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Dragons Forever

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Several people have asked me about how my dragons are constructed and before I head off to the printmaking studio to prep my litho stone I thought I might upload this. A dragon skull and fully skeleton ( - some of the tail). My dragons (and I'm sure most others) are for the most part a mix of different real animals. The skull is for the most part a twiqued raptoresque head with some minor changes; the neck and wings, a bird's; the body, a lion's, slightly changed;and the paws a mix between human hands and cat and/or dog paws.
Some of the biggest changes are in the hind legs, which are raised, and the dew claw on the hind feet in the manner of dinasaurs rather than mammals, which only have dew claws on their front legs, but in the case of my dragons are more like thumbs.
The skeleton's not perfect, but it's fairly accurate considering it's a mythical creature. In all reality the wings wouldn't be enough to support it (not to mention the fact that it would have to have evolved from a four armed creature) But dragons are supposed to be magical, and if an oriental dragon can fly without any wings at all, these can fly with ones that wouldn't ordinarily work :D
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~NINJAWERETIGER Apr 13, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Cool! This can help me even more with my dragon drawings.
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Mood: Neutral ~MelThePika Jul 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
-was reading the comments about avendreen and you talking- It's a good thing you didn't delete it, im making a dragon oc and this helped a BUNCH =3 Thanks!!
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~AvenDreen Oct 25, 2011
nice
but i dont see anything like a pelvic bone for the wings you know? there is no way it can flap and for that fact the legs are a bit messed up in same way
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`hibbary Oct 25, 2011  Professional General Artist
yeah; this is a terrible drawing :x I did it ages ago.
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Mood: Noble ~AvenDreen Oct 26, 2011
whoa whao whao i didnt say it was bad all i said was it needs to be touched uped
nothing muce
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`hibbary Oct 26, 2011  Professional General Artist
No no. It's bad :D I'm not sore, just saying. It's so old; I ought to delete it, but I'm a total packrat. I can't get rid of anything from my gallery.
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Mood: Satisfied ~AvenDreen Oct 27, 2011
yeah its bad but like i said just a little touch up and hell you have a perfectly fine one i say redo it
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`hibbary Oct 28, 2011  Professional General Artist
Maybe I'll do a new one sometime. Right now I'm stuck making show art. @___@
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~AvenDreen Oct 29, 2011
yeah
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*KatePfeilschiefter Jun 3, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
The main thing that strikes me is that the wings don't appear to have their own scapula. They wings and arms would be unable to move independently of each other.
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