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I’ve been struggling with portraying Tylos correctly and decided to settle on a different horn shape. I’ve also chosen to showcase his Heron features. Yes, I traced over a Great Blue Heron image for the general shape. Not proud but not ashamed. I needed help and I don’t sell my art so it’s all good IMO for this particular case.
Scale texture is not shown. He has smooth, soft crocodile underbelly scales all over his body except for the harder, raised, dark blue scales you can see.
Parts of my current reference is still valid, it’s just a lot more toonish. I’ll be asking for the horn shape and specific colors in this image from now on. The body, wing shape, scale texture, and color patterns in the other reference are still correct: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39809373/
*Squawk*
Tylos & art is mine/me.
Image: https://images.app.goo.gl/PQZBvdp2cMLFExRi9
Scale texture is not shown. He has smooth, soft crocodile underbelly scales all over his body except for the harder, raised, dark blue scales you can see.
Parts of my current reference is still valid, it’s just a lot more toonish. I’ll be asking for the horn shape and specific colors in this image from now on. The body, wing shape, scale texture, and color patterns in the other reference are still correct: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39809373/
*Squawk*
Tylos & art is mine/me.
Image: https://images.app.goo.gl/PQZBvdp2cMLFExRi9
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Western Dragon
Size 735 x 600px
File Size 372 kB
Listed in Folders
It never occurred to me that Tylos had heron features until now, I somewhat felt blind and am now questioning myself on what other dragons might be like birbs out there.
On the subject of tracing? Ugh, really tough area in the art world, isn't it? I always stood by the laurels that if there is no tracing involved in commission/paid work and it's strictly used for practice, I'm okay with it, despite some people wanting to declare it as strictly forbidden due to tempting the artist down a slippery slope. It also falls into the more weird zone when someone traces over a photograph of a RL subject (like what you have done here,) which I've seen many, many artists do and get away with. (Though, most traces I've seen are done over meme/stock images as a means of expressing their derivative spin on the image while making sure the drawing is structured and inline with the original image that was used as a template.)
On the subject of tracing? Ugh, really tough area in the art world, isn't it? I always stood by the laurels that if there is no tracing involved in commission/paid work and it's strictly used for practice, I'm okay with it, despite some people wanting to declare it as strictly forbidden due to tempting the artist down a slippery slope. It also falls into the more weird zone when someone traces over a photograph of a RL subject (like what you have done here,) which I've seen many, many artists do and get away with. (Though, most traces I've seen are done over meme/stock images as a means of expressing their derivative spin on the image while making sure the drawing is structured and inline with the original image that was used as a template.)
Thank you for your comment! I did it for that exact reason. It’s easy to say that he’s a mix of certain animals but without a visual guide, it’s all guess work!
Yes, definitely a slippery-slope topic! There’s only been two instances where I’ve traced over an image to help me, and it’s been this image and my feral reference for my dog sona, Jojer. References are a very important visual tool and since I’ve been able to commission more art lately, I want to convey my characters more accurately and show other artists what I find important to focus on. I’m a very visual creature and also very busy lately with less time and energy to dedicate to my art. This is my band-aid for the situation at the moment. :3
Cheers!
Yes, definitely a slippery-slope topic! There’s only been two instances where I’ve traced over an image to help me, and it’s been this image and my feral reference for my dog sona, Jojer. References are a very important visual tool and since I’ve been able to commission more art lately, I want to convey my characters more accurately and show other artists what I find important to focus on. I’m a very visual creature and also very busy lately with less time and energy to dedicate to my art. This is my band-aid for the situation at the moment. :3
Cheers!
I love the longer face and horns! I think the curved longer horns like this adds greatly to the elegant and serpentine shapes!
Also tracing over reference pics like this is great to learn more and try new things! I do this with some pics and spinosaurus screenshots from games like Path of Titans and The Isle!
To me i use a lot of cormorant pictures for references! But i love herons soooo much too! Surely one of my favorite birds!
Also tracing over reference pics like this is great to learn more and try new things! I do this with some pics and spinosaurus screenshots from games like Path of Titans and The Isle!
To me i use a lot of cormorant pictures for references! But i love herons soooo much too! Surely one of my favorite birds!
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