Further development of the dragon species

 I've been spending a lot of time working on my dragon species,specifically the wings and the back feet. I was happy with the rest of it in my last concept piece, but the anatomy of the wings and legs didn't work quite right. After talking with my tutors, I decided to go down more of a bird route with the back legs and feet. I also went back and looked at bat wings closer to get what I wanted for the wings. 


I'm very happy with how this version looks, and is very close to what I want the final version of these creatures to be, I think a couple more tweaks and they'll be there. Once I had created these, I wanted to explore how these creatures live and behave, so I created a couple more sketches which explore them flying, hunting/diving and eating.




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