Can You Draw A Dragon?

[Tom Kellie]

Haven't drawn one in a while. Here is one I did ages ago

 

Book Hoarding Dragon by Pira Urosevic, on Flickr

 

~ Pira:

 

That's exactly the kind of dragon students need to emulate.

Thank you for the terrific drawing!

Tom K.

[mhguda]

Haven't drawn one in a while. Here is one I did ages ago

 

Book Hoarding Dragon by Pira Urosevic, on Flickr

Thanks for a terrific portrait, but you forgot my glasses!

[kestrel]

Those who have seen my pathetic efforts at drawing (my childhood attempts at artwork should have been taped to the inside of the fridge) know why I am a photographer. I have photographed a dragon or two. Here is the latest.

 

[dcwaites]

This is Salvator's Dragon, little cousin to Komodo, above.

 

[sidthecat]

We'll give it a go...

[inkstainedruth]

Haven't drawn one in a while. Here is one I did ages ago

 

Book Hoarding Dragon by Pira Urosevic, on Flickr

 

Clearly it is a bookwürm....

I'll try to put one up in a couple of days (a heraldic one). Right now I'm decompressing from doing way too much heraldic art in the past couple of weeks (close to 50 drawings -- large numbers of which were variants of "France Modern quartered with England") so no dragons but LOTS and LOTS of lions passant guardant and fliers-de-lis. Although the yale badge of Margaret Beaufort was fun. As was the badge of the Stanleys (although what the story of the "baby in a bassinet attacked by an eagle/falcon" was completely escapes me -- let alone why they decided to MAKE it their badge.... But that stuff wasn't done with FPs -- they were all done in pencil, inked over with Uniball markers, scanned in, printed off, and colored in with Crayola markers.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[dcwaites]

 

Clearly it is a bookwürm....

I'll try to put one up in a couple of days (a heraldic one). Right now I'm decompressing from doing way too much heraldic art in the past couple of weeks (close to 50 drawings -- large numbers of which were variants of "France Modern quartered with England") so no dragons but LOTS and LOTS of lions passant guardant and fliers-de-lis. Although the yale badge of Margaret Beaufort was fun. As was the badge of the Stanleys (although what the story of the "baby in a bassinet attacked by an eagle/falcon" was completely escapes me -- let alone why they decided to MAKE it their badge.... But that stuff wasn't done with FPs -- they were all done in pencil, inked over with Uniball markers, scanned in, printed off, and colored in with Crayola markers.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

My goode laydie Ruth

That first line is the most appropriate thing I have read on this board for truly yonks. Give yourself 5 gold elephants, rampant.

 

Australia has a coat of arms, featuring an emu and a kangaroo. Both quite edible. We must be about the only country that eats our coat of arms...

 

I sometimes wish, though, that we had a milder one, perhaps that featured the mountain pygmy possum and the platypus.

[inkstainedruth]

Hah! My husband actually used to have a t-shirt with cartoon of a dragon curled up reading a book, and that was the caption, which is why I thought of of the term.

As for "milder" I seem to recall one of the Aubrey/Maturin novels where Stephen got himself poked a by the poisonous stinger of a platypus. So maybe not sold mild....

Earlier this evening we were watching a rerun of the old TV show The Avengers and it was the one where the military personnel were doing stupid stunts because they were being conditioned to be adrenaline junkies in a secret society, which held their meetings (unbeknownst to the dotty old lady in charge of the place) at some stately home turned military museum. At one point, she's pointing out the coat of arms of some ancestor and describing it at "four black roses rampant and four feathers 'couchant'" and I was just absolutely cringing at the bad blazon....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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Edited June 13, 2018 by inkstainedruth

[sidthecat]

I don’t get to draw dragons for my current show, which is rather contemporary. Did a boatload for “Sofia The First.” Some of them sing.