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Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and I've cooked up yet another cool Candy Crush Saga fan art about it!
That's right, it's a reenactment of the scenario of the game's 120th episode, Delightful Docks, (released June 2016) and it shows Denize herself in need of a pick-me-up before she can go to the dragon boat races. She sits on the docks, exhausted, dangling her feet and prehensile tail, the latter which will go limp and droop should she run out of stamina. Only a helping of her favorite meal, zongzi, could restore her stamina, and Tiffi happens to have a piece on hand to feed her.
With Denize's prehensile tail too weak to grab her meal and bring it to her gaping jaws, Tiffi must toss the zongzi up into the air (and risk accidentally getting it dropped into the water) for Denize to catch in her tiny, clawed hands. In spite of this risk, Izzy gets her meal and the burst of stamina she needs to hop into the water and rocket through Delightful Docks at breakneck speed!
This is one of the few fan art pieces that I've made that are based on an episode pulled straight out of the game, and I wanted to preset a somewhat more realistic look at the Delightful Docks scenario. I wanted to show that if Denize gets tired, she has to sit out and deal with her limits instead of floating out, ready for a swim. One observation I've made about her anatomy is that she usually keeps her tail up like a squirrel, and that takes energy. When that's gone, I surmise her tail would droop. Only a helping of zongzi could restore her strength, and this fan art shows Tiffi giving it to her, just like how the scenario of the episode would end. And I've also made efforts to faithfully reproduce the background appearance of the Docks, to make it clear that this is Delightful Docks, all right. The original image of the Delightful Docks outro, for your reference, can be seen here:
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Upon hearing that Candy Crush has opened up a gift card mini-tournament for the United States of America, I decided to go ahead and make yet another special Denize cheerleading livery to help Crushers compete for this invaluable prize!
With orange caramel candies being the target candy to collect to compete for the gift card, I added orange accents to this outfit, in addition to coloring the sneakers, pom-poms and head ribbon orange as well. I used blue for the bra and skirt because the Nutcracker and Tiffi (who's also dressed like him), are hosting it. As for the symbol I put on her bra, it's simply a bright blue gift card with an orange caramel candy on it.
Good luck, American Crushers! May the best one win!
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Today is the first day of summer, and I happened to come up with a cool idea for more Izzy fan art that'll be heartwarming!
That's right, it's Izzy back home in Lemonade Lake enjoying her stay-cation! Sure, she's up for going places to relax, but sometimes there's no place like home for her when it comes to relaxing on a hot summer day! Here's she's bathing in the lake enjoying a big, sweet lemon pop made by none other than Olivia!
For the many ways I wanted to show a full picture of Denize, I've sometimes had no problem with making art where you don't get to see her rarely-seen legs, and this was one of them. I also had no problem evoking the notion that she was easily mistaken for a sea serpent and thought up of a way to show her acting playfully at home floating in her lake. With summertime being a good time to swim, I then decided that the picture would be about her enjoying a relaxing staycation. To make it clear that she's enjoying herself, for starters, I had Denize wear sunglasses and her two-piece swimsuit. As for what she'd be actually doing, I then recalled wanting to make a picture of Izzy sticking out her flat purple tongue, and settled on making the picture about her licking a cool lemon pop in the heat of day. Of course, with her arms being too short to hold it, I had the treat held by her prehensile tail.
Originally, I was just going to show Tiffi again nearby Izzy as if she were to hand the snack over to her, but then after some consideration, I realized that it would be better if Olivia the octopus, known for making food and treats, would have the honors of doing so, and I then put her in the lake as well, reasoning that she would not have any problem swimming in lemonade. And thus, this is my first fan art depiction of Olivia!
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After discovering what Denize would look most likely like in official art and in-game graphics, I realized today that with the heat of summer here today, it was about darn time to finally update the pink pitaya lemonade carton art once more so that it now bears her near-official full appearance!
Now wouldn't that make this drink just a bit sweeter?
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Whoa! I thought you would be so surprised to see my fan art of poor Izzy winding up in a Bubblegum Trap in this forum. She definitely looks as if she's not having a good day!
This fan art was inspired by the Volcanic Panic event that entered beta in June of 2024, in which the last level of an episode is changed to a bubblegum rescue mission where you have to remove all bubblegum to break a Bubblegum Trap that is holding one of three male characters in the game hostage, or to destroy the Bubblegum Shield of the evil Bubblegum Troll holding them all hostage once they've been freed. The very notion that the Bubblegum Troll would be powerful enough to trap characters in huge gobs of very sticky bubblegum led me to wonder how bad it would look if a huge monster like Denize herself became the Bubblegum Troll's next victim, and trust me, when you see her helpless, you will definitely want to rescue her, even if you can't easily imagine a giant dragon being held hostage and in need of help. The result is that a powerful trap engulfs her long, long body, sticking and rooting her to the ground and completely immobilizing her. That's right, all of her limbs are smothered and frozen in bubblegum, so she's not able to move at all! The bubblegum also sticks her tail to the ground since Bubblegum Troll knows that she has a prehensile tail that he'd be smart to disable with gum as well. And to top it all off, the slimy bubblegum sticks her jaws shut so she couldn't talk or breathe fire to melt out the bubblegum (although the Bubblegum Troll is kind enough to let her breathe through her nose and see with her eyes).
After you've taken one good look at what Izzy has got herself into, I'm sure you'd definitely want to do anything to save her. She would clearly appreciate any help in getting her out of this sticky situation!
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Summer is already here, and Izzy hits the beach as usual. But this time, she picks a more tropical spot and feasts on coconuts!
She cannot resist their sweet juice, and she snakes up a palm tree to devour more coconuts, crushing them with her massive jaws and tasting the juice with her big, purple tongue.
This picture lets you see how this monstrous dragon can go snaky when it comes to eating food - while still not being a carnivore. It feels quite fun to see her snake up a tall palm tree and eat coconuts, which are hardly out of reach for a towering monster like her. It's also another fun, goofy summer fan art work!
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Today was a momentous day, because it's not just the start of the Summer Olympics, but the release of a well-anticipated (though age-inappropriate) superhero movie! And that necessitates THREE pieces of fan art involving Denize and her husband.
First, let's unpack Denize's sweet sports swimsuit that she plans to wear to the Summer Olympics in Paris, because it's quite sweet to have dragons competing in the Olympics in their year!
This swimsuit is obviously different than the yellow beach bikini she wears when she hits the beach, designed to cover more skin for increased decency and reduced exposure for an athletic competition. Still, it needed one more detail to make it look sporty: add something that would help her best represent the Candy Kingdom. And that would be to stud the entire swimsuit with yellow lemon drops against a lilac background color. Yes, that's one of the 6 candies to crush in the game and it's her favorite candy! I also added yellow gloves to soften up her claws so that she wouldn't, say, damage the ball in a game of water polo.
Now have a look at Mr. Dragon hanging four in the French Polynesia!
Last year, I imagined Denize's husband taking up surfing in her family beach vacation photo. Never did I consider how his surfing skills could be of use in the Olympics until we all heard that it was going to take place in French Polynesia. While that does mean that Denize and her husband do have to split up, there's no doubt that this smart move will allow them to play to their strengths when it comes to representing the Candy Kingdom athletically in an arena as global as the Olympics! To make the picture more awesome, I decided to look into what the popular phrase "hang ten" meant, and it would be to stick out all human toes over the front of a longboard. But since it's quite difficult to draw Mr. Dragon sticking all of his six toes over the board to hang six, I then had to settle with him hanging four, thus allowing me to title this work "Hanging Four in the French Polynesia".
And now, let's move on to the third and final fan art piece I released today, "Dragonpool and Yetirine".
This artwork was also imagined and whipped up in a flash when I realized that Mr. Dragon and Mr. Yeti could make for an excellent parody of the Marvel superheroes Deadpool and Wolverine, just days before their film would hit theaters to mark their entrance into the ever-expanding blockbuster Marvel Cinematic Universe. While I will concede that a Dragonpool did exist before in a Southeast Asian mobile game Marvel Duel, I went ahead with the idea of Mr. Dragon being Dragonpool because a dragon version of Deadpool just sounds and looks awesome. And I also hit on Mr. Yeti being Wolverine because he's a tough mammal, and would still also look awesome with long, retractable claws.
Of course, I made sure that their costumes would be as close to the real deal as possible. But for Dragonpool, because the weapons are age-inappropriate, I had to change them to comical forms. Deadpool's pistols are replaced with toy lemonade guns, just like how it was done for Denize's Lara Croft cosplay, and his trademark twin katanas are replaced with pretzel sticks, in a callback to Candy Crush Saga's 26th episode, Pudding Pagoda, as the weapons used by Tiffi and Bubblegum Troll for a duel. And Yetirine's claws were also changed from sharp adamantium to licorice to better fit the theme of Candy Crush.
Their catchphrase of "Let's fudging go" is a sweeter, euphemized version of a more profane line from the movie, "Let's f***ing go". And also note that "Caramel Comics", the publisher presenting these parody superheroes, is a sweet parody of Marvel Comics, using four of the six letters of its name!
Also, if you've also found the French-language post on this forum celebrating the start of the Olympics, don't take it to mean that it's a language I speak. I just wanted to take advantage of the forum allowing foreign languages and honor a common language used in the Olympics today alongside English, as well as the super-obvious national language of France.
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When I realized that the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony was done on a river instead in a stadium for the first time in Olympic history, I just had to whip up yet another sweet piece of fan art because I strongly surmised that the Opening Ceremony being done on a river with boats containing each nation's athletes would give Denize a chance to shine on the world stage if the Candy Kingdom were to come in because swimming is her specialty! She would have the honor of towing the Candy Kingdom's opening ceremony boat with all her fellow athletes aboard, as well as bearing the flag of the Kingdom. All on a Year of the Dragon!
To begin building this magnificent piece, I first had to give the Candy Kingdom its own flag, and my effort to incorporate all 6 candies and colors led me to create a flag that looks a little like that of the United Kingdom with its pink border stripes faintly reflecting the Union Jack.
This would be one of the flags Denize would hold as the flagbearer. The other flag she has to hold would be a purple flag given to each nation's boat that would indicate its name bilingually in English and French. An example of both flags can be seen in this photo of the United Kingdom/Great Britain's opening ceremony boat.
(For the actual fan art piece, I showed the French side of the flag just for kicks and tried to emulate the flag font by hand.)
As Denize has to swim in the Seine, this is one of several fan art works of Denize where I don't show her legs, as she's usually depicted in official artwork and graphics. Her legs are underwater here, kicking and treading to tow the Candy Kingdom's boat forward under her own power, and don't worry, she's scarfed down enough zongzi to attain enough stamina to be the team boat's engine throughout the entire ceremony - no petroleum or motor needed. Her prehensile tail pulls a tug rope tied to the boat to tow it across the Seine, but I had to make sure it's tied in a way that her dorsal spikes wouldn't fray it, so it's tied closer to the unspiked end of her tail.
One of the few final details that I needed to put in to make this Opening Ceremony picture as sweet as it can be was to have Denize wear a tracksuit that would all the Candy Kingdom's athletes would wear to initially represent themselves in the games. I settled on designing one that was as brown as a candy bomb with pink sweet accents, and the game's crushable candies scattered all over the front of the suit. Because Denize was going to swim while wearing one, the tracksuit could only cover her chest, arms and stomach so that it wouldn't get wet in the river. The other was to slap on a stock photo of a sideways section of the Seine as the background, and voila, we have our monstrous, super-long lizard lady leading the way for the Candy Kingdom's finest athletes!
Oh, and don't mind the article in this forum about her leading the Candy Kingdom into the Opening Ceremony being written in French as well. I just think it's interesting to do. Bonne chance!
