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So I'm starting the get work done for FC! This is the first I've completed, have two others in inks waiting to be painted and possibly waaay too many other planned bits to do that I might not finish, but, dangit, I'm seriously gonna try! My plan is for this one to go to the art show. :) I'll see about having prints made of it, too for my table in the Furry Market.
Those wee little mini-canvas badges are going, too- so those could be considered my first FC pieces. :P But this one is the first SERIOUS bit of arts- 5" X 7" Bristol board, mixed media.
Someone once asked me if the amazing landscapes of California and surrounding states were going to affect, or appear in, my art... Well, here's your answer, hon! :) I'm rather happy with how this one came out.
Those wee little mini-canvas badges are going, too- so those could be considered my first FC pieces. :P But this one is the first SERIOUS bit of arts- 5" X 7" Bristol board, mixed media.
Someone once asked me if the amazing landscapes of California and surrounding states were going to affect, or appear in, my art... Well, here's your answer, hon! :) I'm rather happy with how this one came out.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Western Dragon
Size 880 x 1166px
File Size 1.78 MB
Indeed! The desert is gorgeous at sunset and sunrise. The sands, the layers of rock, everything, gets this wonderfully-painted look to it. I've seen the mountains go this odd shade of purple-orange and the desert go gold like this. Makes my eyes water. I found I was actually having trouble trying to get the kind of brilliant colour I see when I'm out in the bush! But I hope I came close!
*nose-rubs, chuckling* Thanks, sweetness! I found myself sitting on top of the rocks Kani and I climbed, watching the colours change and I wondered if I could actually make a passable attempt at drawing it in traditional media. No tricks, no layers... Took me a while to try it, but I'm definitely going to do more of this sort of thing. I have another image of the whole family with hatchlings started, but I'm not sure if I'm as happy with that one. We'll see. The two other images I'm working on are similarly small, one a lovely little waterfall with a dragon soaring past and a family of Gryphons having their feathers and tail nibbled on by hatchlings.
:3 *is suddenly in front of her* Well, I can control ice as I control my own body - but that's unique to me. As a race, we silvers are excetional fliers only truly at home in the air. We can control clouds and weather as well as air currents, and even walk on clouds as though they were solid ground. In fact, while most silvers lair in high mountain peaks (so as to be as close to the sky as possible), some older dragons with more magical capability will actually stabalize the form of a large cloud and live in that - as I do :3
Get a chance, go see that movie. It's one long violent blood-fest in places, but it has a lot of stuff going on it that's not just about the fights... There's a whole under-rumble of racial tension commentary, the exploitation of a "helpless" people and so on. Pretty grim, but well done. And the aliens were fuggin' awesome. I'd do a poleepkwa. Heh. They were called "prawns" in the film, but the poleepkwa moniker is from the promotional website: http://www.mnuspreadslies.com/ and their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/M.....adsLies?ref=mf There are several other sites devoted to D9 that the the movie producers put up, and a few fans created- there are links for at least the movie sites on the pages themselves.
Here, go drool: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/darknatasha/ And this lady, too: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/hbruton/ And I'm sure you've seen Blotch's stuff? If not, http://www.furaffinity.net/user/blotch/
I'd noticed that, actually- that they don't favourite anything or watch people. I suspect it's more to do with being insanely busy than any real amount of snobbery, but it can look like snobbery,, though. I like talking with the folks who are kind enough to watch my stuff- it seems a shame not to, you know? *huggles*
My bad- dyslexic brain (and a slow Net-connection that has me watching my text write itself slowly on the screen or misplacing my cursor in odd locations) has been in control a lot, lately. I keep missing typos. Argleblargle. FC is Further Confusion, the big Furry Con in San Jose, California, and you'd get to see it there. Didn't mean to freak you.
Heh. Draconic.com is a website my husband made over ten years ago for Otherkin dragons to hang out, yak, arrange meet-ups, find mates, stuff like that. He actually created it to hopefully find a community he could feel part of and to find someone who he could hopefully have a relationship with... and found me, almost a decade later, poor man. So, 
and I met through that site, and the rest is history.
and I met through that site, and the rest is history.
*blinks* Whut? Better than a dragon? What could possibly be better than a dragon?
*giggles*
Actually, the site is open to anyone who'd like to join- they don't absolutely have to be draconic or even Otherkin, just must like dragons, be sympathetic to dragons, or at least, be open-minded enough that the thought of people having a stronger connection to them (such as past lives) doesn't make you guffaw in derision.
We've had a few trolls in the past (one I let in myself, sad to say), but we usually catch them pretty quick and bounce 'em. We don't like snotty little Net-twats mocking folks and going "fuck you! I'm a dragon!" laughing at our members and so on- not cool. The site is NOT about that kind of silliness.
Anyway, long answer made short: you can join if you'd like. There's a little survey we ask folks to go through and answer- it's partially to spot spam-bots, but we also wanna know what dragons mean to the folks who wanna join up. We have a few members who arent dragons at all. We have at least one fae, a gryphon and a couple of friendly humans. Well, to put a fine point on it, we all acknowledge we're human, at base, but we feel there's something... more to us. Something that most of us label "dragon". *shrugs* There's furs there, too, though we've been having some trouble getting the ones who aren't part of the Fandom to stop saying smack about 'em.
*giggles*
Actually, the site is open to anyone who'd like to join- they don't absolutely have to be draconic or even Otherkin, just must like dragons, be sympathetic to dragons, or at least, be open-minded enough that the thought of people having a stronger connection to them (such as past lives) doesn't make you guffaw in derision.
We've had a few trolls in the past (one I let in myself, sad to say), but we usually catch them pretty quick and bounce 'em. We don't like snotty little Net-twats mocking folks and going "fuck you! I'm a dragon!" laughing at our members and so on- not cool. The site is NOT about that kind of silliness.
Anyway, long answer made short: you can join if you'd like. There's a little survey we ask folks to go through and answer- it's partially to spot spam-bots, but we also wanna know what dragons mean to the folks who wanna join up. We have a few members who arent dragons at all. We have at least one fae, a gryphon and a couple of friendly humans. Well, to put a fine point on it, we all acknowledge we're human, at base, but we feel there's something... more to us. Something that most of us label "dragon". *shrugs* There's furs there, too, though we've been having some trouble getting the ones who aren't part of the Fandom to stop saying smack about 'em.
Just go here: http://www.draconic.com Just mention I sent ya. They know me as Murrahnithahn-i-ia (or Murrah)- my handle there is Albus-Draconis.
Awww, you have no idea how much of a time-suck just keeping tabs on FA and Etsy are... O___o I spend up to five hours a day online, or more, if I'm not shooed off to my work-space by my husband. IM's would have me never gong outside! Gotta manage the amount of time sitting in front of a screen somehow, and the IM's were the first to go.
Oh my, it's magnificent ! The background competes with the focus character for the title of the most detail-intensive and colourful aspect of the picture, yet in the end they get along just fine.
Those sunset-tinted rugged rocky prairies are actually amazing once the realization that they're conveyed by naught but real media sinks in, and those clouds are a delightfully peculiar idea that works into the composition wonderfully and without strain. The father dragon I won't even begin to praise, as the gradual shifting of colour has always been your forte. One thing I will say that he looks right in his place, and his confident yet warily protective attitude is very evident from his expression. His significant other looks very natural mid-flight, and it's a feat to make a dragon soar convincingly.
All in all, a great work !
Those sunset-tinted rugged rocky prairies are actually amazing once the realization that they're conveyed by naught but real media sinks in, and those clouds are a delightfully peculiar idea that works into the composition wonderfully and without strain. The father dragon I won't even begin to praise, as the gradual shifting of colour has always been your forte. One thing I will say that he looks right in his place, and his confident yet warily protective attitude is very evident from his expression. His significant other looks very natural mid-flight, and it's a feat to make a dragon soar convincingly.
All in all, a great work !
Damn. You made my eyes water, reading that. When we were driving through the country down from Winnipeg on the Big Move, Kani and I saw so much gorgeous scenery, and I remember the desert being the prettiest during sunsets. The colours practically GLOWED, and I knew I had to try and paint something like that to see if I could manage to at least come close in the vibrance of the colours.
Thanks so much for liking this one. There are two more in the series, so far. The others are still waiting for painting- they're just in ink stage right now.
Thanks so much for liking this one. There are two more in the series, so far. The others are still waiting for painting- they're just in ink stage right now.
Yeah, no matter how complex and impressive the theatre performance is, nothing beats the nature's opera house, where the rehersals were being held since before milleniums ago, and where no actors ever break out of character, and the decorations never fail ! Still, the artists can do a very good job at capturing and sharing all that greatness with the rest of the world.
Your colour work have always captured the eye, and your tiny detail intricacies are worthy of the smallest dragon's treasure hoard 8D By the way, I've only just discovered that MtG card of yours in your galleries, and oh, what a relief it was to finally see someone make a card of themselves that's not hideously overpowered and unbalanced ! Hurray for judicious moderation !
I'll be keeping my eyes open for the other two pieces, they're bound to be remarkable.
Thank you for your work !
Your colour work have always captured the eye, and your tiny detail intricacies are worthy of the smallest dragon's treasure hoard 8D By the way, I've only just discovered that MtG card of yours in your galleries, and oh, what a relief it was to finally see someone make a card of themselves that's not hideously overpowered and unbalanced ! Hurray for judicious moderation !
I'll be keeping my eyes open for the other two pieces, they're bound to be remarkable.
Thank you for your work !
*giggles* Well, it was made for me by 
alclave Go give him hugs, he's been feeling poorly and is going for surgery, soon. I don't remember, but I think I asked him not to make me too "overpowered". Murrah doesn't have any super abilities. She's too mellow and laid back- think "medieval hippy", and she's not into that egotistical "I am teh God of all teh dagrons!" crap. Heh.
alclave Go give him hugs, he's been feeling poorly and is going for surgery, soon. I don't remember, but I think I asked him not to make me too "overpowered". Murrah doesn't have any super abilities. She's too mellow and laid back- think "medieval hippy", and she's not into that egotistical "I am teh God of all teh dagrons!" crap. Heh. 
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