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Note: Daily Dragons Update Schedule Still Wonky

WesT — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:53:44 +0000

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 [...]

Daily Dragon #70: Ludwig’s Hatchetface

WesT — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:39:56 +0000

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 [...]

Daily Dragon #69: Barroom Listener

WesT — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:35:05 +0000

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 [...]

Daily Dragon #68: Alchemical Basilisk

WesT — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:28:42 +0000

He curtseys and bows

Then folds his wings

Ever so politely.

He lifts his brows

Then oh, he sings

‘Til you pass on quietly.

Daily Dragon #67: Koi Lóng

WesT — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:08:29 +0000

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 [...]

An Update

WesT — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:30:08 +0000

So, yeah, this month’s schedule will in fact be a little odd. I’ve got a stack of updates to scan and post, and I’m gonna try and get them all caught up tomorrow after work. After that I may go to a once-a-week update schedule if things get crazy, and drop back to daily updates [...]

Daily Dragon #66: Carrhax

WesT — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:00:44 +0000

A lithe tracking animal and pack predator, the carrhax is flightless once it reaches adulthood. The bladelike projections on its head and neck are delicate and purely ornamental, and its bite is weak; carrhaxi rely exclusively on their long talons and powerful limbs to bring down prey.

Carrhaxi are known to be adept trackers, capable of [...]

Daily Dragon #65: Fido

WesT — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:55:55 +0000

This one’s another on my growing list of must-color dragons, mainly because my mental image of this guy is cel-shaded in red. He’s somewhere in the Venn diagram overlap between Dino and the Welsh red.

In other news, happy Drunk-Americans-Blowing-Stuff-Up-Yet-Again Day!

Daily Dragon #64: Draco Cameleopardis

WesT — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:49:43 +0000

Blue ballpoint on sketch pad. I was thinking about some of the odder-looking gargoyles I’ve seen around, and the really spectacular gargoyles of European architecture. Then I got to thinking about the camelopard – an archaic European representation of a giraffe.

And here we are.

Daily Dragon #63: Metal Storm

WesT — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:46:52 +0000

Cue ten-minute guitar solo.

Friday night I was out late looking at apartments preparatory to moving, and then drove overnight to Missouri, so this one’s kinda phoned in – as in, sketching in the middle of the night while taking a break at a rest stop.