A Dragon Reference (2000)

....ooookies.... nice detail? o.O

It looks like a pic from my dragon book...

very cool!!!

thats really good and I beleive you! that is real, I can see earser marks

Hey Strata! I always love it when people give me little constructive crttisism hints (I hope I spelled all that right...) So if you don't mind, I'm onna critique (I HATE spelling!) yours! ^_^

I've been riding and been around horses all my life. I groom them everyday and I know their muscle structure so well it scares me. I've taken horse anatamy (spelling???0 classes and so I also know their skeletonal structures. If I may say so, your dragon would move and function similar (not exactly, but similar) to a horse. because of this, I see a few little problems.

First, the pelvis is too small. To support the hock action and wait, an animal of this side would need bigger hips. Almost up to the level of the whithers.

Second, this animal is missing whithers. To get these, simply make what would be the "shoulderblade" twice as big and make it higher. This dragon's shoulders are too small, and the weight of the upper body would cause strain on shoulders that size.

Next, the hocks look good but you need a longer cannon bone. The dragon's ankles simply merge with the cannon. There needs to be a break for the ankle. also, do this on the front legs. but you might want to think about adding a knee to them. This dragon would move very slow on land because he has no knee and can't bend his leg foreword. He has to pick up the ENTIRE leg by the shoulder which would wear down the joint and make him slower then heck.

This, I'm not sure about but it seems to me that the wings are floating. Maybe I can't see it but I think they should be attached to the shoulder. You don't have to do this becuse I haven't taken "wing classes" and I'm not sure how they work exactally. Other than the things I pointed out, this looks great! Nice detail, I really like the thought process that went into this. Keep drawing, you're doing great!

Ah great work, good detail ^^ See your work is soi good you have someone claming you copyed it O.o Don't worry we know you didn't, just saying it's that good ^^

I've never heard of Sommerland.org until now. I looked up their references on "Western Dragons" and yes, there is resemblance between mine and theirs.

It's coincidence, really. Consider, how wide and vast is the Internet, how many artists are out there drawing what they want? Of course, it doesn't help that there are only two ways to draw a side profile view (left side and right side). It's easy to say that just because two drawings resemble each other that one was copied from the other, but don't jump to that conclusion too easily.

For what it is worth, I can say from experience that this drawing was copied from nothing more than my imagination alone. Is it bad that the artistic conclusions I came to should be similar to those that other groups and sites have made in their own studies? Is it bad that most creatures in the world have a similar skeletal structure to each other? If I drew a cat skeleton from pure imagination, should it be considered "copied" from encyclopedia and reference charts?

Don't go jumping to conclusions.

This dragon skeleton is copied off a tutorial on dragon anatomy at Sommerland.org

wow... very impressive detail! nice work!

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It's good that you use a guide like this to draw your dragons. A lot of people (myself included) balk at the thought of using skeletal reference. Even though I do it sometimes, I really can't say why. *shrugs* But I bet this helps you quite a bit! =D