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An Eternal Battle

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"An Eternal Battle" 
20th of August, 2014
Digital Painting 
940 x 1200 Pixels
Using GIMP 2.8

A Futuristic Knight battles an ancient dragon that guards over a graveyard of past challengers and their defeats. It symbolizes a conflict, whether external or internal, that a person may face throughout their life, but never giving up and always coming back stronger.
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:star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Impact

Well well, I must say, this scene is astounding from first glance, loving the armor alot.


I like the fact that there is multiple layers of fire, it adds a Hell-ish effect,and I like how there is a fog over the graves, its a nice, erie effect, especially that of one before going into a battle.

I extremely admire your work on his armor, I love your colors and detail work, you put a good bit of work into it, its beautiful, and the colors themself represent his nobleness as a Knight, very well chosen, along with the energy beam sword, it ties in with the concept of this being futuristic.

the forms in the armor alone are beautiful, I love how it even has a collar, and then adding his kindom symbol to his flap, is a nice touch.

and your work on the dragon, with any type of animal with a long snout, it is quite difficult to get the perspective where you want it, but with the help of your detail-work, you made a very visually acceptable snout, along with the detail along his forehead, its very intense/rage feeling.

Now, your concept, I see where you went with it, but it conflicts with things in this drawing, since you did not specify on the dragons origin specifically, being he has been around for so long and has killed many knights, he's not going to exactly have a flawless victory everytime, so he is bound to have scars, so you do not know if he has been able to heal them up and remain a visually flawless and brutal beast.

next, I would have has him been atleast looking down at the attacker, 2 reasons: 1. the Knight is walking "toward" him, so the dragons attention is going to be on his next attacker, 2. there is fire along the side, so you would feel him looking down anyway.

you work on this is truly astounding, very nice and beautiful, but your concept conflicts with it, I would have betterly specified on the dragons place of origin unless unknown and have him looking straight at the attacker as adressed earlier, and one thing alot of artist may not realize, the character's (your dragon in this case) eyes are not symmetrical, if they are off just slightly, it will be noticed just out of nature.