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Honest to God...by *Altalamatox

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Fantasy

... I will break your heart, tear you to pieces and rip you apart...
-Night of the Hunter, 30 Seconds to Mars

-_{During the Hellecken War, shapeshifting warlock Morgan Daubenmire was this monstrous and mysterious force that came out of nowhere, sided with no one, and was loathed by all. Countless were the times a footsore battalion dragged itself to a fort or bridge or cache to find structure, weapons, and food smouldering- and almost hidden in the smokey fire, a lazily grinning pair of eyes.

Murders, abductions, arson, pillaging, and general mayhem aside, there was one habit Daubenmire was perhaps hated for more than anything. After battles, when the fields were stinking with blood and drifting with haze, spotted with little fires and soldiers hunting for wounded amongst the bodies, sometimes the shapeshifter would appear. He would not be his cackling, prancing, mischievous self, witnesses would say. Always as a massive black dragon he would come, silent, deaf, moving like a wraith in the distance, and eat the corpses.

Except he wasn't, really, eating corpses. Just the fallen horses. Waste of good meat, you know. But that was the story that got around, and Morgan doesn't joke when he says all the darkest mythos around him was invented by other people faster than he could get around to it himself.

This painting doesn't actually have anything to do with that anecdote, but seeing dragon Morgan on such a bleak background reminded me of it. Probably this was how people imagined he wandered the fields, chuckling and licking his chops, instead of the silent hulk of misery he was when he made himself walk among the young men and women and remember why he was out there.

Four hour quickie. Trying to use less color.}

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~Illusioninme Apr 5, 2013

have you ever seen Ferngully? remember that black creature like antagonist who was strangely awesome while being sinister? it's like he just possesed a dragon...and became more awesome, love the way you draw their snazzy expressions XD

*Altalamatox Apr 11, 2013

Yep, his name's Hexxus! I have been plagued by people comparing Morgan to him even since I introduced Morgan's unshifted slime trail shape, which, uurgh, reminds everyone strongly of Hexxus' opening scene, but which is fair enough. I keep introducing new things to slimeball Morgan attempting to differentiate the two. This is not to say that Hexxus wasn't totally badass. I probably haven't seen the movie in ten years but I believe the climax had him as a colossal fiery skeleton robed in oil, which has stuck with me as being terribly awesome. And then he got pwned from the inside by a giant tree, and it was also righteous. I kind of want to watch it again now, but it's also one of those movies I'm not sure I'd be as impressed with now as I was a kid, and I hate to overwrite those kinds of impressions...

But good call! Morgan at his worst does have that same brand of oily oozing evil and sick self-satisfaction at a bad deed well done.

~Illusioninme Apr 13, 2013

oops, I forgot how annoying it can be when people compare your original artwork to something else they've seen before. It happens to me alot too, sorry about that I just meant that expression of his, it reflects a certain badassery that Hexxus had XD

I fear you are right about rewatching it, I haven't the courage to watch all my childhood favorites after I attempted to rewatch "little nemo"

~Sehvrin Mar 12, 2013

Morgan has a really creepy smile

On the upside you'll recognize it everywhere and know when it's time to run.

That said, this paintning looks awesom

~glowworm56 Mar 3, 2013

Okay--he makes one badass dragon.

~Susiron Feb 18, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

How this is stunning. I love the detail in the face, and the lighting in his mouth is amazing; the eye too AHHEHgrjeh < 3

~half-rose Feb 18, 2013

Goodness, that looks magic

~Agatha-Macpie Feb 14, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

You definitetly have a thing with light ! You're the master of liiiights !

I really love this one ! The details on the scales are amazing. And the light...always breathtaking !

~CaptainSeawolf Feb 8, 2013 General Artist

So amazing.... and I still want to hug him, cadaver nomming dragon or not... why are you so epic Morgan?!
I LOVE this color scheme, that its muted makes me think of an ash storm, eerie, speaking of that wraith like feel he could cause. SO amazing, your work and focus on detail is incredible like something out of a dream.

*myoneandonly Feb 8, 2013

An almost terrifying amount of detail. I absolutely love this. You really need to make me stop wanting to hug him, especially when he's so particularly pointy.

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