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I’ve been absolutely buried with moving all week, and I haven’t had the time to scan and post the growing stack of dragons on my desk. At this stage in the game, it’ll have to wait until Monday-ish as I’ve got to dismantle my workstation and move it this weekend, among other important end-stage items. On [...] One of the things I’m noticing is that I’ve had a very strong tendency to draw these dragons in a limited array of poses. On thinking about it, this probably stems from a couple of factors: I’m drawing a new type each time, so there’s a desire to show them in a fair amount of [...] Another marker drawing done while out and about – my schedule until I’m done moving is gonna be hectic at best, and I’m finding that I just haven’t got the time right now to sit down with watercolors or a dip pen and ink to work. If it seems like I’m on a kick of pencil [...] He curtseys and bows Then folds his wings Ever so politely. He lifts his brows Then oh, he sings ‘Til you pass on quietly. Koi Lóng – literally, dragon carp, in pidgin Japanese. The Japanese get their dragon mythology in large part from the Chinese, who (I’ve heard) believe that a dragon passes through several distinct ontogenic stages in a kind of epic metamorphosis from eel-like creature to full dragonhood and a life in the Celestial Bureaucracy. In China, there lives [...] |
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