Red dragon

[BaLRoG8]

Hey... this is the first time i have posted a work here... i have recently moved away from CGing other peoples drawings to painting my own works from scratch... This took around 2-3 hours to do... any critisism would be welcome... and any advise along with that critisism would be very helpful :^^:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v462/BaLRoG8/dragon.jpg

thanks :teeth:


Edit: fixed

[jubilee]

deviantart doesnt care for cross linking files so for anyone who doesnt go to your page and see this image, it will not show

try : http://www.imageshack.us/ to host your image.

[BaLRoG8]

ok, sorry about that... didnt know.

hosted elsewhere.

[cardprints]

There is something about that I can't place.. i think its the shades and color.. make it look more real..
It kinda looks dull.

[glikster]

good job with the lighting, but the picture looks kind of boring. Making the sky more than a simple gradient will help. Maybe try adding some clouds in the background.

The dragon's eye also bothers me, it looks pasted on. The fangs can use some help, because right now I can't be sure that they are fangs and not drool. Both of those can be helped by improving the lighting on that part.

And personally, I don't like that tendril of cloud that's wrappipng around it. But that could just be me.

[MarkHarchar]

There is much too much negative space in this piece. The sky in front of the dragon is dull. The clouds and the dragon aren't sharp anywhere making the piece lacking a strong focal point. Not a big fan of the tendral of cloud either. The wings look a bit small making the dragon look weak. Look at Draper's Lament for Icarus and how not showing the entire wing in frame makes them look so much bigger and grander. http://www.geocities.com/jade_stone_/Lament_for_icarus.html


The wing arms should probably look more robust closer to the base of the animal as opposed to the tips. If you wanted the skin to look scaley, you have accomplished slimy like a moray eel. Take a look at it again and see what you can do. Hope this helps.

[glikster]

The clouds and the dragon aren't sharp anywhere making the piece lacking a strong focal point.

I knew I was missing something that was bothering me. Sharpening the lines of dragon's head and/or upping the saturation of it will help draw the eye.
Also, I think the whole image needs more contrast in general.

[DSillustration]

obviously, not every dragon wing has to look like a bat wing...
but the one you've drawn doesnt look like it would get the dragon off the ground.
mainly, due to lack of support.
here is a pic of the way a wing is structured:
http://m3k.grad.hr/karlo/bats/bat-wing2.jpg

[BaLRoG8]

thanks heaps guys, thats very helpful... ill jump back into it and see what i can do about fixing alot of that... ill be back later =D