Yet another go at the dragon skeleton

[ffutures]

Another try at the dragon skeleton - I've lengthened the spine and neck considerably, beefed up the rear thighs, and added spikes on the neck vertebrae - the spine is a bit too straight, may tweak that a bit more, if not the caption will blame the artist!






Caption: Dragon’s skeleton sketched by the Yarge naturalist Lh’ook of Migantil, showing the anatomy of the upper and lower shoulders and wing. The spine would rarely be held this straight in life – the artist simplified its posture for clarity.

This will be about 2/3 page width in the finished book, I think it'll look reasonably good at that size.



Much later - to clarify things, here's some clip art I found on line that shows the sort of body form I'm going with. This one doesn't have hind legs, but it's otherwise about the way I envisage them looking.

Comments

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

I believe (as a heraldry geek on occasion) that dragons have forelegs, but the things which look like dragons but have wings and hindlegs only are wyverns. But hey, it's really up to the author of any particular mythology to decide how they work in their world!