Contest Week 72: Dragons closed for judging

Cultures all over the world have legends about dragons. They appear in Europe, the Middle East, China, Japan, etc. There's also many ways they've been depicted. The term Drakon from ancient Greek meant a huge serpent, and various other cultures have both serpent-like and even feathered dragons. Chinese dragons fly by magic, not with wings, and are composed of many animal parts; horns of a deer, head of a camel, neck of a snake, carp's scales, hawk's claws, etc. European dragons on the other hand are much more lizard like and have bat wings. Jormungandr (spelled various ways) from Norse mythology was an enormous sea serpent that encircled the world.

Here's some sources of information about different dragons-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dragons_in_mythology_and_folklore

The rules? This time I want to see how creative people can get with drawing dragons, so really the only rule is that a dragon of any kind has to be the main subject of the drawing. Other than that I don't want to put any restrictions on this.

-Contest Week 72 will be open for entries for roughly 2 weeks starting from now until Saturday, March 1, at 11:59pm PST. That's the end of the day on Saturday for people in the US.


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JUDGING CRITERIA:
Creativity: The amount of imagination, originality and expressiveness that was put into the entry.
Technique & Effort: The amount of style, skill and craft that was put into the entry.
Following the Theme: How well the entry followed the theme of the contest.


WINNERS:

1st. Ce n'est pas un dragon by Deino -_{be sure to check out the judge's comments!}
2nd. Deadly Draggin' by davincipoppalag
3rd. I Am The River by stasiuk

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***SHOWCASE ANNOUNCEMENT!***

After every 10 contests, one contest winner from the 10 winning entries will be put in the Showcase Gallery.

This should be interesting!! I love dragons!!

Ooooooooooh I barely got to see this one!!! :O MUST ENTER> ;) :D Atleast I'm gonna try to.