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Published: 2009-05-08 06:01:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 2940; Favourites: 73; Downloads: 0
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yay I finished something!Mostly just a concept for my fire and earth dragons. I am definately changing the earth dragon, its supposed to be bulky and armored like but it doesnt look that great to me. But the fire dragon.
oh I love it so much.No names for these two species yet. Maybe if or when I make the ref.
Got lazy on the bg. why? because I didnt do it forst like I should have ._. and thanks to the characters being sorta transparent I couldnt do too much detail or they would look funny. So it is how it is. And has a texture instead.
Texture by =Sirius-sdz
Rest of the art by me.
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this turned out as a really nice pic of yours
colours and background
the colours represent their elements as earth and fire very well and the texture in the background is a nice add, thought you might like to mix textures to get a more unique look, because now the texture as it seems to be a stone wall texture is very clear and looks kinda like a separate part of the image....
because of the background, in the description you said that the characters are partly transparent and so you can't add a better background or they would look funny. If it happenes that you have a transparence you could select on the character layer everything that is not part of a character and then delete these parts on a basic colour under the character layer.. for example the background you have here would be a nice undercolor for the characters... and if you merge these layers the characters wouldn't be transparent any more.. (I hope you know what I mean)
poses:
I really like their poses as they are very dynamic and have slight perspective. But I suggest to practise poses in perspective. It is pretty hard to draw a complex body in movement (like a dragon flying), so it still lookes correct.
For example the lower body of the fire dragon looks really good but the head is bowed sidewards like it could not work. It looks pretty weird because the head looks like it would grow on the side of the neck or is broken. In a pose like this the head would be more frontal in perspective.
Also I thought it would look good if the fire dragon had it's head bowed down towards the earth dragon, that would add a feeling like they would be about to fight each other and communicate better with each other.
details:
I like how you added the big scales on both of them. They are simple but therefore good to see and not too complex to destroy the focus on their main design. (I have seen a lot of pictures where people get crazy with scales lately ;D )
Something that looks also really good are the glowing fire tips of the firedragons spines (or how to call it), they add a mysterious touch to the design and support the firelike look.
As for the earth dragon I agree with you that it would be cool to add some kind of skin/scale armor to it to let it look more earthy/rock-like and stronger in comparison to the beautiful and slight built fire dragon, it would be a great contrast between them both.
Something I would change on the earth dragon is the tail. I really like the tail but the green colour kinda does not fit the overall brown dragon. The fire dragon is also overall red with orange inbetweens.
If you want to keep the green crystal like tail then I think it would be better to also add some more green crystal parts on it's body... maybe on some parts the skin is broken and under it there you can see some crystal parts or so.
Like with the fire dragon, it also has some unique parts like the glowing spines but there is more than one which looks most times better than have just one like the crystal tail....
overall:
a sweet image with a warm feeling and two beautiful dragons.
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Thanks ^^ I still find it hard to believe you have a hard time with english 
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XD I have no clue, I am sometimes not sure if everyone else understands it
and I am glad if you think it's usefull
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that's really awesome! I especially love the fire dragon's design 
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No problem
Have you noticed already read the OC tag in my journal btw? (I tagged you)
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Indeed the fire dragon's design is good, very interesting to look at. I like the "sparkler" spines and massive horns, like demon horns. What kind of snout does it have? I wanna say "horse" but it's probably just a hybrid of things, right? Very cool! 
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daw thanks! Yeah the earth dragon is really generic XD My design in mind is to be rather bulky and armored. They have wings and can fly but rather slow and only for a short ammount of time. They are really spikey and such and live well, underground
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I can tell that the design is there in your head, now you just have to get it to paper, lol. That's always difficult for me as well. Often ideas that look awesome in the mind either pale on the paper or just don't come out the way they're suppossed to.
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that happens all too often 
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Pretty awesome, the poses are really cool-looking and I like their designs. The background is pretty neat-looking, as well.
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XD I cant really take credit for the background, I couldnt do one because of how I colored the dragons. But I learned from that mistake so the picture Im working on now will be better
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:3 I love the fire dragons horns sooo much X3
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I love how this looks!
I especialy love the earth dragon! he looks all heavy and solid! like a rock!
I love both their designs though ^^
I like the colours also ^^
nice work!
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This was originaly going to be some lighting practice. Having two different colored lights on either side of them. However I am still struggling with that, and this turned out.
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