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The funny story with the Violetpetals dragon is that she started out nice, then was hideous when I finished her. Horrified, I tried to fix it (rather than start all over) and added the strange petal purple ‘tipping’ to her large lateral scales. So her most striking trait was the result of a bad paint experiment!
I don’t know how that would translate onto an emperor. The tipping only really looks good on the larger scales, and the emperor- for such a large dragon- has mostly smaller scales. The emperor’s texture also means that any blending on the individual scales (with exception of his belly scales) is lost to antiquing, since he has a bit of what I call ‘pinecone syndrome’ where his scales stick out, rather than being smoothed in an arc like on the PYO dragon or, for example, a spectral dragon. The detail work like that would be best on something like a spectral or riser, if I ever paint one.
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For an emp, though, I really like Ski’s suggestion of black and gray and white. That would be striking.
Jennifer wrote:Serenity wrote:Jennifer, you did a PYO dragon…
http://www.windstoneeditions.com/galleries/displayimage.php?album=46&pos=26
seeing this on a larger scale…. WOW! 😯
Thats my 2 cents!
I’m having browser problems. Which one is this?? I’m getting a griffin which is obviously wrong.
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Violet Petals dragon… last picture on that page! I love it!
Jennifer wrote:The funny story with the Violetpetals dragon is that she started out nice, then was hideous when I finished her. Horrified, I tried to fix it (rather than start all over) and added the strange petal purple ‘tipping’ to her large lateral scales. So her most striking trait was the result of a bad paint experiment!
I don’t know how that would translate onto an emperor. The tipping only really looks good on the larger scales, and the emperor- for such a large dragon- has mostly smaller scales. The emperor’s texture also means that any blending on the individual scales (with exception of his belly scales) is lost to antiquing, since he has a bit of what I call ‘pinecone syndrome’ where his scales stick out, rather than being smoothed in an arc like on the PYO dragon or, for example, a spectral dragon. The detail work like that would be best on something like a spectral or riser, if I ever paint one.
Well… I can dream! 😀
Jennifer wrote:The funny story with the Violetpetals dragon is that she started out nice, then was hideous when I finished her. Horrified, I tried to fix it (rather than start all over) and added the strange petal purple ‘tipping’ to her large lateral scales. So her most striking trait was the result of a bad paint experiment!
I don’t know how that would translate onto an emperor. The tipping only really looks good on the larger scales, and the emperor- for such a large dragon- has mostly smaller scales. The emperor’s texture also means that any blending on the individual scales (with exception of his belly scales) is lost to antiquing, since he has a bit of what I call ‘pinecone syndrome’ where his scales stick out, rather than being smoothed in an arc like on the PYO dragon or, for example, a spectral dragon. The detail work like that would be best on something like a spectral or riser, if I ever paint one.
….dude, I know what you’re talking about with the small emperor scales, but I can still totally see how it would look in my mind…and I think it would be AWESOME. Just not quite the same as the petals PYO….
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienBlack, grey, and white would be awesome… especially with yellow eyes.
I would love to see a purplish and reddish dragon though. Gold detailing would look beautiful on that color combo. Eyes could be tricky. Probably yellow or red would work best… depending on the shades of colors used.
Either of them would be great, but I vote purple. 😀
Seems like purple is in favor right now! Guess I’ll go basecoat an emperor and prep him for being purple. I don’t know if I’ll have time to finish him before I move but I’ll get crackin’!
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I dunno what Melody and John will want me working on! I’m trying not to ‘compete’ with Melodys and Oly’s special pieces. Mine are a different style, but I’m trying not to step on toes. 🙂
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My art: featherdust.comPurple is great but can there be silver accents instead of gold??? We dont want him looking like a Lakers Dragon! 😀 Anyway I think that would be great…you could use some different shades of purple to accent him as well as perhaps a striking intense blue or green??? Green without making him look like Barney! LMAO 😀
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Yay, purple. And silver if you can, please. But I hope you hold off until after Christmas…I am soooooo broke. 😥
I’ve started on him and so far he’s very blue. These paint jobs always evolve on me in ways I cannot predict, so we’ll see where this one goes! I’m making him dark I think. I’m trying to keep away from reddish purples, because it’s very hard to keep red from turning pinkish, and I’d feel pretty bad making this emperor a girly color!! 😉
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