Yay Penguins! Great to see a new thread stuffed with great pictures!
Penguins indeed.
And stuffed, well, not so much. But at least I can butt in here once in a while to get some responses.
I like your penguin. Very good use of water coloring. But I have to ask, where are the horse porn pictures?
You only say that because you can't see the entire picture. Watercolour is hard to deal with.
As for the horse porn, I doubt Strop will be posting anything in this thread this time around. Probably for the better.
The first picture is simple which is nice. There are parts you could clean up that would make me happy but it is not big deal. There is a part on the left of the dragon that is the background but looks like it could be part of the dragon, that bugs me a little. The smoke coming from the dragon is really well done.
I don't think I can clean it much better without redrawing it on computer, really. Perhaps remove that one line from the hatching that went onto the foot, but otherwise I don't know. What part exactly?
OK. The next picture is watercolor it seems. It is really good. I HATE painting. I can never get the detail that I want. You did a good job with it though. Are the black things supposed to be other heads?
As I mentioned a couple of times, it's mainly watercolour pencils, which are a lot easier to work with in most cases. The black aura thing is the real watercolour. So, get yourself some watercolour pencils, they are more colourful than regular colouring pencils, and they get rather handy when you want to do watercolour-like stuff.
The black things are what I assume can be considered ominous tentacles:

And this makes it rather obvious how bad my memory works. The neck-part should have been black as well, but that would probably have messed with the 'rotting, damages skin' thing.
Can I critique the last one? PLEASE?
Nope.
You can comment on it, but I am not in a state of mind where a critique would do anything but aggravate me.
Not just because it was a day long work to get it done, that I managed to screw up a number of times (don't try to erase stuff when the paper isn't entirely dry!) and so on and so forth, but rather because this is going to be a present, and knowing something could be changed will make me redo it, and I don't have neither time nor sanity to do so.