Friday, January 29, 2010

Wise old dragon

I intended this to be a drastically different design than the illustratioin I had done before, and it turned out with almost identical features. Oh well.

3 comments:

  1. I'm loving the mixture of straights and curves in this one particularly around the tail. Keep it up mate, your sketches are great.

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  2. Looks awesome!! Reminds me a little bit of Mushu.. only a bit more wiser.

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  3. Yeah when I did that other dragon (see the link above) I had to make a real conscious effort not to emulate Mushu, and yet I still wanted him to be red, and to have certain traditional chinese features. I wasn't as careful this time so he probably drifted back into Mushu territory.

    Thanks Michael! I tend to stay pretty orgainic, and it's usually only if I take this the illustration to a more completed level that I really really emphasize those straights agains curves. I think they are there naturally but not quite as emphasized as they could be.

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