Dragon heads

Posted on October 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Design, Dragon, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Scales, Sketching, Species, Wings2 Comments

Thinking about dragons and how they look? For a mythical beast there are lots of ‘species’. Ancient Chinese and Japanese, medieval dragons battled by saints, dragons in stories by authors like Anne McCaffrey, films like ‘ how to train your dragon’, with a dragon with a catlike head (toothless).

Then, logically, the wings wouldn’t really get it off the ground. But a mythical beast would be magical and easily able to fly. How about having wings like a dragonfly? Gossamer and transparent? And does the dragon have a scaled body or could it have fur?

Lots to think about!

Butterfly

Posted on January 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Butterfly, crevice, Imagined, Life, Moth, Night, Scales, snowflakes, Thinking, WingsLeave a comment

Through the dark night a butterfly flits, grey and green, not a moth. Looking for night-time flowers, like night scented stock.

The ghostly wings drop tiny scales, dusting the flowers with small droplets of white and grey.

Wings like snowflakes, flying through the cold dark, settling in a crevice at dawn. Sleeping till sunset arrives again….

Jeans weigh?

Posted on September 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Jeans, Kg, Life, Odd, Scales, Sensitive, Weight, Weightless, ZeroLeave a comment

I decided to weigh myself this morning, but I was a bit heavier than yesterday. So I thought I would take me jeans off ( I guess they must weight at least 0.5kg?).

On the scales again…. Exactly the same weight! So I thought I would weigh my jeans. 0kg! I have weightless jeans!

Clearly the scales are not that sensitive. If I use them now I’m not sure how accurate they will be…..

Scaled

Posted on August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Dragon, Fun, Imagined, Magic, Metallic, Poem, Poetry, ScalesLeave a comment

Dragon breath burns

So scales must be thick and strong

They must be impervious to flame.

Neither touched by fire

Or scorched by smoke.

Dragon scales are close fitting

Letting no sword or arrowhead in.

Dragon scales fit with no sags or bulges.

Metallic and shimmering.

Scales

Posted on June 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Creative writing, Dial up modem, Dragon, Edit, Floppy disc, long time ago, Mythical, Scales, WritingLeave a comment

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This dragon appeared from my garden hanging baskets photo. I liked the green so thought I would play around with the layout and sketch apps that I use.

I wrote a children’s story about a dragon once. It was a long time ago and I think I still have the floppy disc I saved it on. That was in the time of dial up modems when they used to make that funny dial up tone… Dah Di Dah Dah in a sort of metallic tune.

I never had the courage to send it in. It was too worthy I think. Not exciting enough. I asked a publisher to read it and also my friends daughter. I could tell the publisher wasn’t impressed and my friends daughter said I needed to make it funnier. Perhaps I also used too many long words.

Maybe one day I will edit it and try again. Is it sensible to try after twenty years? I’d like my dragon to go free…..

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Scales