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This piece won me the Sennelier Corporate Award at the 2005 AVA Artfest at the Triton Museum. The fun thing about it was that a lot of people would walk by the piece give a casual look and you see the thought process running through their heads. "Yawn, it's a nice piece. Fantasy is not my thing though. Besides all it is is a picture of a dragon flying an R/C glider.......What?!" At that point they'd come around and give it another look. Almost won an award for Ambush Leader at that show to, which shows that "furry art" can be accepted by the general art world when it's presented well.
The piece is about 14"x 22" and is primarily color pencil with some marker, gouache, and micron pen.
The piece is about 14"x 22" and is primarily color pencil with some marker, gouache, and micron pen.
Category All / Fantasy
Species Western Dragon
Size 720 x 528px
File Size 92.1 kB
It was one of the fun things about winning the award at the festival. There was sound stunningly executed pieces in the show, but they were in many ways the things you'd expect to see in a museum. Still lifes, landscapes, figurative pieces, abstracts, and then this. It was fascinating to watch people who were walking around the reception talking about how imaginative they were and how worldy to different ideas they were. Then they'd see this. Some were amazed and some just blew a lobe in their brain!
I'd say it would be quite a challenge for a dragon to keep his flight aligned with the R/C glider, due to the scale differences, but I guess that would be a nice challenging hobby ^^
Awesomely drawn, both the character and the landscape. Dragon's pose is very natural and convincing, really suitable for a flight and conveying the motion. Love the streamlined shape of his body and wings, makes him look like one real aerial predator, designed to dive onto its prey. The mountains are very nice, the amount of texture work an detail is amazing (especially love the trees and creeping patches of green on the middle-range peaks). Also, love the sky very much, it is feels so very natural! You have really managed to capture the feeling of a somewhat cold, but shining sky one gets to see in the mountains...
As to the little critique, if I may, I'd say it is hard to guess the position of a sun from the shadow of a dragon on the rocks below. My guess is, it would be either tilted and distorted a bit more (if the sun is at upper-left) or higher up the peak slope (if the sun is more frontal-up). Also, in the first case, we should probably see slight shadows cast by the stone formations on the peak below.
Either way, congratulations on winning the award, and very nice piece idea indeed - I personally loved it very much to see dragons in some real life hobby situation! Though I would agree with one of the commenters above, it's probably not the "core" furry art, seeing how the non-anthropomorphic dragons were used in their pictures by some of the well-known fantasy artists like Michael Whelan, etc. But having the dragon character indulging in some R/C hobby is surely a twist that puts this closer to furry art, as well as (presumably) the fact of you being a part of a "furry". It surely shows that if, as you word it, furry art is "well-presented" it can be accepted by the general artistic world. I would only add that it requires a lot of self-restraint and self-reflection on the furry artist's side to choose what exactly does he want to present to the outer world, and what is better left to the more closed circles of furry art admirers. To put it differently, we don't need to strive for ALL the furry art to be accepted by the general art world, which will most probably never happen. What we can do, is to present the best pieces, and establish their quality and consistency as the ideal all the furry art must strive for. Thus we'll maybe have more really well drawn art for "internal use" also ^^
Sorry for a little wordy commentary, but I just couldn't go with just "Nice!" for such a well and consistently done artwork! ^^
Awesomely drawn, both the character and the landscape. Dragon's pose is very natural and convincing, really suitable for a flight and conveying the motion. Love the streamlined shape of his body and wings, makes him look like one real aerial predator, designed to dive onto its prey. The mountains are very nice, the amount of texture work an detail is amazing (especially love the trees and creeping patches of green on the middle-range peaks). Also, love the sky very much, it is feels so very natural! You have really managed to capture the feeling of a somewhat cold, but shining sky one gets to see in the mountains...
As to the little critique, if I may, I'd say it is hard to guess the position of a sun from the shadow of a dragon on the rocks below. My guess is, it would be either tilted and distorted a bit more (if the sun is at upper-left) or higher up the peak slope (if the sun is more frontal-up). Also, in the first case, we should probably see slight shadows cast by the stone formations on the peak below.
Either way, congratulations on winning the award, and very nice piece idea indeed - I personally loved it very much to see dragons in some real life hobby situation! Though I would agree with one of the commenters above, it's probably not the "core" furry art, seeing how the non-anthropomorphic dragons were used in their pictures by some of the well-known fantasy artists like Michael Whelan, etc. But having the dragon character indulging in some R/C hobby is surely a twist that puts this closer to furry art, as well as (presumably) the fact of you being a part of a "furry". It surely shows that if, as you word it, furry art is "well-presented" it can be accepted by the general artistic world. I would only add that it requires a lot of self-restraint and self-reflection on the furry artist's side to choose what exactly does he want to present to the outer world, and what is better left to the more closed circles of furry art admirers. To put it differently, we don't need to strive for ALL the furry art to be accepted by the general art world, which will most probably never happen. What we can do, is to present the best pieces, and establish their quality and consistency as the ideal all the furry art must strive for. Thus we'll maybe have more really well drawn art for "internal use" also ^^
Sorry for a little wordy commentary, but I just couldn't go with just "Nice!" for such a well and consistently done artwork! ^^
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