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Toy sewing pattern design – studying the ANATOMY of a Dragon!

Sep 10, 2012 | A day in my life, Blog

I have been having such fun designing the details of my dragon toy sewing pattern… and discovering all about the anotomy of a dragon as I do!

Who would have thought a dragon had so many

unusual features?

dragin toy sewing pattern design

Do Dragons have EARS?

I actually had to stop and think about THAT!!!! I REALLY didn’t know if those big flappy things were EARS or just FRILLS?

Be honest… DID YOU? 🙂

I did some more reseach (Thanks Mr Google!!!) and found THE BEST-EVER diagram showing the anatomy of a dragon– Hooray!

This fabulous drawing is by the incredibly talented artist Eugene Arenhaus. This is ONLY a sneak peek of part of his original artwork BUT you can see the original drawing and ALL his artwork on his website – it’s awesome!

Dragon anatomy by Eugene Arenhaus

Well, let’s see,

For starters, dragons need lots of spikes… so I added some back spikes… BUT how to make them look dragon-ish, and not simply crocodile-ish?

dragon toy pattern design sketches tail spikes

I tried a few different shapes…

dragon anatomy tail spikesMmmmm, I think that looks dragon-ish!

 

NEXT I had to figure out what the tip of the tail should look like. Should it just end in a sharp point?

Nah, I thought I’d try a tail with a TAIL SPIKE!!!!

dragon toy pattern design sketch tail spike

Aaaah, that’s MUCH BETTER …

BUT then I had to figure out HOW TO ATTACH it! Ha!ha!  : )

dragon anatomy tail spikeThat looks OK! : )

Ooh, wings! What about dragon WINGS???

dragon toy design - wings

What FUN!!!! I loved making these dragon wings!!!

… and some CLAWS?  Dragons need a claws! I think I’ll stick with 3 claws.

dragon toy - claws

And now, how can I make some cute dragon eyes? They need LOTS of bright colour and cat’s eye pupils of course!

dragon toy eyes

Nearly forgot about HORNS???? Do ALL dragons have horns? Well, again Mr Google had the answer and it turns out around 80% of dragons have horns!

Still, I think my dragon is too little to have horns so I’ve decided to leave them off my dragon toy pattern…

this cute little dragon is JUST a BABY!!!!! 🙂

OK, I’d better get on and finish the toy sewing pattern so you can sew your own baby dragon!

 

I hope you like my dragon so far???


Pauline McArthur - Funky Friends Factory.
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Till next time,

Happy Sewing,
Pauline

4 Comments

  1. Ellen L Matthewson

    What a darling pattern! I love reading about yournprocess.

    Reply
    • Pauline

      Thanks Ellen! So glad you enjoyed reading how the toy patterns develop! 😀

      Reply
  2. Janet Giesecke

    Are these patterns downloadable?

    Reply

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