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MOTC: Dances-Within-the-Earthby ~Droemar

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Fantasy

Dances-Within-The Earth, the Dragon King of earthquakes and stone, piled thousands of rocks on top of each other, up and up until the his creations stretched into the sky and had feet rooted in the earth. That is how he fashioned the sauris, the towering long-necks who make the earth tremble.

Dances-Within-The-Earth is the Dragon King of the sauris, titanosaurids and the like. I tried to incorporate some diplodocus, but I'm a sucker for macronarians, and thought some attributes of spiny types like Amargasaurus and Agustinia were too visually interesting to resist.

The sauris are represented on the soundtrack by the song Madoka Mieru by The Cornerstone Cues [link] I felt it captured both the deeply honorable sense of duty the sauris feel they have to life and death, and also the majesty of what it must have been like to see sauropods moving in a herd. One of the main characters of the story is a young sauris, who doesn't quite understand what it means to be part of a herd, and I felt the bookends of the song represent her "lone voice", as her mother, father, and herd try to teach her. Sometimes music gives you the texture of culture when you need it most.

Don't exactly like the color on this one, but the values are decent. Brown is a tricky thing to not make look too yellow or too orange. But I got plenty of practice in painting rock texture.

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~MetalTel Sep 24, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

_{This is amazing.}

~MachiasBanshee Jul 12, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Amazing job on the stone textures...

and I love your inspiration song. It definitely fits well - the bass just shakes you, and you can just see these creatures towering above you, blocking out the sun as they pass... What an image!

~Franciscathedragon Jul 12, 2012

Never seen anything like it! this stuns me with awesomeness and originality

~Corysaur Jul 11, 2012 Professional General Artist

Wicked job - I love how the tail ends! You are putting out some amazingly cool ideas

~TF-chaser Jul 10, 2012 Student General Artist

Awesome!~

=Silenced-Dreams Jul 10, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Macronarians ftw.

Though I love dicraeosaurids, with their itty bitty necks ;o;

ALSO quick question which I keep meaning to ask BUT YOU VANISH FROM UMBASKYpE BEFORE I CAN, is how do the critters in MotC get their names? Are they given from birth or when they hit adulthood or some combo?

~Droemar Jul 10, 2012

Naming conventions vary among species; namely droemar are named after physical attributes or behaviors, so they're named as hatchlings (if they live long enough). Sauris have Naming ceremonies when hatchlings take the Pact, but before that they have little nicknames (i.e. Leaf becomes Last-Leaf-Spirals.) Hadrosaurs name themselves similar to the droemar, except usually with plant themes, and theros names are longer the more badass they are.

=Silenced-Dreams Jul 10, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Oooh thankyou, that's neat.

I can imagine that Welsh or Finnish theros would have the hugest ever names.

~SoaringApteryx Jul 10, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wonderful charakter design, I love the spikes on its back and the in the pose. Very nice job

~SoaringApteryx Jul 10, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Sorry, forgot a word

I mean, I love the energy in the pose.

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