Dragons for Christmas

  

The Dragon that made it in time for Christmas

Every Christmas I buy my husband and unusual dragon. This year I decided to make him a dragon 9 days before Christmas. I would make a small one....What was I thinking!  I worked on it in secret.  I would get up at night and work on it for several hours into the early morning.  I would work on it when he went out. Near the end when I was painting it finally I had to forbid him to be around me. It was finished December 24th! 

I thought just keep it small. Which I did, I drew a body pattern out only 10 inches long and the legs to match the size of the body.  I knew that the sculpting would cause it to reduce in size. there were 4 legs 2 wings and a basic head to account for also.. Every scale and indentation in the dragon was sculpted with needle and thread. Sculpting in the black thread have me a better visual as to the size of the scales. This way the size of the scales could be reduced as the went down to the tail.

The head was a bit different.  There was a base the eyes, eyelids, nose, lips, horns upper and lower head was added as I built it up with fabric and sculpting as I went. 

The wings were added after they were individual sculpted.  The dragons tail, body and head have a single armature the wings have their own armature.

I loved the way he turned out.

t turned out! He was surprised and added to his collection as right after he opened it.