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Kirsch-vanderWit — Longjing
Published: 2013-08-21 14:09:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1341; Favourites: 83; Downloads: 10
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seventh of my stupid tea dragons in action
I totally forgot about green teas so this time it's fabulous and very popular Dragon Well tea known also as Long jing or Lung Ching
I totally messed colors so they are not meeting my original intentions. I hope it doesn't feel unfinished because I was a bit rushing in the end and I felt I shouldn't put too many details into it.
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Yay for your tea dragons!
This particular creature is so cute with his long body and whiskers - such adorable Eastern dragon!
I also like colors a lot; bright green and yellow are such happy and vivid combination. So no worries even if they are not what you originally planned!
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haha thank you !
I am happy my bright green aniline colors haven't burnt your monitor !
I share same excitement about long dragons.. they are just cute !
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You're welcome and no worries, my eyes and monitor are still ok. 
There definitely is a certain level of charm in these beasties; too bad I still haven't learned how to make their long bodies look natural...
But you really nailed it here. ^^
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I really like your dragons. Your choice of vivid colors complement each other creating a balanced visual. And the texture, and shading are great too. Awesome job! You say that you used salt for the scale texturing and then watercolor painting? Did you ink the drawing first? I would like to learn more about your coloring style(s). Thanks for sharing.
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oh thank you ! I am happy you like it ^^ I had big concern while making this one.
The process is very simple
The base is line work with black ink. I tend to make it thick and visible because watercolor covers it when I paint over. Than I make whole picture wet and put random aniline paint into it making it to bleed and mix together. It needs to be quite wet but not too much and I apply it over whole picture, even the dragon. Than I add salt (usually I do part by part because I am not fast enough and it dries fast) for different effects different amount. For big nice flowers just few crystals into not too wet paper and little piles for draining colors completely. I use big crystals , some kind of professional salt. Normal cooking salt can make same effect, though. Then!it needs to dry.. completely so often I leave it over night or on sunlight.
After removing salt I paint over with watercolors and trying to use some colors matching to the background and some completely different. It's not very difficult when you already have some underlayer so I color it mostly in flat colors and in the end add darker and lighter parts to make some depth. If it is needed I fix lines after finishing coloring but I always try not to cover over them. Still, it ends a bit messy and blurry and final effect is not predictable !
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Awesome! Thank you very much for sharing. I will try this technique out. Can I let you know how it worked out for the drawing/ character I had in mind? And ask a few more questions about your style of coloring when I have them?
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Ask any time you feel you need a help ! I am pretty sure it will work with any character 
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Really nice painting of an eastern dragon, I must say. Very smart and fleshy.
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haha thanks
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Ten je zelenýýý! A můj monitor to ještě tak hezky zvýrazňuje, na chvilku jsem si říkala, že to vypadá trochu jak nějaký toxic drak, co vaří jedy
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jo je hodne jedovatej
no todle je prave ten omalovankovy styl. jen se mi to cele trochu zvrtlo a dopadlo to uplne jinak. tak nejak me to barveni vubec nebavilo a nelibili s emi barvy takze jsem asi sjela hodne od puvodni ideje. Mozna za to i muze to ze tehle je o dost vetsi rozmerove nez ti ostatni a byl to trosku nezvyk pracovat s tak velkou plochou. Planuju jeste jednoho zelenase asijskeho.. a ten bude asi nudle takze tohohle speka pekne doprovodi XD
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Aha, tak mně právě přijde, že už to není tak omalovánkovitě uhlazený, jako byl ten..už nevím kterej
Tak na nudli jsem zvědavá, jsou mi ti hubení takoví bližší, řekla bych
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no ti predtim meli kuzi. tehle ma srst tak jsem se ji tam snazila tak trochu naznacit ale pak me to prestalo bavit. Priznam se ze je to fakt nedodelane ale uz bylo citit ze to budu jedine kazit. Ten hubenour bude uhlazenej jako tamty predtim
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hlasim se jako pripadny kupce
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no vzhledem k tomu ze toho predchosiho ani nikdo nechtel a navic jsem v blbem nemecku z ktereho nic nemuzu poslat tak se do zadneho prodeje zatim moc nehrnu.
diky
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ale klidne si koupim oba
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That sounds like quite a nummy tea! ;D The salt blooms in the background are really pretty, as is the musculature of your dragon...
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haha it is ! It's a mixture of mint and some nice green teas. I don't remember what exactly but this tea is really great when you need some relaxation for mind and body. I highly recommend that !
Working with salt was really funny here. ALthough lot of textures got hidden under many layers of watercolors on dragons body. I really covered it all D:
I am not sure if I can speak about muscles here, because I draw all eastern dragons like noodles with legs !
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I will, I don't drink much green tea tbh...
Noodle dragons ftw
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