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Remember those cute Funko POP! figures of iconic fictional characters? If Candy Crush were to get those figures, I'd imagine Denize's figure to look like this!
Doesn't she look cute? As usual, all Funko POP! figures are super-deformed, meaning big heads and small bodies, so I made some efforts to bring that aesthetic to this usually enormous and tall character. You can see how good enough that turned out.
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The gold medal race is already heating up in the hot summer of the Paris Olympics! As gold medals are handed out left and right (but not exactly as often as candy), I'm continuing to imagine Denize and Mr. Dragon scoring gold medals in several aquatic sports to bring home for the Candy Kingdom! This small fan art picture below shows them using their prehensile tails to collect each gold medal they win. And yes, this is my best mouse-drawn rendition of the official Olympics gold medal design for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Because dragons of her species appear to have sharp claws and dorsal spikes, collecting and wearing medals demands some delicacy. To protect the medal lanyards from being carelessly torn by these sharp parts, the officials have to hand the medal to the spikeless tip of their prehensile tails, which can grab the medal by the lanyard and then pass it onto one of their wrists to wear upon.
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Want to see one particular aquatic sport where Denize would be dominating? Here she is crushing artistic swimming in the pools of Paris!
Yes, turning upside down is a popular move in the sport, and it's pretty fun to see a long, snakelike dragon like Izzy do it in the water. This gave me the opportunity for me to draw just her entire lower body rising out of the water while she's upside down, and for kicks, I made her giant tail rise up like a cobra poised to strike, or a looming kraken tentacle. Such a touch is sure to impress the judges!
Of course, because she exposes enough of her lower body to let her legs rise out of the water to kick the air, I also had to draw the bottom end of her swimsuit, which I showed you in an earlier piece of art, as it's supposed to cover her cloaca between the legs (which I would dare not show you). And of course, I added ripples in the pool water for a small touch of realism like all the other pictures of Denize floating that I drew.
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With the Olympics madness continuing in Paris, and Candy Crush starting an Olympics-inspired event, Ready, Steady, Go, it's about time that I show Izzy making her mark on the track!
Here she is powering her way through the 400-meter dash, aiming for the podium to score yet another medal for the Candy Kingdom! In designing this artwork, I also gave her appropriate running gear to make her look sharp in the competition, colored brown with pink accents to represent Team Candy Kingdom. A white sticker is on her short running shirt, which all runners must usually wear.
As Denize basically has a long body and short legs, it's also worth noting here that she doesn't prefer competing in hurdle racing since it can take too much of an effort for her to safely leap over each hurdle and be in shape for a podium finish. And to keep the competition fair, officials rule that she would only be considered finished at the moment her feet, not her long upper body that she loves to lean out as she runs, crosses the finish line.
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To demonstrate that Izzy clearly knows teamwork in an Olympic competition, here she is in the final leg of a 4x100m relay race, where she prepares to run the final leg of the race once she can take the baton from fellow Team Candy Kingdom runner Tiffi on the track with her prehensile tail!
To make the picture work, I had to contort and shape Denize's body to make sure she can take the baton as safely and quickly as possible. That means having to turn her head backwards to face Tiffi, and curling up her tail to bring the unspiked end as close to the baton as possible to take it. The result isn't perfect, as her head looks a little big, but you can definitely see Izzy doing what she needs to do to finish this race.
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The Olympics are over and it's time for the Candy Kingdom to come home with some medals. But Izzy, having some strange interest in the city of Paris, decides to stay behind for one more day before coming back to Lemonade Lake with her family.
If you're wondering why I've kept imagining Denize in Paris, it's because it began when I first thought about her participating in the Paris Fashion Week's 50th anniversary last October and wondering how her Gummy Gala dress would be received there were she to stomp on the runaway. Wanting to see more of how this snaky dragoness dresses up, I then imagined her dressing up once again for the Winter Fashion week that followed. And now with the Paris Olympics, it's clear that she has some strange connection to this city that only I could imagine. And I also find it sentimental wanting to know what would happen if a friendly giant dragoness like her were to come visit France.
No visit to Paris is complete without a visit to its legendary landmark, the Eiffel Tower! While Izzy herself is too tall and heavy to board the elevator up to the top (and she'd draw the unwanted attention of the authorities, not to mention helicopters, if she tried to scale it with her own claws), she's fine settling with posing before it before heading home. But of course, she'd want to do it while dressing up finely once again. So I imagined her wearing a fine lady's dress, a ribbon-studded hat and a parasol to top things off, while posing before the Tower! I would not pass up this opportunity to have be the lady-est she could ever be! Trying to draw where her skirt would end on her serpentine body was not easy, but you'd be satisfied with what I had here.
Oh, and by the way, if you're wondering, Denize only speaks French un peu, only knowing some famous phrases and so on. But I hear that she plans to use the Duolingo mobile app on a family plan with Odus to try and learn the lingo…
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Summer may be almost over, but there's one activity I forgot that I think Izzy could enjoy: going camping in the great outdoors! Just think of it: making s'mores would be the best part of the trip for her, because she can start the campfire for everyone to roast the marshmallows on. And I've heard rumors that there's something in her fire can make these marshmallows taste better when they're sandwiched with the other essential parts of s'mores, chocolate bars and graham crackers…
If you plan on making s'mores in a campfire, just imagine how magical and divine they can be when you bring Denize.
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Whoa! Did you see Denize turning into a mer-dragon? Chances are, you'd never thought that would be a thing, but people have already imagined this, so here's my take on this hybrid monster!
An updated version of this fan art piece will be coming in October, along with my BTS explanation of how I created it. Hold on to your fins 'till then, and in the meantime, answer the poll below to let me know what you think about it!
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After hanging out with Milly the mermaid for a while as a mer-dragon, Denize decides to take a breather on the surface, resting against some rocks on a craggy cliff to talk with Tiffi.
Denize is pleased to tell Tiffi that Milly was someone interesting to hang out with, but she also goes on to say that she still looks forward to getting her legs back and going home back to Lemonade Lake, as the spell used to turn her into a mer-dragon (cast by none other than Stella the Witch from the Bubble Witch series, who also made a cameo appearance in one Candy Crush Saga episode) was designed to wear off after a period of time, and the loss of her legs and half of her ventral scales makes slithering on dry ground not much of an option, a disadvantage she wasn't planning on contending with for a long time.
