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lildragon · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 4:37 am

I have always known the pencil and paper routine, though I'm not professionally taught I create draw stuff like this from reference art

but it still looks cool

I recently bought a Graphire tablet and I want to force myself to draw from my mind as I find it kinda hard not to have the reference pic right beside me so I could glance and sketch. ANy suggestions? anyone else having this prob?

By the way no-one took the time to welcome me in my first post what's up

Sergenth · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2001 8:00 am

Hey lildragon,

Welcome to the board. You posted inside another topic first, but now that you have your own, it's official!

Nice Gryphon. I really like the eye... the style reminds me of an eagle in some fantasy cartoon or something close

I also like the way you varied the line thickness and the "sleeves" on the front legs - a cool variation!

EBE · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2001 11:34 am

...this "Dragon" looks exactly like the "flying whatever" in the animation Movie "The Magic Sword" (I thinks that�s the name of the movie)
Did you saw that?

Trick · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2001 5:30 pm

Lildragon
I have study a little traditionnal animation before and your lines are quite excellent.
The gripphin is from The quest for camelot from Warner Brother and not from Disney as Dan said...

Jenn · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 12:20 am

LilDragon - Wow... Looks awesome.. I look forward to seeing more of your art on here.. Are you planning to color this ?

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Psionic · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 12:23 am

Yeah, I wanna see it coloured as well

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Dan · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 12:28 am

well he said it was froma reference, so I am assuming he meant the "Griffin" I believe it's called from "Quest for Camelot" a rather bad Disney movie

lildragon · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 4:56 am

Trick and everyone else thanx for the comments. The Griffon is indeed from The quest for camelot and I use the pic from a book I have as reference. You guys say you want to see it colored? well that's where I fall flat

I know photoshop pretty well but when it come to coloring characters, I have to upmost of problems ( it never looks right ) anyone have any links to good tuts or do you have any suggestions to learn to color digitally? again thanx everyone

Collosimo · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 9:11 pm

Hi, nice pic. It's a clean one and you are doing well.

Since I'm also new to digi illustration and colouring as you mention it. I thought I would post some links I have found useful.

btw: you could check out Dhabih's tutorial? probably have.

anyways...
www.planetshane.com > Shane Caudle
www.goodbrush.com > Craig Mullins aka:Spooge www.katode.org/noguchi/web/tut_goblin1.htm > Mikael Noguchi aka:Micke www.3dpalette.org/features/armory/ > Tutorial Armoury http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/ > Fantasy Art Resource Project

Thats my most useful links. I think you'll find the Tutorial Armoury and Micke's pages very useful.

good luck. Colour that pic!

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[This message has been edited by Collosimo (edited January 20, 2001).]