What’s this? A dragonhead caterpillar. Freaky and fabulous, right?

JTTW Chapter 29 Thoughts

Chapter 29 for the @journeythroughjourneytothewest Reading Group!

First up why did the parents name her Hundred Flowers’ Shame though? I’m inclined to believe they meant it like she puts even a hundred flowers to shame with her beauty. Both the J. F. Jenner and German translation confirm this as well. Given the track record of the novel so far though it was only natural for me to squint a little and stop to think about it for a moment. This is likely a case of things having become a little unclear in translation with the Chinese name probably being very clear in its meaning when you understand the language.

Precious Image Kingdom is called Elephantia in the J. F. Jenner translation, which I find quite hilarious.

This chapter’s creature feature is the scorpaenid. They probably mean scorpaenidae which is a fish! They’re better known as scorpionfish though fishes called Dragonhead also fall under that family!

This is one of these beauties!

However from what I could gather from the Chinese Original with the help of Google Translate and images specifically looking at [鰲魚 Áo yú] it seems to be a mythical fish with the appearance of a dragon, so this was likely the closest translation available.

Yet in the J. F. Jenner translation it is a turtle instead of a fish, which makes for a decently cohesive image as well. And if you only take the character [鰲 Áo] it can refer to a mythological turtle, so this can be seen as a plausible translation as well.

Moving on to some place names, personally I prefer the J. F. Jenner translation here for the Halls and Palaces. They just sound a little too silly for the grandeur they are meant to portrait in the Anthony C. Yu translation.

Hehe, Tang Sanzang is collecting those seals like loyalty stamps on a stamp card. That’s a pretty decent metaphor as to how it works since he gets one in every place with his grand price at the end when he collected them all being the scriptures.

Green hair you say? Why that sounds like an anime character! Also yes, golden eyes, blue face and green hair all checks out in terms of accurate colour translation.

Now the other two translations specify that in the letter she means her two sons are bad, which makes me wonder if she even tried to raise them to be good. Like the father’s influence is undeniable since he probably had a hand in raising them as well, but nobody is born bad and they did also have their mother sooo. I’m just saying. It would understandable if she has a difficult relationship with them given how they came about, but flat out condemning children like this is not okay.

On a lighter note I really hope he actually means a couch looking like a dragon that would be so cool! It probably isn’t, but the mental image of it is still nice! Tang Sanzang should really start mentioning upfront oh yeah, they are demons so they look really scary, but they are good guys so you need not fear them. Just calling them ugly sets incomplete if not false expectations.

Haurchefant’s Quarters at Camp Dragonhead. 100 slot room =) Fealty Orchestrion playing in the room ♥

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Tawny Rajah Butterfly "Dragonhead" Caterpillar (Charaxes bernardus, Charaxinae, Nymphalidae) Pu'er, Yunnan, China

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A pic I drew for my upcoming TTRPG Dragonhead.

It's a take on the classic treasure check pic by David Trampier from the AD&D players handbook

Fire breathing Panokseon 🐉

[EU] Unikornu

Dragonhead

The last one of the 2022 cartoonAllies stream. Commission for Dragonheadthing. Thanks for donating gworerer!

Red Rising

Can a dragon ever be big enough?

The process for this was straightforward - take a render from an AI generator, paint over it, bing bang boom, pretty picture! And it felt pretty much like any other painting one does over a messy sketch. My render was made in WOMBO Dream with the prompt "a massive red dragon sitting on a volcano at sunset". I can't be sure but the style was probably Melancholic or Dark Fantasy. I like that with upscaling and adjusting dpi, the file sizes are pretty massive - for the price of artifacts, of course - this one is twelve thousand pixels high; AI outputs typically are rather small. In this case with lots of quiet areas of similar colours, upscaling looked bad, so I overlaid scanned textures (also a size problem to get textures that were big enough or at least took well to upsizing).

Timelapse video on Artstation, https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d0q0A3

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Flame Stalker

 I have a friend who does wood burning and despite knowing my allergy to line art.... Asked me to make some stencils :’D - for the ones I post here I am slapping a little grey background as well.

 Since it is for that medium, she wanted some thicc lines. And so... I put on my big girl panties.... and whined as I made some for her. I still have more to do... But... I do love me some dragons. And I DO love the game. This is basically line art of one of the dragons from a Dragon Survival game called Day Of Dragons. Specifically the Flame Stalker. Now... Just to not run away screaming from line art for other things... Maybe... One day. LMAO! 

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