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So this is what we're in for? [COTM/DWJ/MAY]

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Hi Jazza!
WIP: http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/14/25832000/ngbbs573ef7794258b.png
SKETCH IDEAS FOR GIRLS: http://postimg.org/image/7airg1ds1/

This is my submission for May's COTM: Dragons Vs Kittens.
All drawn with my mouse in photoshop - I only really started drawing again about 2 months ago and just started out with digital art. (Its my birthday on the 24th...hoping/praying/wishing for a graphics tablet haha!)

Okay so I'm going to be honest, I really struggle drawing animals so this was a good excuse to practice. However I wanted to keep the animal drawing minimal while still sticking to this month's theme.

I decided to take inspiration from the game DotA2 (a personal favourite) since I had been drawing a bunch of heroes recently and love anything warcraft related.
So the kittens are Mirana and Luna's mounts (they are both fairly large cats)...I drew this depicting them both as young kids and their mounts..not quite mountable yet, one could call them kittens! They are protecting/playing around mid lane radient tower.
We then have Jakiro (the two headed fire/ice dragon) pushing in from the dire mid tower and the two girls finally get a taste of what is to come...the game that is DotA2.
Mirana isn't too happy about it, she's an animal lover, priestess of the moon, her job is to protect animals. So when Jakiro rocks up mid lane she's pretty shocked/upset/scared. Luna is more of a badass and is ready to take him (them?) on regardless of the size difference.

We have the radient tower's own defence, shooting a magical blast thingy towards the dragon, and some creepies pushing down the lane in the distance. I tried to play with the lighting from the flames with blue/orange.

In total it took around 14-18 hours across 3 days...life is s l o w with a mouse

Hope you like it!

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Not bad! I like the idea/setting you chose for this, great colors but your line work could use some improvement. Also the white lines on the trees are kinda distracting, maybe try blurring them out?
All in all pretty good work! Keep it up, and you got yourself a new follower.

Squanch-thegirl responds:

Thanks so much for your comments! I know what you mean about the trees, hindsight hey :/ at the time I thought it worked and kind of forgot about it once i had added everything together. But you're right, i think simply burring them would have done the trick! I still have the PSD file so I could go in an re-touch it if you wanted to see - but I think rather redraw with a better foundation next time :)

Also as for the lines (you might have some tips) I draw the lines with my mouse after taking a photo of a sketch. I use photoshop's line tool to map out all the lines (then stroke) but sometimes it doesn't want to curve the right way and I don't really know how to get around that. I'm saving up for a tablet, hopefully i'll have one by the end of this year so then I can really get creative with digital art! In the meantime I'm always trying to figure out way to get my lines more natural looking with the pen tool and I think I have improved so far, so I'm just gonna keep at it! (Sorry for the novel haha) Thanks again! Holly

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