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Published: 2013-05-11 01:55:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 11671; Favourites: 834; Downloads: 121
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chapter page for a fantasy RPG guidebook.I wanted the book design (as much of it as I had control over, anyway) to have this very ancient, illuminated manuscript "book of Kells" feel to it, with these elaborately detailed chapter numbersturnermohan.deviantart.com/art⦠, and top and bottom page borders featuing celtic dragons eating eachother's tailsturnermohan.deviantart.com/art⦠. for the chapter page (which appears six times in the book, but with a different number for each chapter) I thought it'd be cool to have the very stylized dragons in the page border sort of come to life, their heads on long, twisted necks spiraling inward, toward the chapter number.
This piece had a little bit of everything in it; pencil, watercolor, acrylic, white gouache, and a lot of scraping with an exacto knife for the highlights.
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Wow! The details and symmetry are stunning! Congratulations on your DD!
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- Congrats on the DD!
Have a nice day!
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- My pleasure, thank you
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I adore all the details and textures to this, I just want to reach out and touch it. Magnificently done.
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Beautiful work, love the dragons and the ornamental patterns 
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theres an instructional book on making celtic interlace designs [link] cant reccomend it highly enough.
Thanks for your kind words, and the fave!
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You'r wellcome
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A special John Howe feel! Amazing!
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me and john are tight (by which I mean I've worshipped the ground he walks on since childhood, and he has no idea I exist, ofcourse)
Thanks alot
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This is so lovely and detailed! Apart from the amazing knotwork, I also love the painted feel of this. The shading is so rich!
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boy I take that as a real compliment coming from you, I just checked out your profile and I especially Love those four seasonal celtic style illustrations, beautiful work! Thanks for your kind words
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Haha, all my compliments are real, I'm too lazy to lie.
Anyway, your knotwork is much more elaborate than mine, it certainly is less sloppy!
Nevertheless, I'm glad you like it. So, you're very welcome, and thank YOU for YOUR kind words!
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How do you not have more views?! These are amazing drawings. I love the amount of detail, yet looseness of your work. A definite watch!
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must be this ugly face of mine, haha. thanks so much for your lovely comment, and for watching. more to follow, stay tuned!
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oh my, I just love how you drew this, itΒ΄s so detailed and the dragons scales are sooooo awesome, such an amazing shading! And I really like how you played with light and darkness on the dragons body! ahh I can stop admiring it, I could look at it for ages (:
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thanks! the dragon scales were impossible, it took a couple attempts to pin down the right formula for them, and I had to do several segments of their bodies many times over. I really appreciate you noticing, especially a fellow dragon painter!
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yeah I can see all the work thatΒ΄s behind this, but the outcome is really amazing! I canΒ΄t believe something that beautiful has just 40 views! maybe you should submit it to some goups, because this is magnificent! 
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