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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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:iconmelodysca:
Fuckin....awsome!
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:iconartemis-oceanwolf:
I love your details! Where did you get the eyes? And were you able to fire/bake the sculpture with no damage or alteration to the eye?
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:icontallydragon:
Thank you! I ordered them online from Van Dykes Taxidermy. They're glass eyes, which can be baked safely at the temperatures needed to cure polymer clays like sculpey. Plastic eyes won't survive an oven, only glass!
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~Dangerouslyillogical Jun 3, 2013  New member Student Filmographer
can I commision a dragon from you just like this with a lil color? I adore this so much and it would make an amazing addition to my dragon collection.
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:iconsasuxnarucute:
Mood: Miserable ~Sasuxnarucute Mar 27, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I wish I could have this adorable little thing
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:iconthesimmsonian:
~thesimmsonian Mar 2, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
This is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen.
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:iconberabbit:
All your dragon s are awesome :D
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:iconpsychomarre:
He is so cute!
Really beautiful ^^
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:iconromanticdragon:
^^ Love it!! I want to buy it~~XDDD
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