Silly dragons
Ggrrr! Sometimes you just have to have some fun as an illustrator, just because. I wanted to create some silly dragons, but rather than make them scary and ferocious, I thought I’d opt for fun. And maybe even try cute! So, here’s one of them I develop into full colour.
It could work well for a picture book or story book about fairy tales! I wanted it to look quite delicate and therefore it was hand drawn and hand painted. It has been created using watercolour paints and hand made watercolour paper. I had great fun splashing paint around (as you can see). Nowadays I draw children a little differently now, but it is still a nice piece to show in my Bloggy Diary Thingy. One client that loved it was Media Therapy. I showed it to them and they commissioned me to work on an advertising campaign. The brief was to create a tooth fairy and a fairy tree house, so it was a lovely project to work on. However the project did not proceed, because the product to be advertised was withdrawn for some mysterious reason! In other words the product failed to reach certain criteria?
Some interesting mythological facts about English dragons
Dragons are mythical creatures. They are typically depicted as gigantic and powerful serpents and not as silly dragons. Sometimes they are portrayed as reptiles with magical or spiritual qualities. Most dragons are either European, derived from various, European folk traditions. Or Oriental dragons, which are derived from the Chinese dragon. Like most other mythological creatures, dragons are seen in different ways by different cultures. They are sometimes depicted as having large, yellow or red eyes. The eye colour is the origin for the word for dragon in many cultures. Modern depictions of dragons tend to be larger than their original representations, which were often smaller than humans.
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