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Ridley MusesRidley lay spread-eagled on the volcanically heated tile, relishing the warmth soaking into his bones.  A lengthy surface mission had left him feeling chilled and sluggish.

Unlike many reptilian species, he was capable of maintaining his own body temperature, but he still found it draining.  He was getting old, he reflected.  Ridley pressed his chin into the floor to feel the heat on his throat as his metabolism slowly spooled up again.

Basking usually helped his digestion too.  Earlier that day he had spent some time hunting, devouring a whole clan of squirmy little mammals.  A scavenger by nature, he could eat pretty much anything, but de

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Done entirely in Inkscape 0.40; my reference is a photo I took over the summer with ~TheLadyFox as my gracious model.

I originally started this simply as a morning warm-up exercise in a more typical "vector" style. Somewhere along the way my printmaking instincts kicked in and I nuked all the neat outlines, opting instead to build up the image with dark-on-light shapes as if it were a print. Pretty soon I realized I had something worth taking all the way to a finished piece.
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~SharmClucas Jan 9, 2009  Hobbyist
Wow, Mental, this is fantastic. It really looks like her.
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~EvincarOfAutumn Jul 20, 2007
I like this a lot. :D
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