ragons are creatures of wonder and imagination. University of Central Florida anthropologist David E. Jones suggests that we inherited our early primate ancestors' instinctive fear of big cats, reptiles and other natural predators. With the invention of art, it took just a little bit of creativity to fuse these animals into beautiful and frightening Chimaeras, the most famous of all being the Dragon.When drawing Dragons, think about the biology of the Chimaera and how it works. Look closely at the wings of a bird or a bat and you'll see that it's actually an arm, evolved to push air downwards to lift a light body off the ground and into the sky. A tail is an extension of the spine that gives the animal balance and sometimes the use of an extra appendage. The more exotic the amalgam of animals you use to design your dragon, the more interesting it will be to see how it would actually work as a living creature.
