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At Day's End
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Published: 2008-01-09 18:18:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 31382; Favourites: 1264; Downloads: 433
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After a hard day's work, Yoi goes home to tuck into a nice meal. With such an enormous basket of fish, there might be a ladyfriend or company coming over. Who knows, maybe Yoi is just ravenously hungry. Maintaining the gloss on his claws and sweeping wings must require extra nutrition.Note: The dragon-thing on the roof is supposed to be a little stone silouette of Yoi's noodly dragonform. The little lumps next to it are supposed to be animals. I got the idea from a custom for some places in China (eg. Forbidden City) to place them on the edges of a roof. Number and type of animals can denote the status of the building and its occupants, and some had superstitious purposes as well (eg. an animal to ward off the very wooden kitchens from being incinerated).
Kiriban for =Shinerai , thanks for answering all my pestering questions and even providing really sweet references! I've never used so much pink for a character and background before, and I had fun with it. I'm sorry about the character and anomatical issues too! D:
WIP:
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Textures from CGTextures.com
PS7 (background, base colors), OC4.0+ (inking, details).
EDIT1: Thank you for the DD!
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Comments: 226
OH, I see now, thanks for explaining. I didn't know about the European ones, but I did know the Chinese dragons often have/used to have/want human forms.
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the color is awesome, i love the atmosphere and those wings...the detail is gorgeous!
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Thank you so much! <33 Speaking of gorgeous, your colouring is to die for. :<
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I reall like the tree... of course other parts of this painting are gorgeous as well. Since you must've recieved ship loads of comments on that, I thought I'd get specific. The tree looks like it's done in pastle, the texture is beautiful. What did you use to creat that rough, spackling look?
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I painted the leaves in by hand, and over top I put a dirty concrete texture from cgtextures.com , (I adjusted it first so it was light yellowish), and set the texture layer to overlay. If I remembered which texture, I'd give you the link, but unfortunately, I don't. I also erased what parts didn't make sense, and painted a bit more over top that. Hope that helps!
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I'll give it a try, thank you!
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Well hot damn XD another DD exquisitely done my good chap!
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I bow to your gorgeous colors and details! I especially love the colors on his wings, and the way the fishes seem to almost glow. ^_^
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i honestly love it! i have no notion of how you did it but go you.... i shall stop making a fool of myself now. Bye! ^.^
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Congratulations! Only you have managed to spot the hidden genitalia.
(I think Freud might have something to say about that.)
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wow very discreet of you. ^.^
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I try very hard.
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you did very well XD i didn't notice till i saw the other comment..... now all i see the genitalia.
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Yah, I don't know why nobody mentioned it before. It's all like.. BAM. IN YOUR FACE. I'm surprised the admins haven't deleted the image or slapped a mature content filter over it.
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lol well i think they are willing to turn away. it looks to good to take off! XD
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I'm likin' me some of that fish.
This is amazing!
I adore this so much~
I would've never expected dragons to have feathery wings before @_@
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The sweet wing design was by =Shinerai , this is her character.
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I'll be sure to check it out.
...you portrayed her character so well!!
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It`s really beautiful!! The colors and the picture composition are very good!
I love the details! (and the little dragon on the roof! XD)
Bye
~Yel
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Ohh man, those colors are beautiful!
Great job!
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Great work! You should make a jig-saw puzzle out of that!
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Best merchandising suggestion evar.
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Breathtaking design! Love the kilt.
The colors really create a fantastic mood, too.
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omg i love the way the horns go through the earrings!!
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omg congrats on your second DD, i was talking about this piece with a friend a few days ago, the character and shading is great, definitely better than most artists, but the background really blew my mind.
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It is! ; ; I don't understand either!
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that is quite some fish...
X8 and even though the horns are attatched to his head, I'd be afraid of sneezing and gouging out my eyes... XDD
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How could I not fav this?
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ooh... sparkly...
I like this alot. It looks more like a photograph and less like a picture, thanks to the awesome shading job. I also like all the warm colors... makes me feel safe and sleepy.
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This is really a nice piece of art!~ And, on top of that, I has a Mudkip attached on my avatar!~ Hahaha! A win/win!
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