#dragonempress

[amazonmandy]

✨✨𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒✨✨ I have a lot of thoughts on this design (I can break that down in another post), but I’m SO HAPPY to have it done and to have been able to get some nice photos on what was most likely the last “warm” day of the year!! Obviously I’ve shot quite a few of my makes in this location, which I was kind of hoping to avoid but OH WELL.

This took me almost a year from initial sketches to final product, but I would take long breaks, sometimes cutting and sewing scales (then break), hand painting each and every scale (then break), then attaching over 5,000 crystals.

This ended up weighing a bit more than I had thought it would, which was just wishful thinking on my part. One thing I’m torn on is the lower wings….I don’t know if I love them. I’m thinking of replacing them with “perkier” wings instead of wings that lay on the skirt. Opinions on that PLEASE!!

[greyeisacreativecolor]

Daenerys Targaryen, Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi of the great grass sea, breaker of shackles, mother of dragons, queen of Meereen, queen of the Andals, and the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the realm.

There is so much to say about Daenerys. She's the rightful heir to a kingdom she's never seen, she disrupts the lynch pin of her worlds slave trade, she's a widow, she's 17, she loves her dragons, she has to lock them in a pit.

full disclosure before I go into headcannons that inspired this, I have not finished A Dance with Dragons. I'm about halfway through, and have finished the show.

Martin has spent so much of the books, and in particular Daenerys' sections, building out the details of this massive world, much of which was ruled by the Valyrian empire. I don't think that Daenerys will abandon her seat in Meereen for Westeros, or her Khalasar. She is the Stalion who Will Mount the World. The central head of a new Valyrian empire.

I'm sure that after she stabilizes slavers bay, she'll make her way to Westeros, and she might have some conflict with her nephew Aegon, but if Rhaegar was right, and the dragon needs three heads, than Aegon, Jon, and Daenerys will have to come together to fight off the long night.

Once I've finished a Dance with Dragons, I'll probably come back with all three surviving Targaryens to talk about the Prince that was Promised.

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Forgot to post this but here is son boy, Tanithe on his more masculine days. 

[amazonmandy]

Dragon Empress: the start! I should probably post the sketch that I started this, obviously there were some changes along the way! I do kind of regret shrinking the lower wings so much, but I worried you wouldn’t see the skirt at all….I have to find some kind of happy middle ground with those. I also made the shoulder wings smaller and more transparent, I wanted to keep the focus on the gown more than the wings. Overall I think I was pretty faithful to the gown silhouette that I was hoping for, but I certainly underestimated how HEAVY all of this would be when worn. The crystals alone (over 5k) had to add some heft, then the scales add so much yardage. This was a year from start to final (admittedly taking breaks and working on other things), but it feels so good to have it complete! Sketch: @amazonmandy Photographer: @rob.somers.fit

[amazonmandy]

i THINK things are falling into place with this!! I believe I’ve finally ironed out a place to shoot this design I made, I hope to this week. I wish I had finished it earlier this summer so something outdoors was more of an option, but life is a ride. Now it’s too chilly and windy!

[amazonmandy]

𝐀 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 S𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠е 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐈 𝐧е𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 ✨🖤Dragon Empress🖤💀✨ After debating for a week after doing this shoot, I think I’ve decided to redo the wings that come out of my mid back. I think I can do it without too much issue, but when I first sketched them I wanted them to be an accent, not too eye catching. But at this point I think they’re too “limp’ so I am going to reshape them and redo where they sit. I’m frustrated bc I ordered some fabulous eye makeup for this but it didn’t arrive in time for the shoot, but for the next time I will be ready with it! 📷 @rob.somers.fit

[amazonmandy]

FINALLY DONE. I have been working on an original design for myself for so long I’ve lost track. I took breaks, worked on other things then would come back, there was so much hand painting and affixing over 3000 crystals, I had to take breaks. I finally put it all on my dress form yesterday to make sure everything fit correctly, and hope to get a shoot of it this month!

[starshinesoldier]

#barbiemythicalmuse #dragonempress #dragonempressbarbie #fanart #dragon #oc #originalcharacter #pyro #brushpen #pentelpocketbrush #noodlersinklexingtongray #lexingtongray doodled another Dragon Empress inspired Pyro. #myart #starshinesoldier https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Krv5IDcjO/?igshid=qdb96jk18y6o