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'Dragon, listen closely...

'At dawn...we fight!'

I love this picture. I really, really, really do.

Sultan Saladin and his dragon Rahal the morning before a battle - like Fajr Prayer time, before sunrise... Saladin was crazy about Prayer.

I love Saladin. He's seriously my hero. <3 What an amazing person, he was.

So yeah, about the style. Instead of going in over soft gradients with hard cell-shading, I blurred the cells in places to soften them up, and then utilized low-opacity soft highlights with cell highlights. THOUGH, I think, honestly, the most striking part of the piece is the lighting effect - the backlighting. I usually work from standard lighting directions, usually the diagonal, but this piece is really inspiring me to work with some more unusual lighting angles.

So yep.

Enjoy!
Art/Dragon (c) me - Saladin (c) himself
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Description
~~~

'Dragon, listen closely...

'At dawn...we fight!'

I love this picture. I really, really, really do.

Sultan Saladin and his dragon Rahal the morning before a battle - like Fajr Prayer time, before sunrise... Saladin was crazy about Prayer.

I love Saladin. He's seriously my hero. <3 What an amazing person, he was.

So yeah, about the style. Instead of going in over soft gradients with hard cell-shading, I blurred the cells in places to soften them up, and then utilized low-opacity soft highlights with cell highlights. THOUGH, I think, honestly, the most striking part of the piece is the lighting effect - the backlighting. I usually work from standard lighting directions, usually the diagonal, but this piece is really inspiring me to work with some more unusual lighting angles.

So yep.

Enjoy!
Art/Dragon (c) me - Saladin (c) himself
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