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Dragon and Deinotherium

Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM

Finally managed to draw some creatures again! Been way too character-focussed for a while. Dragon is pretty self-explanatory (not finished, but a fun doodle). Deinotherium is an ancient elephant-like animal that went extinct quite a long time ago.

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These came out great. Nice work as always.

December 19, 2010 |

Bryan Wynia

I love this style of art, the dragon is amazing and I LOVE the Deinotherium so much. You have not only created some beautifully subtle paintings but you have captured so much character in both pieces I love them. Thanks for sharing.

Pete

December 20, 2010 |

Pete Tindall

Amazing dragon :)

December 20, 2010 |

Mauro D'Elia Matheus

Beautiful job on that Deinotherium! I love your stoic dragon - his face is so unique. Gorgeous work! I'm glad you shared these! I'm so inspired!

December 20, 2010 |

Brynn Metheney

awesome!

December 20, 2010 |

Geoff Shupe

That dragon is gorgeous! Really like the Deinotherium too.

December 20, 2010 |

Shreya Shetty

The dragon is so good. Loving the way it darkens towards the bottom of the appendages.... The red top of the head is real nice.

December 22, 2010 |

conceptships

AWESOME! Beautiful markmaking in these, man, and nice color subtlety on the dragon. I really appreciate the type of trunk you gave to your Deinotherium as well, rather than giving it a normal elephant trunk. That shows me that you have a strong knowledge for the various theories on how ancient animals may have looked in life, and what's more, it shows me that you have a strong respect for the vast history and diversity of life on earth to try and get those things accurate. Too many creature designers don't seem to have that attitude, I'm afraid.

December 23, 2010 |

Cory Trego-Erdner (Moai)

Beautiful work

December 26, 2010 |

Mike Corriero

Awesome creatures. I just love the desiign of that elephant thing, just feels so natural and "right". great work!

January 1, 2011 |

Christof Grobelski

Thanks for the kind comments, guys :)

Moai: Cheers, I'm glad you think so! Paleobiology is a side-interest of mine that I do find a really useful pursuit if one's wanting to do convincing creature design. Plus it's just fascinating in and of itself. I'd recommend the blog scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology if you don't know about it already -- the fellow who writes it posts about animals (well, tetrapods - the most interesting animals, generally) and occasionally writes posts especially for artists about how to correctly depict some extinct animals. A great one about sauropods comes to mind specifically.

Cristof Grobelski: Thanks, but unfortunately I can't take a lot of credit for the design of the Deinotherium -- it is an actual extinct animal :)

January 4, 2011 |

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