KittyDragons!

I watched haikujaguar's livestream on Friday night. Interestingly, it triggered the same sense of "I really should be drawing" that I get from sitting in on an artjam. After a little bit, I gave in to the urge and grabbed my sketchbook and the DragonArt book for inspiration. Oddly, while I tend to be cool towards how-to-draw books, I am very fond of this one. (It's also just $8 from Amazon at the moment. Whoa, cheap. And no, that's not an affiliate link.)

I stumbled onto the page with the dragon-based-on-cat-anatomy sketch again -- the same sketch that inspired my otter-dragon efforts from last January -- and decided to sketch some kittydragons. My initial efforts didn't come out well, so I did a freehand copy of Peffer's sketch for practice (lower left corner), then tried some more cat-dragons based on cat photos. I decided I liked them enough to share, so here you go. Crappy smartphone photo because I still haven't hooked my scanner up to the computer that can still talk to it. -.-

Limit, Finished

After much pondering, I finally decied to color Limit's mane and tail, shading gradually from white roots to deep blue tips. (A variant the_vulture suggested, that I'd been considering after posting the poll). I also tied up his mane to make the mane less overwhelming on the right side. He looks pretty similar from the left side, but on the right the change is pronounced. I also varnished him to protect the paint job, so he's glossy now, which is more glaring in some of these photos than it is in person.





More pictures here!