Pulled from my fellow dragon loving friends *dracona-fin and ~lunatteo, I decided to participate. The first ten people who note this journal will receive sketches. I'm not talking simple pencil or line art since I very rarely draw anything without color. Expect my pieces to most likely be colored with backgrounds. This does make the wait time on your piece longer but for the quality I'm willing to put into it, I hope you all think it's worth it.

What I will draw:
I specialize in Pern style dragons but that doesn't mean I limit myself to them. I'm perfectly willing to try any sort of dragon. Though I draw them very less often I can do horses and would love to get a chance to practice more on wolves and other animals or fantasy creatures. I also draw tattoos, many of which are indeed inked on my own body and those of my friends. Unfortunately I CAN NOT draw people.

Let me know what you would like and I'm sure we can work out something.

1. *ChaosUnlocked Number 6 of my Genius plan, Sparroweth the Captain Jack dragon
2. ~Carise's Neshath
3. ~lunatteo's Xaventh
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My Genius Plan!
As many of my great ideas come, I got this one waking up in the middle of the night with a bit of a revelation. The dragons impressed from the Pern RPG I actively play in are many times based on one specific real life character be it from books, TV, video games or history.

My grand plan is to take each of the dragons I have to start with and place them in the background they were based off of. This would mean my Master Chief brown would indeed be somewhere in a Halo scene.

It's going to be a huge project and I may want to collaborate with other artists on some of it once I get going but here's the list I have of current Arolos impressed dragons with real life character bases.

1 - Longath bronze based on Romulus (aka Quirinus), son of Mars the god of war and the first king of Rome but more commonly known as one of the twin boys raised by a wolf.

2 - Kawaleth green dragon based on Karen Walker from the TV show Will and Grace. The ultra blunt and very self centered side kick to Grace.

3 - Masiefth brown dragon based on the Master Chief from the Halo games. A hero in full body armor and man of few words.

4 - Riddyth blue dragon based on none other then Richard B Riddick from Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black. The Furyian fugitive who kills any who crosses his path. If anyone knows me well they know my absolute love of this character and the movies. I'm so obsessed my German Shepards are named Riddick & Kiira

5 - Emryth brown dragon based on Merlin himself, the great intelligent magician of King Arthur's time.

To-do List:

Not Started
Ideas
Sketching
Coloring
Details
Finished

Character Reference Sheets

Emryth, J'ssin's white brown dragon

*dracona-fin - Art Trade of her copper dragon

Ablinketh and Blanth overlooking the Weyr

*ChaosUnlocked - Riddyth and Sparroweth stealing Rum

~WolfBane88's Coloring Contest for Vincent

*ChaosUnlocked - Silk and Pirat tribute

*ChaosUnlocked - Flaming Tree Tattoo

A Wrinkle In Time for Lauren


Arolos History: Thread Tornado


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The rules:
1- Be one of the first 14 people commenting on this journal entry, and I will add you to the Promotional List
2- For each of those 14 people I will put their avatar and three deviations I like from their gallery on the list
3- If I feature you, you'll have to do the same in your journal, putting me on the first place, completing this way the list with 15 people.

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As many of you know my fiance and I live at Fort Hood. The whole army base is locked down. The barracades are up. No one is allowed in or out. The phones are jammed for the most part and calls are nearly impossible. The whole ordeal happened across the street from where my fiance and roommate work. Yeager is home safe with me and can't get back on post with the rest of the unit. My fiance Ski is stuck on base near by three of the shooting locations. Last I heard at 2pm while this was all going on that he was safe and trying to account for the where abouts of all his soldiers. 12 are dead and 31 wounded was the last update and we dont' know if any are our friends or from Ski's unit yet. We have reports of at least 5 locations on the base where people were shot. All the local schools are locked down too. People living in on-base housing have been instructed to stay inside and close their ventilation systems. Basically this is being treated as an unofficial terrorism attack.

One shooter has been identified as an Army Major who worked as a psychiatrist in the military hospital and a recently converted Muslim. He was killed in the gunfire. There are other shooters unidentified as of now. The buildings attacked were centers used for training soldiers preparing for deployment and where they received help after returning from deployments. We are currently waiting for more news from the general and the names of the killed and wounded released.

Update: As I was writing this I just spoke with Ski. He is fine but his phone is dying because he's letting his soldier use it to call their families. Luckily he has one fo the few so far that haven't been getting cut off and disconnected. Everyone is locked down in basements and inside the buildings.

I will post updates as we find out here.

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As was suggested by `FantasyStock and $Moonbeam13 I decided to join in on self-promotion month. Granted October is almost over btu there's still time to get yourself out there for the dA world to see!

1. Who are you?
I'm an east coast girl currently living in central Texas with my fiance and our absolute zoo of animals. He's in the army and I'm well used to living the military life as difficult as it may get at times. I work as a Veterinary Technician at a local animal hospital and I love it! Animals are my life and generally I like them a lot more then people. I'm also a huge tomboy. If there's a sport to play or adventure to go on you can sure count me in. I don't mind getting my hands dirty.

2. What is your artistic passion?
I love drawing dragons. They seem to be my calling but I'm also a huge fan of beauty in nature. Texas is awesome for stunning skies and striking sunsets. Tattoos I think are the ultimate dedication to permanent art. As you can tell I have passion in a lot of different areas but dragons tend to be my main focus.

3. Why did you get into art?
My mom is a very skilled artist and always encouraged me to explore my own talents at a young age. The feeling of accomplishment I get from completing a piece is amazing. The drive to constantly improve and possibly get some recognition for my work beyond friends and family keeps me going besides my own personal satisfaction. it doesn't matter the medium, I'll give anything a try and love the varying ways to produce a piece of art.

4. How do you inspire yourself?
Anne McCaffery's books area big part of my inspiration. The world of Pern has endless possibilities. I also get inspired by the world around me. My pets make awesome models for new poses and there's never a shortage of suggestions coming from my friends. I like looking at he work of people I admire. It drives me to keep drawing and work harder to pick up the techniques I'm lacking in. Music is great for any artist's block. I just blast some hardcore or punk and it gives me the motivation to get to work and really focus on a task.

5. Where would you like to see yourself in 5 years?
In five years my fiance and I will be married (well much sooner then that) and hopefully we'll have a house of our own. I'll still be working at a veterinary clinic while I go to school part time to finally become a Veterinarian. I'm wishing by that point that I can keep doing my art as I am now and possibly making some money from it.


I don't have a portfolio yet but here's some thumbs of my better work.


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