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[Annuil]

moredhel, those are snowdrops. There are two stories that will be under one cover, one is called “The Red-haired friend” and another actually “Snowdrops”

[moredhel]

I tried to paint using only my new colors with the traditional pigments.



I like it although I completely messed up the perspective and the background.

[wavewright62]

Nifty!  The figures are the focus, so I wouldn't worry so much about background.  I did think the white dragon was closer in the foreground, though.  You may want to try a thin shadow under where the head rests on the rock, as you did at the front of the snout, and a slightly wider shadow where the rock falls away from under the neck.  That shadow can be discontinuous from the shadow on the ground.

Rocks are very difficult for me - trying to get a given rock's texture right either requires more time and patience than I possess, or I'm just zapping out a cartoon and detailing would give the object more importance than it warrants.

[Róisín]

Moredhel, what did you use for the dress she is wearing?

[Keep Looking]

It's a lovely painting. I think the woman is especially well-done: the tonal variation/shading in the dress, the shine of her hair, the delicacy of the flute, the shadow cast on the rock - you've painted her very well.

[moredhel]

Moredhel, what did you use for the dress she is wearing?

I used the carmine watercolor I bought and thinned it a lot. At the darkest shadows I used a little magnetite.

[Róisín]

That explains it! Beautiful effect.

[Annuil]

Great job, moredhel, white dragon with light background is a brave move! And it looks very good I like the bluish-greens there, they do their job really well

[moredhel]

Thanks to all for the encouraging words.


If anybody wants to compare the mouth was painted with unthinned carmine. I like the look of this red as a mouth. May be the reason why lipsticks where made with carmine.

[thegreyarea]

Well done, moredhel! The colours are indeed beautiful! So this is a enchanter of dragons? Or the dragon just enjoys music? Also that's a very chinese dragon. Was the paint inspired by some story?

[moredhel]

It was not inspired by any story. If I had any talent for writing it could be a point to write a lot of them, but I am completely wortless at writing. It was just a idea I had but ideas are half storys. And I managed to paint a fraction of it.
It is more a 龙 than an european dragon. And the dragon is just listening to the music.

[Róisín]

I remember once writing a short story about a dragon and a princess from a prompt for the library writers group, in which an idiot knight decided to rescue a random princess from a dragon, found a lady playing her harp while the dragon sang, and charged in. The lady decked him for interrupting her music lesson.

[moredhel]

sounds funny.

[wavewright62]

Had fun sketching at the zoo, this is the best of the lot. 
Also got lots of quick studies of flamingoes, may try to construct a larger piece from that.

[Opaque]

Cute elephant! That's really good for a quick sketch.