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that I used additional texture for the pants. 
that I used for the metal greaves to give them that worn look. 
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, who also has a wonderful link to a site full of leather stock in the artist's comments.
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Frick that's awesome...
<_< Imma go sit in the corner now... Kays?
*emo corner*
-X :3
And thanks for telling me it's awesome.
And I misses you. TT_TT
My brother's going to summer school at the same place we did. He's taking math. The math teacher said 'hi' to me. (unrelated, but hey, whatever)
And my bro has bio with Ms. M. Heehee...
The planes of his face also seem well-done.
His eyes appear slightly high on his head, but that's going by human porportions. For all I know that may be normal for his species, just like the length of his ears and the color of his skin.
As for proper concrit...
The 'sparkle' brush on the dragon's head appears a little overused and is distracting and a little off-putting.
And the sheath for his sword appears a little too 'fat'...like it was stuffed with vegetables rather than a flat blade.
Lastly, the composition...I'm not certain what to say about it. Somehow it just falls flat, but I'm not entirely certain how.
Perhaps it's because it just seems so...linear.
Yep. That's it. It's too linear.
The human-like figure near the left edge catches the viewer's eye first. Then the viewer will follow his line-of-sight and see the wing of the flying dragon, follow that down the tail, and find the dragon's face. The slant of the dragon's face brings you down to the horse, who is also slanted and galloping toward the right-bottom of the page, so you follow that new slanted line...
And fall right off the edge.
You want the viewer's eye to be led in circles and triangles around the image, from one point to another and another without falling off. It's sort of like setting up a connect-the-dots for someone, only without using numbers to keep them firmly on the page.
Neat job overall, though!
Much of what's in here was stuck in here with absolutely no planning whatsoever halfway through the painting. The guy in the sketch is actually standing incredibly static and...sort of dead-like.
Oh, yes that sword sheath. Now that you point it out, it is too circular. Oh well.
As for the dragon, I at first needed something for the scales because the spectral dragon head was at a higher level of opacity and the background dragon was getting lost in all the red. It was just one of those little things that never got changed.
His proportions are off by human standards most certainly. His whole race are a bunch of 7 foot tall, angular blue skinned elves with a sneering complex. Their skulls are very oddly shaped...
I take the critique to heart and shall most likely fix it. Probably tomorrow. I'm not sure what I'm going to do to smooth the composition into a more circular pattern though...
Any suggestions?
And thanks for all the complements. They make me very happy.
The one thing I can think of that might cause the least amount of change and upheaval would be to add something in (though I have no idea what it would be).
It would have to be something that could curve through that bottom right corner, sort of leading vaguely from before the point where the horse runs off the page down to the point where your main guy is standing. Perhaps a small series of items would work better at that point than one large one...
Once again, though, I'm not sure what that would be. Most of your picture seems largely symbolic, whether you intended it to or not, so I suppose your decision would be best.
I would refrain from using one long snake, though. The difference in distance would be too much for that to look realistic.
...um, a stream of locusts?
It's either that or find a way to change the direction that horse is facing, and I, personally, wouldn't want to mess with something that complicated so late in the picture.
I'm glad the compliments made you happy.
Oh, and I forgot to add something on my original comment: don't be too upset about the unknown lightsource. That much sand is bound to reflect at least a little bit of light, so it could easily be fairly diffused.
I'm not upset about the lightsource, I actually find it kind of funny that I can't find the sun.
There, I opened the file and moved the missing layer. Things are more circular now.