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Princess Mandy and PTK vs. the Cinnamon Dragon

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Just for clarification: Lemonade dragons spit acid. Cinnamon dragons, however, breathe fire.

So, here's my entry into my friend ~mandy-kun's Princess Mandy/PTK contest. The rules of the contest specified that she wanted images which told some sort of story about her characters Princess Mandy and Peach Tea Knight. Mandy and I have a bit of a running joke about dragons in the context of this particular storyline, so I decided I'd save her the trouble of ever having to draw one by doing it myself. You're welcome, Mandy! =D

As far as the actual artwork is concerned, you may have noticed a startlingly big jump in quality on this one. I have the past three months to thank for that. I've been taking courses in graphic design to try to make myself more desirable as a commercial artist and finally start making some kind of income off of my skills. It's a really intense program (read: six months without a life), and I don't have much time off before I have to disappear for another three months. However, it's definitely paying off. I've gotten much more comfortable with masks and vectors in Photoshop. Moreover, it translates to me being more comfortable with Inkscape, which is a vector program I downloaded for free after I upgraded my OS back in March. I've learned how to use it to make quick linearts and cel shading. With the new technique, I don't have to ink my pencil sketches by hand, and the end result is so much cleaner. I think I'll be working with this new method a lot more in the future (that is, after these classes are done crushing my soul). I guess this image classifies as a vexel-- the lineart, the shading and some of the design elements are vector, but the rest is done as regular old Photoshop raster.
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Viper-X27's avatar
Isn't this how those two first met?