Dwaggysnugpile!!!! :D

*bounces in... stealthyly, wouldn't want to awake them* :O

awwwww...how cutes!

Made comments over on Necrodrone's submission of it.
It looks lovely Murra.

Thanks, sweetie. I made some comments myself. Happy dragon, I!

dragonpile!!!

Indeed! Heh. Such a sweet, cuddly pose she put us in... *sighs happily*

I'm full of envy.

Oh... that's damn cute =3
Would you mind to do a colored version of it? I bet it would look even better =)

Understand that this was drawn by the lovely  necrodrone13 , not myself (it was a commission as a Yule gift for my tow dragons in LA). You might notice it's not in my usual style. I'll have to find out if she would mind if I did that. But she wants to colour it herself, apparently. Thanks for liking it! I was over the moon when she sent the file to me. Weee!

I did notice that, but my fault: I wrote "you" instead of "her" >.<

She's actually offered to colour it already, but it may be a while before I see it. She's got a lot of commissions on the go, right now. She'll get to that eventually. Heck, I'd love to just print it off and have a go at colouring it myself, just for the fun of playing with someone else's style.

*thrumms* Mmmm, I loved the pic when necro posted it, and I love it now. <3

the anatomy looks really strange to me for some reason *blinks* but it's still a very nice picture ^^

There are some oddities with it (the necks are REALLY long), but it's another artist's style. I like her stuff, though, especially how she's done our faces. Though I normally have eyebrows. Heh. Necro shaved my bushy brows, man! *giggles* Still, her style is just plain neat.

*smiles softly, and purrs quietly as he pads past the snuggly slother of slumbering dragons... stopping to gaze for a while... and then padding on*

Beautiful...

Wassa "slother"? *giggles* I love the way you write, my Aashe'Hyut.

Awwwww... you all looks so snuggly and beautiful! n.n

Yeahhhhh, just the thing on a cold winter's night; a nice cuddle in front of a roaring fire, or some such. Love the smug looks on everyone's faces, too. Have I said it before? Necro kicks tail!

::lofts gigantic snowball into their midst::


::escapez::

*All three yeep in frigid startlement and give chase, cackling like fiends* Furry bear, you rock.

::pokes head out from behind far distant rock::

It's not like just any mammal would have the cajones to mess with three sleeping dragons.

::keeps running::

Yeah, but a certain mammal has forgotten we hunt on the wing... in PACKS. *giggles and takes to the air, along with her two males...* Hiya, Furthling! Cutie.

JUST TO AWSOME!!!!! OGGLES the three ^^

*their smug grins get wider* Heh.

Its nice ^^

btw, thanks for the shout-out on my page, but the reason I dont do more art is because im terrible and no one would look or care if I put it up.

Awww, c'mon.... How do you expect to improve in your mad skillz if you don't keep drawing? I've been doing art of various sorts for nearly thirty years and I'm STILL improving! There's always room for advancement... Now, admittedly, some of the folks on here are much younger than this old lizard, and yet their art leaves mine in the dust, but I've still got over 200 watchers. Why? 'Cuz there is something in my work that calls to people; the romance, maybe, or the cuteness, or the delicate style, who knows? But anything you do will attract someone. Just keep plugging away at it. I'm a slow learner, see, and so my stuff only improves by glacial degrees- by inches. Heh.

Folks are always saying to me, "why are you so down on yourself? It just ain't so!" I pass that bit of wisdom on to you, my friend. Have a happy Yule!

Thank you ^^

*huggles*

That sir (or ma'am, I can't tell easily :P), is so wrong on so many levels :P What art I have seen so far is quite pleasing to the eye! You have a decent grasp at anatomy (legs look like they could actually support the character; hands look like they will actually work, facial structure is really good! And damn, your rendition of Skyshadow is indeed quite sexy!), you can nail poses quite well, and none of your artwork looks like the characters were run over by a truck or anything (Which sadly I'm seeing a lot of lately. No offense to anyone, but geez...) And heck, if you did post more, I'd certainly look! And very much care!

Sure, a little practice might be needed, but that goes for any striving artist! Practice, practice, practice! You can't improve if you don't!

well, thank you ^^

(and im a guy btw XD)

Yeah, what Kilroy said. Seriously, I've looked over your stuff. Your line-weight's a little shaky- they need to be smoothed out. A lot of younger artists do this; they have these scratchy lines that look almost fuzzy, 'cuz they don't do a long smooth line. Instead, they do these short, choppy lines, trying to make it into a curve. Sit down and fiddle with your pencil, and just draw long, smooth lines in a quick sweep. Do a few simple figures that way. The idea is to build confidence in your wrist's movement and get away from the tentative marks of the short, choopy lines and lengthen them. Heh, there's even a name for it; "confidence of Line". it can be really important to the final look of a piece. Your figures could use some sort of background to give them a dimensional context to be in, even if it's just some simple blocks of colour, like I did up there, but all in all, there's some potential there.

The key is to keep drawing, even if it's something you see in passing while on the bus. Right now, I'm doing some wildlife pieces as a gift for a friend's parents. Wildlife imagery is NOT my forte, but I'm doing it because I know I need to work on my real-life flora. Fantasy critters like Murra up there are fine, one can get away with quite a lot. Not so when you're doing a pic of a Black and White Warbler clinging to a Larch tree... Markings and their placement are VERY specific, and this species is a rather graphic little bird. Adorable, too. And since I've chosen to draw the Larch in it's spring bloom, the flowers need to be carefully drawn, too. They're these tight little pine-cone-like blooms in an almost neon purple... But I also know my skills are barely up to it, so I'm doing the piece as a way to "stretch" those artistic muscles.

Keep going, play around with different kinds of media. Maybe pencil isn't your home medium, so try something else. Markers, or pastels, maybe watercolour. The idea is to play, have some fun with it and learn the materials... For me, Pencil, coloured pencil, and Prismacolour markers have been my thing and the medium that seems to be the most forgiving with my attempts at art. Water-colour comes next. Clays and three-d forms definitely are in the running, too. Then there's fabric...

Now, what I REALLY wanna get my paws on is a one of those tablets, so I can try my paw at digital art... Murrr...

*hugs you warmly* Keep drawing, hun! Please!

Wow...thank you for the indepth post o.o
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me! ^^

I understand what you mean by line confidence, it goes along with people always telling me to "clean up" my drawings. The problem I think is that I really have no confidence with pencil... If I am able to try and fix something, I will do it until theirs a hole erased through the paper. I've destroyed many things that I wished to put up on here...

Anyway, I think im going to try and work with line-art...as one of my friends suggested. Using a pen will make me unable to erase and try to redraw lines over and over again, and it takes a lot of the headache out of trying to draw something. I've only done a single peice of lineart and I will be putting that up in my gallery if you want to take a look.

One thing you might try is using a blue pencil to roughly sketch out your figure (erase gently as needed). Also, you might be pressing too hard on the paper with your pencil- that makes it difficult to be erased, after. And then there's the different kinds of graphite in the pencil- they come in several differing hardnesses, all used for various effects. The hardest leads are used for things like technical drawings, or wherever fine detail is needed. The get softer than this; HB is very soft, and smudges easily- a fine pencil for fast sketching and soft effects, like shadows, or mist (a fun technique; take a tissue, roll part of it into a point and use it to carefully smear your pencils to give a softer edge and shadow to things). H2 is pretty hard, use that for the fine line work you might put over top. Charcoal pencils are available, too- fun to work with, but messy. Invest in a kneadable eraser- they're these soft, rubbery grey things that you can pull and mold like taffy. Perfect for "white-out" effects, like putting "whiskers" on a piece that's been smudge-painted. You can use it to lighten shadows on soft pencils, too.

I personally only use the pens AFTER I've done my rough-outs. If you bork something in pen, it's ruined and you'll have to start over. And don't worry overmuch about tossing something if it's not working. ALL artists do that. It's necessary. so, blue-pencil, then graphite over that, if you want, then ink to fill it out.

My pieces usually go in this order; blue pencil, shading with pale blues, purples and greys to block out the major forms, then the other colours go in lightest to darkest, then coloured-pencil ('cuz they go over marker so nicely to give softness and fine detail for lighter effects), then the final inks, where needed. Maybe some time, I'll figure out a way to do a post with a piece in the various stages of completion (need to get around the rule about three posts, max, of any piece), so folks can see how my stuff gets done.

And please, I would like to see you latest, as I'm sure other folks would. Sometimes, all a person needs is to be told something is possible, for them to give it a try.

Oh...thanks for the information. But honestly I dont think I can handle all of that. If I cant complete a picture in half an hour or less i get too frusterated with it and throw it away. Sometimes I do "finish" one and it takes a few hours...but those ones arent usually good anyway (with the frustration burning eraser holes and such in it).

Ah, well, I'm certain how to tell a person to be patient without sounding like a jerk, so I'll say this instead; no artwork that is any good is done in a half-hour, unless it's a quick gesture sketch. I've been lucky once in a while and managed a decent piece in about three hours. but that's usually a pencil-sketch, not inked or coloured. Patience is an absolute requirement, in order to do anything with any detail. As for frustration, that happens to us all, we just have to learn how to get past it and keep working at it. Not sure how to put it any better than that. *hugs you, hoping you'll come up with a solution you're happy with*

Oh, and I'm not claiming Necro's lovely pencils as my own, just so folks know... She's got that "Confidence of Line" I was talking about; look at how her lines are smooth and simple. How everything seems to fall into place. Gorgeous. Now, if only I could do that...

*purrrs quietly* Oh now, this is pretty. And I do love the expressions.. I've not seen that look on KaniS' muzzle in quite some time. Also nice now Royelle seems to be not..quite..yet..finished... or maybe it's just an innocently loving nuzzle, but it's so wonderfully ambiguous!

*cackles* Yeah, he is a randy lizard, that one. loving fellow. Hmm, mebbe it IS just a loving nuzzle. Heh. Necro is one who's going to go far, I'm thinking. Glad to support her in that. We look so smug, all of us, and so we should!

Awww, such a loving pile of gorgeous dragons!

What I wouldn't give to be among them :P

You could just introduce yourself and get us to invite you... We're cuddly folk. Just cuddly, mind you. *grins* I almost can't wait to see how Necro is gonna colour this. She had fun doing it, apparently...