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Fyrrea [2014-03-31 20:36:57 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, huge and fierce <3 A real badass dragon, I like it!

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Kirie300 [2014-02-26 19:25:31 +0000 UTC]

love the buildings, they look so crisp. Really great painting. One of the your best.

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TED-MX [2014-02-16 00:22:55 +0000 UTC]

Yay, awesome dragon here! I'm really concerned about the nearest future of that tower D:

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Polar--Tang [2014-02-03 08:37:06 +0000 UTC]

I know I faved this piece a couple of days ago, now I have the time to comment.

I enjoy this piece very much, I like the background and the details of the towers there and the dragon's scales, you've certainly got great attention to details. The fire looks wonderful too and I also like the dragon's design and tattered wings. His face does look a bit expressionless though and I'm not entirely sure why, but the dragon's pose does look  a little awkward to me, I think it might be the positioning of the front legs.

But none the less, overall it's a fantastic piece and I think the time you spent on it paid off.

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Chanteur-de-Vent [2014-01-27 20:18:54 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful perspective, and very good work on the fire and composition. Really suggests the movement. 

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isischneider [2014-01-26 17:23:49 +0000 UTC]

great work.

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KeraDavis98 [2014-01-22 01:42:57 +0000 UTC]

Awesome

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xTernal7 [2014-01-21 23:30:12 +0000 UTC]

I hope you don't mind but I stumbled over this piece in that thread and thought I'd try to be helpful and try to offer some constructive criticism.

First of all: I don't really like the style. It doesn't really look sharp and doesn't look that good to me. There's definitely some room for improvement there. The perspective is mostly okay but not without fail.

The clouds do seem to have approximately correct form, but the texture doesn't look good — they look as if you took some badly generated perlin noise and upscaled it.

The towers: I already said I don't like the style. However, I do like your attention to detail. There is certainly a decent amount of detail in those towers. But the leftmost tower doesn't seem right. The more I look, the more out of place it seems. The decision to cut a significant part of it off the image wasn't the most wise nor most aesthetically pleasing — you could always make image wider and make some room for the tower.  Its placement is also mildly confusing — its position isn't exactly clear. (You could move it a bit to the right and hide it behind the dragon). Also, the leftmost tower is just a downsized copy of the middle tower, isn't it?

The dragon: It's decent enough, basic atonomy seems to be about right and I appreciate you're having a legit dragon and not a wyvern like Skyrim, GoT, Peter's Hobbit, Harry Potter movies et cetera. But. You're fairly inconsistent in your point of view: the head is drawn from the side, the belly from the bottom and front and the tail is upside down. The dragon could do with less twisting and tilting: head could be drawn still from the side, but from below (so you'd see more of the bottom of the snout and less of the top. The belly is tilted too much: currently it's tilted for full 95° sideways. It would be sufficient enough for dragon to lean 45° to its left for more realistic pose. If that was a real life situation, the dragon would accelerate towards the ground at a steady pace of 9.81 m/s² because wings aren't generating any lift upwards. Wings are also awkward — and seem way too 2D and out of place. The rips are also acting pretty unnaturaly — they should flap behind the dragon but they don't. The dragon's flame has an unrealistic shape and is also too dark: you could and should make it brighter than anything else.

I hope you don't mind, I've done a quick illustration: copy.com/4gh0GH4bhGVB < I've attempted to fix the fire brightness issue (but you'd need to edit the rest of the image in order for changes to fit in). The red line appears to be how the dragon is currently arched and blue lines illustrate how the wings should be placed (It also looks as if dragon doesn't have any muscles in his wings — wings seem just like a stick). White line shows where the bottom wing should actually be placed. Green line illustrates the line dragon's move seems to follow according to the underbelly. It also shows that either underbelly runs too low or the tail runs too high. Oh, and the upper hind leg appears to be too low. (Also, the dragon seems to have only one horn. If you intended him to have one horn, then that's fine. The problem is: that doesn't look intentional.). The most nitpicky thing of the day in this comment would be the dragon's eye. Why doesn't the dragon look forward?
Other than that, the rest seems to be fine. You've surely done a good job detailing dragon — scales (especially those on the back and on the tail) looks quite nice.

Lightning and shadows: Lightning/shading on the dragon seems to be pseudo-random as it doesn't seem to follow the lightning in the environment. The light source (that isn't fire) appears to be located (according to the towers) to the right from the image (dragon seems to be flying towards the light source that is not present on the image). The towers could use some more shading as well. You've got a lot of room for improvement on the lightning and shading. You aren't really bad with it, though: the lightning on the towers (caused by fire) is good: light from the fire lights the tower nicely (and I also like the subtle reflection on the tower windows.

Oh, and — you've drawn this on a sheet of paper, then scanned it/took a picture of it and then colored it on the computer with a mouse, am I right? Not that there was anything wrong with that if it suits you, but I'm just wondering.

And that's what I have to say. I hope I wasn't too harsh with that.

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Cameil [2014-01-08 00:17:03 +0000 UTC]

The dragon is gorgeous,
and the background is absolutely amazing!
Nicely done ^^

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psychotic-cookie [2013-12-30 14:42:19 +0000 UTC]

Now that's an art worth faving.

This one is very detailed and intricate.

I love the intricate design of the dragon. Although, it seems that the dragon is a bit expressionless. 

It looks like a traditional painting. It's very nice. 

Good job!

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sillypots [2013-12-29 22:58:03 +0000 UTC]

I love everything about this.

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