you made them clearly bovine without turning them into cows with wings or anything; they're still dragons in structure. Point is, I like this interpretation, and I wonder what made them change their mind about them being reptilian instead.
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Awesome pic... but i was just wondering why you made a gold dragon breathing fire.
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Wow, this is.. amazing. I'm an avid fan of the Pern series, and I had actually started roleplaying in a Pern setting. Although, there is one small thing I am curious about.
Since I assume this is a gold/queen (compared to the slightly more earth-toned dragon below it), I thought it was set that most golds/queens do not fly in Thread battles, because if they were fed the firestone, they would become infertile?
Excerpt from wikipedia's Pern article, section 'Firestone': "Firestone is believed to render female dragons sterile, thus requiring queen dragons to use flamethrowers when fighting Thread."
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omg i luv it!!!!!!!!! its so realistic, yet it holds its fantasy
aw man that is sooooooo awesome that u got to meet them!!!! *bows at ur awesome luck*
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I love the blue in the back, but your muscle-structure is just awesome!
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Your dragons have great form! The dragons on the covers of my copies of the books look, actually, more like insects, which is weird... With the multi-faceted eyes, they look like compound eyes of bugs.
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hey nice work im a huge fan of Anna McCaffery's work when i read about the dragon riders and the harper hall ect it makes me want to go there and be just a simple hold boy that gets chosen to impress a watch wheyr even or a fire liziard
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That is the oddest idea..but it strangely works. I like different ideas because they are so fascinating, just like this painting. Brilliant job!
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First it is drop dead gorgous, but that can't be Lessa or any of the queens because Queens don't breath fire.
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Heh, I've loved the Dragonriders of Pern since I was little...I blame my grandfather.
The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern is also a good book 
The wings here just strike me as too small...especially from the view of the back of the wing on the foremost dragon.
Given how muscular the dragons are here...it makes me curious as to what the whers would look like, given their smaller wings and bulkier bodies.
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I'm so jealous you got to meet the McCaffreys...lol. But what a great picture! I had no idea about their original idea for this look. I like it, excellent job
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I'm a little confused to as the type of dragon the woman is riding. Because women didn't impress bronze dragons and I would guess by the color this is a gold. But the golds never chewed firestone because they were the only dragons who laid eggs and the firestone messed that whole process up.
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amaizing. i am also a big fan of the Dragonriders of Pern series. 
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i loooove it, now i really need to read Mccaffrey's books
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Very nice . . . interesting concept and well exicuted
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I never knew that! That's pretty cool. I think you did a great job here depicting that. I love the action in the picture, and the lighting and scenery, too. It looks great!
-Kazaam
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Totally see the bovine influence. That's an interesting take, I wonder why they changed it (or did they)?
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Wow. Absolutely AMAZING. Beautiful color, and I love your interpretation of the dragons!
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Cool. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of the Pernese dragons actually breathing fire.
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O.O amazing, simply put this is amazing! Great work!
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that is fricken sweet!! i love the dragonriders of pern books! they're sooo good!!
is that a bronze or a gold dragon?
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I adore this series. (:w Bovine? Wow, I would have never pictured them as such, but it works. I love your depiction, and your use of colors, such smooth painting! Wonderful work and use of such great details. Wonderful!
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Lolvely! Anne McCaffrey style dragons
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O.O ...LUCKY!!!! I would give practicly anything to meet them!
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Gorgeous colours! 8O The dragon looks as if it was coloured digitally, which is cool cause it's so smooth C: nice dabbing technique for the flames
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