Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), freshly hatched!, family Crocodylidae, found across much of Africa

photograph by Veronik80000

a pair of drakes get in a disagreement over a basking spot

Ko Fi and Commissions

Hello!!! I have a few weeks before I start my new job - I've moved from weekly pay to monthly pay so until the end of June I will be living off savings.

I am going to slide my Ko-Fi link here - https://ko-fi.com/northwyrm

If you want any dragon art drawing, I offer £20 dragon artworks on KoFi; turnaround will be relatively fast -

Happy Dracones Monday! Dinodrakes!

Happy Dracones Monday! Today's dragon is the dinodrake! So this is one of two 'zero mythology zero lore I just throught it was funny' dragons (the other being the cliffwyrm, the 'seagull dragon'). The dinodrake is a distant relative of the firedrakes, but it lives on Madagascar. Females are large, bulky and horned, males are small with flamboyant wings, infants are little black wyrms with white stripes.

The dinodrake design is based on the loose idea that outdated artwork of dinosaurs, lovingly called 'retro dinosaurs' or 'vintage dinosaurs' - I feel that stomping monsters roaring at volcanoes have a mythos of their own, are their own sorts of dragons, and so I plopped them in Dracones Mundi. Also, Dracones Mundi dragons are based on pseudosuchians, and there were some bipedal pseudosuchians which fit the bill of 'bulky scaly reptile' in the way that nimble feathered therapods tend not to, so the dinodrake is a love letter to bipedal pseudosuchians, cheap plastic dinosaur toys, and a general fondness for 'dinosaurish' shapes and vibes.

I post a new dragon every monday @draconesmundi

The Tale Of Gytrash

Come meet the spooky puppo Gytrash! Also! Mythic Mayhem now has its own website! Which is mobile friendly too!

les animaux de l'histoire

Raffaello - San Giorgio e il Drago - 1505

(St. George)

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Fun fact: read about the legend of Saint George killing the Dragon here

St. George and the Dragon (Italian 14th Century)

Wolfgang Högler Saint George

Gouache on parchment, 22.5 x 16 cm, 17th/18th century

Master of the Calvary Saint George

Copper engraving, ca. 1430

Grégoire Guérard St. George fighting the Dragon

Grisaille in oil, 69 x 76 cm, ca. 1520

St George and the Dragon, by DonatoArts

Simon von Taisten St. George killing the dragon

Painting on fir wood, 72 x 33 cm, ca. 1490

'Saint George and the Princess of Silence Return to the City with the Vanquished Dragon'. Maerten De Vos. 1590.

St. George and the Dragon (1516) by Vittore Carpaccio (National Gallery of Art)

Salvador Dalí St. George and the Dragon

Bronze with green and brown patina, 46 cm, conceived in 1977, first cast in 1984

Lluís Masriera i Rosés Pendant with Saint George

Cast gold, opalescent ‘plique-a-jour’ enamel, ‘basse-taille’ enamel, diamonds and rubies, 4.6 x 3.6 x 8 cm, 1901-02