There Be Dragons!

I decided to try my hand at a dragon drawing contest. The contest was for author Julie Kagawa's upcoming book Talon. There weren't many limitations on the contest save for the dragon drawings had to be the artist's original idea.

You can find the link to the contest below:

http://juliekagawa.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-draw-dragon-contest.html

While I'm very excited for the book I was equally excited to try my hand at drawing a dragon because I have very, very limited dragon drawing skills. Limited as in I've drawn a dragon once before. Five years ago.

Either way, my goal was to draw a majestic beast soaring through the air! What came out was a baby vegetarian dragon. Yes, that's right. As soon as I placed pencil to paper this vegetarian dragon emerged along with a gaggle of fearful veggies! His name is Tuft and he, apparently, wanted out of my head. To be fair, I didn't even know he was in there. Tuft is now a mainstay character who I've sketched and doodled numerous times now! Behold his fierceness:

Sketch after sketch of Tuft I decided it was time for color. Below is my final submission for the contest:

Tuft even has a story. He's an overachiever, but I wont share it here quite yet. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy Tuft!

<3 Kate