Drawing Dragons

Last weekend I was at the Fusion Sunday market, in Newmarket Square. I got talking to a really lovely fellow stall-holder. She was telling me about the trouble she had drawing dragons.

For me, sometimes dragons just appear in doodles.

Witch with small dragon in her hair

But sometimes, I have the same problem, and I get stuck. What do dragons look like? The trouble with dragons is, that we never encounter them in daily life. Art studios never offer dragon life-drawing classes.

We think we see a dragon in our mind, but do we? Or do we imagine that we see him?

You know when you are dreaming, and you come across a book or other writing. You try to read it, but you find you can't. I think something similar happens when we think we have a dragon in our head, but then find we can't draw it.

So what to do? Well, we have to go and find the dragon in the wild.

Zuni, a lurcher. Or maybe a dragon.

This is one of my two dogs. They're both sighthounds - one's a greyhound, and this one, Zuni, is a lurcher. I sometimes call sighthounds fur-dragons, because to me, they have the same beautiful, sinuous lines that dragons have.

So, I looked around, I found my dragon, and then I could draw him from observation.

Dragons, like moths, fly at dusk

You can find more drawings of dragons here!