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October 29

October 29

During my career of making Candy Crush Saga fan art, I have sent Denize to as many as four countries in Europe: the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Italy.

United Kingdom

In the summer of 2023, as the finals of the Candy Crush All-Stars tournament wrapped up with the winners being sent to London, Denize resolved to meet the winners there while being dressed in lollipop knight armor similar to that of Tiffi.

France

In the summer of 2024, the world gathered together in Paris, the city of love, for the Summer Olympics. I not only imagined her competing for the Candy Kingdom, but also staying a while longer to explore this magical city, including admiring its iconic Eiffel Tower from a distance.

Belgium

In early 2026, after discovering that Denize's name was spelled similarly to a Belgian town (Deinze, Belgium), I then imagined the dragoness catching a flight there and posing before its historic castle, which is called Ooidonk.

Italy

Today, with Denize's latest birthday signaling a more definitive end to my Candy Crush art career, I wrap it all up by showing her taking a nice beach vacation with her family and friends off the rocky but lemon-rich coast of Amalfi, just south of Naples, Italy. Sue the sea serpent, the successor focus of my artwork after Denize, starting tomorrow, also drops by to say hi.

@QueenB , are you disappointed that I didn't imagine her visiting your native Spain? If so, what would you have wanted her to do there? What other countries do you think she should visit?

The image of Denize visiting Belgium is based on a photo taken by Donar Reiskofferm, and is used according to the following licenses:

Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported - Creative Commons

Deed - Attribution 3.0 Unported - Creative Commons

Here she is imagined as a big Lego minifigure.

The interesting feature I've designed into this minifigure is that you can split her into 3 different body parts, the upper body, the lower body, and the tail. You can then plant the upper body and lower body onto a flat Lego board to simulate her wading in water or her own lake.

Thank you for your appreciation of my art of Denize and friends, @QueenB. Although you have shown interest in my artwork about Sue, it is with regrets to let you know that I am highly unlikely to present any more art of her on this forum because she is not part of the Candy Crush Saga universe.

In the meantime, I'd like to give you one cute final touch to my Candy Crush Saga art career, and it's just one more very interesting way to celebrate Denize's birthday. It all stems from how she's already more than 200 years old. You know how so much has changed over that period of time, right? That's why I'm presenting you a vintage-loaded sepia-colored filter version of my cute pic of a newborn Denize cracking out of her egg to see the world for the first time.

I also tried to make her look different from her daughter Didi by making her forehead a bit brushier, but I ultimately felt that small detail wasn't enough to distinguish her from her little girl. With this vintage sepia filter color version of baby Denize coming out of her egg, you now get a feel of what it was like back in the day when this sweet, beautiful monster was born; how everything was so different back then. And still nobody knows how many years it exactly takes for dragons like her to grow into the towering snaky monstrosity she is today.