[x]

Browse More Like This

More from ~Droemar

Group 1:8 Kit FarsonKit shoved the last rusted file cabinet out of the room and dusted his hands off. "Well, what do you think, guys?"
The room looked like it had been a supply room once, the kind of place teachers would come for a fresh ream of paper or to make copies. The copier was long gone, and stacks of metal shelves and gym equipment had filled the place until Kit's arrival. He'd battled spiders and cockroaches to make a place for his cot across from a pile of rusted weights tumbled together. A heavy sandbag swung on a rusted chain next to a set of shelves. Kit had hung a heavy green canvas to hide the worst of the junk, and his wo

Group 1:6 Kit Farson"Kit, I believe we need to talk."
Kit slumped in a chair across from Father John Yew.  The red paneling of his office juxtaposed in stark contrast against the bright square of sunlight spilling into the room.
"'Kay," Kit muttered.  He eyed Yew's belt.  Well, at least if he aimed to take it off, Kit had a knife in his boot.
"You don't seem to be settling in very well. If you'll allow me a list."  Father Yew began ticking items off on his fingers. "You've refused to attend school and my Sunday lectures, you're still out in that cot in the shed instead of moving into the dormitories, you insulted Sis

View Gallery · View Prints

Featured in Groups:

Not currently featured in any groups.

Details

Submitted: July 12, 2012
Image Size: 864 KB
Resolution: 850×1170
Submitted with: Sta.sh

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 10
Favourites: 174 [who?]
Views: 2,111 (1 today)
Downloads: 20 (0 today)

[x]

MOTC: Roots-of-All-Forestsby ~Droemar

Digital Art / Drawings / Fantasy

Roots-of-All-Forests, the Dragon King of woodland and fern, found a curious bit of wood, that was hollow and whistled when the wind blew. He rolled a body out of mud and leaves, and put the bit of woodsong as a head. And in doing so, he crafted the hadrei, the grazers who trumpet and sing.

Roots-Of-All-Forests is the Dragon King of the hadrei, duck-billed dinosaurs like Iguanodon and Tenontosaurus. Parasaurolophus is probably my favorite Lambeosaurinae, but I included some other crests for visual interest. I use the demigods to draw a lot of the dinosaurs I can't otherwise draw, so this was fun.

The hadrei are represented on the soundtrack by the incredible Chouwa Oto "With Reflection" by Kokia [link] I was playing around with this kind of tribal idea that the hadrei were singers, and couldn't seem to find a way to make that interesting. I listened to this song while working on the drawing and suddenly got hit with the idea that this song is exactly the kind of multi-voiced chanting that would occur during a hadrei wake: their way of honoring the dead. The hadrei in the story don't have a coolness factor like other dinosaurs do, and I was concerned their nobility and sense of sacrifice would be understated. This song gave me the impetus to hopefully make sure that wouldn't happen.

Green is the hardest color to paint for good reason. I'm not saying I'm happy with this, but I definitely took it as far as it'd go.

~cohenator11 Nov 5, 2012

loving your vibrance

~DinoLover09 Aug 21, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I'm really liking these dieties. Do u plan on making one for the Ceratopsians?

~Droemar Aug 21, 2012

Unfortunately, the story takes place in Early Cretaceous, and there is no Ceratopsian featured in the mythology. (Only one actually exists as a character, and while he's considered rare by the other dinosaurs, in truth he's a fudged extant species because I couldn't resist.)
A Ceratopsian Dragon King would be freaking awesome, though.

~DinoLover09 Aug 21, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Oh ok.

~DasTenna Aug 12, 2012

The way you colored this Dragon Kind makes him look like a life-bearer, a pulsing, breathing being. The green on his back seems soft and cool while the green on his head and horns is warmed by the sun, glowing and full of life. And the pine stands out as it should be.
I really love this illustration.

*Zada2011 Jul 13, 2012

I love all of these digital dinosaur paintings you've been doing. They're so nice looking. Just out of curiosity what graphics program make these?

~Droemar Jul 13, 2012

Corel Painter 9 and Photoshop CS3.

*WanderingRae Jul 12, 2012

Glad you liked that song, Droe.

I think it goes well with the duckies. ^_^ Ferns look more defined, now. I really like the texture on the greenery along this guy's side (in the shadow). The yellow light bouncing off that back thigh is delicious.

~swiftblight Jul 12, 2012

That song... Literally the best part of Origin.

I really love this design, just the way it looks like the forest given dinosaur shape is wonderful.

~Brainmatters Jul 12, 2012

Why is your brain so awesome. ;A;

More from ~Droemar

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

MOTC: Roots-of-All-Forestsby ~Droemar

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style