The Wood Dragon and the Ladybird by PMD

2D • Fantasy • posted on Jun 09, 2008

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Hey everyone, I love macro photography, so I set about trying to create a moment - secretly stumbling across this tiny creature in the undergrowth and snapping him in a confrontation with some other forest denizen. I hope I captured the mutual curiousity of the Wood Dragon and the Ladybird. Anyway, the Wood Dragon was created using a mixture of painting and photo-texturing (all my own) - his wings are a mixture of leaves and water, using batwings as reference. The background is cobbled together from various shots of mine, and heavily over-painted - I was trying to mimic that really short depth of field inherent in macro stuff. The full res is close to 6000 x3000 (this is cropped in width) and you can see a lot more detail (some of his organs are visible, and there is a tiny friendly parasite attached to him on his back - it's a healthy symbiosis ) The ladybird is painted from reference also. I have about another 4 of these on the go, with the little Wood Dragon encountering various other creatures - I'll post them a little later. Hope everyone's well! Best, Phil

Comments (42)

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DavidEMartin

9:57AM | Mon, 09 June 2008

WOW................. Absolutely speechless. Definitely one of the most original and unique images I've see here at Rendo! Rating - 6 !!!!!

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Ozylot

9:57AM | Mon, 09 June 2008

Beautiful image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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phobos70

10:07AM | Mon, 09 June 2008

Beautiful composition! Wow!!!

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10:24AM | Mon, 09 June 2008

oh my god, that is amazing. so creative! truely amazing. i love the realistic feel to this, it gives it so much life and credibility. and your technique is very interesting, thank you for explaining it.

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