SELF

Side note: that dragon is there by accident - it's been lurking in my pile of Stuff I'm Working on and happened to be lying underneath at that time, although now I'm kind of thinking of somehow incorporating the act of drawing dragons...

BUT ARE THEY MICROSCOPIC?

I've been thinking about dragons from a bird's-eye view, contained within circular boundaries. Maybe microscopic dragons, swimming or somehow suspended in some sort of (primordial?) solution in a dish under a microscope... Or dragons as vast, vast maps, embedded with contour lines [NOTE TO SELF: like Peripheral Inhabitants; dragons of knowledge collection?] or whose bodies are made of Universal Matter.

 

Whatever it's all about (other than a spot of procrastination), I started doodling these ones the other night.

UNBLOCKING

Had a spot of drawing-block. Ended up working on another dragon. Eh.

AND SHE SET IT ON THE WATER

pen + ink on endpaper

 

Here's the finished dragon piece I gave to my sister for her thirtieth birthday. In other news, I've completed four of the forty-odd or so drawings I'm working on for this next book commission. Still a little way to go then, eh?

LIKE A MINIATURE BOAT

My sister's thirtieth birthday is coming up. Looks like I'm giving her a tiny, palm-sized dragon who's quite fond of water.

ON AN OVERCAST THURSDAY

I don't know what it is about tree-filled skylines, but I like them right now. And there's a dragon for good measure.

IN-FLIGHT

THE DRAGON MADE ME DO IT

I had planned on getting an early night last night, but failed due to dragon-drawing. Eh.

A TRANSFORMATION

I probably shouldn't really post this, but I don't suppose sneaking one final drawing in here will hurt. And now I'm off for a day of making coffee, sweeping, and getting rid of tea and coffee stains from cups.

YEP, THERE'S THE DRAGON

I'll sneak in a proper not-a-rubbish-snapshot-from-an-iPod scan of the finished drawing later, but for now I'm off to draw another bathroom related scene. I think it's the bubbles. Bubbles are circular, so, you know.. I really have no defence.

IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DRAGON

I've spent the morning (afternoon? I haven't had breakfast yet, so surely that means it's still morning?) trying to draw a 'beautiful'  and feminine dragon. They kept coming out rather ugly, but hopefully things are going in the right direction now.