A dither of dragons

I have been brainstorming dragon designs today. Around half are avoiding the eye and mouth area.
There is something new, something old, something blue and something borrowed..
Inspiration is Nick and Brian Wolfe, Marcela Murad, Des Shupe and Mark Reid among others.

"A dither of dragons" is from the page: http://user.tninet.se/~wcw454p/drakframe.html
There is a lot of nice dragon painting and drawings. Remember to read the text below.

Hope to see a lot of you at Fabaic where I have a pre-class about designing - good if you would like to tweak the designs you use now, or make some brand new one.
There is also a workshop about how to use big brushes - like dragons, dolphins and roses. And a demonstration with boy designs - tigers, maybe more dragons and other scary stuff.
(Request are welcome)

The designs here are painted with mostly split- and rainbow cakes, with #8 round, flat brushes and liners. (plus black and white).

Hope you like them =)

Just posted about your awesomeness on FB! Love them all!

Amazing as always! I especially love the tenth one down. Great colors!

Thanks, the "butterfly dragon" is made with TAG metal rainbow, with pink glitter gel on top of the black.

I love all of the different variations. Very cool stuff.

WOW! Thanks for the inspiration!

Love all the variations! Thanks for sharing!

Lone you are so talented and I love your willingness to share. I can't wait to meet you so I can give you a hug and Thank you in person for your kind generosity.

Even now I get soooooo many compliments on my wolf designs and that too is because you decided to share you art, and I appreciate you for that.

WoW! These are all AMAZING!

All I can say is WOW, Amazing!!!!

Totally love them all, you have inspired me to work on my dragongs!! (If only I could paint)

All of your designs are AWESOME!!!!!

How long bid you spend brainstorming? That's a lot of very different dragons! All so cool.

Love love love the butterfly dragon!!

wow!! they are all amazing...thanks for sharing u r super talented

I really like and appreciate the ones that are going around the eyes and mouth instead of using them. That gives me much to think about, especially since I've been thinking about boy designs lately!

Thank you so much for sharing!

all so different! love them..especially the cute green and orange one...

I am so happy you like them. Normally I both hate and love when someone ask for a dragon, since I love painting them, but hate that if you want to include arms, legs, wings, long neck, scales and all, there is not enough room and there is an eternity spend on lining. And I don't really like designs so much, where there is eyes in the middle of it, that interfere with the design - like an eye in the middle of a wing.
So my goal was to paint dragons that did not take forever, but still had details, and that avoided the eyes and mouth - so it could also be used for smaller kids.
After that I tried with some whole face ones, but I am still not super happy about those. I think in general I spend more time on those faces, but they don't have the same impact as smaller ones. Must work on that!

The brainstorming did take a few hours, but spread out, since it is a problem I have been thinking about for some time. When I thought of a placement or design element that could work, I drew it in my sketchbook. At the day, I also used google image search to look for dragon, dragon heads, Chinese dragons and dragon tattoos.

With the exception of the blue snake like dragon. I had a kid in Ninja outfit for carnival that wanted a design and I suggested a Chinese dragon. Started with an vague idea about Mark Reids tattoo dragon, but painted it with splitcake instead. I wasn't quite happy, but the boy, and a lot of other boys that day, really liked it, so I had many chances trying different techniques. Most of them was breathing fire and had a glitter gel dot in the eyes and a bit of glitter down the side, for extra effect.

i love the different shapes you've used,,very very inspiring..Thankyou so much for sharing..

'Hope you like them?!'
How could someone not like them? They are so great, you are so talented en so inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

Lone Awesome! saw them on FB! I love the 2nd to last one! May I "Borrow" it? It'd be a great one for when boys ask for a butterfly.

Sure borrow away, it is just my twist on the dragon from Marcela Murad's mask book.

Wow thanks for sharing! Love them all, did you do all of them in just 1 day or each day one. (poor skin.. )

They was all painted on the same day. I have a good technique for removing, so it wasn't really hard on the skin - even with DfX ;-) But it was a bit boring running back and forth to the bathroom *lol*