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Today, to celebrate Valentine's Day and the release of Tomb Raider Remastered, I released 3 different fan art pieces.
The first one simply shows Denize and her husband sharing an intimate moment while skating on the frozen surface of Lemonade Lake.
The second is about a gummi dragon being dressed as a cupid. It was clearly inspired by how their wings alone allow them to make for good cupids. I was sure to add all the details, including a toy Greek bow and arrow and a toga to complete the look.
And lastly, I showed crossover fan art of Denize the dragon cosplaying as Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series, in honor of Tomb Raider Remastered, a HD collection of Core Design's first 3 Tomb Raider games, being released on modern platforms with updated features and controls. The fan art was inspired particularly by the premise of the second game, Tomb Raider II, in which Lara Croft hunts for a magic dagger called the Dagger of Xian, which can turn anyone who stabs themselves with it into a dragon. From there, I began to wonder what Croft would look like if she stabbed herself with the artifact and became a dragon herself.
For this fan artwork, I tried to map Lara Croft's classic outfit and appearance onto Denize's body as faithfully as possible, but some compromises had to be made. First, while Croft herself is unafraid to use real guns to battle evil, I could not have Izzy doing the same due to the family-friendly theme of Candy Crush, so I substituted the pistols with toy squirt guns that shoot lemonade. Second, although Croft's pistol holsters are usually part of her belt, I am not able to do the same with Izzy's costume, due to her short arms, so I attached them to a separate chest-level harness that allows her short arms to reach for and holster her weapons. And lastly, while Croft is also known for having very long hair that she ties into a braid, Izzy herself lacks hair as a reptile, so that was completely omitted in her cosplay.
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With the final round of the Winter Games getting underway, it's time to unveil Denize's cheerleading liveries for both competing teams, (from left to right) Team Tiffi and Team Yeti!
Both cheerleading liveries were colored appropriately to reflect the colors of the team leaders' winter gear, and were derived from Denize's Winter Cup cheerleading livery, as this is a cold wintry event that calls for appropriate gear to help Izzy withstand low temperatures usually dangerous for a dragon. The striped skirt and dual-colored pom-pom designs were copied off of the 2023 Candy Cup cheerleading livery.
These cheerleading outfits were later updated to add the names of the teams on the main cheerleading suits for an added touch.
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the Winter Olympics, which began in Chamonix, France, I've also released fan art of Denize and Odus striking a pose after a sweet figure skating performance en route to their 2022 Ice Cream Games Pairs Skating championship.
For this picture, I wanted to show another glimpse of Denize and Odus being figure skating partners, besides the one many Crushers got to see when the 2022 Ice Cream Games Pairs Skating.
I eventually settled on having both of them strike a pose with both of their arms (or wings) swung over to one direction and their feet pointing in opposite directions. To make things even more interesting, I decided to use a stock photo of an ice rink as the background of this fan art, giving it a sweeter touch.
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Denize may be busy cheering for the Winter Games, but her husband has decided to side with Team Tiffi and shred the slopes with her on snowboards. Here he is catching some huge air!
The reason why I had Mr. Dragon going with Team Tiffi was because his arms are too short to hold actual ski poles, which must be made longer to accommodate his height, a problem that snowboarding wouldn't have. Furthermore, I wanted to make a callback to the game's third episode waaaay back in 2012 and show how indebted Mr. Dragon is to Tiffi personally for helping him get his Lemonade Lake refilled.
Note that this fan art is built around a literal interpretation of the "tail grab", a popular trick in both skateboarding and snowboarding, in which the rider grips the back of such vehicle with their hand. But with his species having short arms, he can accomplish this feat with his prehensile tail, adding a literal, punny dimension to it.
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Finally, after Izzy spent a good amount of time relaxing in Mr. Yeti's bubbly hot chocolate spa, it's time for her to get a good massage from Tiffi and Hilda!
This is the first time I've shown the face of the game's main character, Tiffi, at long last! This fan art is meant to be the third and final part of a trilogy of images about Izzy going down cold and getting some relaxing treatment to deal with it all, starting with "Don't Freeze to Death 2", "The Hot Chocolate Spa Session", and now, "Massage Time". I'm not sure on why I decided to throw in Tiffi, but it's nice you'll finally get to see how I showed the face of the game's central heroine.
Note that she wears yellow gloves because Izzy's dorsal scales are a little sharp as a defense mechanism, and the gloves offer some protection to Tiffi as she gives this huge, long beast her soothing massage.
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Today is the start of the Paris Winter Fashion Week, and Izzy is stomping into it dressed up as what many may regard to be literally the world's coolest princess!
This dress is clearly inspired by Elsa, a major character in the 2013 animated film Frozen. I've designed it in honor of a late 10th anniversary to the film, and it was my only good idea that I came up with when I asked myself the question of what a giant dragoness like her would wear if she were to come to a winter edition of Paris Fashion Week, after opining that she would come to the standard Paris Fashion Week last October in her 2022 Gummy Gala dress.
The dress design itself I used was based on the new dress Elsa wears after using her powers to transform during the song "Let It Go" midway through the film, and also includes a white tiara similar to the golden one for the Gummy Gala dress. While magical ice powers and long blond hair don't accompany Izzy to the runway, she also wears a blue snowflake necklace, based on the blue candy reskin for the Winter Cup last month, as an added touch.
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Today is yet another Leap Year Day, which happens once every 4 years. With all the talk about frogs on this kind of day, and with this year being the Year of the Dragon, I cannot help but throw in this quick fan art of Denize and Freddie together!
We all know big reptiles, like snakes, usually prey on frogs. But I wanted to imagine Freddie being brave enough to look past Izzy's snakelike appearance and hop on her nose to see this giant dragoness eye to eye. And to do that, I had to show her taking a big dip in his pond, hiding much of her body underwater to sell the illusion that she's this big snake. I also didn't forget to add lillypads to further make it clear that this is Freddie's turf that Izzy is paying a visit to!
Also note that I'm showing the hungry, slimmer version of Freddie. His satiated form after eating a lot of candy (shown below) would entail an increase in his weight, making him a bit too heavy for him to keep himself stable on Izzy's head.
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The outlaws of the Reward Rustle can be pretty slippery, but that can all change when Izzy reports for duty as the sweet Sidewinder Sheriff! Armed with a licorice lasso and a lemonade revolver, she's ready to bring out the long arm of the lemonade law to close in on the thieves with the fierceness of a rattlesnake! And oh yes, she's got a rattlesnake tail right there to serve as her intimidating siren!
This mini-event may be my only opportunity to make an interesting costume for Denize...a cowgirl sheriff, and I exercised great imagination to flesh out how she would look like to play the part! In addition to giving her all the usual cowgirl garb and gear, the most interesting detail I've decided to throw in to make it a bit wackier was to, of course, leverage her snakelike appearance to make her comparable to a rattlesnake, famous desert snakes known to be tough with their venomous bite. As rattlesnakes use their namesake rattles to intimidate predators, I toyed around with the idea of turning her tail into that of a rattlesnake and have her use the rattle like a police siren to warn thieves that they're in trouble and are about to be caught by the Sidewinder Sheriff! Tiffi would surely find her to be a great asset in her bandit-hunting posse!
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To kick of 2024's Women's History Month, I came up with the interesting idea of having Tiffi, Hilda and Denize sharing a good friendship doing something fun together...and it's skywatching.
What made this idea came to be included 1) how I remembered that some friends choose to express their friendship by lying down on the ground in a pinwheel formation, with all their heads close to each other, and 2) Denize loves to look for stars, according to her 2017 Star Dust event. I thought it would look quite sweet to see not just Hilda being friends with the monstrous Denize, but also Tiffi, the main character, befriending both of them for an interesting trio of companions.
I created both a day and night version of this picture to show that there's always something cool to see on a calm day, regardless in the day or night. The night version was simply created by darkening the image, reducing its brightness by 100%.
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Here's another cool fan art of Hilda and Denize journeying together into a dark cave. And Hilda is sure going to appreciate having a giant dragoness by her side, who uses her flame breath to light torches and her immense size to assure her that she should not be afraid of anything in the dark.
