2010-04-28 [Zab]: Looks good! :)

2010-05-01 [Hendercrazy]: Thanks [Zab]! :) I'm hoping to have this finished up within a few more weeks or so. The black dragon and overall tweaking will be the biggest time consumers. O_O

2010-05-02 [Zab]: heheh, I bet it will :P

2010-05-06 [Hendercrazy]: Alrighty then... kind of got side tracked a bit starting up the Art Wikis of Elftown wiki... but it was something that's been on my mind for a long time now and just needed to be done. :)

Now, gotta get back to work! :D

2010-05-08 [Hendercrazy]: The next worthwhile update will hopefully be sometime late Sunday. We'll see. I'm starting to get into the more involved and time consuming aspects of the pic. :)

2010-05-12 [Hendercrazy]: Ugh. XP Update still coming... just not as worthwhile as I'd hoped. Spending waaaaay too much time on the bloody trees. *fights off image burn of little trees* O_O

2010-05-12 [Hendercrazy]: Have just a bit more work to go with the trees... then the background will be done for now (will be going back to tweak it when I'm ready to finalize everything). Hint... click the actual image for a better, more close and crisp look, into the detail (instead of the ET auto reduction) you're seeing above now. :)

Anyway, then I'll finally get to sink my artistic teeth into the meat and potatoes of the pic... the black dragon!!! Woohoo! Really looking forward to that part! :D

2010-05-13 [Zab]: Lookin good :P

2010-05-16 [Hendercrazy]: Background detail done and now updated. :) Also, I resized the color progression images so they appear in full, crisp detail.

2010-05-17 [Zab]: Waiting for more :)

2010-05-20 [Hendercrazy]: My goal is to have this puppy finished by May 31st. :) So I'll be posting the final update then if all goes well. ;)

2010-05-20 [Nocturnaliss]: That's actually looking pretty damn good. Especially liking the lightning, it's quite realistic.

2010-05-21 [Hendercrazy]: Thanks Issy! :)

2010-05-21 [organicparadox]: linework is flawless, as usual. waiting anxiously for you to start on the dragon before i speak on the colour. so far, the trees look great but look so great they actually make the mountain they are on pale in comparison. possibly some larger shadows from the cloud itself to marry it all together.

also, don't forget focal point. do you want as much detail in the background as you do in the foreground?

no real critiques though. too happy with how its coming out so far to notice the flaws:)

2010-05-21 [Hendercrazy]: Thanks man! :) Yeah, you're totally spot on with the background and such! :P As mentioned earlier... I'll be tweaking it all before I call it a wrap. So I'll get everything in the background shaped up and balanced out. :) As for the dragon... I promise that you that it will be the focal point! :P ;)

2010-05-21 [*Phoenix*]: I noticed from the second-to-last to the last, it got lighter. I like the lighter dragon, but then the sky looks non-stormy...

2010-05-21 [Hendercrazy]: I think it lightened up a bit in that one because I did the watermark differently. Don't let that flat grey base fool you though. It's going to look quite a bit different and much, much darker once it's finally complete. ;D

2010-05-25 [Serwa]: Lookin good man, It's a work in progress, so maybe you still have plans on it, just a little suggestion :) the shade of the trees on that mountain could be much darker, to make the lightningstrike apear more powerfull, since it'll be adding a lot more contrast! (I havnt read any comments, so maybe it already been suggested ;)) Anyways, keep it up, lookin forward to the finished piece!!

2010-05-26 [Hendercrazy]: Thanks brother! :) Yeah, it's been brought up already in the comments like you guessed... but it's all good. :D I'll be tweaking everything before posting the finished version. ;)

2010-05-30 [Hendercrazy]: The way things are looking currently... this puppy is probably gonna take me roughly one more week or so to finish. I've gone in a little bit deeper (now that I'm using my Wacom tablet) than I'd originally planned. The good news is though that I believe the overall image is going to turn out a little better as well. :D

2010-05-30 [Yncke]: Looking forward to that, this drawing is promising to become a really great piece!