The Warlord

I have finally completed my half of a trade with , a wonderful artist who was kind enough to do a drawing of my husband's dragon character, Maelstrom. I took too long and still managed to make too many errors, but overall, I am pleased with it and I hope that she will be, too.

Leccathu is the first dragon character which I have made a repeat attempt at. My first attempt can be seen here, since I have had a number of people ask where I kept a picture of it. So without boring you further, here's what I think the pros and cons of this piece are:

Pros:

1. Standing on four legs, solidly, not wobbly, well supported, and overall awesome.
2. The most anatomical (musculature) detail that I have ever worked into a sculpture. Much thanks to Leccathu for amazing reference works...which I will likely continue to use in order to improve on anatomy for all future dragonish sculptures.
3. The wing position. It took a lot of work, wire, and patience to get them to hold parallel to the ground without "over-beefing" the joints.
4. One of the most detailed paint jobs that I have yet done. All colors excluding the dark brown were custom mixed by me, and (I think) are more true-to-actual colors than previous sculpture.

Cons:

1. Forelegs appear too narrow from the front.
2. Head appears to wide from the front. I think it looks great from the side, and didn't notice a problem until after I painted it.
3. I forgot the little ridge of scales along her lower jaw. x's 2
4. I managed to forget to paint the undersides of her paws and wing-hands in a whitish coat. x's 3
5. I didn't extend the tail spikes down the tail far enough. x's 4

But, yeah, overall, I am happy.

Macro horn reference shots are available here, since I did have a request for that.

Aluminum foil, armature wire, super sculpey, and acrylics.

Leccathu Fürvicael, Romanian Three-Tail species, and art (c) S.D. 2005. Do not copy, redistribute, alter, etc. any portion of this piece of artwork without elicit permission from .