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Black Dragon by =shaliara:iconshaliara:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Fantasy

©2004-2009 =shaliara
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The new version of the Black Dragon of D& D 3rd. The design is by Todd Lockwood, I only took the basic idea and drew my own pose of it and all that :)

Colored and shading scale by scale XD, so it took me a week or so. Little by little 'cause I got fed up sometimes... :P

Canson paper (beige) and 2H (sketch) and 2B (shading) mech pencil.

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*Aeyoqen Feb 17, 2004, 4:59:33 PM
Wow, this is wonderful work. All of those scales...there is so much detail here!

Amazing pic!
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~NorwayFox Feb 17, 2004, 5:22:43 PM
Scale by scale? Amazing! Those wings and its head...they're amazing! An overall brilliant piece of work! Hehe, I love D&D-type things. ^_^;;
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~kavirin Feb 17, 2004, 5:27:09 PM
oh man this looks awesome!
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~HeatherD Feb 17, 2004, 7:05:26 PM
whoa, crazy detail! It looks amazing! Fantastic job :) The head looks a little balrogish (at least from the movie) with those horns and all. I can see why this took so long!
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~carnagefiend Feb 17, 2004, 7:45:01 PM
AWESOME work on details, excellent excellent excellent :D

I DO have little qualms on the body proportions, as 3rd edition dragons are a unique body form, particularly with the belly, but that's just a little thing and doesn't detract from the piece ^____________^ very cool

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At one point in their life everyone has to face the idea that their life is purposeless. What they don't know is that this is the first step to making their life meaningful.
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=shaliara Feb 17, 2004, 7:58:14 PM
Thanks :D
I copied some things from a statue I've from a Black Dragon of D&D. Maybe you refer to the belly being more "fat" instead of more sinuous? XD

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I'm the Living Darkness...
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"Bow down to others with admiration and respect, nephew, but never with sumission!" - Raistlin Majere - Dragonlance
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=shaliara Feb 17, 2004, 8:00:53 PM
Thanks! :)
Yeah, I also thought that but I thought it when I saw the Balrog "hey, his head looks like a Black Dragon from D&D" 'cause I saw the dragon first (a year before or so... :)

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I'm the Living Darkness...
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"Bow down to others with admiration and respect, nephew, but never with sumission!" - Raistlin Majere - Dragonlance
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~carnagefiend Feb 17, 2004, 9:06:44 PM
No, actually, very much the opposite and not so much the belly either :) The stomach is long and rather thin and raised far off the ground. It's almost like an exaggerrated dinosaur therapod on four legs O.o Quite peculiar

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At one point in their life everyone has to face the idea that their life is purposeless. What they don't know is that this is the first step to making their life meaningful.
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=shaliara Feb 17, 2004, 9:32:57 PM
I supposed it looked like being in the ground. It's not, if he were on the ground it would look like you say, exagerated, and a too difficult pose for a dragon, he will fall in the next second. It's like "suspended or flying" only that the wings did not fit and I had to fold them xD so it looks that way. Mea culpa. Look also that if in the ground, it would be pressing the tail with his feet XD
I dunno if I explained well it's kind of difficult to say XD

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I'm the Living Darkness...
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"Bow down to others with admiration and respect, nephew, but never with sumission!" - Raistlin Majere - Dragonlance
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