You are looking at months of work, I'm afraid. This is for my PLAN project for graduating college. Because of the size, this got scanned in nine pieces. Nine. Yes, I know there are horrid seam lines where things don't match. When I get the chance, I'll take a picture of my picture, and resubmit that in this one's place. At the moment, I really just wanted to assure myself that this was done. And what better way of doing that by posting?

And can you guess what I never want to do again, ever?
Draw a flat, rocky background in charcoal.
And can you guess what I'm likely going to be doing in the near future?
Drawing a flat, rocky background in charcoal.
Why do I hate myself like this?

Anyhow, the dragons. I've nicknamed the mom as Tani. And the juvenile.....well....it gets called Juven, for short. Yes, I get to design dragons in order to get a degree in biology. Cool, yeah? So this is what my dragons look like. They're actually divers, figuring a wingspan of 6-8ish feet, and they're ectotherms (because ectotherms are cool), so they live in the tropics.

18"x24" Vine and Compressed charcoal
For the duration I was working on this, it was clipped to my drawing board, no coversheet, and left in various spots in my disaster of a room. And nothing bad happened to it. I am frankly amazed. I mean, I carried this thing about, I nearly fell on it, I made food right over it - so many things could have ruined it and none did. ....yeah, I like to tempt Fate.

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EDIT: So, the digital camera thing didn't work nearly as well as I wanted it to. So, I broke out the scanner again, and rescanned the entire image, piece by piece. I then spent several hours piecing them together. The result: It's much prettier than before. I'm tempted to say, "I dare you to try to find the seam lines - I can hardly see them." But, I won't. Because someone will find them. And look! I added a border. Or rather, I replaced the border that it orignally had to a border that was actually straight. I feel cool.