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Blade Dragon

The original wasn't bad, but he needed some pizazz! Or rather, some spiky bits. He needed to look sharp!

I actually did start off with sampling some of the colors from the original as a base and added on to that. I had a ton of fun working on the pose and painting the water.

Why the heck did I make him a Fire and Air combo? What the heck, he should be Earth! What were you thinking baby me?!

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I wanted to get really cute with Raum. Initially I sketched a more realistic pig, but opted to go for a more stylized look to emphasize his cuteness.

Raum is also somewhat based on a Hereford pig, thought much more broken up coloration.

Original:

I mean... heck I did my best back then to draw a pig without just doing the stereotypical pink pig.

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Another quick redo simply because there is still some wolfaboo left in these old bones.

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At one point I redesigned the Larritance from my Spireus world (before it was even called Spireus).

This was in the “desaturated colors= more realistic” phase of the artistic journey XD

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Redid the other one.

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who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

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This one took quite a while, but I did have fun toying with effects.

The original was just... I don’t know...

Like a wolf/........................shark???

I really don’t know.

I chose to add some red into the face to emphasize the nose, and just to spice things up a bit. Unfortunately, a lot of the anatomical changes I made don’t show up well at this angle.

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Ceabar, one of the vicious creatures that inhabits the Fire Valley.

In redesigning him, I decided to make his markings resemble flames to further connect him to this “Fire Valley” place. I did end up toning down his giant saber teeth (where he got his name from.. yeah Ceabar is pronounced Saber, I remember being very proud of that).

Original: