Year of the Dragon

To those born in the year of the dragon. This is your year!

Finally got a new monitor. Now I can see things the way they're meant to be seen!

Dragon on Duty

For some reason I was still thinking about the vancouver riots. The media is still nudging us about it, especially in light of the latest kissing couple. And while I was thinking that, this dragon here has been extra diligent in protecting his/her gold while the looters are still looting/rioting around (in mind).

How did the dragon guarding the gold thing ever got started anyways?

Why would it even care about monetary things? Perhaps dragons know about the weaknesses in humanity's heart so it puts gold there as bait since people will greedily gravitate towards it. It sure is a lazy way of catching your own food by having them go towards you.

Or maybe it's just another one of those metaphorical type of things. About blockages that we need to break down in order to get at something. About a huge resevoir of latent potential hidden deep within us with some powerful force guarding it, to prevent us from accessing that potential.

Dragonspiration

Keeping the whole page to a dragon theme of sorts, as inspired by the artwork from "How To Tame a Dragon" from dreamworks.

Coup D'etat Du Jour

Say no to the tyrannical reptillian brain (ego?) with its myriad draconian rules and let the inner child inside you OUT. Yay!

Know what flyers are good for? To draw on! I didn't know what to draw so I decided to warm up by drawing this kid from another flyer. That way 'drawing what you see' relaxes you and eases you out of the left brain mode while shifting into the right.

I drew the dragon kid/brain/whatever last and decided to throw it in there with the kid. Yesterday I was looking through Pokemon concept art so it must've seeped into my drawings today. I realise now that children's body proportions are probably what inspired the super deformed styles. If that was too obvious for you, well pfft to you then! It just dawned on me while drawing the kid. =P

I did this while waiting for water to boil for my instant coffee + cappuccino since I'm out of regular coffee. Blech! It tasted awwwful.

Have a good weekend everyone!