Found some stolen art on a "clipart" website (https://www.clipartmax.com/max/m2i8G6K9K9H7K9K9/)

[malymin]

This was very obviously taken from someone's deviantart page or something, right? The artist wanted to redraw a design they liked, or "fix" a design they disliked, and placed the two side by side for comparison. I've seen this sort of thing a lot. There's a signature in the bottom right corner, but it doesn't give me enough information to look up the original artist. In any case, it's obvious this was never intended for use as clipart.

Any idea who might have made this drawing? And, for that matter, the artist and origin of the dragon drawing on the left - the original design? The redraw strikes me as the work of a young 2000's hobby artist heavily influenced by anime - and is obviously digital. The original drawing feels more in line with professional fantasy art from the late 20th century (though it could be more recent), and feels like it was potentially made with traditional media.

EDIT: Source found! Thank you, caramelchameleon!

Tineye reverse image search brought me to a 404 page but the overall deviantart gallery is still up and clearly matches the style of the redraw: https://www.deviantart.com/draknairy/gallery

The original artist's portfolio site has it filed under "concept art": http://guro.com.ua/concept/2, and there are two more images that seem to be from the same series, showing a young woman with a raygun who appears to be the main character and some enemy designs. (The latter doesn't show up in the grid view but it's there if you click the dragon and navigate to the right). That's all I can find.

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[stepnix]

Something for the original...

This image seems to indicate the origin, but the URL on the watermark now goes to a porn site instead of the artist's portfolio. Roman Gunyavy is a real fantasy artist, but I couldn't find which work of his this was from.

[caramelchameleon]

Tineye reverse image search brought me to a 404 page but the overall deviantart gallery is still up and clearly matches the style of the redraw: https://www.deviantart.com/draknairy/gallery

The original artist's portfolio site has it filed under "concept art": http://guro.com.ua/concept/2, and there are two more images that seem to be from the same series, showing a young woman with a raygun who appears to be the main character and some enemy designs. (The latter doesn't show up in the grid view but it's there if you click the dragon and navigate to the right). That's all I can find.