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Published: 2010-03-09 00:46:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 23625; Favourites: 1380; Downloads: 82
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I'm having a hard time believing this is done. A personal full colour piece (the first in a long while) which served as a practise on many things and turned out decent at that, with the help of many wonderful people both from DA and ConceptArt.I've had these questions a lot in it's progress while I was streaming, so I'll answer them to avoid having to answer them again in comments; every scale on the dragon as well as every strand of grass was hand drawn. I did not use any custom brushes, the standard hard-edge brush was used for the entire piece, with a few strokes of a soft edge brush here and there. Textures were used only for the rocks, and one for the base of the grass which I painted over so much that it was practically of no use xD.
I'd like to thank everyone that watched me work on this on LiveStream for their support and interest, and just for the fun :3. As well as those who read the entire description ;D.
Artwork © Me, *Dragoness77
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Comments: 389
This turned out amazing. I hope my wolf piece turns out like this! 
The work really paid off.
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Good luck with that! Thanks 
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just wonderful ...
videos are so... waw !
i love your art ! it's gorgeous !
my english is so poor for speaking abour your art...
i love.
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Your English is just fine ^^. Thank you!
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Great artwork on details! Like scales and rockes :3 But the background should be a biiit lighter :3
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Thanks! I guess it should be a little bit. Ah well xD.
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It doesn`t so serious mistake)But very often {_{ Don`t worry, you are great artist :3
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Wow Lhune tzhis is sooo awesome.
The WIPs promised a nice work but you did an even more pretty job <333
I kinda stare at the background more than on the dragon :3
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Thank you, Mirroreyes ^^.
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...this is...t-tot...TOTALLY AWESOME!
I don't know how to use textures but anyway this is so awesome! I love the dragon and of course the background! Everything here is perfect and I will never find out how you did the grass!
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Haha, if you watched the stream you would've seen me draw it ^^. It's really not that hard to do but it's time consuming
Thank you! <3
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Oh, I gonna see you on stream when I am on the pc and you are live^w^
U welcome:3
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What a work! Seriously, one of your best works to my mind. I love the details, though grass looks way too detailed for my taste, but that's just me. Dragon is lovely - so natural, so dreamy!
Background is absolutely great as well. Very good work <3
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Well wowee, this is one mighty fine image!! Its come a long way too, I do hope your very proud this, it is such an epic piece!!
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omg this is absolutely amazing :3
The details are great xD Love them <33
also the idea for thebackgrouns is awesome ^^ the lake <33
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That us one of the most beautiful pieces of dragon art I've seen on this site.
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Im glad you went with the blue! it really blends in with the piece, but at the same time makes the dragon stand out (i make little sense!x_x )
Its so very, very impressive!
Im speachless, i keep typing and deleting ;n; you've done yourself proud lhune, the depth in the landscape is perfect!
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I'm very glad I went for the blue, too. It just suits the whole image better. Thanks so much hun <3.
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You finished eet!
Looks absolutely stunning! I love the final colour you chose for the dragon and the background of course.
What I wanted to ask: How do you draw the scales? All seperate?
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The scales were all hand drawn, I painted in a dark base colour then drew the scales on top with a lighter, more saturated colour
Thank you!
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Sounds like luts of work XD
SO welcome ^^
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id believe the scales... BUT THE GRASS!?!?!?!?
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Haha yes, the grass too. And believe it or not, the grass was actually easier to do than the scales ^^. There's not so much a systematic pattern in grass as there is in scales
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lol yeah... point taken XD
but for some reason I prefer scales over grass....
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this must have taken you ages! doing all the grass strands one by one and the scales! but its worth it! it looks so amazing! and the background sucks you in makes me want to grow wings and fly around preferably far away from the dragon though I wouldn't want to get eaten 
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Absolutely gorgeous. The background... Well it's hard to believe it's actually drawn! It looks so real and life-like! I love the amount of detail you've put into the background, but of course, the scales on the dragon and the grass in the foreground are the real attention grabbers here. I also love the whole mood of this picture - very calm, peaceful and happy C': wish I could be there, sitting next to the dragon.
I applaud you, Lhune, I really think this is your best work yet. Just knocked me off my feet!
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I'm glad the mood got captured like that :3. It's what I was going for! Thank you so much <3.
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*wipes drool away*
Okay, there's so much I love about this, I am going to bullet point to make for easier reading.
1) The texturrrreee. Oh. my. gosh. the texture. Like, seriously, you did this all with one brush?! And you got that variety of different textures?! Holy baloney, girl, you're crazy. The grass, the scales, the clouds, the rocks - everything has its own different brushstrokes, its own unique surface. Your use of texture is just mindblowing.
2) The colours you've chosen are amazing and the way you've composed them is perfect. I love the light foreground against the darker, less saturated background (especially that bright patch of grass on the right, that's just stunning) and how all the colours harmonize. I think a little orange/red shadow on the dragon would have been nice to contrast against the blue/green, but I definitely prefer that blue to the browney colour you had in your last WIP :>
3) The attention to detail is just....wow. Seriously. There's honestly not a lot I can say because words wouldn't be enough to describe how fantastic and amazing all that detail is.
4) I think my favourite thing is the calm, serene atmosphere of this - it really feels like we're there, in the image, gazing over our domain and enjoying a beautiful day. You can really hear the gentle sigh of the wind, the slow breathing of the dragon, the rustle of the grass. You can feel the soil beneath the dragon's claws, the sun beating down on him, his slow, powerful heartbeat.
You have really, really outdone yourself with this one, hun. Your patience and perfectionism has paid off massively - this is a masterpiece and you should be so, so proud of yourself <3
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Long comment is looooong <333.
1) Yush, one brush :3. I will not deny that I am crazy. xD I need to really grow a little more confident with using custom brushes, I feel like they might really loosen up my paintings a lot (that and I've seen some awesome brushwork in other art).
2) Thankyew :3. I did have more of a reddish shading on the dragon at first, but decided against it. I'm not sure why, but I'm experimenting with different colours and shading in another picture now, I suppose I'll grow out my comfort zone at some point xD.
3 & 4) I'm really glad that the overall mood of the picture has come out well. This is exactly what I was going for, a feeling of calmth, of a pleasant sunny day, perhaps a bit dreamy :3.
Thanks a lot hun <3. I'm glad you think it's a step forward for me, that was it's purpose after all :3.
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Holy freaking crap. @_@
Ju...whu.....fu....muh.......guh. *seizures*
Wait i'll be back in a sec I just need to drool all over this for a while.
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I love ! I was waiting for it since... don't know. It's amazing ! Gorgeous !! 
I love !!!!!!!
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Lhune this is just so great. The thing is that i know i can't compliment you as much as you deserve. Indeed when everything is that much worked in a picture, we feel as we couldn't do anything but enumerate every part for its awesomeness. However, yet since i've just noticed something i'm very much sensible to, i'll try to explain it instead of accumulating awesome adjectives
I'm currently studying in an architecture school, and what i usually look for in a finished project that is interesting, is the proportion relationship between elements. A simple contrast don't usually manage to achieve it, the distances between elements are very important as well. I think that here you've succeeded in creating some of these subtle relationships. Haha, maybe it'll appear to you as very noting, but i just love how the grass' strands proportions are interacting with the dragon's own proportions, and the suggested distances through the dragon's shadow just works.
As well, the relationship between the ground and cloud behind the dragon's back, in the background, is very special too i think. Again, the grass' strands proportion, allied to the very close distance to this big cloud, and the color contrast between the bright green and the dark gray make it very unique.
Now, the only thing's left to do for me is to FAV AND RUN
Again, great job Lhune!~
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Lovely long comment is long and lovely <3.
Thank you very much Pahul, I'm glad you took notice of the detail and work that went into this piece
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You're very welcome! <3
Of course!
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I think this turned out simply amazing. Should be set in a gallery somewhere.
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This background is just.....whoooooooa! Oh the dragon is good too. Your skill just gets better and better.
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