That gave me this idea of drawing a Chinese dragon, so I went to dear wiki wiki to learn a bit more about the subject.
There are different types of chinese dragon, and I chose to draw the Huanglong (黃龍), namely the yellow dragon, or horse dragon ("Long" standing for dragon I suppose) as it is a divine messenger. I thought drawing a messenger of a dragon on an informative add would fit as, you know, message...
I used many references to draw this dragon. According to wiki wiki, a chinese dragon is composed of nine different animals: head of a camel, eyes of a demon, ears like a cow's, stag antlers, neck of a snake, paw of tiger ending in eagle claws, mollusc belly, body covered in carp scales. Well, I used many of those, but not everything (and especially not the head of a camel, 'cause that's sooo not dragon-like).
I also searched for references and found those amasing things on dear DA:
Chinese Dragon by *drachenmagier
Blue-eyed gift ~tallydragon
(I didn't use this one. I just think it's cute)I also used some references for the body such as this carp:
And I used this drawing of a paeony (the flower that symbolises China) for the background.
I also discovered this cool (french) website about Chinese symbols and zodiac signs during my research.
So here's the result.
So here's the result.
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