Dragon

[Beeber]

Hello all, this is my first post in this forum. I spend some time in the colored pencil and acrylic forums, but I wanted to show this here. It's my first dragon sculpture. It's rather large at 21" by 15". I don't know if I'll glaze it or not. It's just white and red clay.

[sculpturedolls]

Welcome to the Sculptor's forum

Your dragon is excellent! Did you fire it yet? He looks kind of like a happy dragon. Very nice job and thanks for sharing!

[The Dabbler]

Thanks for sharing the Dragon. He looks great. I have been wanting to do a wood carving of one for a long time but have never found a design that I'm really fond of. I just ordered "Carving Fantasy and Legend Figures in Wood" and hopefully that will get me going in the right direction. What do you use in the way of reference materials.

[Beeber]

He has been fired and the reference material was mostly from my imagination. I'm a big fan of the dragonlance books and I was terrified of Smog when I was a kid so it's my combination of what I thought those two types of dragons would look like. He's not supposed to be "nice", but I like the way he turned out anyway. Maybe painting his eyes black would make him a little more mean.

[CarlaAlexander]

Is he hollow? Did you use an armiture?

[Beeber]

He is hollow I started with a cone of newspaper, he is mostly built with slabs. I finished the neck and then crumpled up newspaper for the head. I built the top and bottom jaw seperately and let them become leather hard before attaching.