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feather-queen [2011-10-26 18:31:51 +0000 UTC]
<3 wow I simpley love that story...so saddd..;o; <3 So strong and lovely.<3 The art is stunning even unfinsihsed!Those scales!I'd die from making so many I straggled with a mermaid tail,let alone a whole gaint beast.XD
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Dragon-Of-Sapphire In reply to feather-queen [2011-11-02 15:29:36 +0000 UTC]
Thank you, I've been trying to put this story together for years, this is one of the key points in it.
As for the scales, I simply placed a very light grid over his body in pencil, and then followed up with shaping the scales over the grid a little darker, and then finished by inking it. The extra bold lines are to help you tell body parts apart.
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razor68 [2011-09-21 22:25:28 +0000 UTC]
This would make one hell of a manga,i love the story that goes along with the art,not just the anatomy and picture itself but the scaling working.It must of took awhile just to finish the scaling but it came out very intresting especially with concept of something so power yet something so small that could be destroyed and yet that very small potential is what controls the larger force through an unknown reason.
Reincarnation,indeed it would make a very intresting comic.The scales as said is neat and awesome very clean.
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Dragon-Of-Sapphire In reply to razor68 [2011-09-22 21:34:11 +0000 UTC]
Thank you very much.
These scales wern't so hard, all I did was follow a grid pattern I made along his body when I inked him out.
I've been very much at work with the story line for years, it actually took me quite a while to work out why she dies. I really have yet to finalise anything, so any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you again, I hope it will be.
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Skaramine [2011-09-21 17:49:11 +0000 UTC]
Poor Shokudai. Beautiful image and story.
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ShamanPrinceShikyo [2011-09-21 17:38:23 +0000 UTC]
Epiiiic!!!!! Do you role play by any chance?
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ThrillerWolf [2011-08-08 07:11:23 +0000 UTC]
Holy Cripe :L
The details ARE fantasic!
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Dragon-Of-Sapphire In reply to ThrillerWolf [2011-08-08 22:01:18 +0000 UTC]
With a mouse!? I don't think so...
It'd take far to long to attempt
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zarkia [2011-07-15 19:55:22 +0000 UTC]
The detail in this is amazing, from the scales to the chain. I'm colouring this at the moment (will link when it's done) and I love the way you didn't make the chain uniform - it twists as it goes around him. Not many artists would have the patience to do such interesting detail.
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Dragon-Of-Sapphire In reply to zarkia [2011-07-19 20:46:26 +0000 UTC]
Thank you, I'm looking forward to seeing this colored (I haven't had the time to do it myself)
Chains are a small detail to other drawings I've done, and I've grown a huge monster called patience that beats me with a stick if I start to get lazy drawing simple things like that. (I know they are not simple, but I've drawn chains plenty of times before, they've become easy now)
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AudeS [2011-06-20 18:00:36 +0000 UTC]
A sad story about the love of two different beings. However Shokudais sources of power are the same like Akis. So it's not strange for me, that both fell in love.
But I wonder, what Aki's death means for the Moon.
Well, I like Shokudai's scales the most and his feets, his head and his tail are also pretty fine.
By the way, does the specter show a sad Aki?
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Dragon-Of-Sapphire In reply to AudeS [2011-06-20 20:15:47 +0000 UTC]
True, it is a sad story, and I have yet to figure out if there is going to be a happy ending or not, but I did try and make it obvious as to why they fell in love.
Well, I was thinking that after Aki's death, the first Lunar eclipse came to be, followed by a succession of lunar calamities, freak waves, storms, orbital shift. At least until the other gods sort things out. There is one thing I have in mind that Iād rather not tell to anyone just yet about Aki's relation to the moon and after her death.
I'm still working on putting together Shokudai's real true form, wings included. He already dwarfs the gods, but I'm thinking of making it so that the gods become like ants to him once he's fully unbound.
Yes the specter of Aki is a sad one, though it's not Aki herself, in any way, the specter is showing Aki's emotions during her last moments of life.
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Conceptsart608 [2011-06-20 08:21:31 +0000 UTC]
Very cool. The scales look awesome.
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Dragon-Of-Sapphire In reply to Conceptsart608 [2011-06-20 14:35:20 +0000 UTC]
Thank you, it took me time to figure out the placement of the scales on his body. I tried to make him a bit more simpler than other dragons I've drawn, because those scales were tiny, and I found later that coloring them takes too long to do.
I'm not happy with the specter of Princess Aki in his hand, I'd like to add more detail to her later.
This was drawn with a ball point gel pen, so I couldn't do grate detail on her being so small.
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