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Published: 2009-06-14 21:31:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 19837; Favourites: 425; Downloads: 7694
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People made inquiries regarding this image as a potential desktop background, so I'm reposting it at a higher resolution for everyone. It's rather flattering that so many have such an affinity for this illustration, thank you to everyone for your views, encouraging comments, and helpful critiques!This commission placed a fiery lava dragon into the Starfall mountains of the graphic novel series. Any excuse to work with water and waterfalls makes a good day for me. I tried to increase the 'wetness' and transparency of the liquid in the foreground pool by revealing the stony texture of the pebbles beneath - partly painted in from a photograph I took of a similar aquatic view at Cedar Falls one isolated spring morning. I'm still not satisfied with my handling of water - I want to look at a picture and be able to smell it, to get thirsty just from seeing how lifelike the liquid is. Not there yet, but getting closer I think. Oh, yeah, and the dragon was a blast to draw! I haven't drawn a big scaly dragon in forever, I had forgotten how fun it is. This dragonβs name is Houki-Boshi, and the rider is Meian. These characters and their design belongs to Cornelius van Richten and his art who can be found at: [link]
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I like the colours you've used in this; well done
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i love the steam coming from the water where his feet are its soo beautifully made
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This is...
FANTASTIC!!!
I love the dragons pose and collors...
and wings... <3 them ^^
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The colors... are outstanding! Very vivid! And the dragon is beautiful!
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This has become one of my desktop wallpapers
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Looking at this in full-view, makes me feel small in so many ways! x3
this is a really awesome piece of art!
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Our graphic novel series can be found on our website, here: [link]
We've also got a weekly prequel webcomic on the site.
However, this dragon isn't in the book, he's a commission illustration only. But there are other monsters 'n stuff.
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Woow! This is absolutely amazing! First, the perspective, then the magical landscape, vivid coloring and painstaking water ripples! I bet it took you ages to finish this! Man, this is totally
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It's AMAZING! I can't imagine all the work put into this
Very creative and beutiful landscape!
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I really like how the colors blend together and the detail of it all! You are now officially my role model for art!
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oh, that's a fine dragon, I like it a lot, specially the lava cracks in its skin, looks like a dragon-balrog of some kind ^^
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Hey really nice, have you ever seen Magic the Gathering cards?
You could find some inspiration in there artwork. Fav!*
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Ooh yeah, I used to play Magic with my brothers when I lived at home, that game has some fun cards! 8 ) Also, thank you for the fav.
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wow--amazing :]
very creative.
i love the details.
it was kind of funny,
i'm in my parents room on my mom's laptop
and i open this and i'm like "wow, amazing"
and my father [=SiathLinux ] looks at me all weird,
becuase he was in the middle of talking about how his men in the game he's playing just died x]
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Dang, too bad this isn't formatted for a 16:9 resolution. XD I'd love to use it as a background, but it'd fit horribly.
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Oh wow! I remember this one! That is a very generous thing to do and it looks even more amazing at this resolution! Outstanding piece and thanks for the kindness!
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Question! How long would it actually take you to draw something like that?
Sketching?
Coloring?
And then shading?
All together.
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Ooh, good question. Let me think...
Sketching the blue-lines can take awhile sometimes -but with this there were no structures or buildings, so I was able to fudge all the perspective into 'Looks good to me!'. Sometimes bluelines take some work if I have to construct perspective and all that fabulous stuff.
So on this, I'd guess the blue lines took maybe 3-4 hours of work, not counting security patrols ('Cuz I do a lot of work when I'm at my night job).
The finished pencil lines probably took between 4-5 hours or something like that.
Liz did the color blocking for me, and I know that the detail work on the backdrops and such takes a lot of time. It's one of the hardest jobs, it took her probably at least 8 to 9 hours to get all the blocking done.
Shading took maybe like 4 hours for the basic lighting, and then 4 more for the prettification, special effects, and water. So, total...
Ook - that explains why I was doing commissions for 9 months, doesn't it?
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Holy Smokes! That's at least an entire day's work. That's incredible! (also slightly insane.)
No kidding. I give you and Liz kudos! That's a lot of work that you guys have to go through.
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Sigh....
Why am I so impressed by insideouttrees?
I noticed some in Prelude and all.
Baaaaa me and my sporadic senses of OMGYAY.
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I am so adding this to my wallpaper collection.
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YAY! <3 <3 <3
It looks absolutely amazing as my background. ^_^
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