most people associate derivative with style rather than subject matter. How surprising is it to see a dragon painted by a fantasy genre illustrator? but if i tried to make the painting seem to ape the style of another artist then there would be some problems. Those problems really only exist for someone at the professional level. a young student needs to learn and there is nothing wrong with trying to paint like your heros.



i still like that you connected the two images for the similarity of design, its cool to see that happen.