Here be dragon.

[ldhenson]

After I successfully made my first plush animal (the bat), all the excitement went to my head and I plunged straight into my next project.

I wanted one of the amazing dragons from Reign of Fire. The shape and dimensions come from my doing a lot of sketching while staring at the movie's production photos. It's not exact, but close enough that I'm happy with it.






Here he is perched atop one of my decoupaged boxes. "What's going on back there?"








Neck and tail are wired and poseable, as are the wings from shoulder to wrist. Legs are movable at the hip joint.

Even though I'm not using any patterns from Carolyn Vosburg Hall's Sewing Tiny Toys this time, my dragon owes much to that book for construction principles.

ETA: Updated version of this dragon!


X-posted to craftgrrl (here), cute_plush (here), the_dragons (here), Craftster

Comments

[omicron1337.livejournal.com]

That looks really cool! I love the wings, and the tail.

[swankyfunk.livejournal.com]

That is amazing!

[heartsarts.livejournal.com]

that looks SO great! I'd love a whole flock of them hanging over my bed for some reason.

[ex-miss-adda231.livejournal.com]

woooow. i love this!

[esteven]

He looks wonderful, just like a fire lizzard curling their tails around their mistresses and masters. I have yet to find out more about Reign of Fire. My dragon knowledge comes from Pern. ...and there are dozens of dragons -china as well as drawn- in my apartment. I just love them.

[sabyne.livejournal.com]

Put some whiskers on it, call it Temeraire and I'll buy one!

[scarlett-speaks.livejournal.com]

Just looking at the picture (before I actually READ the post) I thought you were going to say you bought that dragon so you could make one similar.

Very cool.

[box-x-of-x-rain.livejournal.com]

wow, that is amazing!

[acidtrix.livejournal.com]

yay, i want one!

[milkysea.livejournal.com]

Awesome!! I love the wings! :D

[koalajoe27.livejournal.com]

Amazing! *__*

[penguinsane.livejournal.com]

Looooooove it.

[skyemaster.livejournal.com]

You did an amazing job!

[tearofabasilisk.livejournal.com]

Between my own love of the movie reign of fire, love of firelizards, and desire to come up with new projects, I am in love with this. It's so beautiful. The tail has so much detail! You might be forcing me to try to come up with a patter, which will be a disaster on many levels, but so pretty!

[captainschlumpy.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!! He's just the right size too!

[skywookiee.livejournal.com]

This is pretty awesome.

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

Eee! I want one, too! <3

That is really gorgeous and amazing.

[emerald-arts.livejournal.com]

He's incredible! What is this sewing Tiny Toys of which you speak? I've only just started so I haven't really accumulated any resources yet.

Very clever of you, 10/10 for your dragon *applause*

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Wow, he's beautiful and amazing! I'm SOOOO impressed that you just invented him from scratch, and made him so marvelous!

[sogwife.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's gorgeous! And the bat is amazing, too!

Me wants!

[partners4life.livejournal.com]

You are so talented. :)

[knitfish.livejournal.com]

wow! this is amazing! Great work!

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Thanks! To my surprise, the tail turned out to be almost harder to do than the wings.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

"Psst! Look at the sleeping human!" "Let's dive-bomb her!"