>:D

This is one of the few times an artist got it right.

Read the name again:

"Blue-eyes white dragon"

Blue eyes: check

WHITE dragon: check

Usually colorists color the dragon a metallic blue which is not right, but hell, the manga was in black and white.

Daneasaur said:
This is one of the few times an artist got it right.

Read the name again:

"Blue-eyes white dragon"

Blue eyes: check

WHITE dragon: check

Usually colorists color the dragon a metallic blue which is not right, but hell, the manga was in black and white.

Although I agree with you, I also did a "blue" version, just to satisfy people who prefer that color scheme over the correct white.

Tanukiyasha said:
Although I agree with you, I also did a "blue" version, just to satisfy people who prefer that color scheme over the correct white.

Yup yup, and I'm cool with that. I just prefer the actual white dragon.

:D

Daneasaur said:
This is one of the few times an artist got it right.

Read the name again:

"Blue-eyes white dragon"

Blue eyes: check

WHITE dragon: check

Usually colorists color the dragon a metallic blue which is not right, but hell, the manga was in black and white.

They color it based on the card.
I don't know why the card is like that.

GoldenGlow said:
They color it based on the card.
I don't know why the card is like that.

Actually, the anime came before the card game and they were guilty of making the dragon a metallic blue. I really don't know why, but then everything copied the anime after that.

Daneasaur said:
Actually, the anime came before the card game and they were guilty of making the dragon a metallic blue. I really don't know why, but then everything copied the anime after that.

Maybe it might have been something to do with animating them?

Eclipse_Lunablade said:
Maybe it might have been something to do with animating them?

I doubt it as there are various stark white or gray characters in many different anime. I really think it was people on the team reading the name wrong.

Daneasaur said:
Actually, the anime came before the card game and they were guilty of making the dragon a metallic blue. I really don't know why, but then everything copied the anime after that.

I was going to say that it was the anime that made it metallic blue-white, and I think it looks cool

warriorking9001 said:
I was going to say that it was the anime that made it metallic blue-white, and I think it looks cool

It's neat, but incorrect to the name. Much like Red-eyes black dragon being a dark red.

Daneasaur said:
It's neat, but incorrect to the name. Much like Red-eyes black dragon being a dark red.

Blue-Eyes was always intended to be a metallic silver shade, which as a result of colouring style and stylisation, may appear blue. This is similar for example to the practice of using a dark blue to represent black hair, which is common not only in anime and manga but in western art and animation as well.

Lyurskanen said:
Blue-Eyes was always intended to be a metallic silver shade, which as a result of colouring style and stylisation, may appear blue. This is similar for example to the practice of using a dark blue to represent black hair, which is common not only in anime and manga but in western art and animation as well.

Going with he coloration, a more correct coloration for it to look "metallic" would be to make it gray in lighting where it isn't supposed to be shiny or otherwise needs shading applied to it.

Unless we have the water/ozone effect again, making it appear blue, then who knows at that point.