i likes you minis n.n *hair gets frizzy from the static radiating from his lightning*

Thanks, but the artist was actually me; I forgot to send that to the site. OOPS!! I'll have to remember that in the future.

Inspired, but I think you can improve on the lightning... Don't be offended, but the dragon looks like if he was eating a tree.

I agree. My cousin said the same thing. However, I'm not an avid lighning-drawer.

I'm not going to point out the lightning since that's already been dealt with, but the wings look like they could use some improvement. Remember, the wing is based off of a normal arm but very elongated with extremely elongated fingers. Also, belly scales do not go all the way up to the chin like that. But, the overall design and the feet are pretty good.

The only reason the wing looks like that is because I was trying to capture it both from the side AND folded. It didn't turn out the way I wanted, but it was the best I could do at the time. Thanks for the tip.

the position is great. The main problem is the way you drew the wing arm. Had yuo made it more arm-like and muscular, it would have been perfect.

Membrane folds!

Yep, the membrane folds are pretty good...

Thank you. I struggled with those a little, so I appreciate the compliment.

It's pretty hard to get, so yeah, this is pretty good.

What's your biggest struggle when you draw, Rana?

Hmmm...well, first of all there's the feet, which I already told you I'm pretty bad with. It's different with dragons versus humans. WIth humans I HATE drawing hands! They are the MOST annoying thing ever to draw. Other than that I'm usually pretty good with humans. With dragons, I often have a hard time making the eye look realistic, or drawing the wings an any position other than up and spread out. I also often have a hard time making my dragons interesting and unique. =_=' I actually am very unimaginative when it comes to dragon types and styles and whatnot, which is something I envy of all you guys.

Well, I can come up all kinds of dragons to draw, I just can't get those designs to show themselves when I place the pencil on the paper. That's where I envy everyone else. And I also agree that human hand are the most irritating element of creating a picture of a person.

@ Rana: Have you tried combining animals? Like a squid/bear/bird/dragon? LOL I've attempted that and it turned out pretty good despite the tentacles.

lol my favorite combination has got to be my dragon/bear/bull/lion xD

i've never tried something that unique... i have a combo that i use pretty much in all of my piccys a cat/horse/dragon combo

O.O has a contest idea (yes another one) what if we were all to create new and unique dragon-hybrids and whoseever is voted as the most unique on dragnix wins

:3 hmmm i likes it Dx but i has finals coming, so i doubt i'll be able to do much (if anything) within the next week O-O

oh it t'would be at least a month long contest for everyone on the site to be able to submit their piccys and to come up with ideas... idk it t'was just an idea

@ Catc: That sounds like a pretty sweet idea...just gotta find a time or deadline that would work for everyone. @ Serenity: A dragon/bear/bull/lion has got to be awesome. I've never tried those animals but I'm sure if the creature were real and he had a bad attitude...I wouldn't be safe anywhere.

hello tweaked *glomps* ya it would have to be a good deadline... one past all finals and testing and such....

a month...that just about right for me...im home alone for most of the summer so that gives me plenty of time

wish it was the same for me... iz haz to work this summer -.-"

@ Catc: Hi...yeah I'm the noob. But anywho...I gotta work this summer to. Make some moolah.

*dances around* I got a new fish tank, I ggot a new fish tank ^W^ I is happy, I finally got rid of my puny 6lt fish tank

wonderful moolah.... cold hard cash..... n,n i have to work to raise money for futher education this fall.....

^W^ now I has a 46lt fish tank, and two new fish, and It didn't cost a cent *continues dancing around* it's so cool, I drew my dragon on the back of the tank with a white board marker, now it looks like I'm swimming around the fish tank ^^

Well, I have made a dragon-headed chimera, which is one of my favorite mixes, as well as a housecat/parrot griffin, a very tameable and cute griffin. But that contest sounsd fun!

I love cash. Too bad I won't be able to keep it...*sobs* but oh well. @ Silveera: what kinda fish do you have? If I was any good at keeping fish alive for more than I week I would probably own more than a beta...@ Rana: It does sound like a cute griffin. Have you uploaded it?

Yes indeed. Oreo wants to see Rana's art. @Everyone else: HIIIIIII EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!

(has confession to make) I never actually drew it. I just sorta thought of it in my head. @Oreo: The only thing I've posted on here as Rana is my self portrait. Also, you can look up Jenu as artist and find a bunch of other pics I've drawn.

@ Oreochema: HIIII!!!! lol...@ Rana: You should put it on paper. I'm sure it'll turn out great.

yo!! im kelseys sister.....nice to meet yall!!!

Hi cece! Nice to meet you! Are you older or little sister? I has a little sister named Nayru, but she doesn't come on much. @Oreo: It would turn out great...if I weren't in a drawing funk.

@ Rana: I hate drawing funks. I get those more often than I get Writer's Block, and I don't draw much in the first place. @cece: Hello. Nice to meet you. Are you new here?

yeah, same here. I hate it when I get writers block though cuz then I can't do ANYTHING

@ Cece: hey! Good to meet you. Welcome.

Hey, tweaked, i don't beleive we have met before! i am Nayru, dragon of water, air, wind and silver. I am master of magic and gracefullness and queen of the skys. *bows elegantly* *trips* *flops over flailing arms wildly* yup. master of gracefullness

Hello Nayru! It's nice to meet you. lol...I wish I had as much gracefulness as you

Nayru be MY little sis! *huggles Nayru and gives her an epic noogie to da head*

Now I REALLY have to get myself a portrait...that way I'll know what I look like...

Normally, you have to decide what you look like first and then draw yourself. But...I guess if you draw a really cool pic that you like a lot you could make it your self-portrait.

Yeah...unfortunately I haven't drawn anything that I'd consider my self-portrait...they're just not...right. If that makes any sense.

how i first imagined myself was really boring, but i kept thinking up of new ideas and i added some colors a like and then voila! you have my char!

Idk how I decided my Jenu profile would look...I was just sorta writing a profile for Mars and it kinda all came out. Blue and teal, feather wings, a long swirly tail with a fish tail at the end, webs that popped out like a lizard's when I was mad, all that stuff just sorta came. With Rana, I had drawn a picture of a water elf, which I used in a roleplay with my friend, who then drew another pic of it, so i sorta combined those two plus some other concepts to make Rana. Hadina was easy because she's basically a witch, and Ryisha is just a mermaid.

making characters up is fun. hehe

Tis tis at that!

Ah yes. I have started my self-portrait! So far I have decided that I'm a master of wind, water, and lightening. A few of the elements of a glorious storm!

yays! i cant wait! i is working on mine too. but this one will have all of my three forms: wolf, human, dragon :3 it looks decent so far...but its far from being completely finished

That's awesome Serenity! I can't wait to see it!

I, as you may have guessed, master if ice. But I also control fire. And because of the two opposites, I can combine them to create water or steam! *attempts to blow steam, but shoots water out her nose* Now that's just embarrassing!!

LOL...now I know that trying to make you laugh might either incinerate me or drown me.

Alright, noobies, a few rules for powers and roleplaying! 1) This is the MOST important rule, you have to have a weakness of some sort. Like Ersska says, you can't go God-moding in an rp just so you can become the victor of a battle. 2) Stick to your character. If your character has different forms which use different powers, that's fine, but don't go adding a whole bunch of extra forms or extra powers, and don't change your character unless very gradually. 3) Keep your character and your powers in check with each other. I, a water elf, obviously cannot control fire. A small dragon like lom would have trouble lobbing huge rocks around. A large and brutish creature with more muscles than brains would have trouble working with long and complicated incantations. It can basically be summed up in one principle: humans do not fly. 4) *this is directed at Oreochema* controlling opposite elements is tricky business. You have to remember that these elements have a sort of character of their own, and forcing two opposing ones into the same character can be difficult. You might want to split your character into two different forms, one which controls ice and the other water, or you might want to add an ongoing internal battle with yourself at any given moment, due to the two elements fighting against each other. I don't know how you would do this, but you can't just have control of two completely opposite elements without any sort of consequence.
Anyway, keep that in mind n00bies, and don't break these rules! ^-^

lmao. nice set of rules u got here! i agree completely with everything here and i recommend writing down everything about your character in your profile bio just to help keep yourself in check

I agree Rana! I have a lot to think about since I'm a noob, but basically, I've decided that I'm a master of wind, water, and lightening. Lightening is a form of fire, right? So I'd have to be careful when I use water with it or I'll probably electrocute myself. Wind and water work fairly well together so that shouldn't be a problem. I fly like a spirit. I have no wings. I'm extremely fragile because of my light, flowing physique, but I'm very fast. I'm a peacebringer, not a war-starter, so I'm more likely to run to a safe position to fight rather than charging in. I still have a lot more to figure out, but that's the gist of it.

Wind and water are the most friendly elements with each other. Both being fluid elements, they can flow in and out of each other without any problem whatsoever. In fact, it's very hard to have a water vs. air battle because one always ends up helping the opponent. But yes, I agree with Silveera that your profile should include your powers and weaknesses. Writing your profile might also help you define and determine several things about your character.

LOL...it makes me wonder why wind and water would ever want to fight. Okay...when I get the chance I'll mess around on my profile and give myself a decent name. Tweaked wouldn't make a very good dragon...lol

That would be nice. Not to be offensive but I don't think tweaked is a good dragon name either.

Tis okies. Hmmm...gotta think about a new name. If you have any ideas, let me know.

well...you said you're storm powers, right? So...what about something to do with storm?

You know, I love my thesaurus.

my thesaurus helped me find my name...did u find a good name for urself in a thesaurus?

Or you could take the letters of Storm or something related to storm and switch them around a bit to make a cool name like, say...: Renduth (thunder)

I found a cool-sounding word that I'll most likely use - Zephyr.

Shweet! That is a pretty awesome name. Another name I like is Selador...it's so pretty no?

Yesh. I likes it A LOT. I wanna *twitches* steal it. LOL...sorry. I won't twitch again. Just had a moment. That name is pretty and pretty sweet too...

@ Rana: Don't worry. The idea was not to make myself all-powerful. I just based myself off of the character in my book. My weakness is electricity because of the water, and the fact that it's a really intensified form of fire. And I also cannot stand being in water for extended periods of time. It weakens the ice element and the fire element.

@Tweaked: I actually got that name from a quote of Tolkien: "The words cellar door are possibly the most beautiful words in the english language, disassociated from their spelling and meaning." I just changed the spelling and associated the meaning with a name, and viola! Selador! ...You still can't steal it though, lol! @Oreo: That means I would probably beat your butt in battle, lol!

Don't worry, I won't LOL That's pretty sweet. Hey Oreo, stay away from my lightening shield. LOL

Hmmm...the only way I could think of that I personally could get through a lightning shield like that is if I were to completely disconnect a tendril of water from my hand, and direct from the shield to the hand of the weilder, electrocuting them if that is possible. Otherwise, any water attached to me touching the shield would electrocute me.

I'm thinking the water passing from the shield to my hand would evaporate...

hmm...perhaps, but if I used a really thin line of trueseilver made from a single drop, that would work perhaps even better.

Ouch...then I probably wouldn't stand much against you in a fight...LOL

@ Rana: you probably could beat me in a battle, at least as long as you had a buddy fighting by your side. I don't muli-task well. . . .

O.o would I really need a buddy? If I took you on in warmer climates, where you're more geared to fire, I could totally whip your butt! However, it would be harder to fight ice, because that could literally freeze all my attacks, well, unless I went after you with Mizu or a lot of truesilvered water, which would be significantly harder to freeze, but I would have less water to use.

My air attacks could be pretty horrendous...

Aye, but remember, air and water are closely related and compatible with each other, it's hard for air elementals to do any damage to water elementals, or vice versa. I mean, try it. Try hitting me with an air attack

Oh yeah. Forgot about that one. *unleashes a microburst at Rana* An attempt...a futile attempt...

*rana shoots a small water needle into the air, dispursing the microburst with ease* Now, come on, seriously, that was just SAD!

You know, Rana, I think we're inevitable allies. No matter how much we can try to kill each other...we'll never be able to do it. But I can fire some tornadoes at you just for some practice. *spins rapidly, creating three funnel clouds which touch down near Rana*

*Rana creates three three huge discs, spinning rapidly like the tornadoes* *suddenly, she twists them on their side, creating a six foot tall rotating disc* *lashing out with both hands, she sends the discs careening into the tornadoes, disturbing their rotation and forcing them to dissapate* ^-^ *holds out hand to Zephyr* Forever allies?

*shakes Rana's hand* Of course. LOL...Now if you ever attack me up where it's really cold...eh. Oh, and have you seen my vacuum power yet?

Yeah, actually I have. Idk how water would counter that, but if you were to use it to pull me somewhere, I'm sure I could either avoid it or regain balance once the pulling was done. Also, I wouldn't be able to attack where it was really cold, remember, no ice? Now, I'd still be just as good at sword fighting, but all my water attacks would be very quick and short-lived, especially depending on the temperature.

Hmmm...interesting. I just need to get better with my vacuum power. But anywho...we're gonna be allies forever so there's really no reason to figure out who's tougher...

Now...Ersska, on the other hand, was in the middle of a battle with me, but somehow strangely left. Perhaps she forfeited the battle

Hmmm...maybe you're just too flippin' good! LOL

No, she's a hindu demi-god, I'm just a simple Varyen. I don't think she thought I was too good, I just have lots of back-ups. Namely...Hadina, three spheres of powerful poison water, and a "dead" phoenix. (I think she forgot that phoenixes don't die, so SHHHH!!!)

LOL okay...mum's the word!

I'm just waiting to see what Ersska has up her sleeve, as far as I can tell, she's used almost all of her major tricks. But...I've underestimated her before, so I could be wrong.

*gulps* Good luck!

She needs to get back on first! Lol! *waits ever patiently for Ersska*

I hope she gets back on...I kinda want to meet her...

She is pretty cool, but you has to remember...don't piss her off!

LOL...don't worry, I won't