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Submitted: April 13, 2006
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I love painting dragons. I hoping to creat a range of different dragon that live in different enviroments. Kind of like a fantasy nature documentary ;) This dragon is able to live in the coldest enviroments.

My art shows a young and still small version of the ice dragon. I have some idea for the adults.... A huge ice covered dragon lying curled up in a massive underground cave with lots of cool ice and snow formation surrounding it, you almost don't notice the dragon at all at first. Also an action shot of the dragon bursting out of the cave in flight, icicles breaking off around it's massive wings as it soars into winter sky. I just have to get some time to paint these now!

This artwork was painted in acrylics. I did however do a bit of a re-touch in Photoshop on some of the snow effects once I had scanned the art in. The dodge tool is particually useful for exaggerating the shine on the ice.
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~fuchsia-ocelot:iconfuchsia-ocelot: Apr 13, 2006, 2:46:43 AM
Outstandingly beautiful....I'm at a loss of words. :)

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=xyionan:iconxyionan: Apr 13, 2006, 2:46:55 AM
O_O wow.. thats so amazing i love the pose and the beautiful colouring ^O^

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*artemisio:iconartemisio: Apr 13, 2006, 2:47:55 AM
ooh, wonderful! O_O i really love the little details, such as the snowflake in his breast X3 very very beautiful *o*

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*Judasmunk:iconJudasmunk: Apr 13, 2006, 2:50:16 AM
fantastic. I have major problems with dragons.. been trying to do a drawing of one for months... but always mess up the detail. Love it

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~Nappers:iconNappers: Apr 13, 2006, 3:54:47 AM
That's awesome, I like how you can see the dragon's body through the translucent icicle. :-)

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*Ironshod:iconIronshod: Apr 13, 2006, 5:19:52 AM
fuchsia-ocelot - thanks for your comment :)

xyionan - I'm glad you like the colouring. Snow and ice can be tough to do. I have included quite a lot of blues and purples here, which are not nessecarily very realistic but hopefull make it a little more interesting.

artemisio - good you spotted the snowflake on the chest. I tried to bring in any many ice and snow related images as I could into the dragon.

Judasmunk - thanks. Best of luck with your own dragons.

Nappers - i enjoyed painting the icicle. I made the dragon body that is viewed behind it lighter in tone and kind of blurred.
~farhatali-2005:iconfarhatali-2005: Apr 13, 2006, 7:38:08 AM
sweeet colors maan, awsome

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~canavar:iconcanavar: Apr 13, 2006, 10:21:40 AM
wery well done. perfect job. aaand no word. amazing amazing.
*mikey-madness:iconmikey-madness: Apr 13, 2006, 7:54:52 PM
Wonderful piece

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*mikey-madness:iconmikey-madness: Apr 13, 2006, 11:14:11 PM
I featured this in my Journal. I hope you do not mind.

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