That is so beautiful! ^^

Thank you.

^^ Your Welcome! ^^

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SO AWSOME!!!!!!! <3<3<3<3<3<3<3

*droll droll drollllll!!!!!!!!!!*

I'm in love with it, i wanna learn to do that!!!!!! Dx

I'm glad you like it.
I used the same basic method as my last picture. This was an attempt at a speedpaint, so it has less detail, but it also has more quick strokes and maybe a bit more energy.

i looooooved the texture on it, makes everything look even more real <3<3<3<3<3

I was satisfied with that, too.
I'll have to practice with things like that, and learn how to use them well.

i will do the same here whenever i have the chance ^____^ would you mind criticising for me when i have stuff done? ;v;

I'd be glad to.

thank you >^.=.^<

Insane this is so Impressive o..O ^^

Thanks.
I'm rather happy with how it turned out.

Awesome !!!!!

Thank you.

Wow, you've only been using the default brushed up until now? *is immediately more impressed*

A while back, I saw some brushes that worked like stamps and found those rather annoying, so I didn't really bother looking at custom brushes. I figured I should check them out, though. It looks like they can make drawing some things much easier. I might have to make some of my own, though.
I don't want to rely too much on brushes made by other people, because I think that might make my art look generic.

Awesome =)

Thanks.
I'm glad you like it.

This piece is pushing the bounderies of awesome! You're going to make a lot of people jealous with this =P

Thank you.
I'm rather happy with how it turned out.

I'll do my best to keep pushing those boundaries.

Gorgeous colours~

Thank you.
I tried to make the colors bright, without over-saturating any parts of the picture.

"Titles tend to be difficult for me."
That's because words cannot explain it's awesomeness :]

Thanks.
It's mainly because I don't think of titles when I'm drawing them. So, after I finish, I have to try and sum those hours of work in a word or two.
The title can increase the impact of a picture, so I always try to think of one eventually, though.

Reall nice, especialy when I focus on the human as the main part, then look towards the dragon off into the distance.

Thank you.
That's one of the reasons why I only have mountains along the right side of the picture. If there were mountains along both sides, there would be no clear path for your eye to follow. That's the theory, at least. It's good to hear that aspect of the picture turned out well.

Another epic scene! These are great :)

Thank you.
I'll keep trying to make them more and more epic.

*thumbs up.* Looks pretty!

Thank you.

Nope. Thank YOU!

How to say this?.
The inspiration in Vampire Princess is clear... however, there is something here that I haven't found there.
When I look at Vamp's pieces, I feel they're in that point of detail that leaves me hanging. They are detailed, the detail is such that it causes me to compare it with pieces like those by classic fantasy painters (say, Ciruelo Cabral, Keith Parkinson); given that the pictures are not as perfect, the missing detail makes me feel the picture is incomplete.
On the other hand, while her idea of tones representing distance is quite unique (at least when I found her, I hadn't seen or remember seeing anyone else do it, and I still don't), those tone-centered paintings of her have just the same flaw as the fully colored ones: ambivalent detail, too much to be a simple and expressive abstraction, too little to be a detailed, breath-taking voyage.

This picture here takes those ideas and perfected them. The idea of making this a speed painting played it in its favor: you made it so simple, that I don't look for detail in this picture. At first I did. Of course, being the macrophile I am, when I saw that dragon in the distance, I thought "how large must it be...", and when I failed to find a good comparison point I felt frustrated like happens with Vamp's pieces. But then I decided to look at it differently, I just stared at it as a whole, as an imagining, as a feeling. And then, the color scheme embraced everything and gave it a meaning; there is no detail to corrupt that pure feeling of DESOLATION.

I'd have called this "Deserted".

There is the man, alone; there is an endless, impassable chasm; and the dragon away and distant. The sun's light extends an intimate atmosphere of warm light, somehow shrinking the gap between you and the dragon... but the bittersweet truth is you are alone.
There is no one else.

There last trace of humanity that you've seen is a signpost.

You walk alone.

So much solitude in your pictures... is it something you have or are feeling?. In any case, I think I understand now why Village Guardian is your featured piece :)

Possibly.
I do enjoy these sorts of quiet moments more than the activity and constant motion of a city, though. I think being around people all the time can get tiring.

Also, I don't know many artists offline, so drawing tends to be a rather solitary activity for me.
It's something I do when I have a quiet moment, myself.

Thanks for the awesome in-depth comment.
It's quite an honor to hear this piece compared to some of those painters.

Contrast and detail in art tend to draw the attention of the viewer, so adding details in the wrong part of the picture can be quite distracting from the main focus of the picture. Working with silhouettes can be a good way to focus on the composition and balance of a picture, I think. Sometimes leaving details out can be an effective way to trigger the imagination of the viewer, too. Let them fill in their own details. I recently picked up "Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes" by Rob Alexander, so I've been trying to learn from some of the techniques illustrated in there.
It's quite a helpful book.

That could be an effective title, too. I wasn't thinking about that too much when I drew it, though.
I tried adding in all sorts of things, like a city in the background instead of the huge dragon, or two dragons in the foreground instead of the traveler. Large objects in the foreground took attention away from the scenery, and made the lack of detail a distraction, and the city in the background made the clouds look more like pollution then a natural occurrence, so this was the configuration I decided to use.

This is truly a beautiful masterpiece....

Thank you.

Absolutely phenomenal doesn't even begin to define your work.

Thank you.
It's an honor to hear that.

This looks truly stunning and amazing. Great job! The colours, the dragon.. the clouds, it all goes together prefectly

Thank you.

My sister did a phoenix piece using a flower brush for the fire. XD So it's not so strange you using trees for clouds. I can't believe this is a speed paint! I love the orange hues and the way the dragon and human are silouettes. Beautiful work!

Ah, I've seen that picture before.
I've seen her art over on DA, and thought of entering a few of the contest she ran.

I'll have to check and see if there are any going right now.

Oh, you've seen her stuff? XD She's getting ready to launch a new contest, hopefully soon. You should check it out.

Oh damn that is awesome...

Thank you.

That panorama design looks great, nice work and the colors are beautiful !

Thank you.

One word-Beautifull

Thank you.
I'm glad you like it.

Your use of light and shadow in this piece as well as a very simple color palate makes this a beautiful, unified work of art.

Thank you. I'm glad to hear that.
I tend to work in grayscale before adding color. I think that makes it easier to focus on the lighting and contrast, and it gives me more of an oppurtunity to play around with color schemes, until I find the right one.

Do you have a super high-res version of this?

Sure!

I've uploaded it in 1340x1280, over on DA. http://chromamancer.deviantart.com/.....rama-168875865
How large do you need it?