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ElysianImagery — Chinese Dragon 2012

Published: 2012-01-26 05:28:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 10215; Favourites: 189; Downloads: 0
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Extra tid bit:
This particular Chinese Dragon has three toes. The Emperor of China was the only one allowed to have a 5 toed dragon, with 4 toes going to high ranking generals and officials. I didn't want to step on anyone's toes ((if you'll pardon the blatant pun)) so I gave mine three.

The year of the dragon has been an AMAZING time in my life. The last was when I was in 8th grade, going to middle school in Eagle River Alaska. It was then I had the BEST friends I will ever have. One of whom is still around today

At the time I was hell bent on starting a girl band with those friends, and was going to play an electric piano guitar... oh yah...
It was that year I won four Silver Medals at the Arctic Winter Games in Speed Skating. Putting my name in the papers "Armitstead Blazes to Silver!" "Armitstead needs just a minute for 500 Meters!" That was MY year. The year of the Dragon.
I still have my good luck Pendant that I bought the summer before. It's time to dig it out again and wear it once again.

Aside from the great history that this piece represents to me, its also a CRUCIAL milestone in my art. This is the FIRST time I have completed. Actually COMPLETED, each and every scale on a Chinese Dragon. I couldn't be more proud. As we move forward through 2012, may dragons breath light your way, and the strength of the dragon always be with in you.

Expect more Dragon art through out this year, hopefully ALL of which will be traditional.

Art c.

PS: Did I mention its the year of the WATER Dragon

MIZU No RYU! *poofs*
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Comments: 54

Jeanne-dArt [2013-03-17 11:12:39 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful work, an amazing chinese dragon!

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ElysianImagery In reply to Jeanne-dArt [2013-03-17 18:41:06 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so very much!

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Jeanne-dArt In reply to ElysianImagery [2013-03-19 15:21:17 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome!

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TIAGOTLR [2013-03-17 03:39:50 +0000 UTC]

amazing!

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ElysianImagery In reply to TIAGOTLR [2013-03-17 04:22:24 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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Nonoca-1 [2012-07-13 15:05:04 +0000 UTC]

This dragon is so great!
I like it very much

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ElysianImagery In reply to Nonoca-1 [2012-09-25 19:18:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so very very much. So sorry it took me so long to reply!

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Nonoca-1 In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-09-25 20:21:17 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome

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j-c-o [2012-06-23 19:30:36 +0000 UTC]

BEAUTIFULS! tears of joy!

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ElysianImagery In reply to j-c-o [2012-06-24 15:34:09 +0000 UTC]

well dang thank you! I am so glad that you like it that much!

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j-c-o In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-06-24 20:28:40 +0000 UTC]

YOU ARE WELCOMES!

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NanaKatana [2012-04-23 20:37:12 +0000 UTC]

Awersome!

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ElysianImagery In reply to NanaKatana [2012-04-24 14:52:52 +0000 UTC]

thanks a ton! btw, love the troll face cat XD

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TasheenaMarie [2012-03-24 19:48:29 +0000 UTC]

That looks amazing! Very beautiful.

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ElysianImagery In reply to TasheenaMarie [2012-03-25 03:22:48 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much for taking the time to comment on my piece! It means a lot to me!

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TasheenaMarie In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-03-25 05:02:38 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

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bear48 [2012-03-22 19:40:55 +0000 UTC]

very nice work indeed

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ElysianImagery In reply to bear48 [2012-03-22 22:39:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much Btw, I like your bear icon, its wonderfully simplistic!

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bear48 In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-03-22 22:42:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Calicot-ZC [2012-03-20 03:52:33 +0000 UTC]

~ Woah... It's just amazing ! ♥ *O*
The details are incredible... I love it ! Wow *-*

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ElysianImagery In reply to Calicot-ZC [2012-03-20 14:12:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! I had so much fun with it and it really tried my patience though I was glad it did. It made me realize once again that even though pieces take a while, they turn out all the better for it.

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Sephiroth-Strife [2012-01-28 20:14:27 +0000 UTC]

Oh gawd does this fantastic!! brovo lady!!

Oh, and;

In Japan, a three toed dragon is imperial, just saying

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ElysianImagery In reply to Sephiroth-Strife [2012-01-28 20:30:29 +0000 UTC]

ooooooooooo, man cant avoid everyone's toes and thank yee thank yee

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Gineua [2012-01-27 06:53:57 +0000 UTC]

Cool.....

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ElysianImagery In reply to Gineua [2012-01-27 06:58:07 +0000 UTC]

What're all the dots for after your Cool? XD

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Gineua In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-01-27 15:42:41 +0000 UTC]

they mean weeeery cool XDD

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Arkaios [2012-01-26 21:25:52 +0000 UTC]

This lineart is beautiful and so clean! I'm glad you triumphed in completing the complicated scales of a Chinese dragon, you definitely pulled them of very nicely! C:

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ElysianImagery In reply to Arkaios [2012-01-27 06:58:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for your comment and compliments! I really enjoyed this piece so much and am so glad that so many others are as well it really means a lot to me to see people genuinely enjoying my art!

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Kamakru [2012-01-26 16:03:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow speed skating! That's exciting, although I'm terrified of skating - done nothing but injure myself every time I step out on ice with skates on lol. That's so cool that you competed and placed silvers though, WAY awesome!
And for completing every scale = extra awesome as well! It's so hard to have the patience and control for that amount of repetitive pen stroke, but it looks great. I'm tempted to color it! ~

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ElysianImagery In reply to Kamakru [2012-01-26 19:45:18 +0000 UTC]

If you do please send me a copy! You're one of a few people that has expressed interest. I might start having people who want to send me a request so I can send them a file with out the water mark on it so that way they can color it and I can keep an eye on all of it

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Kamakru In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-01-26 20:10:35 +0000 UTC]

Def! I've found that the Sta.sh feature is quite nice for getting full res images privately with a link. ;]

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ElysianImagery In reply to Kamakru [2012-01-29 03:03:40 +0000 UTC]

ooooooo i like the sounds of this

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ZombieHun [2012-01-26 05:49:52 +0000 UTC]

the chinese sure did have some kind of weird fetish with feet XD

foot wrapping also comes to mind when I hear about toes and china in one sentence

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ElysianImagery In reply to ZombieHun [2012-01-26 05:55:16 +0000 UTC]

Yah the Lotus Feet were finally outlawed sometime this century. Which is really weird to think about. All to make women more controllable, or beautiful, something like that Oo

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ZombieHun In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-01-26 05:56:04 +0000 UTC]

they're a shallow race of people....but aren't all cultures shallow in some aspect?

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ZombieHun In reply to ZombieHun [2012-01-26 16:08:56 +0000 UTC]

what I should have said without making myself look like a complete racist (which i'm not) is that the Chinese have a shallow culture

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ElysianImagery In reply to ZombieHun [2012-01-26 06:00:12 +0000 UTC]

Oo.... er... ouch. Now there's a comment that might step on a few toes Oo...... uh..... HA DO DO DO! *skitters*

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ZombieHun In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-01-26 06:02:10 +0000 UTC]

yep and in America, we just love BIG BOOBIES!!!!!

and in Africa, they just love their big hips

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Draenian [2012-01-26 05:47:31 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow this is absolutely fantastic! I am just amazed at the amount of details on this dragon. The scales, omg the scales, they must have taken you forever LOL!!
Are you going to color this by chance?

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ElysianImagery In reply to Draenian [2012-01-26 05:54:39 +0000 UTC]

This WILL be colored, however, if I do any coloring the line art will be copied to something else first >.> I am FAR too proud of the black and white to even ATTEMPT to put anything else on it.

DO expect to see a digital rendering at some point ^.^

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Draenian In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-01-26 06:47:40 +0000 UTC]

Oh awesome!! Heehee I kind of figured so, if I were in your shoes, I probably wouldn't either XD!

It'll look fabulous, I can't wait

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ZombieHun [2012-01-26 05:47:18 +0000 UTC]

you should be proud. dragons are one of the more compositionally challenging things to do an illustration on. Not to mention all the details they posses.

I would like to see more dragon art from you too! You already got a Tassel down and now a chinese dragon...next you need to come up with your own design for a species

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ElysianImagery In reply to ZombieHun [2012-01-26 05:53:19 +0000 UTC]

i really DO need to come up with my own dragon species, there's a black dragon hanging out in the back of my mind from a dream I had last year that definitely NEEDS to be painted, in watercolor, on a HUGE panel that I have. But he's... waiting until he's comfortable to come out and play. Next I think we will explore some more of the elements since I did that Earth Dragon a while ago Thank you so much Zombie!

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ZombieHun In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-01-26 05:54:07 +0000 UTC]

aim???? AIM?!?! 0_0

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ElysianImagery In reply to ZombieHun [2012-01-26 05:56:00 +0000 UTC]

lol!!! im a goin im a goin XD

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ZombieHun In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-01-26 05:56:43 +0000 UTC]

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Mama--Owl [2012-01-26 05:30:13 +0000 UTC]

Simply amazing~!
I love this immensely ~!
;D Your work is always fabulous~!

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ElysianImagery In reply to Mama--Owl [2012-01-26 05:36:24 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much Valentine Hearts! I am so glad that you like this piece

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Mama--Owl In reply to ElysianImagery [2012-01-26 05:39:21 +0000 UTC]

Please, do call me Angel :3~!
And I do like it, I love Chinese dragons very much - And it's wonderful to see that people understand the concept of the toes, other than myself!!!

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ElysianImagery In reply to Mama--Owl [2012-01-26 05:46:21 +0000 UTC]

sounds good Angel!
and yah, I prefer to do a bit of research when it comes to Culturally traditional figures

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