The View from Here - Lineart

Title is a reference to a John Tesh song, though not for any reason. XD

I decided to try my hand at traditional art again. Not sure why. I think having only a mouse to work with is getting me frustrated at digital art. XD But I don't have a tablet, and anyone who's read my latest journal could figure out why I'm not going out to buy one right now.

So this is supposed to be a dragon scaling a rock pillar of some sort to view the valley below, or possibly a sunrise, or something else worth climbing to see.
Technically it's a dragonelle (or dragoness. Both work, and I never really know which to choose ), though that wasn't intentional. She just looks like a female dragon for some reason. I think it's how I drew her head.

This took probably 4-5 hours of drawing and another hour of cleaning and prepping in GIMP.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, I think... I tried to pay a lot of attention to the details I sometimes skim over. And look! She has ears! XD

Comments/critiques welcome.

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EDIT: I did a colored version. [link]