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Red Dragon revised

My red valley dragon, perhaps a play off of a species (the Western European Dragon) I made for a dragon guidebook. I edited three versions: cool red, tone deep and bright. It's supposed to be an animal-style beast, more dinosaur than reptile, mutated by time into some fire-shooting, wingëd one. Dragons are variously shown as evil creatures, victims of human aggression, pets even, or dangerous and supersized animals not meant to be tamed. Like all large animal life, they are wild and powerful, perhaps (mis)representative of a crude human association of wild animal fury with some human-concept evil. Yet nature is furious. This dragon definitely isn't tolerating any rivals in it's valley.