art (still a WIP), fairly generic dragon

[ratcreature]

Subject: some random dragon
Media: only pencil so far
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: I deprived my rats of some of their usual hours of outside time and managed to finish the pencils of a dragon without anyone eating my kneaded eraser. I'm planning to ink and color it with traditional media, since my tablet suffers from rat damage-- as long time readers may recall from previous whining entries.

While I managed to tape the chewed through cable together, somehow this works less well for the strands of USB cables than for power cords, and it behaves oddly now and craps out on me frequently.

Anyway, I thought it best to preserve the pencils before I ruin it through inking without an undo function as safety net. I included close-ups of some of the details, seeing how I bothered to add the suggestion of scales and such details, you might as well see them properly.

Preview:

Comments

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely details! I've always liked dragons.

[ratcreature]

Thanks. I love them too. They are cool like dinosaurs only without the tedious Latin names. :D

fairly generic dragon - art

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love this! A beautiful, distinctive dragon! Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to seeing the "colored in" version! Love, max

Re: fairly generic dragon - art

[ratcreature]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

[brownbetty]

Shiny! I like the tail; it reminds me of a dinosaur, but I'm not sure I'm thinking of an actual dinosaur or one of those artist's renderings that is not particularly connected to reality.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I remember those dinosaurs too, I think what's on your mind may be one of the stegosaurs who had spikes on their tails like in this skeleton.

It seemed fitting for a spiky dragon to make its tail a worse weapon. I'm glad you likee it.