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Post by Anna on Aug 20, 2008 19:36:22 GMT -5
I found a lovely, wonderful, perfect picture demonstrating dragon sizes by color, and in comparison to people. So I stole it. Well, I stole a link to it!  Isn't it GREAT?! Each color is shown twice, at it's largest and at it's smallest (on average, of course!). |
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Post by Andrea on Aug 20, 2008 19:48:48 GMT -5
That is like the greatest thing I have ever seen! They show Ramoth next to a jet, yet you never see a dragon next to a person. That rocks!!
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Kris
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Post by Kris on Aug 20, 2008 22:01:29 GMT -5
Thanks, Anna! This is a great help.
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Post by merali on Aug 21, 2008 7:37:41 GMT -5
Wow!!!!!!! That is so neat, Anna!!
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Post by Anna on Aug 21, 2008 8:52:02 GMT -5
The wonders of Google Search for images.  |
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Post by Erica on Aug 21, 2008 10:09:12 GMT -5
Excellent! Thanks ....it really helps me to put the blues & greens in context (for instance...I thought they were both a lot bigger!)
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Post by erin on Aug 21, 2008 15:13:50 GMT -5
Nice!
And yes, much smaller than in my imagination.
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Post by Chantal on Aug 23, 2008 19:06:57 GMT -5
Awesome picture, Anna! Who came up with that?
Personally, I think the bronzes need to be a tad bigger or the golds a tad smaller. Same could go for the browns and greens. (g) Still--Wow!
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Post by janet on Oct 5, 2008 14:48:00 GMT -5
I have seen other size charts for dragons. I think one is in the Dragonlover's Guide actually or in the Atlas of Pern and it pictures much larger dragons. I never liked the massive ones described in many clubs. Basically my eyes glaze over at the thought of trying to bathe something the size of a small jet. I like the small ones better though I admit I have concerns about the size of the ones in this chart. We know Ruth could carry three people. That just seems like an awfully heavy load for the smallest dragon in the chart. I suppose though that if you compare it to the size of a terrestrial donkey and the loads thay can carry in comparison to their size it isn't so daunting. i am still new to Starrise. Is there a standard size range here for dragons?
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Post by Hope on Oct 6, 2008 19:57:47 GMT -5
Janet, we (or at least I!) try to avoid absolute measurements. You can have (for example) a large blue, a small blue, a slender blue, a plump blue, a medium blue...and that tells people where you are compared to average, and therefore about where yours fits next to their own dragon. We're using the picture at the head of this topic as our schema of average. Feet or meters is guess work, and doesn't make it any easier to visualize for most of us! Canon says that part of a dragon's flight is telekinetic, so we don't have to get too picky--fortunately! And, honestly, the golds in that picture are PLENTY big enough to have to bathe and oil! |
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Post by Anna on Feb 17, 2009 1:47:41 GMT -5
Found another, similar picture, and this one gives feet.  |
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Post by JustPlainKitty on Feb 17, 2009 20:26:36 GMT -5
For artist reference, the above drawing seems to be directly based on a description Anne herself gave about her dragons. I know as I'm practicing dragons tonight I found this information useful. I got the quote from the same site where these pics came from though I can no longer find the mailing list that the owner of the site speaks of.
"Well, none of the illustrators have got my Pern dragon down right and it's very hard to explain what the differences are, except the dragon is NOT as reptilian as Whelan draws him -- though his depiction is certainly eye-catching. They certainly don't have all those bits and bobs on them as the English version shows. They have heavier haunches, since they have to spring from the ground and put all that weight into the air and their wings are best as the umbrella type which Whelan does do very well indeed. Their heads are more horse-like...much broader through the occipital lobes since dragons are very intelligent. Their eyes are bigger and set forward in their heads -- since their eyes are faceted they do have lenses on a fairly wide arc to see Thread falling out of the corners of their eyes, as it were. They have horse-like cheek bones, and their muzzle is well-shaped with wide, but not too wide, nostrils. Their chests are very broad with musculature for both front legs, which are shorter, and the wings. They do have ridges along the spine which stop at the withers, and start again below the wings. They have headknobs rather than ears. They have fangs but certainly not the raptor-type lotsa teeth as in dragonhead or even Dragonseye where the dragons were really rather clunky. Strong teeth but not sharklike rows of them as the D'EYE would suggest. Their skins tend to look slightly mottled, as if someone had cleaned a paint brush in whatever and the various colors have allowable shades...as in red hair or even brunette. Or the various shades a bay horse can be. I know when I've seen a drawing if that IS my dragon but it's very difficult to describe accurately because the same words have different connotations to different people - as witness the variety of shapes dragons have taken for different artists...."
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Post by Chantal on Mar 5, 2009 19:13:28 GMT -5
I never liked that picture of Ramoth next to a 747. It meant she was too unbelievably large. I think this image is a lot more realistic--thoough Ruth looks barely large enough to carry Jaxom as an adult--all ideas of, "I can carry as much as I think I can." to the contrary. (I never quite swallowed that.)
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Post by Anna on Mar 5, 2009 20:00:15 GMT -5
Well, if they're all instinctive telekinetics.... |
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Post by Hope on Mar 7, 2009 21:10:12 GMT -5
OK, dumb question: Who's Carenath?
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