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The Flying Iceberg

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The two, the mand and his loyal llama, had wandered too far in the icy mountain range and lost the track of the mountain path that lead back to their village. They had no other choice but take the longer and more dangerous way to the village for they couldn't possibly turn back and take the risk of getting lost again. As they were crossing a smaller top of the sunlit mountains the top suddenly started to move. It rose far above the twosome risin its icy wings, revealing its scaly shape and galring at the two with its cold yet wise eyes. As if the man's and his llama's luck hand been bad enough for the day, they had encoutered the Flying Iceberg of the Icy Spine's Range - Anwarunga.
"Oh FUCK!"


Obviously, the title stands for the reaction, not really for the subject. How would you react in such situation? Possibly at least think "Oh fuck". :D In the sketch I had drawn a small speech bubble next to the man and it said "No voi paska!" which means "Oh shit!" in Finnish. It was funny, but I couldn't leave it there and so I erased it when I started colouring that part. :( But the theme says it anyway! Quite a pathetic way of filling that theme, my ideas never make sense. ;D

EDIT I edited the speechbubble in the picture! [link]

But finally, FINALLY I could finish this. This drawing has been under work from August and now I had enough time to finish the colouring. School had eaten so much time and so on that I really haven't had time to draw anything for myself. But this weekend I've had some time. I would've had more if I hadn't slept 'til 12am and after that went to buy a prom dress for me. x__x It's quite a pretty dress anyway, I like it. :) And don't worry, even though I desired to finish this one, I also worked a bit on some promised works, too. I should have more time to draw during this period because I don't have so many subjects. And for that the period just starts there won't be so much projects and homework for starters. ;)
And back to the picture. I simply love it. Anwarunga might be hard to separate from the picture because the colours are all the same through the whole picture. It wasn't my intention, I only wanted to try to use only few colours and no black at all. I even bought lovely blue ink specially for this picture. And it's so fine. :heart: But otherwise I really like this. I worked on this mostly in school because I had no time to do it at home - but in school I had! :XD: However, it's finished now and I'm really happy about the outcome! :love: Oh, and the scanner obviously didn't, screw you, rapist! DDD<
I hope you like it! And I also hope someone has enough courage/whatever to write a crit or something, I'd really like to receive one. :)

Takes part in the 100 themes challenge 079 Fuck

Mediums Derwent A4 paper | blue ink | Faber Castell Polychromos coloured pencils
Time taken A small eternity. No idea, really, worked in parts but a rough approximation would be ~10 hours

Picture is c =ShadeofShinon

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:star::star::star::star::star-half: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star: Impact

(I wouldn't normally critique this, because it'll be a swearword on my front page, but I thought what the heck - it's proper context usage and this pic is too damn awesome!)

First of all - loving the colours. The pink and purple blend into each other really well, and the fact that the dragon is the same colour is a good thing. Shows how well it's adapted to the environment <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b…" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> But anyway, this has a lovely cloud-like feel to it, and the man and the llama stand out well silhouetted against the white. Nice touch.

Anatomy's spot on, front legs could possibly be a liiitle longer but I think that's just because I have my critique eye in <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/w/w…" width="15" height="15" alt=";)" title=";) (Wink)" /> I especially like the detail in the wings, both front and back, and the shape of the mountains in the background. You might be better off with another colour in the sky, because it looks a bit flat as is, but the shft from light to dark from forground to background is great.

But I have only one word about the scaling: EPIC!!! <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/x/x…" width="15" height="15" alt=":XD:" title="XD" />