Lynder's Art Gallery

WARNING!

99.9% of this gallery consists of dragons! (for the most part)

 

Thank you for being curious! ^-^ These pictures have been drawn and scanned by myself, so I would strongly appreciate if you didn't steal my pictures and call them your own. I'm going to be particularly paranoid about this, since I've heard stories of people stealing someone's pictures of their websites and using them as their own. That's just horrible! That's heartless! "THAT'S UNJUST!!" Please don't do it!

Here I've posted not only my past and present art works, but also some drawing tips and words of advice. For those of you who really REALLY want to be become an artist or become a better artist, maybe what I say will help you out a bit. I'm not an expert, but I've learned a lot and gained lots of praise on my art! I hope I help some...

Update: June 2002

(A "*" marks those pictures that were just added. They are all at the bottom of the page.)

Advice: When I was in 4th grade, I entered a special art program that ran every Wednesday from 4:00-6:00. It was a class for students in the 4th-6th grade, but I went as a 7th grader because it was so much fun! I also met a lot of my friends there! To tell the truth, the art teacher of the class, Mr. Rock, was one of the best. I'm very thankful I joined his class; it's probably had the most impact on me throughout my whole life. He gave us great tips and advice, and I remember one of the most important things he told us: he told us to keep every picture we have ever drawn, maybe even make a portfolio of our art. I suggest you do the same; it's helped me!

Younger Years

(Elementary school and then some)

When I was maybe about 7 or so, for some reason I drew these dragons with info pages about them. I drew a Chinese, American, Canadian, African, South American, Asian, Eurasian, and "Thorn Face" dragon. (Yes, I realize I got the Chinese dragon all wrong, but it was my version of it, I guess! Also, I spelled things wrong, and I wrote "scents of humor" instead of "personality"! It's pretty funny!)

I used to love Yoshi to death. Here are just two of the many pictures I drew of Yoshi: "Tarzan Yoshi" and Yoshis going fishing.

I used to love Sailor Moon, too, so here's a scary picture of one of the cats. I can't tell which one. Take your pick.

Here's a cute picture I drew of a baby dragon and it's parent.

I drew this picture when I was testing out my new art set I got for my birthday one year.

A picture of two parents warning off an intruder; it's actually pretty ugly! ^-^

This dragon came out cool at the time I drew it. It was an experiment I did to make a different looking dragon.

A picture of a younger dragon passing by a sleeping adult nervously.

One of my old generic dragons.

Advice: Making up your own style is a great idea. Copying someone else's pictures exactly won't improve your skills that much. Actually, to tell the truth, sometimes using ideas from someone else's art helps sometimes! In the making of my style of drawing (mostly dragons), the legs, head features, and wings have evolved from ideas I got from other people's art. To tell you the truth, most of the sources were movies (The Flight of Dragons) and video games (Breath of Fire/Pokémon)! And if you can't tell, the eyes (pupils) I draw on my dragons I've adapted from my absolute favorite anime, Slayers! (Gee... imagine that! ^-^)

Junior High Years

(6th, 7th, and 8th grade)

This is a cool picture. A dragon is sitting on a rock watching the sunset.

I was interested in drawing a picture with two dragons interacting with each other, which I hadn't done in a while, so I drew this one. Basically, a dragon couple. You can take a good guess as to who I was thinking of when I drew this picture. ^-^

When I was going through my "Legend of Zelda" phase of obsession, I drew this "Link dragon". I had this picture hanging on the wall by my bed for a long time!

Just a picture I drew in school when I was bored. I've made a joke about the "smoke" coming out of the dragons nostrils. Just look at the name of the picture!

This is what happens when you draw just for the heck of it: it comes out looking plain. (This dragon has a MAJOR overbite! @_@)

Another dragon I drew when I got bored in class. (Hey, most of my pictures I draw during class!)

I like how the wing came out on this one. A dragon looking over its shoulder. Wow.

This my first attempt at drawing one of my favorite dragons: my Bone dragon. The wings look cool, but the head came out all wrong. I had the Pokémon Cubone in mind when I drew this one.

More Bone dragons. They start looking better: standing in place, flying, and a baby.

I got curious again; I tried to draw a mechanical dragon. It came out pretty cool.

A picture of a mother and her baby. Aww...

When my friend was attempting to make her own manga series, I got interested in trying to draw creatures since I helped her model one for her manga. Here's one of them.

A dragonfly flying.

Just a pixie dragon.

I don't know why, but even though this dragon is really sketchy, I really like it. It has a lot of character...

At the time I drew this picture, I was just mad at the whole world in general, so I drew this picture of a dragon turning away from it all. (looking much like something Zelgadis would do!) I slightly modeled the head after Draco from Dragonheart. I love that movie...

This one looks kind of cool! A picture of a leg-less and arm-less dragon flying. (does it have any choice but to fly?!)

I don't particularly like this one, but it was kind of an experiment. I had WarCraft II and Diablo (computer games) on the brain when I drew it.

I've fallen in love with this dragon, because it was an experiment at drawing from a slightly different angle. All my dragons have "evolved" from this one, and if you've seen my Guardian dragons, you may recognize it...

A baby dragon of the previous type.

Another experiment. A friend of mine loves wolves, so I drew a wolf dragon!

The back picture on my old reading folder for school. I just had to put it up here! (After I drew the largest dragon, I noticed it looked so depressed...)

Here's a one-panel comic I drew for my locker. It's called, "A dragon's encounter with the Loch Ness." ^-^

Advice: I've been accused of being a perfectionist several times by my friends, but, I admit, it is true. In my band class, I constantly point out notes I've played incorrectly, and even when I'm drawing I criticize my own work. It may sound like remarks showing low self esteem , but I actually do it to fix what I did wrong or didn't like, and make it better. That helps me become a better student, and a better artist!

The Gates to High School

(9th grade)

This dragon totally reminds me of Gourry. I don't know if it's the pose, the expression on it's face, or both!

Yet another Bone dragon.

I was really ticked off one day because my oldest sister yelled at me, and out came this picture. I modeled it after an Ancient dragon from TRY on purpose!

A sly-looking dragon with it's arms crossed.

These were my very first attempts at drawing Lina and Amelia. They came out fairly well; the only problem is the fact that I looked off other pictures... :(

I had an assignment for Japanese when I had to draw out my daily schedule. This is my favorite one: the one for "okimasu", meaning "wake up".

In my Pre-AP English (Pre-Advanced Placement) we were watching a movie on the Loch Ness Monster, so I figured I would draw. I managed to draw Amelia's head fairly well, considering I didn't copy another picture exactly, but I forgot her eyebrows! I also drew a little Loch Ness Monster by her, but the comment Amelia's making is actually about how "good" she came out.

Another Loch Ness Monster I drew.

Just an SD dragon.

This was my friend's idea. I drew it for her, and it came out better than I expected!

This is a more recent version of the "Link dragon". I drew it in school, and I couldn't remember what his shield design looked like!

An evil-looking dragon. (and my experiment to see if I could still draw dragons normally, meaning non-SD!)

I love drawing on my school dividers! Here are two SD dragons, one of them being the SD version of the one above.

Another SD "evil-looking" dragon.

A generic SD dragon. (Also known as the Earth dragon from my Guardian dragons.)

I drew a more recent version of the couple picture from the previous list. I personally like the other one better...

This dragon looks spooked; I wonder if Lina's anywhere nearby! (The invention of this dragon scares me! I got bored in church and began to sketch a picture of this tiger-ish dragon. Then when I ran into my friends a bit later, they spread the news to me that Tiger, one of my friend's pet Guinea Pig, had died over the weekend. I let my friend keep the picture I had drawn.)

A not so happy SD dragon.

I love drawing when I'm bored; the picture always comes out good! Yet another SD bone dragon.

I drew this picture to test how a dragon would be built when looked at from the side. I based this dragon off of my previous Link dragon. Unfortunately, when I took the picture out to scan it, I noticed that I had drawn the front legs too short! Behold: the midget Link dragon!

This is a character I made up based on my favorite character from Slayers: Zelgadis. The original picture I had drawn was titled "Lone Warrior", but I decided not to scan it. (I don't think it looks that good.) This is one I drew during Social Studies because I was REALLY BORED. His back quarters didn't come out the greatest, and I accidentally added the extra feature on the tail which wasn't there before, but otherwise I rather like this one.

This one's pretty funny! It's another bone dragon, but this one's a little different... I drew it during a church class I have before school everyday, and in the middle of drawing it, my lead broke! The only other pencils I could use were the red marking pencils for the class. I'll always remember how this half-and-half drawing came to be! The colors actually make it interesting...

This is a dragon I made specially for a section I want to have on my website: a fanworks section. That probably won't come to be for quite awhile, but here's the dragon: my fanworks dragon!

I was bored in school again... I don't know what brought this on, but I wanted to draw a dragon on a sled for some reason.

I drew this for myself, but it was just an idea to work off of for a Japanese assignment. We were to write a poem about our pet, whether it be real or not. I figured, of course, that I'd have a dragon for a pet, so here's my dragon, Seigi!

My friend was over when I drew this dragon. She was going through her "scar-on-the-eye" phase with her dog drawings, so I drew a scarred dragon.

I wasn't very happy when I drew this picture. I was on a field trip for Japanese class; we missed the ferry on the way back, so we were sitting on our bus waiting for over an hour. I wasn't having much fun since people on the bus, consisting of some friends of mine, were starting to get "weird" on me, so I drew this rough-looking dragon to pass the time.

I was at my Grandparents' house, and I was just bored... and making sure I could still draw a dragon from the side. This one, I think, looks cool!

Another one I drew at my Grandparent's house. This is yet another dragon couple. I was in another one of my "romantic" moods.

These two are both the same picture. During the summer after my freshman year I REALLY wanted a different style of back pack- one I could paint a picture of a dragon on with puffy paints. When I finally found the back pack I wanted and bought it, I immediately started my painting project. This picture is the original picture, and this picture is the completed project. The final one came out better than I thought! Unfortunately there at tiny, thin patches of red puffy paint in random areas of the flap I painted on... oops! (June 2002: This bag broke after only one single semester of use. -_- What a waste of money.)

Advice: I've found it's better to draw when you have inspiration or an idea for a picture opposed to drawing just because it's something to do. And also something I've noticed: this isn't advice, but a fact; when someone requests a picture it's hard to draw the picture and make it look good! -_-

* The First Year of He... err- High School *

(10th grade: Sophomore year)

(Note: I drew way too much this year, as you can see. O_o)

This is a single sample of my many first attempts at people (which, in my case, were dragon-halves). It's very hideous. And the eye-patch? Well, I just erased too much, so I had to make a quick, easy alternative, otherwise my paper would've had a hole instead, no doubt.

Another better attempt. The girl's hair is very unusual, but at the time her body was the best I'd ever done before.

I drew this for my friend's birthday. Since I had no money (which isn't unusual) I baked her a batch of overly delicious Chocolate Crinkles (chocolate cookies rolled in powdered sugar) and gave her the recipe with this dragon on it. ^-^ It was fun, I guess.

These are just plain disgusting. I couldn't draw SD very well, or decent hair (which, as you might see, is just a bunch of single lines), so this is what resulted. >_<

This was drawn on one of my school dividers. I actually really like this one: a dragon and a dragon-half each unimpressed with the other.

I'm guessing this is one of the many drawings that resulted from Japanese class. I had on going thing of feeling left out and alone (since I'd been switched out of the period all my friends were in). Of course, I think I may have drawn this feeling grounded by school in general.

The first page in one of my many sketch books (when it was new).

I have a couple friends who are always starting new comic stories. At one point one of them created a creature for one of their comics, and it was just so cute that I had to try creating my own, just for fun. Of course, even though some of my friends think it's adorable, I think it just came out plain scary! @_@

This was an attempt at drawing a human from the side view. At the time I was really impressed with it. I didn't want to cover up the body I'd drawn , so I just draw the cape as if it were see-through (which it's not supposed to be, anyway). The other part of the picture is just me being silly. >:P

My state (Washington) holds a contest in the schools called "Reflections". They administrators set a theme for whichever year and the participants are to incorporate their own ideas with the theme into whichever style they choose out of visual arts, music composition, photography, and several others. I, of course, chose visual arts. The theme this year was "I Hold in my Hand...", so after much brainstorming I turned this in and tied 2nd place in my school for visual arts. Unfortunately, I never get past the district judging in these contests. ;_; (I swear, the judges have something against dragons or something!) If you don't understand what the heck this picture's all about, it's supposed to be "I Hold in my Hand the Power to Create".

This picture seems as the breaking point for my human drawings, even though she's a midget, and her eyes are incredibly large. ^-^

This, too. This was my first elf drawing, and it took two stinkin' hours to draw! Even though it's in black-and-white, I could imagine her clothes being green...

My first attempt at drawing me. Oh, horror of horrors...

I'd just seen Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when I drew this. The idea of having a familiar intrigued me, so I drew this tomboy and her dragon familiar. (If you can tell, I spent less time on the dragon than the girl. In fact, the dragon and the girl were actually drawn on two separate days.)

This is one of the many pictures I've done of my "Zel Neko" to go with my Slayers fanfic "Nocturnal Insight". It got cut off with scanning, but up on the top there's (again, me being silly) a hand holding an eyedropper labeled "Special effects!" to create the "special effect" on the kitty's head. (My sister had made a comment about him sweating, so I made it into a joke.) The girl in the background was just supposed to be one of Zel's many raving fangirls (again, me being silly), but I actually ended up putting her into my fanfic as a 6 year-old girl. @_@ Funny how that works. (She's in another picture with Kitty a little further down this list.)

I was "doodling", if that's what you can call it. I turned a human hand into a bird wing, hence the bird, then I just drew one of my pixie dragons to go with it. ^-^

Just a faerie. I was bored at home one night. (Don't ask me why she's holding a necklace. There's no particular reason as to why it's there.)

I really shouldn't do it, but I was doodling in church. (again ^^') Just some gryphons, a faerie, and an ugly lizard.

Planner pages are the best places for doodling when you're bored in class! ^^ These are several cutsie dragons and then some I was attempting to draw, but it's too hard. I'll just stick with my sinister dragons, thank you. ^-^

I was drawing this girl and her hair looked too flat, so I made it so she was actually dripping wet. My best friend accused me of putting the rag in the picture just so I could "crease it". ^^'

Just some girl running. I kind of like her hair.

It's me again, only this one actually looks more like me, I think.

This is a character from my online friend's fanfic "Slayers Resurrection". Her name is Sierra Gabriev (Yes, she's related to Gourry). This was pretty much concept art, but it's gotten all smeared over time. Oh, well.

For a church activity all the youth went to the swimming pool, but my two friends and I couldn't go in the water (Eh heh heh... ^^'), so we spent the time drawing instead. This girl's hair was inspired by Fam from Ruin Explorers.

I'd viewed an online "how to draw anime" thing (which, I admit, helped somewhat) so I was using their tips to draw this elf turning around.

Uh oh. Here we go... My first attempt at drawing the Slayers gang! @_@ Ok, so it's just their heads, but I still tried, right? I used pictures as references, but that's all. Notice how I drew them all on separate days (except for Zelgadis and Amelia, since I've drawn her all too much before).

I don't really consider this my first real "fanart", but I guess it is. It a full-body drawing of a disgruntled Zelgadis. I didn't copy, but I did use some images as references for his clothes. (Note to self: never try to draw the clothes on the body before the body is drawn.)

At my high school there's an after school program called "Visions" that submits a literary magazine at the end of the school year. People submit their short stories, poetry, or drawings to Visions and we publish them. I'd submitted these two, but for some stupid reason the people didn't put them in. (Neither did two of my friends' submissions. -_-) This first one is kind of cool. I was doodling in FST using all triangles. The second one is just plain ugly (it didn't come out how I would've wanted) but I still like the idea of the picture. It's called "Secret Identity".

These next two drawings were a fall through for my human drawing capabilities. They came out so good at the time that I didn't want to add hair or clothes to the first drawing in fear that I would mess it up (and I also didn't want to cover up my seemingly perfect lines of the body). These drawings are of a dragon-half female and a dragon-half male (drawn a few days later so the female wouldn't be lonely ^^). The only reason I ended up drawing inhuman ears, hands, and feet was because I had trouble drawing a human hand on the female gripping her blade. Even so, though, I think they look cool. ^-^

I was trying to draw something else here (in church, again ^^'), but it ended up as a serpent instead.

For some reason I created this character that I've grown really fond of for no particular reason: a wyvern named Bhrelyk (pronounced Breh-leek). Since this was the first drawing I'd done of him, it doesn't really portray his character correctly. This next one I'd done of him, only in "SD" this time, I think portrays his "happy-go-lucky"-type personality better. And it's just so adorable! :D

Before a church activity I was supposed to go my church house early for a song practice, but most everyone (which should've been only about 5 people or so) was late. -_- I ended up drawing this super-spiff sea dragon to pass the time.

Still drawing people, even though this is an elf here, but that's close enough, right?

This is absolutely one of my favorite pictures. "Strange Inspiration #1", I call it. While burning the trash outside one day, performing this pose and holding a stirring stick, the idea for this drawing popped in my head.

I'd never drawn a centaur before, so here's one here. I almost gave up in the process of drawing it, since I didn't like his face, but it came out ok. For all you horse lovers out there, I do realize that his legs are in the wrong positions for galloping. (If anything, that third leg should be back with the other one, at least.)

"Strange Inspiration #2". While walking out of the P.E. locker room, looking in the mirror with my jacket tied at my waste, the idea for this picture popped in my head. While I like his face, this dude looks like he's about to snap in half at the waist. If not that, than his legs may snap, instead. It's funny I hadn't realized all this while actually drawing this fruitcake. -_-

Japanese was getting to me again. This drawing portrays exactly how I felt. (I really love the dragon's head! And I actually did it at a different angle than usual! ^^)

Another drawing of Zel Neko-chan. (My sister said he looked wolf-like in this picture. Does he really?) I'm so angry, though. I can't ever draw him at ALL anymore. I have to practice drawing him, the punk.

Just a bunch of random doodles I'd cut out from planner pages and taped into my sketch book. I like the one in the upper left corner.

Just some dragon-half girl I've been drawing since the beginning. I really like this picture, actually. A pleasant expressioned dragon-half, and a smily dragon head. ^^

This is one of my fanarts, and the other picture of the raving fan girl who became a 6 year-old. This drawing shows one of the scenes in my fanfic "Nocturnal Insight".

This was a dragon I'd created to "guard" and represent my fanworks section, but I haven't yet gotten around to scanning, coloring, and putting it on the page. ::sigh:: I really like it, too.

This was a strange miniature dragon I'd drawn right after this last one when the folded wing of the fanworks dragon gave me inspiration. (It's just plain stupid when you start getting inspiration from your own material. -_-) I'm really angry that's its eye came out looking evil instead of looking more innocent. It wasn't agreeing with me.

This is some fanart I'd drawn for my sister's fanfic. (I don't know what it's called.) This is a scene from it, and that dragon is supposed to be none other than Amelia. Strange story, yes, but very intriguing. I tried to make her look similar to the black dragon in the first episode of the first series of Slayers.

I was bored one night, so I drew my Zel dragon again.

It was still the same night, and I drew this dragon-half. Then I got even more bored and went to bed.

Here's a drawing of all three of my generic dragons of the Ages. Ok, so maybe that's an exaggeration...

This dragon is one of my adoptable Guardian Dragons (see the bottom of the page for the link), called the Fhelynus. I don't particularly like this picture, though, even though I've always liked the dragon since I created it.

I draw this dragon to be a special Guardian Dragon especially and only for my best friend's Wiccan site, but I haven't gotten around to tracing, scanning, and coloring it. I'm sure I'll do it eventually. "Khlitreda" isn't really the dragon's name, but that's what I call her. ^-^

I drew this totally spiffy picture the week of WASL testing ("Washington Assessment of Student Learning", I believe). Unfortunately, I'd drawn it on the paper covering on the tables, so I had to wait till the last day of testing to tear it off. The whole week after I drew it I was so scared someone was going to scribble on it... ;_; But, as you can see, they didn't. >:D

A friend of mine had seen my full-body drawing of Zelgadis I'd done, and she requested a drawing for herself. So, after weeks of stalling the picture, I drew this: a very ticked-off Zelgadis. It came out pretty good, but I just had to give it to her... ;_;

One of my two younger friends had requested a drawing for the bulletin board in her room, so I drew her this dragon-half, based off of a doodle I'd done during the week of WASL testing. I was pretty impressed with how it came out.

While waiting in my church class I drew this dragon quickly with a gel pen. It looks cool, but unfortunately it's head is too small. ;_; ::sigh::

This was my friend's fault. It's a humanoid cat girl. She's wearing a unitard because my best friend used to be in dance.

Here's another picture portraying the two main characters in my friend's fanfic "Slayers Resurrection". Unfortunately they don't look like I wanted them to, but it still makes for a cool picture.

These are the two main characters of a manga/story I'd wanted to draw/write. Their names are Khelik (the winged, peacock-colored dragon) and Khorjack (the wingless, red dragon). Khelik is the main character, and Khorjack is his best friend, but he's my favorite. ^^

I really love this picture. I'd just ordered the rest of the manga for The Legend of Zelda (released by Tentou Mushi Comics) after finding one out of pure chance in Seattle. I love how the artist (Akira Himekawa) drew Zelda in the Ocarina of Time manga, so I tried to copy the way he drew her eyes. I didn't do it quite as well, but they still look ok, I think. Here's the original drawing of this reptilian-human hybrid, and the colored version (done with cheap colored pencils). The scanner made the colors darker than they really are, though, so I'm afraid you don't get to see it in it's full glory. ::sniff::

I took a long break from drawing, (more than two months) and ended up drawing this tropical-looking dragon in Biology one day. It came out really good, I think.

* This year was a very tough year, and I learned more about drawing than I ever needed to know.

Advice: This year I was trying my hardest to get the hang of drawing humans (which I could never do in the past). I've breached the first line, I think, but I learned something very important when I started. When you're trying to learn how to draw something new, don't get ahead of yourself. Don't start by trying to draw a masterpiece, because you'll most likely be disappointed and give up. (which I hope you never do) Start with something more simplistic- something you- and let your drawing skills blossom at their own rate. Don't push it too much. (When learning to draw people, I noticed that my dragonhalf girls with star-shaped bodies began getting longer and more shapely in just a matter of days.)

Advice: Something more I learned this year: Don't over-draw. It's good to draw frequently to get better, but again, don't push it. This year I was trying my hardest to improve, and I just ended up going through more frequent phases of not being able to draw anything good, always being disappointed with the outcome of a drawing, and beginning to view drawing more as a chore than for fun.

Advice: This is something I started to do recently. Whenever you're going to start a drawing that portrays a scene (or that maybe you just want to look good), it's a great idea to draw a plan. Not very complex, maybe just stick figures and simple props so you can get the poses and positions down before you draw the real thing.

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