Young Blue Gryphon

Banzai!!!

Sorry. I couldn't think of a better title. I've been feeling very uncreative the last few days. :/

Anyways, the first pic in my Ran-Qui series. I tried a few little experaments with the coloring that I think turned out fairly decent. I've got a few ideas for the other two pics in this series... I'm trying to tie Darth Revan into one of them because she lived dring that time period. (And KOTOR is probably my all time favorite video game...)

I guess I've just been in a Star Warsy mood lately. XD

"I have the body of a god... Buddha."
(title taken from a crappy t-shirt I saw a while back)

My entry for the well-fed furs contest on Furtopia.

This picture started when I was talking to one of my professors about a project that I was working on.

I didn't like the mascot that my college has now (a cartoon cardinal wearing a red shirt), so he told me to make a better one, so I did.

Cassie the reindeer. My entry for a contest on Furtopia.

I figured that my Alex, my bighorn character, needed a girlfriend... which is another reason that I created her.

Phoenix Nebula

I wanted to try something different with my space scapes, so I experamented with merging my illustration art and space art together. It was originally meant to be a Chinese Celestial Dragon, but it looks better as a phoenix I think.

And on another note... X-Men... there I said it, so nobody else has to. :p I didn't even think of that until after the picture was finished.

"Chasing the Sunrise"

To be honest, this was an unplanned picture. I was playing around with photoshop when I was bored, and ended up painting some clouds that I really liked. To complete it, I threw in some flying gryphons... including my character, Alesto, the kestrel-gryph in front.

Character design done for my boyfriend.

The idea of drawing an anthro lemur had been mulling around in the back of my head for some time now. I wanted to try drawing the big poofy tail. I named him "Chez" because he looks like a Chez to me. Dunno if I'm going to use him for anything else.

Magnum Shiosai, my golden Asian dragon character comes in for a graceful landing on a mountain top. I always pictured Asian dragons to almost moving like they are dancing when they fly.

Character "Magnum Shiosai" © 1998-2005 Traci Vermeesch

For Mistwing, the winner of my "epic cloud" commish auction on Furbid. He wanted his flying skunk character dancing along fluffy summery clouds.

CHaracter © Mistwing Silvertail

Cloud Racers - Quickie of two dragons in flight.

I was looking through my metallic dragon picts, when I realized that I didn't have one for my favorite metal... copper.

Cover to my new book, How to Draw Anthros and Fantasy Creatures. (Yeah, I finally got it done)

Feeding my obsession with crows.

Crystal Queen

I decided to give Libby a new look because she looked too much older then she really is (17 years) and her clothing style looked too much like Ulario's.

She's been a bit cutified, and her body is less matured then she once was.

This was kinda an accidental picture. The background was supposed to be used for something else, but I didn't like how it turned outso I played around with things until I got what I have now. Dragon was put in because someone on DeviantArt once said they wanted to see me draw space dragons.

Decatur takes a break during a pre-show audio check.

Arcturus, my Anubis character. I wasn't planning on drawing this character again since she is part of a separate RPG game project I've been working on, not part of my main story. However, one of my friends said that he wanted to see more drawings of her, so here she is.

Desert Sun

I've been coloring this picture almost nonstop for a good chunk of the day so now I'm tired.

Anyways, since I've been drawing my Theran species I've decided to draw Theran terra dragon, which are more or less based on the euro-mythology dragons. This really isn't a typical terra dragon because she has a few rare mutations (the circlet of horns around the eyes as well as the folds of skin that resemble scales located just below the head). :p

And yes, this dragon is female. Why? She just looked like one to me.

Trying an anthro species that isn't done very often. I dunno if the surfboard is correct. There isn't a lot of surfing here in Michigan.

A 1940s-style movie star dragoness.

Did I ever mention how much I hate rice paper? Well, I do!

Okay, so I don't hate rice paper, I just hate trying to make it look like rice paper.

Anyways, experamenting with interacting characters. I was a bit iffy about putting Kjata in a traditional male kimono because he's more of a western dragon... but I think he looks nice.

Magnum and Kjata share a moment together.

Dragonrider - Final

A female dragon rider with her dragon.

Semi-inspired by the movie Eragon... even though I didn't like the move and thought that they ended it like they simply ran out of money (but I would like to read the book since I've heard it's really good). Since this dragon isn't a leathery-skinned Theran dragon (from my writings) it was kinda my chance to go nuts with the coloring. It was fun.

Image © 2007 Traci Vermeesch
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Flight of the great white dragon.

Dragon Soul

... within his chest beats the heart of a dragon.

Aredon, the hero of my sci-fi stories with his totem animal, the dragon (I sort of consider him to be an otherkin). The dragon in this picture is more of a symbolic dragon rather then an actual dragon. While "true" dragons do exist in the Azura't'oris universe, they live on a world that his species knows very little about in the current timeline. As far as Ared knows, dragons are still mythological beasts.

This is really my first time working with individual scales on a dragon as all of my dragon characters have leathery skin. After doing this picture, I'm pretty happy about that fact. Doing all of those scales wasn't difficult... just painfully boring, tedious, and repetative.

A girl and her dragon. A cover for a "how to draw" book that I'm writing.

Spirit Dragon - Species Reference

Though I've generally been trying to avoid drawing my own dragon characters lately, I figured that since I recently did a Species Sheet for my Theran Gryphons that it was only fair that I did species sheets for my Theran dragon species as well. Especially since these sheets are grat for using as references for commissions or exchange communities.

This one is for my Drakken'Re... or Spirit dragon species who are reminiscant of Chinese dragons. Species sheet for my Terra dragons (who are more based on European dragons) coming sometime in the near future... I hope.