My dragon for this week is a character in a favorite book series of mine. Meet Lóngūn, the star dragon. (His name is pronounced “long-gín.”)

Check out this post on Errol, dragon #1, for the details on why I’ve challenged myself to make a dragon every week in 2015.

Click on any of the photos for a closer look.

If you’ve read the third book in the Tiger’s Curse series, Tiger’s Voyage, you’ll remember he is the first one encountered on the voyage.

Here are the descriptions from the book:

• looks more like a Chinese serpent with a long sinuous body
• four short limbs with taloned feet
• red, black underbelly, top is streaked with vermilion
• seems to glow with red light
• long black and red tendrils trailing from black bearded cheeks
• shiny scales
• long lashed eyes, red irises & black pupils
• long red tongue
• pointed black tufted ears
• two reddish black spikes, more like horns protruding from back of the head
• spikes are covered with black velvet like new antlers and are soft & rounded at the tips
• coming through the sky like a sidewinder

It was kind of fun making a sculpture to match a particular description. I also tried to show some of Lóngūn’s personality, although he’s got the least strong personality of all five of the dragons. I’m looking forward to doing some of the others even more.

If you’d like to see my other dragon creations so far, I’ve made a Thursday’s Dragon Pinterest board just for them.

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