It’s clear to see that the dragon is old and battle hardend, The girl is the generational spawn of the dragon’s keepers and riders. So there are plenty of in jokes there
Colin – An heirloom dragon? I suppose the eldest child gets the estate, the middle one gets the art collection and the jewels, and the youngest gets Old Scaly — and raids back the estate and art and jewels!
Dominik – It could be the start of a cute phase, who knows?
Michael – Ah, if only someone had knitted goggles for dragons when the ice age came, they wouldn’t have gone extinct.
Your dragon has the look of a trickster grown old and perhaps minus a few of the brain cells he had when younger. He is not so old as to have forgotten how to be sly and mischievous, but he may have lost the ability to hide his “benevolent” (Emera’s apt description) wickedness in the expression on his face.
The little Knight is an afterthought as with all things standing next to dragons. For one’s continued health, one must always notice a dragon first when there is a dragon and usually there’s no time to notice other things as you’re running in the opposite direction, yelling “DRAGON” at the top of your lungs.
Jason – Time does seem to have worn a few but not all of his corners off. And indeed, there’s not much point worrying how you look when you’re standing next to a dragon. Liberating, really! (ETA: I’ve got photos of myself with a tiger – very much the same situation!)
Steampunkgunslinger – his ‘HELLO THAR’ expression is much nicer than his ‘GOODBYE’ expression
That sounds very cool and totally worth the risk of life and limb. My only question is why aren’t these photographs plastered everywhere, informing people of your tiger whispering ability and general awesomeness?
Tame tigers! As tame as tigers get, I guess. And chained, too. But the experience was still pretty amazing. Photos not plastered because photos of tigers look better without random monkey-folk cluttering up the picture.
Jeff – Thanks for dropping by. Glad you like this odd couple!
Gav – I think I’m going to make “Always keep ‘em wanting more” my personal motto. That way I can say I’m slow for deliberate reasons, not just because writing is hard…
August 8th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Love the way they look like their sharing a private joke.
To be totally honest there’s something not quite right about the side of the knight’s face. She’s still adorable though!
August 8th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
The knight’s face and the dragon’s nostrils — an evil mage threw a ’skew perspective’ spell at them!
August 10th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
It’s clear to see that the dragon is old and battle hardend, The girl is the generational spawn of the dragon’s keepers and riders. So there are plenty of in jokes there
August 11th, 2010 at 2:47 am
I like it. It’s definitely cute picture
August 11th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Nawww at the knight’s pose. The little oddities like the dragon’s nostril are adorable. I’d like to knit the dragon some goggles
August 11th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Colin – An heirloom dragon? I suppose the eldest child gets the estate, the middle one gets the art collection and the jewels, and the youngest gets Old Scaly — and raids back the estate and art and jewels!
Dominik – It could be the start of a cute phase, who knows?
Michael – Ah, if only someone had knitted goggles for dragons when the ice age came, they wouldn’t have gone extinct.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Your dragon has the look of a trickster grown old and perhaps minus a few of the brain cells he had when younger. He is not so old as to have forgotten how to be sly and mischievous, but he may have lost the ability to hide his “benevolent” (Emera’s apt description) wickedness in the expression on his face.
The little Knight is an afterthought as with all things standing next to dragons. For one’s continued health, one must always notice a dragon first when there is a dragon and usually there’s no time to notice other things as you’re running in the opposite direction, yelling “DRAGON” at the top of your lungs.
But in seriousness, lovely drawing.
August 15th, 2010 at 7:27 am
I adore the dragon’s ‘HELLO THAR’ expression.
August 15th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Jason – Time does seem to have worn a few but not all of his corners off. And indeed, there’s not much point worrying how you look when you’re standing next to a dragon. Liberating, really! (ETA: I’ve got photos of myself with a tiger – very much the same situation!)
Steampunkgunslinger – his ‘HELLO THAR’ expression is much nicer than his ‘GOODBYE’ expression
August 18th, 2010 at 7:07 am
Tiger!?!
That sounds very cool and totally worth the risk of life and limb. My only question is why aren’t these photographs plastered everywhere, informing people of your tiger whispering ability and general awesomeness?
August 21st, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Tame tigers! As tame as tigers get, I guess. And chained, too. But the experience was still pretty amazing. Photos not plastered because photos of tigers look better without random monkey-folk cluttering up the picture.
August 23rd, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Great drawing.
August 24th, 2010 at 4:48 am
The dragon’s nice but “The Etched City” left me longing for your next ‘fantasy’ novel. Hope it’s going to appear soon
August 24th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Jeff – Thanks for dropping by. Glad you like this odd couple!
Gav – I think I’m going to make “Always keep ‘em wanting more” my personal motto. That way I can say I’m slow for deliberate reasons, not just because writing is hard…