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[Rotohail]

that dragon painting is goooooooooooooooooooood

lol! Thanks man, anything that you liked specifically or stood out to you? I'm a bit puzzled on how I feel about it at the mo. (On the side, I wish it looked less like a dragon ha ha, I wanted a sort of chimera but right now it has an identity crisis ha ha ha)

Nice updates here, really enjoy your approach to your figures, the anatomy is quite strong!  Keep it going!

Ha! I've actually been trying to go over anatomy stuff recently because I was going weak on it, but I'm still not quite done, and is still gonna take a few more times over the years I think.

so im gonna go on a weird limb for my thoughts on the dragon painting, i dont know if this is a valid critique...

I feel like his head is forced into the composition, instead of embracing the ambiguity of his behind. to be honest, its difficult to tell what hes doing or how big his body is or what its true shape is. im enjoying how the trees are playing a counter rythm to his gesture, that looks very good.

In my head, im seeing like a dragon prowling through the woods, doing his own thing, but you see his behind and that wing coming out to the side. It's just tough to see exactly what the action is... is he hurt? is he hunting? is he waking up from a nap? I can't really tell

Why wouldn't it be! It's the ones I like the most. Well I had quite trouble putting a creature in, so you aren't wrong. I started doing the background forest first and just detailed a bit the foreground, then I tried like adding giant insects, a boar family a stroll, other strange creatures crawling, many attemps, was liking none. I mean is mostly due to me not having a clear goal and not knowing much about creature design. Someone suggested me to look up cryptids and I did so, but then I was not finding a composition I liked it, then it was the last hours of the day and I just stumbled upon that, the composition I found interesting at the time but the creature is a haphazard of things ha ha, so a chimera. I would say... resting! Ha. Nothing much else about it with this one. I would like to work the creature into something better but is beyond what I can do know, I would have to do studies (dogs, lizards, birds and boars mostly, those are the things I had in mind). I'll just save it to reattempt on the future, like I do with other stuff, to check progress, this week is guns studying time lol.