Very nice. Huge lizard you have there. I like the clouds and light a lot. Nice job.

*sniff* Even dragons die? It's such a sad and brilliant image

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Very good work again Simon .

You set the standard with your first post and raised the bar with this one. The lighting was very placed.

BAH you suck.

This is fantastic. The Sky is dour and brilliant the subject is one I've never seen covered the dragon is ace and the whole scene is soooo atmospheric, peaceful and serene. Full marks for sure.

it's almost sad that the dragon passed,The moody lighting supports that. I just love those clouds. One of my favourite images.

Good to see more of your art simon

Marley

Great to see more of your posts
I can only agree with Marley - sad somehow but very beautiful and moody light.

Really beautiful, the lighting is perfect.

Wowwwww! awesome colors

Amazing. I love the texture and tension of the wings - so realistic. The atmosphere and lighting is superb - and all this without any reference. You're inspirational

needs some distance... it looks quite flat.
nice colours

The lighting is exceptional here. Wonderful piece.. I love how small the people are standing next to the dragon. One can imagine that in years to come they will be walking by the skeleton of the beast that fell there as they go along the path of the mountain.

I love the colors and composition, but I wish the dragon would read a bit better from the ground. It perhaps blends a bit too much on the mountains in the background. Perhaps a bit more red hue for the dragon?

Hi Baron. Are you done PMSing? Good! Hehe. I love this piece. Shading, lighting, and color tones are all wonderful.

Thanks for commenting and voting - always welcome. I actually posted earlier on here but my comment has disappeared! Hi@Marley - need to see some more of your stuff! MsMichelle - done PMSing? Never, just a slack period

Those little guys standing around him (or is it a 'her'?) look a little dejected cos it landed on the village pub...well in MY mind it did!!

Fantastic piece...very moody without being too heavy handed...and those clouds put me to shame...I really must practise my backgrounds!

Top marks!

Wow!
Just one thing, the trees looks like the stones.

you are good !! +9

oh no....
the poor thing....
*cries her soul out*
sigh
full marks

I love this.

Lighting is +++
+10

Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to comment and vote

wow ! it's awsome, i like the lighting

I saw this on... either eatpoo or conceptart. I love the image, especially the wonderful sense of scale you've created. I think hte one thing I'd like to see is a higher intensity color in some sort of capacity.

amazing work man!

Completely cool work, love the atmosphere, the dragon itself isn't how I would have done it, but everyone has their own style, great work! +9

Wonderful work!

AWESOME.

Well, as nearly everyone had said, I too like the lighting that you used for this, it conveys the mood of what has happened. The details on the dragon are quite nice as well. I would ask, where is the other wing? It just seems to disappear.
Also, the shiny part in the lower right corner, next to your signature, is distracting. Is that a river? It looks a little too intense to me, the eyes tend to be drawn to the brightest areas of a picture (or at least the highest contrast). This is a very bright spot in a predominately dark area of the painting, and to me, I am drawn there. If it is a river, it, to me, is not reading like one. The shape, tones and texture doesn't strike me as a river. It seems more like a ribbon, I think it is the way that it rises up, doesn't seem like its winding. I don't know if I am making this clear.
I do like the piece nonetheless, and it is also far better than I can do, so, two thumbs up+ points.

This is beautiful... I wish I could use my Painter 9 this well I absolutly adore dragons! I really love the lighting and the whole environment. I wish I could have given it a 10 but I only have 7 points to give Grr!

amazing!!! +10

the sky is amazing!

I have no words to describe this - well, eh, I have: Amazing, stunning, and just about everything else in that general direction that you can think of. Reminds me of the second book in the fantasy series "Chronicles of the Raven", "Noonshade".

Awesome painting

superb piece, gorgeous lighting and colours. wonderful!

Very nice piece; it looks like oils. Great composition and atmosphere too.

Thanks again to everyone who's commented and voted, I very much appreciate every word.

Outstanding! I like the whole idea and composition in the painting. Thing that I don't like is design of the painting. Dragon could be more detailed and those humans are too large or trees are too small. This still stands out and therefore I give top points.

I learned from this picture.

Just became a member but have been checking out the artwork on here for a long time. this will be my first online critique. Like most I like the lighting,the light coming through the clouds and I think thewhole atmosphere of the painting makes u feel for this dead creature.

Ah, sorrow about dead dragons: that's not something often depicted in artwork. Dragon-slaying art almost always emphasizes conflict and triumph, but here the gloomy landscape, and the way in which the dragon has fallen, makes the viewer pity the creature and feel a sense of awe and loss. It's more like how people would feel about encountering a beached whale. Not only that, but the dragon looks like it's died of natural causes; its slayer is nowhere in sight, and the diminuitive people examining it don't appear to have killed it. They're just checking out who happened to almost land on top of their town. It looks like it's been dead for a while, actually. The shaft of misty light from the upper right seems to suggest the departure of the dragon's soul from its body. One thing bothers me about the composition, though... maybe it's just me, or maybe it's intentional on your part, but there's nothing balancing the composition to the right. The darkness over there has its symbolism, but it has that compositional feel of falling off to one side.

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masaqcre +9/9

amazing! very original indeed...really really good.

This is a magnificent piece of work!
The dark clouds in the sky suggest the death of the dragon...I love the lighting, how it touches the surfaces of the rocks and hills. This is a beautiful and emotional painting.

Wonderful! Max points.

A great painting. Wonderful colors and the clouds are breathtaking! Still, I can't shake the feeling that it looks a bit like a scale model.
Nevertheless, a beautiful scene.

Beautiful work !

yeah..I like it.
You took a fine scene.

The lighting is great - as usual.

I do get a bit of a 'miniature' feeling from it though... like as if it were a model scene...

Nice idea.

that sky is just awesome. I wouldn't have thought to do such colors in the sky. Its so ochre and umber. Incredible dragon, hillside, scale, wow...impressive image overall ---plus 9

It's impossible painting you did!

Cool work.

I love the atmosphere..
*wipes tear from eye thinking that dragons die*

totally rocks exactly how I would imagine a dragon

in one word only! it's awesome

Drama!!!!5/5

Good thing for the town it didn't fall a few feet higher! Amazing work & feeling, I give it a 7

ooooo. outstanding!!! i love it!!! and i love how you made the dragon appear soooo big! WONDERFUL!

Another well wicked work of art from you Simon...Good stuff

cool idea.
very dramatic.
you are a very talented artist.

aww wow, beautiful work. you got the mood right onw, and the detail as always is brilliant, I'd love to see the full sized image wow! the sky, no the mounatins, no the..gah it's all so good. especially nice use of scale, look at the tiny people and their wee village in the huge mountain where the dragon lies

Very impressive coloring and lighting.

Wow, this is extremely good! very impressive. If I could add works to my favorites this would definitely be one but being that I'm a free subscriber I can't
I really like the way you color, it's fantastic
Love that dragon and like those little people surrounding him.
Great job!

so sad but so wonderful done ... the work with the light is amazing and all the details ... are you sure he's not just sleeping?

Amazing! The most beautiful dragon i ever seen in GFX +10

I had never seen that piece of yours, although it is already old. I sure missed a beautiful work !

Best,
Pierre

la plus belle image que je n'ai jamais vu! a coupe le souffle, j'en pleure presque (désolé, mon anglais est on ne peut plus mauvais)

hey i want to say thank you for transferring me into different world!

You are going straight to my fave list. Would have liked to see the dragon entirely though. Greatly rendered lighting. +9/9

whoah.. D:
+10