I was contacted by a client while vending at a convention about an elemental dragon project. He really liked my work on the Gothic Horror Tarot Deck and wanted some artwork of dragons and faeries.

My first task was to figure out what the theme of each dragon would be. I drew heavily from Magic the Gathering's color themes. I also collected many, many reference images. Below are a few of the images I used, though I had a very exhaustive folder of images I drew inspiration from! You can read more about each individual dragon by clicking on the small images at the bottom of the page.

The client only wanted a print of the images, so I was able to do whatever I wanted with the artwork afterwards. I ended up selling the "Draconic Forest Guardian" to Legion as a sleeve design (mostly meaning that they own the rights to that image as a sleeve design, I still own the rights to it elsewhere).

I also made a cute playmat out of all the images!

Overall I enjoyed conceptualizing the different dragons and bringing them to life! It was a lot of fun to explore what I could do with an art description as light as 'dragons & faeries'.