#dragon puppet

I recently tried my hand at making a paper dragon puppet for the first real time — and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! The character is Temeraire from His Majesty’s Dragon.

Lately, I’ve been in a pretty low rut due to job loss and some difficult health realizations. But for the first time in a long while, I felt a real spark of creativity — and, even better, I actually had the energy to act on it!

I’ve also been able to truly read and focus on a book again, something I haven’t managed in ages. Naturally, I revisited His Majesty’s Dragon by the ever-talented Naomi Novik. So here’s to her and her wonderful writing, which has inspired so many — myself included!

Here’s a still image to show off some of the finer details!

Materials used:

Card stock of unknown weight (left over from my teaching days)

Crayola watercolor pencils

Staedtler pigment liner (0.5)

Posca pens

Everything is held together by a lot of hot glue… seriously, an alarming amount of hot glue.

“Black hole sun, won’t you come…”

I made this several months ago and I'm not a huge fan of it anymore, but I thought I'd share anyway :3

(I need my mother's help w the base but otherwise)

This is about 3 days of work? (After school)

Wulfbird! ✨ ✨ ✨