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Terreflare Flaring?

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This picture took sooooooooooo much work! (I hope you can tell):dummy: Well I thought it was only natural to draw a fire scene eventually, but there are no enemies, just showing off I suppose. Really fire is not much fun and burns the tongue a little. Anyway, as you notice my fire/burns-my-mouth-plasma is blue like my scales. You probably notice the scales don't look quite right. They really do reflect red when the light of my fire is close to them for some reason and it was 100% purposeful and not a drawing blunder. It does not make visual sense, but I guess it is just the heat of the flame being re-absorbed by the scales. Well this is a slightly unrealistic picture of what I might do if I was messing around or training in the mud flats.(I do not often use fire or raise a wing when not flying) I really wanted to make it into an updated simi-reference picture so that influenced the pose a little.

I originally planed on drawing myself in full armor, but the scales looked so nice I could not bring myself to cover half of them. I really plan on drawing at least my wingblades in the next picture with me in it, but I will probably try other people's dragons in my style the next time I feel like drawing a full picture.:aww:

As a reference I included as much detail I could in this drawing and explored tons of new shading and lighting methods. I know the shading of the character is not really balanced for the light source, but I hope the details help hide any of these issues. This shetch shows most of the body features I believe, so refer to this picture first as a refference please. I believe I have once again taken a large step forward in improving my artwork.:) This has taken a good four weeks at least, over 40 frames in Gimp, and explains why I have been rather inactive lately on DA. The scenery has taken a ton more time then I thought, but hopefully the detail work makes it worth it. I might take a break from super detailed pictures for a while now that this is done and mabey make some icons or something. I know that is what I said last time but I was too excited to see if I could draw a good picture with no reference at all.

Well I think it might be worth asking for a critique on this picture. It might be interesting to get some feedback. If you do leave one please try to at least point out one thing you think looks like it could have been done better and mabey advice how to do that if you can help. Now I have to decide if I should use this as my desktop backround or my last picture. :/ Oh, and I think this is my 15th attempt at drawing!*throws party* I am making over one picture a month at this rate.:XD: At least I am improving faster now. I really hope I can get Casf to see this. I never would have tried drawing at all if it was not for her so it would be nice to see what she thinks. If I keep trying mabey some day my pictures will look close to as good as hers.:lol: I better stop rambeling now before I reach some text limit or something.:iconimhappyplz:

Terreflare is me and not to be copied! Don't make me cook you and enjoy a (thoroughly burnt) meal. You can use this as a character reference if you ever want to draw me, but please tell me so I can see!:) I hope you like the picture and be sure to see it in full size if you want to see all the fine details!:XD: (Warning: I may randomly edit picture if I find flaws and become obsessive)*Long description is long*
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malacethedragon's avatar
:o epic deitails there and really this is your 15th drAWING :3 ITS BETTER THAN MINE X3
sorry for the random caps halfway through my keyboard is failing meh today