Flying Water Dragon

This was a request. The person wanted a water dragon. I was told it should be an oriental style dragon and I know they don't normally have wings but I was asked to give it big wings and make it fly. Its been so much fun to draw and for the first time my book on Dragonology has actually been of some use because I had to research oriental dragons.
Since everyone always asks I tried to keep note of how long this took but failed. I'm pretty sure that drawing it in pencil and then ink took around 10 hours but the colouring seemed to take more like 6 hours but its hard to tell since the TV is rather a big distraction.

I love this dragon.

Pose is inspired by the first Dragonolgy book

22nd August 2004

Edit: Rescan, look at the lovely bright colours!

Image © Kim Jackson (*sonkem)
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