Dragon practice! Also fun with line weights and lessons in shading with Prismas, with some quickie digital sky because I'm cheap like that.

As for Drachen himself, I started him years upon years upon years ago (1998, I believe), then buried him in my art folder for some date in the future when I wasn't mortally terrified of Death by Inking. Rediscovered him about six months back during a bought of art cleansing (in which many the old portfolio was put to the torch) and decided he could pretty much be inked as-is, though I did clean up his horns and ruff a tad.

His coloring took me a little longer, as I wanted something subtle for my pensive and vaguely morose drachen. For the curious, I named him after a German kiddie song called "Drachen im Wind" Dragon in the Wind), which sounds for all the world something sung by a lonely and forgotten dragon, but is actually about a kite. (Yes, I know. Ha, ha. You crazy German songs, you. Still, it was fairly catchy, and crazy enough that I still remember it years after my younger brother purloined the tape and recorded Elmo's Singalong overtop it.)

Anyways. A sampling of the translated lyrics might go something like this:
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Flying through the clouds/you seem so happy/

I would gladly join you/but I can only watch from the ground/

You look so happy/I feel so heavy/
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