Charcoal still-life assignment for an art class.

Cool, I dig the detail, with the cracks and such.

Nice, you got the form down well. I like those cracks also

Protip: softly rub your fingertip over the darkened surfaces to blend those stroke patterns and concentrations around edges into a smooth surface. A kneadable eraser is great to strengthen and sharpen the highlights.

ah, kneaded erasers.
good times, good times.

Noice. I like the part where it looks like an animal skull.

:v

also i made a red thing in a fit of redness
it's pretty red

I think it needs more red.

i doodled my DnD character (i used a base)
based on this

WOW MIGGGLES

what

Mackeral fell in love. Also, nice doodle.

criticize it brutally, artdudes
i want to improve my doodleskill

In my personal opinion, I think that if a dragon did exist, it'd probably be quite bulky with strong, fairly prominent joints.

But maybe I'm biased because I utterly adore the design of the Sabre Dragon from DraCo, which has some pretty big shoulders and large muscles in general :p



Alright then...she seems to be rather...blank. Like someone who just had a lobotomy and hasn't started drooling on themselves just yet. It might just be the lack of a nose (not a problem considering there isn't one on the base image) making it hard to determine which way she is looking and the general emotions of her face, but, I don't know, it feels like we're drifting into uncanny valley there. I think adding sclera (the white part) to the eyes would make it easier to determine the way she's looking and in turn help with the overall feel of her face.

Other than that, 10/10

the face was intentionally blank and undetailed, since i got the inspiration from one of my friends doing the same thing with a character of his where he did the same. i thought it fit better
i tried doing more detailed eyes but failed at it, and when it came to the suit, i just got lazy. i might eventually go back and actually give her shoes and a hood, and make she suit look nicer in general

Well, i think our ideas of dragons differ somewhat, then. :v
To be fair though, when i say "cat", i think more like leopard or lion, not house cat. With that said, my reasoning behind usually depicting them with a more slender build is that i believe they should LOOK like they're able to take flight, not just using magic (or a jetpack) as an excuse. While the sabre dragon is indeed a nice and very formidable design, it feels to me a bit like smacking canary wings on an elephant; it doesn't seem like it'd be able to generate enough lift to carry that huge frame with those wings, although i'd hate to be chased by it on the ground.

Also, birds. They're really not very voluminous below the feathers (the ones that ARE voluminous tend to be flightless), and their bones are quite porous in order to get them light enough for flight. Sabre dragon up there seems like it's a two-digit ton beast with quite thick and solid bones to withstand the forces generated by those muscles, which isn't very conductive to flight beyond being able to flap the wings really hard.

Although in your defense, the anatomy in my doodle IS pretty terrible. :v

@Miggles: Is it possible to see the base that you used? I'd like to see exactly which parts of it you made before getting all critical n ♥♥♥♥ yo.

edit: meanwhile here's a lizard



HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF HOW TEDIOUS IT IS TO DRAW THAT MANY SCALES