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(Cont'd:) The fact that it took me such a long time to continue posting this little retrospective series says enough about how much trouble I have managing a social media presence on top of everything else. :') Regardless here we are. After moving out and starting my environmental science major, I kept drawing, but had less and less time for elaborate digital stuff rather than pencil sketches. This (Rooted in the Sea, a challenge to myself based on a sketch between classes) was done over a year after the previous dragon painting, as a New Year's gift. Even though I still took art supplies with me regularly wherever I went, I really hadn't been prepared for how hard keeping art as a hobby while pursuing a science major would be. (6/?) #art #illustration #fantasyart #nature #fantasy #dragon #wooddragon #dracoligniformes #sunset #sea #ocean #digitalart #artistsoninstagram

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(Cont'd:) This piece - Strange Encounter - is when the wood dragon thing really became a pattern in earnest. It's probably my most overtly digital looking one, and not necessarily in a nice way, but I did have fun with it. I went nuts on the details (hidden unicorns and squirrels and hedgehogs snd a baby dragon! A new girl nymph like character! A conflict, a story!) I did it in the summer before starting uni (with an environmental science major) and it's probably not a coincidence that it's the last such detailed piece for a while. (3/6?) #art #illustration #fantasyart #fantasy #digitalart #nature #forest #magic #enchanting #girl #man #adventurer #dracoligniformes #dragon #dragonart #illustration #sword #quest #babydragon #woodnymph

(Cont'd:) I found myself coming back to the concept soon after, for some kind if concept art 'Colossus' competition on DA. I brought back the nameless cloaked humanoid for some sense of scale and had a lot of fun imagining how the dragon looked in detail and what its lifestyle was like. This piece was called Uprooted Ancient. (2/6) #fantasy #fantasyart #flower #art #colossus #dragon #wooddragon #man #adventurer #dracoligniformes #sunset #nature #landscape #illustration #artistsoninstagram #tree #treedragon

(Cont'd.) 'Goodbye (until spring)': another painting with a very simple idea, done in October for an Octobery-themef contest. If a wood dragon is part tree, does it sleep in the winter? Bringing back the girl and gher dragon who were beginning to have their own story for a scene that's maybe a little melancholy, a bit bittersweet, but not truly sad. I'd moved to a beautiful new area with lots of nature and was feeling inspired. But I'd also just started uni and was having a lot of trouble adjusting to the changes and all the new demands on my time. In fact, the next real painting in this series wouldn't be made for over a year. (5/?) #art #illustration #fantasyart #nature #fantasy #dragon #wooddragon #dracoligniformes #tree #forest #autumn #fall #girl #dryad #magic

Some wood dragons roughly painted on a little wooden chest for a gift ☺ #appliedart #artsandcrafts #painting #watercolour #watercolours #illustration #nature #trees #bird #fantasyart #dragon #wooddragon #dracoligniformes #goldfinch #europeangoldfinch

Thorny, silver-leaved #wooddragon ☺ #fantasyart #illustration #watercolour #baumdrache #dracoligniformes #artistsoninstagram

#wooddragon commission at the Nichi! #illustration #fantasyart #artistsoninstagram #baumdrache #dracoligniformes #watercolour