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Everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going,
Yeah, we're going dooooown...

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*I tried a different resolution while arting this, so if it's not big enough to see on here I'll upload a higher res*
(Yeah, I was just looking at it...I might resize the res and upload it later. )

Hrmph.

I'd like to say this is my best picture to date. This one, as well as 'The Desert King,' 'Celestial Dreams,' and 'Devil of the Desert'... Oh, yeah... I guess I could add 'The Sultan's Gift,' too, 'cause that one's kinda' nice...

(So many apostrophes... ._. )

I didn't get a chance to submit this right away 'cause my computer started flashing 'LOW DISC SPACE! LOW DISC SPACE!' in my face and finally it didn't let me do squat and said I have '...a critically low level of memory available...23 Mb...' So I stopped and went through my hard-drive.

PSD files take up stupid space.

ANYWAYS, yeah, um...
*I was going to ramble but now I forget what I was going to ramble about*

I'm really excited for Arabic classes this summer.

WITH THAT SAID...

Yeah, I gave Idracil texture. Why, you ask? It's because I'm sick of people going 'He's smooth!' and 'I like my dragons with scales, personally...' and 'Your work lacks texture in general' and yada-yada-yada... ( ) And I'm also tired of explaining, 'Well, Idracil is a smooth dragon to begin with...he's leathery and stuff...he doesn't have scales...' Etc.

I also took heart from some suggestions and tried not to make him such a blatant white, so I added another layer of pink and another layer of blue to him so he kind of blends in with the atmosphere, wowowowoo... Aand, I decided it would be good for me to show the thin-ness and transluscency of my dragon wings - starting with Idracil... So I tried to show some of the pink backlighting going through the membrane. I usually make it murky dark or solid, lol...

And I'm also working with different kinds of clouds. I know how to make good clouds, but now I need to work on making different clouds now. I can't tell you how long I spend staring out the car windshield at all the puffy cotton candy floating overhead... All the while pondering what tool and what brush and what setting to use.

On the topic of the background, once again, I wish I could SHOW you the ENTIRE thing, but IDRACIL just HAD to open up and SHOW OFF his PRETTY, WHITE WINGS in FRONT of the background. Like he likes to do. (He's done that in front of so many of my nice backgrounds, I swear...)

So, um, wow... I did manage to ramble. How about that?

Also...
I SAW 'HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON!!!!!!!!!' 8D I LURVED IT SO MUCH! It was the cutest/coolest/funnest movie I've seen in a long time! (Yes, in that order.) And the soundtrack is awesome - I've been listening to it! Have you guys seen it yet? How'd you like it?

Okay, yeah, I'll stop. (While in this down-time, give yourself a treat and check out PunditKitchen.)

If you read all of this, stick M-16 somewhere nice and pretty in your comment.

And also, I have a few other pics of Juban/Idracil I did a bit ago and haven't submitted. If you guys want to see 'em, lemme know!

All comments/constructive critiques are welcome! ^^

Enjoy!
Art/Chars (c) me.
Rippers will be nuked and swiftly disposed of.
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Description
~~~

Everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going,
Yeah, we're going dooooown...

~~~

*I tried a different resolution while arting this, so if it's not big enough to see on here I'll upload a higher res*
(Yeah, I was just looking at it...I might resize the res and upload it later. )

Hrmph.

I'd like to say this is my best picture to date. This one, as well as 'The Desert King,' 'Celestial Dreams,' and 'Devil of the Desert'... Oh, yeah... I guess I could add 'The Sultan's Gift,' too, 'cause that one's kinda' nice...

(So many apostrophes... ._. )

I didn't get a chance to submit this right away 'cause my computer started flashing 'LOW DISC SPACE! LOW DISC SPACE!' in my face and finally it didn't let me do squat and said I have '...a critically low level of memory available...23 Mb...' So I stopped and went through my hard-drive.

PSD files take up stupid space.

ANYWAYS, yeah, um...
*I was going to ramble but now I forget what I was going to ramble about*

I'm really excited for Arabic classes this summer.

WITH THAT SAID...

Yeah, I gave Idracil texture. Why, you ask? It's because I'm sick of people going 'He's smooth!' and 'I like my dragons with scales, personally...' and 'Your work lacks texture in general' and yada-yada-yada... ( ) And I'm also tired of explaining, 'Well, Idracil is a smooth dragon to begin with...he's leathery and stuff...he doesn't have scales...' Etc.

I also took heart from some suggestions and tried not to make him such a blatant white, so I added another layer of pink and another layer of blue to him so he kind of blends in with the atmosphere, wowowowoo... Aand, I decided it would be good for me to show the thin-ness and transluscency of my dragon wings - starting with Idracil... So I tried to show some of the pink backlighting going through the membrane. I usually make it murky dark or solid, lol...

And I'm also working with different kinds of clouds. I know how to make good clouds, but now I need to work on making different clouds now. I can't tell you how long I spend staring out the car windshield at all the puffy cotton candy floating overhead... All the while pondering what tool and what brush and what setting to use.

On the topic of the background, once again, I wish I could SHOW you the ENTIRE thing, but IDRACIL just HAD to open up and SHOW OFF his PRETTY, WHITE WINGS in FRONT of the background. Like he likes to do. (He's done that in front of so many of my nice backgrounds, I swear...)

So, um, wow... I did manage to ramble. How about that?

Also...
I SAW 'HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON!!!!!!!!!' 8D I LURVED IT SO MUCH! It was the cutest/coolest/funnest movie I've seen in a long time! (Yes, in that order.) And the soundtrack is awesome - I've been listening to it! Have you guys seen it yet? How'd you like it?

Okay, yeah, I'll stop. (While in this down-time, give yourself a treat and check out PunditKitchen.)

If you read all of this, stick M-16 somewhere nice and pretty in your comment.

And also, I have a few other pics of Juban/Idracil I did a bit ago and haven't submitted. If you guys want to see 'em, lemme know!

All comments/constructive critiques are welcome! ^^

Enjoy!
Art/Chars (c) me.
Rippers will be nuked and swiftly disposed of.
~~~