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Oak dragon by *Ironshod:iconIronshod:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Fantasy

©2006-2009 *Ironshod
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I hope this is fairly self explainatory. This is a dragon that lives in Oak trees and it's body is designed to camoflague in with the foliage.

In my spare time, when I am not working on art commissions, I am producing a range of wildlife style takes on different dragons. This a fairly slow process as I have very little spare time but eventually I hope to enough for a book, or at least a calendar!

I have had some other ideas for how these Oak dragons live and look. I think having eggs that look just like acorns would be cool and I could paint a dragon curled up on a little twig nest filled with them.

I painted this picture in acrylics. You can see some work in progress images of it in my scraps section.

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~thespaceinvader May 15, 2006, 12:51:52 AM
Amazing work, the frills etc make it well camouflaged. It kinda reminds me of...what's it called? A sea dragon, i think, that one that lives in seaweed and is covered in bits that look like seaweed.

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*Ironshod May 15, 2006, 1:03:01 AM
Thanks :) Good point about the frills. That would be cool for a sea dragon. I am thinking of doing a water dragon - maybe one that is more like an oriental dragon in style - without wings. I thought maybe a shot of it's head coming up out of the water and the body snaking off in the distance.
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~thespaceinvader May 15, 2006, 1:06:48 AM
Sounds like a great idea ^_^ Different elements etc are something i've been meaning to try out myself. I got started on an earth/rock design last summer that i really ought to come back to sometime...

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~Aximili-6116 May 15, 2006, 2:12:50 AM
that.is.amazing! both the sketch and this...i cant belive it was drawn and painted...ah lol i wish i had talent!

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~zarkia May 15, 2006, 2:37:56 AM
you are seriously talanted. when i looked at the thumbnail, i didn't even see the dragon! great camouflage. brilliant work.

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*Ironshod May 15, 2006, 2:43:30 AM
Thanks :) I really like painting with acrylics. I do however feel that my skills are a little lacking at this opposed to digital art - I keep looking for the undo function ;)
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*Ironshod May 15, 2006, 2:45:40 AM
Thanks :) It's good to know you didn't see the dragon straight away. I've been looking at it for so long I can't really tell anymore :roll:
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~Aximili-6116 May 15, 2006, 2:46:52 AM
no way! if you compare what you do to digital art theres no comparison, digital art is just putting pre-paired things together, yeh fair enough its hard to blend ect, but you have to put thought to paper, much harder and as you said, theres no undo function if you make a stuff up, where as with digital you can spend an hour getting one small section done, i can apreciate what you do more than i do digitally done stuff :D

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*Ironshod May 15, 2006, 3:38:28 AM
I am glad you like this acrylic painting :) Digital art does have many benifits, although staring at a screen all day is not one of them! I work digitally quite a bit. I do sketches in pencils and then scan in the picture for colouring in Photoshop.
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