[Zo]

Been a while since I first posted here, but I only now finally finished another painting.

This is a piece I did for my best friend (the woman in the painting), she likes dragons and blue....so there ya go...
Took about 4 months to finish, working on and off, with long breaks inbetween.

photoshop 7 + graphire2.

hope ya like it,

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[AndyT]

Hell ... amazing! I love the idea/concept.
The image does look a little stiff but I think only the heads take away from the image.
They seem to have the same distance to the viewer for some reason. Makes the image flat a little.
Can you still change things?

The dragon's head could be a little more blurry.
The resulting contrast to the woman would get the point - that she is safe under the wing - across better.
And making her skin more blueish so that it goes with the palette might help too ...

I made a quick overpaint to show what I mean. I'll remove it if you want of course.
I also made the space between the words bigger. And I overdid the making the dragon's head blurry part

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[Capt. Fred]

really like the characters, I think it's the characters that make the pic, the dragons head design is really nice, but I had ago at what andyt was getting at I think, and tried to push the realism and make it softer, mainly on the woman. Hope you don't mind the input and overpaint.

[Zo]

Thanks for the crits guys, and I dont mind the overpaints at all...in fact I like seeing my work with a little different twist/style, hehe.

I know what you mean with the face needing a more bluish tint Andy...
and I actually had it looking like that when I made it. If I open the psd file up it looks like that...but when I saved it as jpg for the web it seemed to up the contrast on everything and made the face more tan looking. :\
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[Anthony]

Cool image, very nice paintover Cpt. Fred, at first glance I thought it must be a spooge P.O. :]
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