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This is a new design style image I have painted called "Yin Yang Guardian", based around an oriental style dragon and the Yin Yang symbol.

Many thanks to Angel Shi for providing the Chinese translation and suggesting what text to use. Chinese characters look great and the meaning is really interesting. The ones uses here are the first sentence of a poem in the first chapter of Book of Changes(YI JING). This is a historical book considered as a foundation for all the Chinese fortune telling and FengSui. The sentences mean "Yinyang generates Taiqi". Yin and Yang are the black and white, live and death, fire and water etc, basically two opposite sides of everything. Taiqi, is the round black and white logo, and here represents everything.
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~DarkAngel343 May 9, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
very nice

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~ADFTlove Apr 27, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
omg that is amazing

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hey some dragons rather love humans than drakes

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=Lyrak Feb 24, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Gah someone who learned the real name of the symbol! <3

I feel like this needs to be a poster. Just seems like it would come together very well hanging in a poster frame.

Dang DA news articles getting me hooked on another artist. LOL

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Mood: Joy ~orangeluigi Feb 4, 2012
Love the ying yang !
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~BurningLizard Jan 14, 2012
Nice how you separated the dragon from the ball by off setting the curves. I think most would have just used the shape of the dragon to define the yin/yang curves which would have flattened the image. I like how your Images Pop.
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~vasbronx Dec 13, 2011
cool! i would tattoo this one...
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~luna-furry Dec 13, 2011
this is cool
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~racquelsgrandma Dec 11, 2011
Your dragon collection is very cool.

Julie
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!Rodgeclub Nov 10, 2011
I really admire of your drawing that has Asian style. Thank you.
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!Rose-B Oct 16, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
It's nice to see someone doing their homework before adding random Chinese characters and such. I hate when people use symbols without knowing their meaning. Great job on this. <3

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