I never really considered myself a dragon artist, but statistically I do have quite of a few drawing featuring these fantastic beasts! Who doesn't love dragons? They're like dinosaurs, but much cooler and more intelligent. I love just how much variety there is between one dragon and another. I'll share with you some of my dragon drawings from recent years.

Light Dragon

To celebrate the huge commission of adapting Bryan Davis' first novel, Raising Dragons, into a graphic novel, I illustrated a tribute to honor the author himself. Part of this illustration composed of two dragons dueling above his head, in his imagination. In the battle of good versus evil, this dragon represented the light side.

Dragon Line Art

While preparing to make the Raising Dragons Graphic Novel, I was making a number of dragon designs for the one in the book, Clefspeare. I really liked the design for the head for this one, but his arms were too human-like. Another thing I wasn't aware was how important it was to make the joint on the back large and believable, where the wing connects to the back muscles.

CLefspeare Prototype

This was another concept for Clefspeare, the main dragon from Raising Dragons. With this one I finalized his head design and I would use a similar pattern for the interior of his wings moving forward. I would, however, forgo the human-like arm design for more of a canine foreleg form.

Clefspeare Concept Art

This is the final design for Clefspeare, the dragon as seen in the Raising Dragons Graphic Novel. Since this drawing, however, I did update his wings so the flap didn't connect directly to the same joint as the wing arm, but further down the back for better support. There's still a lot I have to learn about when it comes to dragon anatomy.

Royal Lakebound

Javanshir's Lakebound is a great character, both in design and in color scheme. I declined to use a line art for this one and just relied on shapes and colors to give her form.

Crimson Glory

This one features multiple characters from the creative mind of Alan Corona, including Crimson, Daisy, Jade, and Victor. I don't know the entire story, but from what I have been able to piece together it would make an epic series of graphic novels.