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This is a huge project I've been working with 
mandarax to do. He's been such an awesome commissioner too (which I expected nothing less from him of course!)
This piece is based off the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. The scene was completely his idea, and since the Temeraire books are amazing, I totally jumped right on it. Okay, so he was the one to recommend them to me, but still!
I hope you all enjoy the piece just as much as I did making it! This took roughly 50 hours, but most of that was concepting in class so it probably doesn't count. (So maybe around 30 instead.)
Featuring Mandarax and 
Navyraptor
mandarax to do. He's been such an awesome commissioner too (which I expected nothing less from him of course!) This piece is based off the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. The scene was completely his idea, and since the Temeraire books are amazing, I totally jumped right on it. Okay, so he was the one to recommend them to me, but still!
I hope you all enjoy the piece just as much as I did making it! This took roughly 50 hours, but most of that was concepting in class so it probably doesn't count. (So maybe around 30 instead.)
Featuring
Mandarax and 
Navyraptor
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fanart
Species Dragon (Other)
Size 1200 x 750px
File Size 1.53 MB
if you honestly think that way, you should seriously consider to start reading the Temeraire books written by Naomi Novik or listen to its audio books.
the Temeraire series basecally is historial fantasy. its the napoleonic wars with dragon and the main characters are the english captain William Laurence and his dragon, the super intelligent (although incredibly naive) dragon Temeraire.
the Temeraire series basecally is historial fantasy. its the napoleonic wars with dragon and the main characters are the english captain William Laurence and his dragon, the super intelligent (although incredibly naive) dragon Temeraire.
I read the books too, I noticed a yellow dragon in your drawing. Is that suppose to be a yellow reaper? If I recall it right, (has been quiet a while since I read the 1st book so I'm not sure of this claim.) then yellow reapers have black stripes. Anyway looks really awesome maybe you should try to draw the epic fighting scene in the book victory of eagles.
Just taking a guess the dragons in the background are flying really low, considering the ships cannons are shooting at them, since any cannon on the lower deck can't aim that far up, and ones on top can only aim up some, since they are designed for aiming 'forward' and not so much upward, then again these could be some sort of 'specific history' cannon variant that can aim up a lot more...
...Yes I geeked about the canons >.< go figure, But the picture is amazing as well. *nods*
...Yes I geeked about the canons >.< go figure, But the picture is amazing as well. *nods*
Most of the tracer trails aren't from broadside cannons, but (fictional) pepper guns and (semi-factual) puckle guns. Even if the long guns could elevate that high, they'd be too slow to aim at flying dragons, so smaller, faster-firing weapons are used to try to keep the flying beasts at bay. With only limited success.
While pepper guns as used in Temeraire are fictional, there was a real gun, the name of which I cannot remember, which was very large bore (often 20-32") which would be loaded with shrapnel and small shot and was fired across an enemy ship's decks, in an effort to kill or maim as many men as possible. A very effective anti-boarding weapon. These would usually be mounted fore and aft, where the broadside guns fired the large cannonballs designed to try to hole the hull enough to force sinkage.
I actually learned a lot from the very well researched fictional series Bridgemont by Mark Arbour. It begins with The Gunroom, if you're interested in reading it, but be warned, if you don't want to read gay fiction with graphic sex on the high seas among naval men in sexy uniforms, stay away.
http://www.gayauthors.org/story/mar.....our/thegunroom
http://www.gayauthors.org/story/mar.....our/thegunroom
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