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LBT Fanart / Re: "Evening Rest" (fanart feat. Littlefoot)
« on: November 28, 2024, 11:59:45 PM »
Thank you for the replies and soulful comments so far, y'all! I read everyone's stuff whenever I can. Keep up the warmhearted words!  :MomCompassion

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LBT Fanart / Re: "Sharptooth Chase!" feat. Cera & Ducky
« on: November 28, 2024, 11:58:55 PM »
Hehe-hahaha! Is it just Mo-o-o-o, or does Ducky be looking like someone here who could be quite muscular/buff? :PteranoPlotting :petrieooohh

(not a bad thing btw, just possibly something fun I wanted to point out :P)

Great 36th anniversary LBT artwork! :bestsharptooth

Haha, something I'm subconsciously been used to the way I draw over the years. Might as well get stronger in dire times like these :P

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Visual Art / The Light Wing (Panzer Dragoon Saga fanart)
« on: November 28, 2024, 02:22:05 AM »
One of the several forms of the dragon you control, and this one is, by lore, described as "The Messenger of the Gods".

It was from an RPG (of all things from a series that's normally a rail-shooter. But it ain't Star Fox or Nintendo, this is entirely differently). Thanks to its unique battle system and gameplay mechanics, beautiful world, gripping story, otherworldly soundtrack, it quickly became one of my all-time favorite video games ever. It's also one of the reasons I began working on a graphic novel & may want to go indie-dev.



Made using Krita

Artwork©R.C. July 2024

PD©SEGA & Team Andromeda

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Visual Art / "Skirmish Over the Horizon" (a Panzer Dragoon Zwei fanart)
« on: November 28, 2024, 02:17:23 AM »
Finally got this brutal beast done. And while I am still slightly sick too. This is for a friend I know, hence his character featured here riding on Lagi, the dragon in Zwei. It was for his birthday earlier this month but clearly this took a lot out of me since this was done on a larger sketchbook, and I was working on several different pieces.

Acrylics, colored pencils, watercolors, graphite, ink, markers, & highlighters.

Artwork(c)R.C. November 2023


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Visual Art / Orta's Dragon head portrait (VG Fanart)
« on: November 28, 2024, 02:16:03 AM »
Panzer Dragoon Orta fanart, a much smaller piece used with prismacolor pencils, graphite, markers, & ink pen.


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Visual Art / The Cosmo-Phantasma Wing (Panzer Dragoon Orta fanart)
« on: November 28, 2024, 02:13:56 AM »
An artwork in one of my main sketchbooks that I finished a while back, only to recently have touched it up for presentability.

Used with ink, graphite, metallic gel ink, colored pencils, highlighters, markers, watercolor, gouache, all on 9x12" sketchbook.

....now I'm starting to really miss playing with my old original Xbox console from WAY back then. At least I still have my hard CD copy of the game.


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Visual Art / Re: Artworks of AzureParagon
« on: November 28, 2024, 02:07:58 AM »




MORE

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Sound Off! / Re: What are you listening to?
« on: November 28, 2024, 01:47:22 AM »
The entire soundtrack to Panzer Dragoon Zwei - one of my favorite retro rail-shooters that originally released for the Sega Saturn in 1996:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJBYS-3SqHE&t=1070s

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Visual Art / Re: Artworks of AzureParagon
« on: November 28, 2024, 01:44:39 AM »
NOVEMBER 2024 POST









Some of my most favorite artworks I've worked on this year and have the most "complete" look. So, enjoy feasting your eyes!

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LBT Fanart / "Sharptooth Chase!" feat. Cera & Ducky
« on: November 28, 2024, 01:34:35 AM »


A much more recent fanart I've done with a similar rendering approach, finished earlier this month in lieu of its 36th anniversary.

Made using colored pencils, pen & ink, graphite, highlighters, markers & some metallic gel pen ink on 9"x12" sketchbook paper

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LBT Fanart / "Evening Rest" (fanart feat. Littlefoot)
« on: November 28, 2024, 01:30:17 AM »



So, after over a year of absence in this forum, I have returned. My RL has been grueling & wild (both good & bad), to say the least.

I finished this artwork this past summer, in pure succession. This was my take on illustrating Little Foot from The Land Before Time & gave it my all. It's been 5 years since I last did any LBT fanart. And yes that's a cloud resembling Littlefoot's mother. I weeped in satisfaction when the moment I finished this piece, mostly due to losing multiple nights of sleep working on it around the clock and burning the midnight oil (figuratively). Was worth it though, haha! :') It's only now I finally managed to revisit y'all & present it right here.

Materials used: Colored pencils, highlighters, markers, watercolor, water soluble color pencils, graphite, & ballpoint pen inks, on sketchbook paper, & digital.

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Visual Art / Re: Artworks of AzureParagon
« on: November 30, 2023, 11:55:11 PM »
(More artwork posts here cuz the imaging system is quirky and limiting, so here)









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Visual Art / Re: Artworks of AzureParagon
« on: November 30, 2023, 11:44:45 PM »
So, this goes without saying -- I haven't been here or even logged in here to post anything in such a long time -- almost a few years in fact. That said, I wanted to return here again to provide even more of what I have to offer, as an artist.

A lot of things have changed over the course of my life since the earlier part of this decade -- I work in the military now but I still use what relative amounts of free time I still have, to produce more new artworks. These pieces however were done from 2008 to 2023. My original intention here was to return with a brand new LBT fanart for its 35th starday, but alas, I've still yet to get to that.

(P.S.: For the record, I've obsessively gotten into making a lot of fanart for Panzer Dragoon - an amazing rail shooter game series):







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Visual Art / Re: Artworks of AzureParagon
« on: January 03, 2021, 10:54:44 PM »
Thanks!  :spikeblush

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LBT Fanart / Fanart Side of what I do
« on: January 02, 2021, 12:15:48 PM »
Alright so here's one completed piece of fanart I have under my belt. It's basically Petrie and Chomper exploring in an unlikely area, with fascination.
This was made well over a year ago btw. =] Drawn using prismacolor premier colored pencils, pen ink, graphite, Photoshop CS6 Extended, & Clip Studio Paint v1.8.2. (Neither are newest apps tho)



♬ Selected music accompanying this piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBoBO0YMBys "The Archylte Steppe" - Masashi Hamauzu (Final Fantasy XIII OST) ♬

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Visual Art / Artworks of AzureParagon
« on: January 02, 2021, 11:58:36 AM »
I decided to change this unit and show off other general works here that I did before. Have a look:








And last two pieces I decided to show now, for now!



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The Welcome Center / Re: Hello, everyone! I have returned!
« on: January 02, 2021, 11:45:49 AM »
Thanks so much, @Mumbling, @Amaranthine, @Flathead770, @rhombus, @StardustSoldier, everyone!!! It's really good to be back! I've missed all of you on here so much! And Happy New Year to all of you and everyone on the forum too!!! ^^

Yes it is. =) It's available in my main gallery website as well. It's also my birthday today as the Forum itself tells. xD

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The Welcome Center / Re: Seasons greetings from a skydragon
« on: January 01, 2021, 06:07:07 PM »
Why thank  you!!

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The Welcome Center / Seasons greetings from a skydragon
« on: January 01, 2021, 05:58:37 PM »
Hello everyone. :) The name's Octazure. But call me however you see fit. =) I've always enjoyed the LBT franchise since I was exposed to it back in the mid-1990s. It was subconsciously my proto-gateway into another kind of community and fandom I'm sure some of you are familiar with, and it has to do with far, far more than just dinosaurs!  :ChomperImAwesome


I'm a professional visual artist who specializes in illustration, involving but not limited to drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, & digital media. Been doing art all my life, and video games, films, and animation has greatly influenced me! Not to mention music, reptiles, dinosaurs, and animals in general!  :ChomperAmused

P.S.: My hatchday is already tomorrow. xD

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