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Ziali — Bill's Dragon
Published: 2007-09-24 07:14:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1834; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 56
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MINDLESS BLATHER WAS HERE, BUT I REPLACED IT WITH THIS NEW STUFF. ENJOY.-Many other projects are due, but Bill came to dinner this evening so it seemed right to get it done for him.
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most definitely.
perhaps it is time to draw a sequel, a tea sequel!
thanks much .
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With crumpets? Sounds smashing. 8D
No problem.
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There's some wicked colors! Looks really cool.
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very awesome. love how you drew the scales and the background. great work!
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IT SHALL FLY AND THERE SHALL BE CAEK.
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probably one of your best ever in my opinion, great work matching the colors. great use of texture on the scales background is just mind blowing... quick question did you use any reference?.
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Thank you very much.
No, no reference. That's why the colours are so wild. Originally he had said green and red... O_o
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How does this only have 36 faves??? It's amazing, the colour and the clouds are beautiful. It's very crisp too....
Nice work!
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Thanks very much ≈]
wow, I didn't notice it had 36 favs. That's quite a lot o.O
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Not enough, I say!
(And you're welcome)
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how can i say this...totally stunning? who knows but i know i love this
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This is gorgeous, it's like an illustration in a book, but much better.
I love all it's multi-coloured scales.
Just beautiful.
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can u tell me how this beautiful creation was formed from?
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How do you mean? The process or the design?
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both the process and design...
i wud be really grateful if u can even give me a brief note on it
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He requested a sort of chinese-dragon sort of thing, but that completely failed. It still has similarities, however, like the body structure. Otherwise I have no idea, the design came about by chance mostly ˆ–ˆ
I sketched it first in pencil (I sometimes start with the scale - layout the picture in shape things, vaguely, just to get the basicness of it) and then drew the lines. The initial drawing took a rather long time o_O a few hours anyway. Nothing compared to the time it took to colour it though, unfortunately.
I usually hold back on pencil shading when I know I'm going to digitally colour it, but I love what it looks like when it's shaded in pencil AND in colour.
After I finished the drawing, I scanned it at full size. It ended up 2000x3000 (approximately) pixels, so it took ages to colour.
But this way is far more rewarding. I used to reduce the size and then colour, but you get a lot more detail and quality if you colour it at full size, despite the insane lengthyness.
Let's see... when I get it into photoshop I usually go to brightness/contrast and increase both a little so that the background is lighter and the lines are darker. In this case I also went to hue/saturation and made the lines reddish.
Then I create a new layer and set the mode to 'multiply' so that I can colour without affecting the lineart.
(so much for a brief note, right? harhar)
The colouring took so long that I took a few really long breaks. Several weeks, maybe a month. This happens when I lose interest in the picture or have no sort of motivation. When I heard he was coming to dinner that was my motivation to finish it.
The first layer of colour was just solid colours to get everything in place. Then I started the shading, and it looks nice if you can use different shades of different colours for shadows and for highlights, rather than just shades of the same colour.
I experimented with an interesting brush setting on this particular picture. I think you can click on the stylus button or something in adobe photoshop and there are a few choices of turning things like fade or pressure on or off. There was also a selection to turn colour pressure (or something similar) on or off, and when turned on, depending on the pen pressure (if you have a tablet, that is) the colour changes between your two colours.
If you select your first colour as blue, for example, and your secondary one as red (I hope you know what I mean by these - default is black and white) then if you press hard with the pen, you get blue, and the lighter you press the redder it becomes.
Very fascinating.
I used that for the scales.
The sky was annoying. I redid it several times. >_>
I did some of the same colour-pressure setting on the sky too, I think.
Anyway, hopefully this gives you some ideas.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
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Woa, this colour combination is just amazing! Very beautifull.
Thanks for the favs Ziali
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I never faved this. (.__.) TIME TO FAVE, YAAAY. x3
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YAaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Thanks =]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
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So... Beautiful! 
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Just sending you a congratulations for being featured in this week's issue of The NEW Dragons of deviantART - [link]
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I am so glad you didn't spoil it with a watermark. Jsut beat anyone down who tries to steal it with the original and call them names. >D
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YES! NAME CALLING! Rharharhahr. >=]
Even that zia.li thing is annoying me now. Maybe I can make it look like part of the picture somehow.
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I prefer knave and nincompoop myself. And hey, my spellchecker didn't even underline them!
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Nice. Do you notice there are many words often said but not so often spelled?
Like, nincompoop as you said, and despicable, and...hrmalsdkfj other things o.O
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This is gorgeous! I cannot properly express in words just how much I loooove those scales! They are faaaabulous!
But I also love the whole look of this piece: sort of oriental but more colorful and happy.
Anyway, great job!
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Oh thank you ^-^
Originally I was going to do some red/green thing or something. Then I ended up using all the colours. ahrh
The original idea faded pretty fast. O_o I like it better this way though.
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I'm so glad you finished this Mii, it's absolutely stunning! Perfect everything, it truely deserves to be a Daily Deviation, such unique art. Going to fav this, your hard work really shows!
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Thanks very much Arti, I'm glad I finished it as well.
Really appreciated .=]
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Heh... they beat me to favoriting it. Miiburdie... ya did good.
*hugz*
I think it was worth all the stress.
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