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Published: 2009-03-28 12:29:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 1207; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 10
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So I’ve been working more on my personal DoL (Dragons of Literature) project. With more characters from Novik’s Temeraire series. I still think this is a brilliant set of books and if you haven’t read them then you should! They start with ‘His Majesty’s Dragon’.Here we have Lien! Or if I was to use her full name ‘Lung Tien Lien’. She’s a pretty main character in the second and third books, and is related to Temeraire (yes she’s also a celestial). For those of you how saw my picture of Temeraire [link] will note that Lien is missing the same so called ridges down her back. Part of this is because it was pointed out to be that Celeticals don’t have them, another part is due to the angle she’s facing the viewer you wouldn’t see as many. As for the third reason… there is all that shiny spiffy stuff in the way…
Lien here was brought on from a suggestion by
This whole piece is done with fineliner pens; all tone was achieved with hatching and cross hatching; three main colours for this one: pink, red and yellow.
apparently I like to torture myself with detail in cross hatching.For the record… there is something about this piece that I don’t really like… maybe the shade of pink in it… I’m not fully sure… but she kinda grows on you…
Lien and the Temeraire series are copyright Naomi Novik
Art is copyright me
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I think she looks great! Actually when i saw the thumbnail I hadn't even read the title yet and my brain goes 'LIEN'
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o.0 wow, thats kinda of awesomes then! I could insert some comment here about great minds thinking alike ^^
Thanks shadow!
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Cool, very nice detail work. The only thing is maybe you should extend the forward whisker to be longer, like it's counterpart, or to the edge of the page. You don't have to worry about cropping it to fit where you cut off the neck since the pendant is a clean division. Otherwise this pose seems off balance.
Again, great work on the detail with cross hatching. ^_^
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*looks at it again* Hm true... it looks like someone went after her with a pair of scissors... of course we all know that if that happened Lien would have flattened them. I'll have a bit of a fiddle around and see if I can get it to work better ^^
Thankyou ^^
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No prob--since I'm taking art classes little things like this help me pick up and learn how to critique/improve art. ^_^
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Awesomes! I'm also in art classes atm, but sometimes after working on an image for a certain amount of time you just can't see it any more... metaphorically of course...
that’s why critique from other people is so useful, they see things you don't
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i agree. Same goes with writing. ^_^ Since i'm a planned creative writing major and a at least a minor, maybe double major in art, i feed on critiques. ^_^
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^^ A deviant after my own heart!
I love writing too (spends much time RPing when she should be doing homework and jobs around the house) hm... Maybe if I finish any of my original fiction I should post it here... >.> nothing compares to losing steam partway through a piece.
Critiques are great! We must shatter this stereotype of Artists being independent of people’s opinions! ^^ I'm one of those people who love to know why someone likes / dislikes what I do. Heh ... I recently saw an interview with Graeme Base where he admitted the same
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Yeah--the only thing is, save for a handful of art, I'm wary about posting original material on the internet,even if it is Deviantart. That's why my gallery is mostly fanart or fanfiction. I do alot of original writing, and as much as I would love critiques here, I'm afraid of my material being lifted.
Critiques are good, they can help the author plot though character development issues, plotholes, and even spark new ideas, but one must remember it is always the author's story. Some critics forget that and ask that everything be re-written (sometimes it is warranted, but if it's not the story the author intended, that kind of advice is seldom helpful). Anyway, that's my opinion of the matter. ^_^
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Oh, I can relate to that... I once made a comment that no one seemed to like what I was writing and the person I was talking to replied that it was maybe because I wrote porn. I had a very dude... wtf... moment after that...
As for having material lifted that really bites... >.> and it happens so much... copping might be the highest form of flattery but still those ideas were yours first and not anyone else’s
As for your opinion I would say you're dead on the mark, its great to get new ideas and view points into a piece, but if they completely warp the story you're trying to create it becomes a question of just who are you being loyal to, yourself or your fans? (if you have any)
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Well, to be honest, porn does have a limited audience.
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so true! Thats a pretty awesome saying too!
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I said it the frist time I saw this and I say it again It's awsome work you did here
**Woots I'm the frist to coment Yays**
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LOL! you got to see it like AGES before I scaned it ...
>.> she's darker irl too (the drawing that is)
heh! first comments!
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