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Laik Verdier - flute

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Drawn on: 11-4-08

Laik Verdier, protagonist of a yet-unnamed new story of mine, this time playing the flute and showing some of his scales (they are silvery-white; but since they are signs of his dragon blood, he usually covers them). He is very soft-spoken and has a love of music, particularly of the flute, violin, and/or piano. I used a lot of reference pics for this, but it might be hard to tell that his arms are reaching over to hold the flute. It's not perfect, I know; but I don't play the flute, and I couldn't find any pictures of the same pose, so I had to combine a whole lot and hope it worked. My brother plays flute, but I don't want to ask him, 'cause it's too late to fix it now...

Edit: Due to popular demand, I messed with levels and brightness/contrast to try and make it easier to see. I encountered the same problem I did last time I tried this (and ultimately changed my mind): some of the lines are light enough that none of Photoshop's adjustments do anything to them until contrast is at max and the whole thing looks half pixelated. And smudgies appeared where I had hoped there were none (Blast you, you fiendish smudgies!) So, some of it is still well nigh impossible to see, and some of it is smudged despite the eraser tool, but I did all I could.

In order to be able to see his shirt and some of his hair, I ended up having to turn the contrast up way high, which is why the lineart now looks like... well, like crap. *groan*
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*sigh* can't see this one either.