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Glaiceana ā Surveyor
Published: 2013-01-23 00:20:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 5579; Favourites: 206; Downloads: 0
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A dragon surveys his lands from a mountain ledge.Not sure how long this drawing took me to complete, I worked on it over three days on and off. The interesting thing is that this is my first proper dragon drawing in quite a long time, maybe even a few years.
Used 3B mechanical pencil, 3B and 5B normal pencils on A4 sized paper.
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Thank you for your critique, even though its basically a perfect copy of the one below.
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Firstly, your work with the background the dragon is standing on is well-defined. Looks like actual rocky-mountains. The mountains further out behind him, though, could use some of the same detail. Looks like you took your pencil and sketched them out, while doing some light shading.
I'm curious as to how you were so successful with the scales in this piece. They're accurate, except for maybe not really looking like they're "flexing" with his muscle structure. For example, the scales running along his wings, when they come to the corners of the wings, look somewhat like they're "plastered", and unable to move with the dragon's body. BUT, the scales running along his body have the opposite effect, looking very natural and smooth.
Anatomy is HARD with animals, especially dragons. It took me A LONNG time before I was able to understand anatomy of ANY creature. His arms and wing structure are really the only concerns I have. Arms look a bit thin on the backside of the one that's bent, and there's no "joint" in the wings, making them look stiffened.
But the detail you poured into this was fantastic all in all, but learning muscle structures in the arms and wings can make the piece look even MORE alive! e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
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Thank you for your critique! 
And yes I spent a lot less time on the distant mountains, mainly because they are so far away they would not need to much detail.
The effect of the flowing scales probably is down to me changing the way I did them. The ones on the body are flowing and are arrow shaped, I made sure that they overlapped each other. The ones going onto the arms are just circles, and I think I did that in order to cover more ground more quickly. Thanks for pointing that out, it has proved that the other type of scale works better
I see what you mean with the bent arm, and as for the wings, the elbow joint is covered by the overlapping, however, I did choose to leave out further joints on the phalanges, mainly because I find that they make the wing look too heavy and articulated for flight.
Thanks again for your feedback, it was very useful
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Well I'm glad that I could help!
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wow, this is superb, amazign work. the lackof eraser marks means it didnt take you 237863894755 tries ot get it right. i love it. id use this for a tat any day of the week lol
..BRAVO!
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The Shades and detail are amazing, did you go to an art school or are you just self taught?
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Thank you
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HOLY COW! man this is utterly with out precedent, amazing drawing skills!
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The wing material (membrane or "skinning") is really interesting presentation.
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you did a really great job on the details! the scales look great. The details on the wings are a bit too much in my opinion though.
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This is so amazing! Very nice style! Congratulations!
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Really cool image! Amazing details! Overall a very impressive drawing!
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VERY good! Great anatomy work, and the scale details are perfect. The tail is the best part, and you gave the beast lovely horns.
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Excellent work. I really love this. The dragon looks ver detailed.
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Thanks, and for fav
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You're welcome. ^^
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Superb and the details and shading and the nature around is perfect!
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This dragon is pretty neat, and nicely done with the lines..
However, it does kind of look *alot* like this piece which is owned by someone else: [link]
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Thanks. And yes that painting belongs to Ciruelo Cabral, but I did not use that as reference, although I do love his awesome works
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