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Blue-eyed gift dragon by ~tallydragon:icontallydragon:


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Submitted: May 29, 2006
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At last, I can post this! He is done!

This was a gift for my bestest buddy and roomie--a very, very belated Christmas/birthday gift. (I have learned an important lesson--dragons sculptures make wonderful and afordable gifts, but are totally impractical, because they take forever to make! with the insane amount of time that goes into these, no more freebies! but, this one time it was worth it). She was witness to my previous dragon being built, and to it sitting on my desk half-painted for many months, and kept telling me how much she loved it because he was so twisty and loopy. So, with that in mind, I set out to make a similar dragon that really played off the coils.

He's smaller than the previous dragon, but is probably still a good six or seven inches long total (more if he were straight). He's got the same basic style, so I guess he's another member of my oriental dragon species that I made up. I really love these guys. I like to make them look like they're in motion, like they're in the middle of playing or arching or twisting around.

The final version of this guy was painted in green and silver (with a pale yellow belly)--yup, you got it, Slytherin colors. My roomie's a huge Slytherin buff, so I had to do it. I will probably post a few other favorite shots of this, and then anything else will go into scraps if I feel like putting up more angles, just to avoid cluttering up my gallery.

This was my first dragon that I haven't kept, and dammit, I miss the charismatic little guy. I originally thought I couldn't recreate a dragon (hence, why I made this guy instead of trying to replicate the other), but I think in this case I may try. He was also the first of my dragons that my dad never got to see, so I want to make another of him so I can put him on the shelf with the others, sort of a sentimental thing (yes, there are others--all in half-built states of utter haphazardness).

Anyway, Sculpey clay, wire and foil armature, glass eyes, swarzovski crystal in the forehead.
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~wyreth:iconwyreth: May 29, 2006, 11:14:52 PM
How can I say lust loud enough?

it is absolutly exuisit, and I envy that you can create such.

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=valmist:iconvalmist: May 29, 2006, 11:16:06 PM
Supa' cute ^-^ the bule eye really stands out; great job.
=explodingmuffins:iconexplodingmuffins: May 29, 2006, 11:17:13 PM
that is so incredible cute...and detailed! :omg: that's REALLY good, awesome job on it :D

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*jshapeshifter:iconjshapeshifter: May 30, 2006, 6:16:03 AM
Very Nice!!! I like it a lot..........j
*sculpturalmyth:iconsculpturalmyth: May 31, 2006, 8:51:20 AM
wow!! the amount of detail must have killed you!! especially all the individual scales - absolutely beautiful work!! hope she loved it! :D
*sevenwillow:iconsevenwillow: May 31, 2006, 6:26:40 PM
very very nice! :)

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~tallydragon:icontallydragon: May 31, 2006, 10:55:21 PM
Thanks! ^_^ Yeah, I find myself actually liking it this way better than when I painted it, because the blue eyes show up so much more. one of these days I'm just going to have to do a white dragon, since I can't color coordinate for the life of me.
~tallydragon:icontallydragon: May 31, 2006, 10:56:02 PM
Thanks, I'm glad you like it! ^_^
~tallydragon:icontallydragon: May 31, 2006, 11:10:32 PM
Tell me about it! ^_^; I'd have been done ages ago if I hadn't gone crazy with the detail, but I'm like obsessive/compulsive about it. If I'm gonna do a few scales, then the *whole* thing has to be scaled (and then the hardest part is to not squish the previous scales). And yup, she was very happy with it. ^^ Thank you for your comment!
~tallydragon:icontallydragon: May 31, 2006, 11:23:21 PM
Thank you so much! ^_^ I hardly know what I'm doing really; I've spent the past seventeen years trying to teach myself to draw and have yet to get past mediocre, then one day I pick up a pack of sculpey and find out (to my chagrin) that I sculpt far better than I'll probably ever draw. You never know what will happen when you try new things!