I’ve been allowed to publish some of the artwork I’ve recently done for the RPG of A Game Of Thrones by Green Ronin (yay!)
In the next few days I’ll upload some illustrations from the first batch of inside art.

This is Balerion the Black Dread, the biggest dragon that ever lived.
According to the brief, his teeth are as long as swords, and his mouth could swallow a mammoth whole.
As a Concept Artist it’s difficult to imagine a better thing to work on.

It was been great fun to do, even though I have to admit I completely messed up the assignment and I had to redraw it from scratch after the first feedback.
Dragons in George R.R. Martin’s world have no arms. That is, they obviously have hind legs, whereas their arms evolved into wings, as it happens in bats.
I honestly hadn’t thought of that (Dragons in other settings can be quadrupedal with wings as a further set of limbs) and I’ll make sure I’ll get this clarified next time I’ll be asked to draw one.

Anyway, I’m posting the one that got rejected below. It’s not that bad, there are just two spare arms in the composition 🙁
Thanks to Green Ronin for allowing me to post this so soon.

by Paolo Puggioni

3 Responses

1. Valentina says:

   June 6, 2012 at 21:59

   Also, George R. R. Martin’s character also says in his latest book that 4-legged dragons are “nonsense” 🙂

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   • Paolo Puggioni says:

     June 6, 2012 at 22:03

     I kind of agree.
     However, being imaginary creatures they don’t really have to follow the rules of Darwinian evolution I guess.

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2. Kate says:

   December 7, 2014 at 12:55

   I like the final one much more. It’s not only the two-legs/four-legs thing. The first one looks as menacing as the other, but feels much more like a real flying creature. Excellent work!

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