A big red, eh... Dragon... Or wyvern, whatever. Something large, scary, potentially fire-breathing and flies, enough said.

Experimenting further with various brushes and digital techniques, aiming for working on comics later (maybe much later). I found something quite spiffy for mass-producing quite good-looking scales. Layer tricks producing bump-map like effects seem to be rather productive if used right.

The dragon itself might actually be used in the comic I am planning, not sure about the color, but the anatomy goes well with my intentions (of course I did a bunch of design sketches on it, head, wings, flight etc).

Some interesting statistics:

- 20 meters long from nose to tailpin.
- 5 meters at shoulder with extended arms.
- 24 meters wingspan.
- 130 centimeters skull length (without horns, with horns, 180 centimeters).
- 80 centimeters skull width (without horns).
- 5,5 tons weight.

Some traits:

- Headbangers. They have a flat skull ideal for this, to use their head as a ram.
- Tail-whip. They can fold up the flight control surfaces to eliminate their drag, and may use the tail like large lizards as a weapon.
- They eat about one ton of meat weekly (roughly scaling up a lion's intake for their mass).

Considering the size of these creatures are important when designing a story. It is easy to make mistakes by forgetting about it, crafting something which doesn't work out because the beast is either too small or too large for the situation at hand.

This dragon is probably even too large to realistically fly, but just how large is it? Sure it is quite large compared to a man. However look at for example a DR 130 family locomotive: slightly longer than 20 meters, 120 tons, maybe about five meters tall. Lowering the head and wingtips a bit, this dragon disappears behind it. The same time their body is also so large like that of a full grown African Elephant bull, although lighter for the airborne construction.

Feeding one would be a nightmare, one cow weekly to keep him healthy, about fifty yearly. You probably needed a herd of about sixty to seventy cows per dragon to produce a steady meat supply.

Fighting these beast without modern weapons is probably impossible, the chances to hurt one would likely be at least as slim as hurting a rhinoceros or elephant, likely even worse depending on the properties of their scaly hide.

Also good luck taming one! Even a Siberian Tiger has less than a mere tenth of his mass! If the dragon has a cooperative nature, maybe you won't get ripped apart in the first ten minutes... Heck, you may even last for a half hour if you find him in the right mood! His jaws are large enough to easily swallow a human being, so you might well enjoy his companionship in a warm, although a bit soggy and foul-smelling place.

Eh, just rambling around.