This delicate, minute wyvern is endangered in the wild, in part due to the great demand for quadroxis eggs and hatchlings among wealthy dracophiles looking for exotic pets. Despite its fearsome appearance, the arboreal quadroxis is a highly social and affectionate creature.  Most of its larger relatives are adapted for hunting in the open skies, [...]

The tusked daggerback is a true dragon, a massive, mid-sized wyrm native to subarctic uplands. This heavy-bodied creature is a slow, clumsy flier with a powerful form more suited to terrestrial predation than aerial hunting. Older daggerbacks rarely fly at all once they stake out their territory, taking to the air mainly during mating flights [...]

With the short horns and muzzle, the spotted neck, and the posture, there’s something decidedly feline about this one. Cath is basically old Irish for “cat” – a cath sith or cath sidhe is a fairy cat, for instance. Draco is, of course, Latin for dragon.

You can probably guess where this is going.

Also…Happy Halloween!

With the long, decorative tail, the ornamental wings, and the odd crested snout, I was thinking of this fellow as the draconiformes equivalent of a tropical quetzal or perhaps a bird-of-paradise. I’d lean toward an “outrageous” color scheme, in all likelihood – something day-glo maybe.

This one’s practically screaming for color – the lines look a bit lonely by themselves on the page. I thought I’d take a break from the oh-so-serious pencil renderings I’ve been doing lately and try something more stylized and cartoony.