Have you ever really thought about the anatomy of dragons in older art, say from early editions of D&D or maybe the movie Pete’s Dragon perhaps? No flight muscles, tiny wings, and a body shape heavy through the belly and hips, tapering at both ends.

Limbs as an afterthought on a serpentine body plan.

Today’s dragon is another piece done in Painter, which you can expect to see more of. I’m confident of my coloring abilities in Photoshop, but dreadfully behind the curve with Painter. One of those important life skills for artists is that we’re always in need of improvement in one area or another of our skill [...]

Tonight’s dragon was drawn with a little of this, a little of that, and with timing best described as “random and off-schedule.”  I used a blue Sanford Uni-Ball pen mostly, which produces a wide, kind of flat line with virtually no line weight variation. Unlike some pens, the ink flow isn’t super-predictable either. So in [...]

Tonight’s dragon is drawn but I’m too wiped to stay up and scan it – I should’ve been in bed hours ago, and last night I got maybe three good hours of rest. It’s been a long day, to say the least. I will post #53 tomorrow evening as soon as I get home. [Correction: [...]