Dragons! Yes – undying inspiration and
a constant theme in the paintings of many illustrators.
As you'll see in this post, I did not resist the
dragons. It is obvious to draw
dragons is a lot
of fun. I think there is no
mythical creature that is drawn so many
times as a dragon.
In fact, we can follow the history of illustration / art through examples of drawn dragons. Each illustrator
draws a dragon on its way, and there are many illustrators in the world, which means - it's a
lot of different dragons!
Last ones in the series of dragons that I did, they
are made for my USA clients,
for promotional purposes. Two cute dragons as promo
art for the U.S. publishers
of children's books.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKKq2pLRujAtRB2irZ3v5DuwKjeN1lYdqOFbEtuvetqvwVz8EAOlF3P19BrFsK7px_psN_xB5Lnw40TVNax2f3oMH7GLausArRGSLy59wQFPJUG3GOJrwuc9LYSvv50CwJWDPAcXDfsP3/s400/01_Dragons_Promo-art.jpg) |
Dragons / Promo Art for U.S. publishers
of children's books / 2013 |
If you peek in my
sketchbook, you can always find
a few dragons…
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Dragons from my sketchbook |
I
recently dug up some
old works with dragons, from 2001. These
are watercolor drawings of dragons.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2wBvpY3mKW0R8_FYoBesYrm7VpNkmStZLPV22AamEqNZIc-uxgoyYzG6BqMO2zz01cmO04tkbZMi2EOJBAz9YrkKJcoyA5GwpaEa9m6m_NC9iTeUVlq4G9h_g_TrbVYLEn-DR2WTxUtH/s400/03_Dragons_old_drawings.jpg) |
Dragons / Watercolor drawing / 2001 |
At one of the drawings there is a little boy who
is standing against the dragon.
The little knight
is very reminiscent of Harry Potter, but that year when
the drawing was made, I did not know anything about
Harry.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXV_9qs-pSST-NMu3hwG9bSluH-m9hi9tWhyIvqJ8MyluXG_zDLCVwWxs7LqmRHJ3YtCdgNdEtFwiiZdKox0RcW_Gq-yWbfLlMc1PKHRU1HNHc5s2GMDTjKcGgiy2V9khK9IOme9FG-XF/s640/04_Dragons_old+drawings.jpg) |
Dragons and The Little Knight / Watercolor drawing / 2001 |
In
2004, I studied Demonology as an alternative aesthetic. It was
my master thesis at the Academy of Arts in Novi
Sad. At that time, I created a series
of dragons under the influence of medieval engravings and prints of Renaissance
German engravers like
Albrecht Durer -
my favorite.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWUXhbSoKyAYzCKmRBa6Ddv27AJwa_34ViAvLpi9mp5w1ZuQWl692LFMnaDuHgyjTMsL71aYEaf1u9IZbTLWxpX6zg3F7QkKtwCdAqRkSyY3uS1kWO6REzHlimJkIqxs5IbOEh-GeRbeUN/s640/05_Dragons_LLL.jpg) |
Dragons / Lexicon of Art Legions / 2004 - 2005 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN318-bTnpT_JJfNzTwcKxkrY2u8MoWVdM-da7VmpKAVfgs45V6P2ojzwjqkijJx4BFM2Tmg0WXCaTwKyNouYmPpI3aHjD-7EXpy9aUoSpewwbXtbB6A5x2zeQg7MNv5mFfnlY14fuTwXJ/s400/06_Dragons_LLL.jpg) |
Dragon Mimezisa / Lexicon of Art Legions / 2004 - 2005 |
And of
course, in the end, here's the inevitable dragon
from Tolkien's world, from The Hobbit – Smaug…
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Dragon Smaug / Watered ink and pen / 2008 |
Love dragons, and beware of the fire!