dragon skeleton diagram

something i did a while back for the benefit of some of my dragon-drawing buddies. only just now got the chance to post it.

i've put a lot of thinking into this skeleton, in particular giving it a keel for the flight muscles to attach to and working out the tricky part about articulating the wings with the shoulder blades. i also made the wingspan great enough that this dragon would be capable of flight, according to the laws of aerodynamics.

the upshot of all that is i am pretty confident that i have engineered a dragon skeleton that could actually work according to the laws of nature.

i'm starting to make a collection of helpful diagrams that may eventually morph into a tutorial. so far, all i've got is the front legs, but that's liable to change whenever i have time to do non-college-related things.

front legs
shoulders and chest
claws