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"The Weyrling"Graphite on paper
© 1994 Talon Dunning
-I was really into Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" in the 90's.
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Green. That dragon is way too small to be a gold. She's way too small to be a green too, but she's way, WAY too small to be a gold.
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It could be a character from the 'Dragon's Dawn', when the dragons were smaller.
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That makes sense. They were a lot smaller than the 747-sized dragons of Ramoth's day.
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From what I remember, the dragons in Ramoth's time could only carry two or three people at a time, even the bronze ones. I always envisioned them as jet-fighter-size. Also, with the name 'Weyrling' your picture could also be of a young dragon (not yet fully grown) and its rider (an older woman passed up by the queen hatchling and impressing a green instead).
If you want 747-sized dragons then you want to read the Temeraire series by Naomi Novak - those dragons fight with upwards to two dozen soldiers hanging off the sides and belly firing rifles and throwing bombs.
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Ramoth was the size of a jumbo jet. That's well documented by both McCaffery and PERN source material. She was the largest dragon ever hatched (at that time) though. The rest are a bit smaller. Greens are the smallest dragons, as I recall. Or maybe blues. Are there blues? It's been a long time since I thought about this stuff.
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There are blue dragons, and I believe that they are the smallest. Maybe I just like to imagine that they are smaller, though the large size of the queen makes sense as most female reptiles are larger than the males. My fan fiction concept for Pern usually includes the main character impressing blue dragon and falling in love with a female green dragon rider, with the blue dragon being of the modern breed and the blue dragon being of the old-timer breed (making them about the same size).
From what I understand green dragons usually impressed with young women up until Morieta's time - when dragons and riders were devastated by a disease - and after that green dragons had to pick from a pool of young men, usually those already predisposed to homosexuality as the green dragons also went on mating flights (they just couldn't produce eggs unless they were specifically prevented from consuming fire stone). The practice of presenting young women to green dragons wasn't reintroduced until Ramoth and Lessa's time when Mirrim impressed Path by accident.
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That all sounds familiar and correct.
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amazing! very similar in style to how the dragon is on the copy of dragonflight i have, so im guessing that's how you imagine the pernese dragons?
and its very good :3
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Definitely. One of my earliest influences was Michael Whelan, the artist who definitively established the look of McCaffery's dragons. The Pern novels are among my favorite books and at the time I did this, I was involved with some Pern fan-groups.
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ahh, i forgot his name lol, thats what i thought ^_^
It shows, though it isn't the same. i guess that's your drawig style in there
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