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Opal Soliloquy lineartby *rachaelm5

Traditional Art / Drawings / Fantasy

This lineart is freely available for coloring. If you decide to color this lineart, here is my lineart usage policy:

Please include a link back to the original lineart. This is necessary for reposting to any of the Color-Me groups.

Please include a link to me, *rachaelm5. This is necessary for reposting to any of the Color-Me groups.

You may repost your coloring outside of DeviantArt, unless I specify otherwise in the description.

You may not repost this design, or colorings of this design, as adoptables for points or money. I post this design freely for you to color; I ask that you do not go off and profit from it.

I reserve the right to sell my own colored version of this design, as it is my own lineart. I state this here in my usage policy so that no one will be confused about me breaking my own policies when I get the project completely finished. I will never do anything to anyone else's colored versions beyond appreciation and praise.

Also, I haven't tried the .png format before. Let me know if it gives anybody trouble and I'll fiddle with it. The viewable art you see and the downloadable art are the same size.

The vast array of colored versions of this dragon may be seen in the Awesome Colorists Journal 1 .

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~Nights-and-Reala-xxx May 9, 2013 Student General Artist

I`ve coloured it in! just go into my gallery

*rachaelm5 May 9, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Done did.

~CNome Apr 30, 2013

Wow! All your line art is spectacular but this one, in my opinion is the best of the best

*rachaelm5 Apr 30, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks very much. It's certainly one of the most ridiculously complicated ones!

~ANI-MOOSER Feb 14, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I made another of your line arts <3 [link] I hope you like this one just as much~

*rachaelm5 Feb 16, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I do indeed! Thank you once again.

~Nights-and-Reala-xxx Feb 10, 2013 Student General Artist

love the dragons!!! how do you create such amazing dragons!

*rachaelm5 Feb 10, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks very much.

I created these super-complex dragon designs one stage at a time. I draw the body and wings, then grid out the scales, then add all the little details. It's something that I've taken many years to learn how to do; it was certainly very hard at first, but now it's much easier.

~Nights-and-Reala-xxx Feb 12, 2013 Student General Artist

could you maybe give me some tips on creating a dragon because mine look really childish and cartoon like. Maybe one day i could draw dragons like you with some time and effort

*rachaelm5 Feb 12, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I use the body designs of cats, horses, dogs, humans, and sometimes birds as the starting point for my dragons. I tend to go for a stylized realistic creature, which allows me plenty of leeway to stretch the proportions around to suit whatever visual effect I'm trying to achieve. Try looking at pictures and anatomical diagrams of your favorite animals, and then work dragonnish features onto those body types in your mind. Then, maybe print out some line drawings of those ordinary animals verrrry lightly, and draw your dragon bits over the animal body (or do so digitally with layers so you can draw over the animal base easily.

You might do some searches here at DeviantArt for Dragon Tutorials; you'll find a lot of different ideas about how to get dragons to look realistic, or to get a cartoon stylization that you like.

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