Dragon-A-Day, Day 8

Past the one-week mark, and while I haven’t quite run out of ideas, I did find myself trying to come up with something interesting to say.

I guess this installment is about how (relatively) easy it is to come up with a concept when given a keyword to build around. Today’s was “sailback.”

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At first, the extreme curve of the spine almost called for an equally extreme curve of the neck, but drawing it was too painful. Also, I had first thought that the dragon would live on the plains for some reason, but that was dumb. Then, I started thinking about coloring, and it seemed like the sail would be a good place to throw a bunch of different colors, like on a jungle butterfly, which led from jungle to snake, which led to venom, and here we are.

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