Inspiration: 50 Digital Dragon Paintings

Cameron Chapman on Apr 6th 2010 with 50 comments

Dragon myths date back at least a few millennia. They come from a wide variety of cultures: Chinese, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and European. As a result, dragons are a subject of fascination for many children and adults alike.

Below are 50 excellent digital paintings of dragons. Most follow the European/Middle Ages dragon tradition, although some are more obviously influenced by traditional Chinese dragons. All have exceptional detail, depth, and artistic merit. Use them as inspiration for your next digital painting or project.

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http://webdkr.com Devin Rajaram
These are some awesome inspiration. I might try to even draw one of them.
http://www.imonedesign.com OneDesign
great works !
http://starkvaliant.com valiant
Very cool collection! I would have liked to see more variation amongst the featured artists, though; it doesn’t seem this article had much research behind it.
http://www.infictus.com Paul
WOW! Nice round-up mate, I love Kerem Beyit’s work!
http://www.wallpapers-x.net wallpaper
nice,,, incredible
http://www.jeremyadamdavis.com Jeremy Davis
Always loved Kerem Beyit’s dragons. Simply the best.

http://sushimoronics.co.cc Sushimoron
I agree! It definitely stands out among the rest! :D

http://sean-pollock.com/ Sean Pollock
Awesome paintings thank you
http://aevion.net AEVION
What about this?!
http://andreewallin.deviantart.com/art/Dragon-vs-soldiers-120003037
http://psd-links.blogspot.com kswiss
brilliant
http://www.joristaheij.nl Joris
I miss the dragonball z dragon ;)

http://twitter.com/rubendevries Ruben
Me too! That’s gotta be the biggest of them all.

Llyod
Amazing
telmac
Oh my god. This is really the stuff that I am amazed by, because god knows something like this must’ve taken months to make. I know I never could have spent that much time one one thing.
http://drake09.deviantart.com C0de(
These are really cool! I watch these people on Deviantart. There is alot more from these artists. There’s also tons of tutorials on how to draw dragons like this on Deviantart.
Awesome Dragons! ^.=.^
http://fan-tas-tic.com Tschai
Simply fan-tas-tic!
And here be more dragons: http://fan-tas-tic.com/tag/dragon/
Emiliano
Amazing work… I would love to paint like that with a tablet // Increíble trabajo… me encantaría poder pintar así con una tablet.
Sadly, Ciruelo don’t use digital techniques to draw is amazing dragons, I would love to see one of his dragons here (he is one of my all-time fantastic art artists :) // Triste, pero Ciruelo no usa tecnicas digitales para dibujar sus asombrosos dragones. Me encantaría ver alguno de sus dragones acá. (él es uno de mis pintores fantásticos favoritos)
Ps. sorry for my bad english :P
susp3ct
I was just looking for something like this, thanks.
http://lenatailor.designerteam.info Lena Tailor
Mini Dragon… is Really Cute..
“Dragons Lair by Ironshod ” is awesome… The Fury we can feel…
http://www.uproarmultimedia.com Gregory Guntherg
Amazing.
http://twitter.com/kgrey38 Kal
Not a single one of neondragon’s excellent pieces featured here; I’m disappointed.
Possibly the best dragon collection on deviantART:
http://celero38.deviantart.com/favourites/#Dragons-And-Other-Fantastic-Creatures
carpier
fantastic
S-tyle
Def. impressed by the works of kerembeyit! Also love the other ones, but the “First lesson” really has a special touch. Great works!
http://scx.posterous.com E-One Sacrefixx
Great Collections, these are awesome!!! I like Kerem Beyit artworks….natural color I guess……Good Looking Dargons…….\m/
http://www.georun.net georun974
The first one is simply gorgeous. Great collection !
http://www.nelutu.info Nelutu
Cool dragons :)
http://www.psd-dude.com PSDDude
Pretty Coool ! I love fairy tales so i love also the dragons ! Nice Inspiration List!
http://alarttex.wordpress.com/ Maria del Valle
WOW, This is great, fabulous!!!
http://www.designioustimes.com/ Doink @ Designioustimes
I’m currently making a thorough study on a dragon’s anatomy and i say this came in just perfect! Thanx!
http://www.lucianblog.ro Lucian Blog
awesome !!!
http://vanessamacleod.com Vanessa M Design
There is no doubting the awesome talent of the artists who created these drawings. They are quite spectacular. However, they are all incredibly fearsome looking. What if, there really were dragons…and they all looked a bit like…well…Barney ;)
http://www.1freetemplates.com free templates
I was just looking for something like this, thanks.
http://craigps.info/ Craigsnedeker
WICKED POST! Bookmarked, I love dragons and these are amazing
http://medienvirus.de medienvirus
3 brandnew devwatchs, i think. ;)
Bruno
Amazing.
I love dragons;)
Kawa-V
All from DeviantArt?
XDD
script
“First Lesson” by Kerem Beyit is unbelievable
http://www.arkangelmichael.net ArkAngelMichael
And here are my dragons:
http://www.arkangelmichael.net/wp-content/gallery/other/dark-dragon.jpg
http://www.arkangelmichael.net/wp-content/gallery/other/skull-with-dragon-violet-nahled.jpg
:D :D :D
http://www.crearedesign.co.uk anna green
Some of these drawings are amazing, credit should be given as it is very difficult to draw something that doesn’t exist. Even though dragons can sometimes be seen as uncool subject matter. Id say some of these are definitely cool i especially like The Abstract Dragon by Livingrope.
seemore
sorry – all godd works. but the best one is “fishing on a dragon”!
lord of the rings rules + in my eys is that the best work!!!
-see-
http://blog.pinkstown.com/ pinks
beautiful and amazing and cool art.
I love dragon.
Nanerly
I draw dragons too! Theses are great. Check out my dragons and dragon poetry on my site. I’m working on a dragon poem book and some of these pics would be perfect. I’ll have to keep working on mine.
dragondrawer.blogspot.com
http://gopalbonline.com Gopal Bhattacharjee
good works!
//www.sjlwebdesign.co.uk SJL Web Design
Wow, so many incredible dragons!!
great post.
http://www.webdesignkc.co.uk/ rory
Wow amazing dragons…never thought I’d say that!
Loving Mini Dragon very cute, I want one. Whats next week – Top 50 Orcs?
anoop
yes…… this is inspirational…..
http://h Bhushan
actually i don’t like the dragon but you have created that is so awesome
very nice and kip it up.
Andy
Utterly awesome collection of dragons!
Andy
nykeri
OMG dragons forever, these are really inspiring
draven
awsome digital paintings !

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