A stone simulacrum, given life to protect ancient treasure. Or maybe just some marker lines on paper.

I may be overthinking the philosophy here.

Daggerwings are a large group of old-world wyverns ranging in wingspan from one to twenty yards – large daggerwings are exceptionally powerful, deadly predators. The wyverns are named for the elongated, blade-like first fingers on the wings which are used to make kills, even in mid-air. Most daggerwings have small jaws and weak talons, relying on their overdeveloped flight muscles to propel devastating wing-strikes they use to kill prey.

This particularly evil-looking wyvern is properly known as a gaudy tyrant. Apparently its visage wasn’t enough to keep the artist interested – the rendering depicts the tyrant breathing fire, but as any schoolboy knows, wyverns don’t possess breath weapons. Obviously, this is an instance of artistic license gone wrong. Tsk, tsk.

Freehanding with markers, and thinking about some of the really delightfully grotesque gargoyles found on European buildings of old.

This small, quick drake is named for an American radio personality.

That’s all I got. Some days my sense of humor’s like that.

Yesterday a giant of the sea, today one of the land. Who says size doesn’t matter?

This unique land drake was observed only briefly, and at great distance – for reasons that should be obvious.  The structure of the head and body would seem to indicate a semi-aquatic fish-eater, but the creature was spotted far inland and at great distance from any large bodies of water.

Just felt like drawing a massive, gnarly-looking deepwater sea serpent today.

Hope that’s okay with everybody.

Trying out a free art application I’d not had luck with before, and I think I’ve figured it out. Inkscape is a free vector drawing program sporting features meant to compete with Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW. The user interface is still pretty rough around the edges, but the actual functionality isn’t bad at all.

This piece was completed pretty much entirely using the calligraphic pen tool, which is capable of some nice effects.