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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 [...] 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 [...] |
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