If there already weren't enough dragons...

Thanks. I haven't finished the body yet, but now that I look at it, it does look slightly like a gecko. (Minus head)

Is that good or should I go even longer?

Update!

I think that palette looks awesome. :D

This palette is really great! However, your lines are a bit.. straight.. Its a straigt art, than a corner, than a straigh part, than a corner... it should be come a curve. I know, you cant get pixel perfect lines than but maybe you should not worry too much about that. You might even try to fix that with some AA (if you are going to add a background)

I liked it more without legs. the arms do not look the same length.
Also I suggest you remove the beard and refine the horns, the black outline doesnt work very well on them.

Great stuff, I would really like to see this finished!

Lollige

The pattern on the arm looks a lot better.

You could try making the horns thinner and longer and maybe branch it out earlier? Like, have the horn keep going, but where it branches out be earlier on...

*Nods* No problem. ^^

It is looking good. I like the colors!

Looks good to me! ^^ One part that's bothering me, a little before the legs meet the body, there's a line of red that, coupled with the body thinning, almost makes it look like the dragon was cut up and pieced back together or has some swelling or something... XD

Okay. ^^ I think the scales look better. :]

@Kee:

@Kee:

Like this?

i strongly agree with thesalus, but would take it even farther when editing. I would also take a good look at the dragons body width, it's hard on the eye to have it change size so much along the shape. The head is massive in comparison to the neck area, they look stuck together rather than as one. I would give your dragon more of a flow to it's body. Widen the body until after the hind legs, or you will have something that looks like it's limbs and head are pasted on, or are limp and unstable.

Hope i got my point across, keep it up.

@thesalus:

i love the head

but I think it would be great , if u r going to stick with a "short' dragon, to make the body thicker

hard pallete to work huh

I think Bifur is saying that your dragon isn't super long (an example of Haku from Spirited Away), and is just suggesting making the body thicker because it's not super long.

Mine too.

this is something i found-

@Hatch:

Oo, that does look better.

Edited by BluWriter - 30 January 2008 at 12:34pm

ok here you go but i still think the body is to thin... but the head is great!

Hey, just to continue with the whole curves thing...




The areas i've circled are places where the curves are effected and bent.

I've drawn a simple shape on the right to show how i would personally visualise this sort of curve structure. Notice how the curves bend very slowly along the line, think about smoothness. It's not the best example, i looked at it after uploading and saw a subtle kink i made where the lines cross, if i noticed that when sketching i'd have to fix it, but hopefully you understand what i mean.

The dragon is gunna have a spine running throughout it's body, and the areas that i've circled would be where the dragon has broken or twisted bones.

I hope that helps with this piece or your future work. Good luck completing this, it's come a long way. :)