FIRST! And tis so prettiful!!! ^-^ The coloring and pose are both very good, and for the most part the anatomy is very good too. I have only two small problems: 1) the muscle connection of the forelimb should not be completely or nearly completely outlined and 2) the tail is too thin at the base. Both are very small problems against a very good picture.

Hi peoples! Nice picture, colors and desing looks good, but I'll complete Rana's criticism tour by saying front legs looks too short reporting to back legs... But it's maybe done on purpose.

I love the colors on this one! Great job Dragonfire!

i love the legs. and the scalework is beautiful, particularly on the face. very nice.

@Acylius: If you'll notice, the body is very tilted, and the back legs are very bent to accomodate that tilt. If the back legs were to stretch out a little more and the body would straighten out they would be very close to the same height.

Oreochema gives Dragonfire props! I think this is very well-done.

*props up dragonfire with large wooden sticks* @Oreochema: *quizically* Like this??

EEP! *wiggles around*

LOL...Rana you're so punny!

Hi everyone!! Yeap, yesterday was National Day in Belgium, and is was raining as usual. YEP YEP YEP!
*solemny raises the flag and listens to the national anthem and the King's speech*

@Zephyr: XDD I've always wanted to do that. *gives Acylius some firecrackers and sparklers to celebrate(

hehehehehe...sounds awesome Acylius. The U.S. sounds kinda boring now...lol

*pokes Zephyr* HEY! At least we get to blow up tons of fireworks and see sparkly lights! *eyes go all sparkly as Rana gazes into the distance* Sparklies.......

*grabs last firecracker and runs around with it* Whooohooo!

HEY! *chases after Zephyr for the last firecracker, arms flailing wildly*

*jumps in front of Zephyr and snatches at firecracker* Give me that!!!

WAH! *spirals into the air, clutching firecracker and trying to figure out a way to split it into three parts...*

*zooms up behind Zephyr and grabs the firecracker, spiralling wildly with Zephyr*

NOOOooooo! *spins faster, hoping to rid myself of Rana* Better hang on...you can keep the firecracker...

*grabs Zephyr in a death grip and hopes beyond hope that her water tightrope will hold out*

Glamph...my poor torso...*is having tons of fun right now beside the fact I'm getting leechified* Up and up and up we go!

>.< *is holding on for dear life now* oh god don't let me fall don't let me fall don't let me fall! I didn't mean to go this far for a single firecracker!!!!

LOL...if you fall, I'll catch you. *twists a little slower to let Rana get a better grip but keeps going upward* I can see my house from here...

*looks down and immediately regrets it* *GULP!*

To tell you the truth, heights are my archenemy. But in this world and in this form, there's no such thing as fear! *swoops down like a rollercoaster*

GYYYYAAAAAAAAAARGGGH!!!! *is struggling to get a water tightrope underneath me lest I fall into oblivion*

You won't fall! I promise you! *swoops back up, making sure Rana is secure*

phew! *smiles* *then...makes a SWIPE for the firecracker!*

WAH! *Rana succeeds in swiping firecracker**sighs* Okay...you can have it. LOL

w00t w00t! *dances on water tightrope and slowly descends to the ground* *once there I proudly place the firecracker in the ground and.....realize that I has no way to light it.* sigh....will you do the honors Zephyr?

Certainly. *charges claw with tiny amount of lightening, causing a small flame to flicker on its edge, lights firecracker* There ya go! BANG!

*the firecracker shoots upward, and explodes with brilliant colors and sparklies everywhere* *but....all too soon, it is gone*

Aw so pretty...well, there's always next year.

Yes, and New Years! *claps and dances about*

*dances around with Rana* Yesh yesh yesh!

Ugh...but before New Years...there is...(drumroll) The First Day Of School! O.O

LOL I would celebrate, but that's something that's seriously stressing me out nowadays...

*is wallowing in the pleasure of still having a month left, and ignoring the fact that it is not infact equal to forever*

LOL...yesh. I have two months left, but it's not going to be forever, either.

>.< *in denial!!!*

LOL...let's not think about summer ending, k? LOL

^-^ Summer is foraver.....wheeeeeeeeeeeeee...

^^ WHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

*suddenly, out of nowhere, a tardy bell rings....loud and clear and surrounding everything in it's wretched peircing whistle* Rana: nyuuuuuuu!!! *covers ears*

*starts to hum, hoping to shut it out* Ignore it, ignore it!!!

*holds head as if in pain, and rocks back and forth on the ground in fetal position as the dreaded sound continues*

*rolls into a ball, trying to keep from tearing up* The pain! It's burning!

*tries to dig herself underground with her bare hands* Stop it stop it stop it!!! >.<

*starts digging with Rana and then realizes the bell stopped* Ouch...my ears...*rubs head*

Yay! The bell stopped!! *dances* Oh...wait a second...that means we're late doesn't it?

Yeah...but who cares...

*suddenly an angry teacher stalks down both Rana and Zephyr* I care!

Yikes! The teacher can't nab me but he can nab you! *grabs Rana and takes off*

Uwaaaah!!!! *gets out of Zephyr's grasp and runs side by side with her* He's gonna put us in detention isn't he?? Nyuuu!!!

*also runs from school* nyuuuu!!! no school yet!! *spins and shoots a blast of air at teahcer, hoping to slow her down* *also lays a trail of ice behind us*

*the teacher runs after Nayru and Rana and Zephyr, oblivious to all attacks* Rana: Is there nothing to stop him??

*gasps* Just my graduation certificate! But that's not gonna help you guys out... *thinks*

*watches from nearby tree, laughing at Nayru's, Zephyr's and Rana's failing attempts to run from the teacher*

So how is everyones summmer going?

@ Silveera: It's not funny! LOL Well, maybe it is...and my summer is going well, firedrake. Just being lazy until I absolutely have to get ready for college.

Aw Zephyr! XDDDD I just remembered! You'd still be going off to college! *suddenly a college prof starts chasing after Zephyr with a very determined scary face* You shall write me a 100 page essay on the growth of mold and you shall have it done by monday or you will FAIL! O.O Anyway, as for my summer, I kinda epically failed at getting a job or doing ANYTHING productive whatsoever (as I am wont to do) so I'm just kinda seriously lazing about for the entire last month. *sigh* I love summer...

wow i really like this picture!!!!! ur a really good artist and i love the colors that u picked out!!!!!!!

thanks

I'z always like blue/purple/green color schemes, and you pulled this one off very well.

Yeah, Rana. I laze around whenever I'm outta work (which is also the time I should be getting stuff ready for college, like loan applications and such...) so...yeah. I'm too lazy for all this college stuff sometimes.

So...what? You're immune to all authority figures??? That's just wrong somehow..

LOL...in terms of professors, I kinda am cuz I don't have to go to the classes. But other than that, not really. I'm just abominably lazy.

I am too, but I'm still going to go to school!

@Zephyr. I'm like that... but it's mainly cause I have nothing to do anyway, seeing as I've finished school and don't work

@ Rana: Oh don't get me wrong! LOL...I'm definitely going to school. I just hate being forced to do stuff early. I don't start school til mid-September. LOL...I wish I didn't have to work, Silveera. Life would be less stressful that way...

Ay, but you wouldn't have any money either. Sometimes you have to sacrifice complete and total freedom like that for a life with at least minimal pleasures.

Meh. Yeah. Life is life.

*shrugs* unfortunately, that's just how it is. *sighs*

*sighs* Depressing.

Aye, but not all of it is. You always have to make sure to look at the good side of life every now and then.

yep n.n O.O omg almost got trampled today O.O today is the day that all livestock gets taken down to the fair grounds and we had all the goaties situated and the milking was done when a market steer went crazy and broke off its lead and no one could catch it and then it ran into the dairy barn with like 5 guys hanging off of it... it stopped right in front of the first cage with like 8 people piled onit and i was like wow that was close O.O and i was petting Izzy like ywo stalls down and then the steer started up again and began to drag all the people with it again and it came right towards me and izzy and my shirt was stuck on the fence and then it was like right on top of the pen and i got out just in time and the steer was then detained and it took 15 minutes to kinda calm it down and they loaded it int he trailer to take it home and it almost trampled the guys that took him in the trailer he carried on for like 10 minutes kicking and bucking in the trailer Izzy was like O.O wtfreak? O>O

Wow...that's scary. I remember being in a calf stampede...I was about 7 or something and I went into the arena with a whole bunch of other kids to get bows off of the tails of calves. It was so much fun...until I got knocked down and trampled on. That was about the craziest rodeo thing I was ever in. I've been in county fairs but nothing dangerous ever happened.

well thats good i was just glad that it didn't happen when the fair was open to the public with all of those little kids and strollers and things it could of gotten bad *shudders just thinking about it*

Wow...that does sound really scary! I'm glad you're ok though! *looks at the freaked out Izzy* Not sure if I can say the same for her though...

I second that...poor Izzy...

aw this one is really cute dragonfire. i love the fin work.

*huggles Izzy*

What is Izzy? A goat?

Sounded more like a cat to me....idk??

Izzy is a goat xD she's my old girl and big! She's okay now she is happy she got a blue ribbon and got a purple one

Oh wow! Tell Izzy congrats for me! And congrats to you too, catc.

Woohoo for ribbons!! I bet izzy looks WONDERFUL in blue and purple! ^^

lol thanks she loves her purple ribbons Nessie loves hers too too bad she couldn't go this year... oh well theres always next year hopefully

I forget, is purple or blue first place?

Blue. I believe.

Yeah....that's what I thought too, but then what's purple?

Honorable mention? That's all I can really come up with right now...lol

But...*is so very confused* Why would Izzy like purple more than blue then???

OH...lol...idk...

*pokes catc* Please explain catc! I be a so very confuseded little elf!