Some art. Sort of.

[Cavatica]

Yeah, so I spent like, two hours coloring this thing in Photoshop and then decided I liked the original sketch better. So that's the version you're getting. Sorry.

Regardless, I DEFY you to say "no" to this face.

[C_ris]

says 'NO!' :evil:

Very nice! :ok: Do we get to see the coloured in version? pretty please?! :begsmilie:

[Cavatica]

No. The colored version is total crap.

[Monkeysrule]

Aww he's cute. Like an adorable watch-wher. :heartbeat

[Cavatica]

Man, screw watchwhers. That there's a weyrling. (It was going to be green, actually, but, as I have said, sometimes these things are miserable failures.)

But, uh, thanks. :>

[Jax]

Aaaww such an expressive face!! :O :D

[C_ris]

No. The colored version is total crap.
oh come on! :beggingsmilie:

:D

[queenrider melody]

Ah! How can I say no to that face? I love it! She's so adorable!

[Monkeysrule]

:heartbeat Cutie!

[Wolfegar]

No. The colored version is total crap.
Hey! We'll be the judge of crap around here! Now, let's see this colorized picture of yours.

(Look, it may not be as bad as you think....)

[Monkeysrule]

Even if it is crappy, what harm will come? We never criticize artwork. Now about the feedback forum, that's another story.

[maiken]

Very good! I like it! Cute!

[Levallia]

That is SO cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :heartbeat :D :D :D

[Cavatica]

So, after some serious consideration on the matter of whether or not to show the colored version...


...the answer is still "no."

Thanks for playing.

[queenrider melody]

So, after some serious consideration on the matter of whether or not to show the colored version...


...the answer is still "no."

Thanks for playing.
Oh, please, please, please!!!! It can't be that bad, can it? Oh, pllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssse!?!?! I'm sure that it will be beautiful!

[Cavatica]

No.

Moving along:

While we're waiting for me to get off my proverbial arse and finish the other drawing I'm working on, here's the black-and-white of "Rescue (http://www.dragonchoice.com/dc/dc10.htm)," which was one of several illustrations I did for GirlSlick's fantastic (we English majors like to call that "understatement") fanfic, Dragonchoice (http://www.dragonchoice.com). Frankly, I like the black and white infinitely better-- it LOOKS like I did it in pencil, but I actually did it in MetaCreations' Painter Classic (though I've mostly moved away from that and am working almost completely in Photoshop these days). Computers are NEAT. And, no, I don't use a mouse; I use a Wacom Intuous tablet, which is an absolute necessity for anyone doing any sort of extensive computer artistry.

Right. Less talk, more drawing.

Darshanth (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/darshanthbw.jpg) (large-ish; may take a moment on slower connections -- it's also likely to need magnification).

[Faren]

Excellent dragon pics, Cavatica. :ok:

That reminds me that I need to read Dragonchoice. I read the sequel first, and it's the best fan fic I have ever read. :ok:

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

It's great to meet a person who did part of the work of the Dragonchoice art! Very good, I love it :good:

[Cavatica]

Thanks!

So actually, it occurs to me that, since nudity is a-okay, I have a few more links I can post. I took a life drawing course at the Torpedo Factory (http://www.torpedofactory.org/) in Old Town, Alexandria when I was about 16 (the classes are run by The Art League (http://www.theartleague.org/)), and previous and subsequent classes (long-pose related and non-) both at school and out mean that I've gotten pretty interested in rendering human beings.

The following links go to drawings containing at LEAST partial nudity.

For the moment, all of my pictures and art pieces are in web directories, and not actually organized on any sort of web PAGE. I keep meaning to fix that, but lack of time and lack aren't real conducive to that sort of thing. So I'll just post these links individually:

Nude Sketch/Gesture Study (http://www.brownridercat.com/art/lifedrawings/new%20work/nudesketch1.jpg): This was from a photograph on a website I really shouldn't link to because the content isn't exactly appropriate for THIS website. But, regardless, I really like this drawing. I did it in Photoshop, I think.

The next four are all SuicideGirls (also another link I won't provide, but you can Google it if you're really interested):

Malloreigh (http://www.brownridercat.com/art/lifedrawings/new%20work/malloreigh.jpg) -- Conte crayon and charcoal on newsprint.

Q (http://www.brownridercat.com/art/lifedrawings/new%20work/Q.jpg) -- Conte crayon and charcoal on newsprint (this and the above drawing were both really fun to do, since I could just go nuts with the charcoal).

Kitty (http://www.brownridercat.com/art/lifedrawings/new%20work/kitty29.jpg) -- Pencil on printer paper, cleaned up in Photoshop.

Santianna (http://www.brownridercat.com/art/lifedrawings/new%20work/santianna.jpg) -- Pencil on printer paper, cleaned up in Photoshop.

If anyone happens to be interested in my OLD work -- and I do mean OLD; like, five years ago, age 16 old -- most of that stuff is in this directory (http://www.brownridercat.com/art/lifedrawings/old%20work/). Most of it's from the Torpedo Factory, but some of it is from the Visual and Performing Arts program at Stuart Hall (Anne McCaffrey's one-time high school, actually).

Enough chatter for now.

[Faren]

Those are fantastic! You know what really did it for me? The tattoos made the drawings seem very real. :good: Also, in your directory from school, is one of those a self-portrait?

[Cavatica]

Those are fantastic! You know what really did it for me? The tattoos made the drawings seem very real. :good: Also, in your directory from school, is one of those a self-portrait? *laughs* More or less. I was lying down with my drawing pad propped on my knees and a mirror in my left hand, holding the drawing pad with my right arm while I tried to sketch AND look in the mirror. ;> I don't THINK I have any other self-portraits as such, but I've got a bunch of character drawings that look a helluva lot like me.

The closet thing I've got to a recent self-portrait is me as a cartoon (http://www.webbestre.net/art/other/charcartoon_bw.jpg) (which is coupled with my best friend as a cartoon (http://www.webbestre.net/art/other/sarahcartoon_bw.jpg)).

[Faren]

And since you reminded me, I've been devouring Dragonchoice . I see your hand in many of the illustrations...and is that another self-portrait in chapter six??

You're very talented. :bow:

[Cavatica]

I'm responsible for the illustrations in chapters four, six, and ten, yeah. (The artists and their respective chapter illustrations are listed here (http://www.dragonchoice.com/artists.htm).) Chapter six is SORT of a self-portrait; I took a picture of myself to get the pose right, and I figured that since Sarenya is described more or less like me, it was really just a matter of strengthening her nose, emphasizing her cheekbones, darkening her skin, etc. Valonna, yes, was modeled on Sarah Michelle Gellar, not out of a lack of my own creativity but in response to direct input from the author. ;>

[C_ris]

I love those dragon pics! :bow:

[Jax]

I love your dragon pics Cav :D :ok: I also really like the first nude pic, and the Santianna one - the details in the hands and feet are amazing! :cool:
I also notice that Miriam Dose has done a few of the artworks, and she is also a KTer :D Brightwing! (oh that reminds me, I hope the typo in her name got fixed... )

[Cavatica]

Yeah, Santianna is one of my favorites. :>

Ssthisto was also on the old KT -- dunno if she's on this one -- and there may be one or two others there I don't know about.

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

I love all your work, but the cartoon of yourself is my favorite :D You have a talent for charicatures :ok:

[Cavatica]

I'm pretty sure this next one is no good at all (I think it's far, FAR too busy), but maybe you all can find some merit in it.

I was (and still am) going to do a really dynamic, violent depiction of the Wirenth-Prideth battle, just to spice things up a little. As I re-read the scene to make sure I placed everyone right, I came to this at the end:

"Canth was on the ledge, his eyes glowing dully. He was swaying with exhaustion. F'nor encircled the bowed head with his arms, their mutual grief so intense they seemed afire with pain.

It was too late. Prideth had risen. Too close to Wirenth. Not even the queens could help. I tried, F'nor, I tried. She--she fell so fast. And she turned on me. Then went between. I could not find her between.

They stood together, immobile." --Dragonquest, DelRey paperback, p. 226.

I thought it was a really poignant image, so I got a little distracted.

I realized later, as I rechecked the quote, that I put Canth and F'nor on the ground when they're supposed to be on their weyrledge. I could have fixed it, but... enh.

One more reason it's not all that great. (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/canth_fnor.jpg)

But there it is anyway.

[Cavatica]

To offset the profound suckiness of the one I just posted, here's something a little more entertaining. I saw a picture of a dog sprawled out on a couch and thought the expression on its face was so funny it needed to be drawn.

Only I turned the dog into a dragon.

I thought it was funny, anyway. (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/limp.jpg)

Wow. 6/26/04. Can't believe I did this one almost a year ago.

I also made a version with "Sexy Bitch (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/limp2.jpg)" on it that I thought might be cute on a t-shirt someday.

[Monkeysrule]

The F'nor and Canth pic doesn't suck at all. In fact, the translucency of those wings is very well done. Other than the caption at the bottom, it might actually fit elsewhere if you think it doesn't fit in that scene.

The green dragon is cute! It does have that doggish look that makes you want to rub its belly :D. My cat does that.

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

The F'nor and Canth picture is a truly wonderful one. It works better as a silouette than it would have otherwise, and the little bit of transparent wing showing is an excellant effect. It embodies the emotion written in that scene, and you picked up on the phrase "they seemed afire with pain" perfectly with the blazing orange cloudy background. You can just feel the pain in that picture, and the idea that they are both suppoting each other and holding one another together. Bravo :applause:

[Ian]

It could just as easily be on the weyr ledge, there isn't anything else in the scene that says "this is the ground". If the POV is from within the weyr...

[Cavatica]

It could just as easily be on the weyr ledge, there isn't anything else in the scene that says "this is the ground". If the POV is from within the weyr... True, true. I just tend to think of ground weyrs as being reserved almost exclusively for queens.

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

True, true. I just tend to think of ground weyrs as being reserved almost exclusively for queens.
So do I, but higher ones still have ledges don't they? If the POV was from within the mouth of the weyr as Ian said, your picture could easily be in any one of them. The only problem is not seeing the opposide side of the Weyr, but in the mood and style of this picture, that detail isn't necessary.

[C_ris]

I also made a version with "Sexy Bitch (http://www.brownridercat.com/art/dragons/limp2.jpg)" on it that I thought might be cute on a t-shirt someday.
the filename coupled with the words 'Sexy Bitch' just made me laugh! :laugh:

[Cavatica]

So do I, but higher ones still have ledges don't they? If the POV was from within the mouth of the weyr as Ian said, your picture could easily be in any one of them. The only problem is not seeing the opposide side of the Weyr, but in the mood and style of this picture, that detail isn't necessary. I'm not sure the ledge would be wide enough to have the same curvature I gave the ground. And, yeah, the other side of the Weyr would be a pretty necessary addition; the only way I could get the same silhouette effect without the background also being totally dark (as the Weyr would obscure the sun long before it actually set) would be if F'nor and Canth had a weyr near the top of the caldera, and even then I'm not sure the effect would be the same. Come to think of it, the way this picture is they're probably standing in the middle of an open field somewhere, and not in the Weyr at all.

Ugh. Can't believe I didn't think of that.

Well. Artistic license. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;>

[Cavatica]

the filename coupled with the words 'Sexy Bitch' just made me laugh! :laugh: Oh my god, I didn't even think about that.

I lose at life. :P

[Ian]

Actually, about ground weyrs, this from Dragonquest (page 22/23 in the Corgi paperback)

"With a parting scratch, F'nor told Canth that he'd get some food, and started down the stone ramp from his ledge. One of the privileges of being Wing-second was choice of quarters. Since Ramoth as senior queen would permit only two junior queens in Benden Weyr, there were two unoccupied Weyrwoman quarters. F'nor had appropriated one."

Of course you'd still see the other side of the Weyr... ;)

[C_ris]

Oh my god, I didn't even think about that.

I lose at life. :P
It's just my twisted mind! :evil:

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

WOW! All of your drawings are amazing!

:worship:

[Shalyn]

Oh, now I want a T-shirt with the Sexy Bitch on it!!!

Sad thing is, I could do it. My mother, the sewing goddess, finally after many years of wanting one bought a Berlina - one of those computerized embroidery machines.

T'would be so cool. But, it's Cat's drawing. Must Hold Back....

Oh, and that first one is soooo cute. I love her.

[Cavatica]

Wow, I can't believe it's been a year and a half since I used this thing.

Speaking of Shalyn and her embroidery, I did a line drawing of a dragon for her last night, which I believe she'll be embroidering onto a denim book cover.

I did the initial drawing in ballpoint and gel pen, then scanned it in and ran it through the Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator to create a nice, clean vector drawing. I haven't had a lot of luck with Live Trace so far, but this turned out really well, and I thought y'all would be interested in seeing the before and after.

Before (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/shalyn_dragon_before.jpg).
After (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/shalyn_dragon.jpg)!

It was a lot of fun; I think I'm going to do a whole bunch of these. Shalyn's already asked me to do a mermaid for her, and I already did another drawing I'll scan in when I get home from work this evening.

[Jax]

:cool: That's really striking!

[Kath]

Oh, that's very nice! I imagine it'd look pretty effective embroidered as well.

[Cavatica]

The closet thing I've got to a recent self-portrait is me as a cartoon (http://www.webbestre.net/art/other/charcartoon_bw.jpg) (which is coupled with my best friend as a cartoon (http://www.webbestre.net/art/other/sarahcartoon_bw.jpg)).And I've yet to clean this up, but for reasons that I imagine will quickly become clear to you all, I thought it would be appropriate to post this one I did about a month ago of my beau as a cartoon (http://www.webbestre.net/art/other/loren_cartoon.jpg). ;> I did have a colored version of this, but honestly, it looks a lot better as a black and white.

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

:laugh: I love it... a total look of "Would you STOP that already!" on his face.

:good: :applause:

[Apocalypse]

The line drawing you did would make an awesome tattoo as well.... very impressive.

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

Wow, I can't believe it's been a year and a half since I used this thing.

Speaking of Shalyn and her embroidery, I did a line drawing of a dragon for her last night, which I believe she'll be embroidering onto a denim book cover.

I did the initial drawing in ballpoint and gel pen, then scanned it in and ran it through the Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator to create a nice, clean vector drawing. I haven't had a lot of luck with Live Trace so far, but this turned out really well, and I thought y'all would be interested in seeing the before and after.

Before (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/shalyn_dragon_before.jpg).
After (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/shalyn_dragon.jpg)!

It was a lot of fun; I think I'm going to do a whole bunch of these. Shalyn's already asked me to do a mermaid for her, and I already did another drawing I'll scan in when I get home from work this evening.
:wow: :faint: I want one!

And I've yet to clean this up, but for reasons that I imagine will quickly become clear to you all, I thought it would be appropriate to post this one I did about a month ago of my beau as a cartoon (http://www.webbestre.net/art/other/loren_cartoon.jpg). ;> I did have a colored version of this, but honestly, it looks a lot better as a black and white.
Priceless!

[Cavatica]

Yesterday, I did this thing (http://webbestre.net/art/dragons/iramyth_bw.jpg) of my current MUSH character's dragonet, Iramyth. It's not colored yet, but I think I'll do it with Prismacolors instead of digitally like I usually do. (I've only used them once before, years ago, but I think the results were pretty good (http://webbestre.net/art/dragons/nhiamethcol.jpg). (The original of that last one can be found here (http://webbestre.net/art/dragons/nhiamethbw.jpg), if anyone really cares.)) It's actually a little bit more after Bronzie's style, I think-- the musculature around the wings in particular-- but one tends to osmose things from artwork worth osmosing. Her headknobs are also more vertical and antennae-like than I typically draw them, on some reliable advice I got, and I lengthened her torso as per all our bickering in the Dragon Sizes thread (you can't tell so much because she's sitting, but her hind legs are much farther back than I typically put them; in fact, I think I moved them TOO far). Her on-game description is thus: Sizable as greens go, exceeding the length of the smaller blue hatchlings, this dragonet is fashioned mainly of angular, jagged edges that fit together almost "incorrectly," the look of too little hide stretched across too much body - not quite gangly, but certainly thinner than most of her clutchmates. A steely, seafoamy greenish-gray, her color is muted and uncertain, shifting as the light hits here here or there: The draconic equivalent of hazel. A smattering of speckles, bluer and a shade darker than the rest of her, runs the length of her neck, invisible from more than a few feet away.
(--it's not great at the moment.) So I'll update again when she's colored.

[Shalyn]

Wow, I can't believe it's been a year and a half since I used this thing.

Speaking of Shalyn and her embroidery, I did a line drawing of a dragon for her last night, which I believe she'll be embroidering onto a denim book cover.

I did the initial drawing in ballpoint and gel pen, then scanned it in and ran it through the Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator to create a nice, clean vector drawing. I haven't had a lot of luck with Live Trace so far, but this turned out really well, and I thought y'all would be interested in seeing the before and after.

Before (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/shalyn_dragon_before.jpg).
After (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/shalyn_dragon.jpg)!

It was a lot of fun; I think I'm going to do a whole bunch of these. Shalyn's already asked me to do a mermaid for her, and I already did another drawing I'll scan in when I get home from work this evening.

And then I asked her for another picture...but she probably already has something I can use already drawn. Just a single version of her dragons posing in her size-comparison drawing.

I promise that once I get that dragon embroidered on a bookcover, I'll post it. I'll probably send one to Cav, as a thank you.

But at the moment I'm obsessed with beads. I cleaned out a little corner of my mother's attic and ended up with millions of glass seed beads from when my grandma used to do beaded flowers.

I wanna do beaded dragons. I've already started a white one and a bronze one. And all I really need is something for my eye to follow as I'm stringing them.

At the moment, I feel like one of these kids with ADD. I keep running from one project to another - but they will all be finished in due time.

Hmm. I may even use the beads to embroider Cat's dragon on the bookcover.

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

Yesterday, I did this thing (http://webbestre.net/art/dragons/iramyth_bw.jpg) of my current MUSH character's dragonet, Iramyth.

Excellent, I love that gangly look that you don't often see in Pern artwork. I especially love her neck and fingers. Something about that left hand just looks awesome :laugh: Something about the bottom part of the chest looks a bit off though... it looks a bit like it's sagging between the arms. Maybe if the lines before and after the arm were adjusted it would make it look a bit tighter.

Looking forward to seeing it colored!

[Cavatica]

Some of y'all probably already saw this in the "Dragons and shiny stuff" thread in DRoP, but yesterday I sketched up what I thought dragon bling (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/dragon_jewels.jpg) might look like, were such a thing feasible on Pern. That there's supposed to be a weyrling.

I realized that I drew the top of her head quite a bit higher than it ought to be -- I'll revise it to be the curvature of her neck, and delineate the round part of her skull more clearly between the headknobs -- and I know some of the perspective and proportions are off. But I thought she was one of better equine-like dragons; I used this image of a white mule foal (http://www.usipp.com/gatefarm/images/NurseryImages/White_Mule_Foal.jpg) as my primary reference.

One day, I might have the scratch to replace my Wacom tablet pen (how I miss you!) and color her properly.

[Cavatica]

Re: the above post:

My replacement tablet stylus arrived some weeks ago. Thus, my little bejeweled green is colored as promised (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/dragon_jewels_color.jpg)! It's not really completed per se, but I sort of like the sketchy look it has about it.

[Samarra]

I love the different shades of blue you used for the eyes.

[Cavatica]

Some of you may have already seen this in the Lounge, but I thought it deserved to be posted here, where it belongs.

As I noted elsewhere: this is NOT finished. I'd say it's about 92% done. But this is how I gave it to Naomi Novik to sign at Balticon 41 this past weekend:

Temeraire (http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/temeraire.jpg).

One day, I'll finish it. No, really. I swear.

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

WOW! Glad you got to hand it to her in person! What did she say?

[Cavatica]

WOW! Glad you got to hand it to her in person! What did she say?She was complimentary, as were her breakfast mates, despite the terrible quality of the printout I gave her and the hasty viewing of the original on my laptop. She didn't gush or anything, but suggested I post the link in a comment in her LJ, and that I also submit it to the Temeraire Wiki, which she checks from time to time. Point is, she saw it and signed it and that was all I wanted!

[K'rak]

And then I asked her for another picture...but she probably already has something I can use already drawn. Just a single version of her dragons posing in her size-comparison drawing.

I promise that once I get that dragon embroidered on a bookcover, I'll post it. I'll probably send one to Cav, as a thank you.

But at the moment I'm obsessed with beads. I cleaned out a little corner of my mother's attic and ended up with millions of glass seed beads from when my grandma used to do beaded flowers.

I wanna do beaded dragons. I've already started a white one and a bronze one. And all I really need is something for my eye to follow as I'm stringing them.

At the moment, I feel like one of these kids with ADD. I keep running from one project to another - but they will all be finished in due time.

Hmm. I may even use the beads to embroider Cat's dragon on the bookcover.


Good idea!! Should turn out nicely.

[Cavatica]

My artworks, let me show you them.

These are all scanned in from my crappy little spiral sketchbook, and haven't been cleaned up in Photoshop or anything -- so you can see all my cool cool eraser marks and smudges and what not.

I should note that all the animal studies came directly from the GREATEST MOST AWESOME CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER, which is a giant-ass hardcover spiral notebook my boyfriend put together with dozens and dozens -- possibly hundreds -- of color photos of animals. Categorized. Complete with Works Cited list. Yeah.

This is all in mechanical pencil, so pardon the, you know, lack of finesse.

Horse skull study. (http://webbestre.net/art/other/horse_skull_study.jpg) Fun! It's like class at the Torpedo Factory all over again.

Horse studies. (http://webbestre.net/art/other/horse_studies.jpg) And I would note that I really don't give much of a crap about horses, but they're useful as Pernese dragon artwork goes. I wasn't one of those pre-teen girls who was obsessed with drawing horses, so I figured I needed the practice!

Bats! (http://webbestre.net/art/other/bat_studies.jpg) I want one!

Eye studies. (http://webbestre.net/art/other/eye_studies.jpg) Two thumbs up and a cookie if you can guess which eye goes with which animal.

Sketch dragon. And a half. (http://webbestre.net/art/dragons/sketch_dragons.jpg)

Wyrbaby and mermaid -- NUDITY WARNING. (http://webbestre.net/art/other/wyrbaby_and_mermaid.jpg) Tasteful nudity, of course. The "wyrbaby" is this weird-ass idea I had floating around in my head while reading Perdido Street Station. Wyrmen are these ugly, wacky, crass little half-man-half-bat dudes who fly around New Crobuzon crapping on people's heads and running errands for the right price. I thought, you know, maybe wyrbabies might be cute. So I drew a cute one -- drooling and pissing. Aww. It's practicing for adulthood!

That's all for now, I think.

[Samarra]

Let me start by saying, that hippie boy you have hanging around rocks.

I love the horse that you drew face-on.

Wyrbaby looks crazy! I need to read PSS.

[Cavatica]

Straight out of the sketchbook: RAWR!! (http://webbestre.net/art/dragons/sketch_dragons_roar.jpg)

http://webbestre.net/art/dragons/sketch_dragons_roar_detail.jpg

I realize there are two totally different facial configurations for these guys. I'm still deciding what one of "my" Pern dragons look like -- especially now that I have my wonderful book of animal photos to work from! You can probably tell the dragon at the top of the linked photo was based more on a dog; the one at the bottom, the one posted here, got its chops from a gorilla (with the canines moved waaay back).

Hard to fit all that dentistry in a horse-shaped maw, that's for damn sure.

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

holy crap :eek2: I like how you find interesting aspects of Pern dragons to draw which we don't see very often. I can't recall a single picture of an angry dragon before, well done!

I had a sketch of a dragon skull once, mainly a horse skull with cat-like molars and sharp forward teeth. But they were more like theropod teeth, no canines like yours.

*edit* Ah, here we go http://www.imsmultimedia.co.uk/Images/Bronze/DragonSkull.jpg

[Cavatica]

Thanks! I'm working on coloring him; I did about 80% of it last night, and will try to finish it up this evening.

I like your skull, and it makes sense to me -- I go with the pointy canines because every carnivore that I can think of has them, and since dragons are strictly carnivores, I can only assume they'd have some big friggin' teeth. All that ripping through sinew and pulverizing bone and what not. Lots of tearing. Killing cows is messy business. But I give them molars, too, for the crushing, and because Anne makes such a point about dragonets learning to chew.

Plus, fangs are more interesting artistically. ;>

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

It seems like most carnivores are mammals and all of those do have canines. Any that aren't mammals are reptiles, such as a crocodile or komodo dragon, and none of those have them (unless you count snake fangs). Hunting theropod dinosaurs seemed to do a pretty fine job of ripping, tearing, and crushing bone, especially good ol' Rexie, and he didn't have any canines.

Dragons are neither mammals nor reptiles, but a class of their own. So whether or not they have the canine-like fangs is up to personal preference, I suppose.

[Cavatica]

It seems like most carnivores are mammals and all of those do have canines. Any that aren't mammals are reptiles, such as a crocodile or komodo dragon, and none of those have them (unless you count snake fangs). Hunting theropod dinosaurs seemed to do a pretty fine job of ripping, tearing, and crushing bone, especially good ol' Rexie, and he didn't have any canines.

Dragons are neither mammals nor reptiles, but a class of their own. So whether or not they have the canine-like fangs is up to personal preference, I suppose.
Yeah. I assume they're warm-blooded, so on a sliding scale of "Mammal" or "Reptile," I'd put them closer to "Mammal." I think I conceptualize that almost reflexively -- I identify with them more that way. Thus, the canines. Chomp!

[edith]

There's the whole blooding thing too.

[Cavatica]

So here's this tattoo concept I did for GR'ass, currently posted in the lounge:

http://www.webbestre.net/art/dragons/dragon_tattoo_small.jpg


My feeble grasp of Adobe Illustrator, let me show you it.

[Wolfegar]

Ooo! I like that! Trying to follow the twisty tail around the loops makes my eyes cross though. I think I'll do it again. :whee: *Twisty knotty things. I can't resist following them.*

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

Holy freakin' sweetness... :wow:

:faint:

[Wolfegar]

Holy freakin' sweetness... :wow:

:faint:
I think that means he likes it. Hey, Bronzie!

[Weyrwoman Kalina]

That is freakin' awesome, Cav!!

[Bronze-Dragonrider]

I think that means he likes it. Hey, Bronzie!

Understatement!!! :laugh: