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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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Date: 2025-03-09 03:34 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2025-03-10 03:33 am (UTC)Thank you so much! I see the other art in the artist's deviantart gallery uses the same signature, too. I wonder when it was drawn?
Also, I see the original dragon on that gallery page! Looks like my estimate of the original drawing's source was wrong - these clean images are definately digital art. I wonder why the version in the Draknairy redraw is so much duller?
Is it ok if I edit the post to link to your comment?
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Date: 2025-03-12 02:49 pm (UTC)Tineye says it crawled the DeviantArt page for the first time in 2016, so it's at least that old.
Probably the duller colors are a color profile mismatch somewhere along the line of being cut out from its background, compressed for the web, and saved in different formats, who knows how many times. Converting an image improperly between CMYK and RGB can do that.
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Date: 2025-03-16 06:46 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Also, that makes sense. I do also wonder what game the original image was for - if it was for, say, a board game, the image in the Deviantart version could have been a scan of a paper printing.