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🐲 Daily Dragon: Friendship
When I was at the pharmacy today the person at the counter said they liked my dragon jacket and told me how they are Vietnamese and their dragons are blue rather than red, yellow, or green. They were so jovial and excited so I gave them a blue dragon pin off my jacket in hopes that it’d bring them some joy. In my free-time I drew something inspired by pictures I saw of Vietnamese dragons. This one is for you, my friend!
These two are the most amazing characters that I could ever ask for to represent me as well as my nationality.
Vietnam Pride 🇻🇳😍
Happy Dracones Monday! Rong
Today's dragon is the rong from Vietnam. Dragons are important in Vietnamese culture as there was a myth that 100 of the founding members of important families were hatched from eggs created by a dragon and a fairy (Lac Long Quan and Au Co).
In my dragon field guide project 'Dracones Mundi', these dragons have stripes like a tiger which help them camouflague in dense forests. The males have large, bright nose horns ised for display. These are adept predators both in rivers and on land.
I'll post a dragon design from my project every monday, follow @draconesmundi for more Dracones Mondays!!!
gift for a friend of the four holy beasts
a handful of dragons i drew for a dragon based infographic i did for my graphic design class!
the subject i decided to write about was dragon mythology from a variety of cultures to steer away from the monotony of western dragon lore that dominates popular culture
the specific dragons featured under the cut - please message me to let me know if there’s any corrections i can clarify! i can’t promise i can redraw any of these, (the project was turned in a few months ago-) but let me know if i can make notes for accuracy!
Lạc Long Quân
Name: Lạc Long Quân
Type: Mythical
Culture of Origin: Vietnam
Description: Being a dragon king, Lạc Long Quân is often given a strictly human appearance, though he can assume draconic forms as well.
Myth: Several myths about him exist. This is the one about his marriage to the Mountain Fairy princess.
Lạc Long Quân married Âu Cơ, the princess of the mountain fairies. Through their union, Âu Cơ laid a sac which hatched into a hundred sons. While their marriage was a happy one, their natures were too different, and so they had to part ways. Âu Cơ went to the mountains, taking fifty of their sons with her. Lạc Long Quân went to the ocean, taking fifty of their sons with him. These children were the ancestors of the Vietnamese people.
Facts:
Lạc Long Quân was the son of Long Mẫu Thần Long, the dragon goddess who rules the sea and sky.
His father was a Kinh Dương Vương, a human king with divine ancestry.
Lạc Long Quân fought and slew numerous monsters, including a nine tailed fox and a great fish.
Many streets in Vietnam are named for Lạc Long Quân.
Headshot practice as well as concept character designing.
In Vietnam, dragons are known as rồng. They are said to combine the features of crocodile, snake, cat, rat and bird. Similarly to Chinese dragons, they are associated with the weather, bringing rain to help crops grow. They are used to represent the emperor, and the nation itself, as well as more abstract concepts such as life, growth and the universe.
One ancient origin myth states that the Vietnamese people are themselves descended from the union between a rồng and a fairy. The first Vietnamese people lived on the rivers, and called crocodiles "Giao Long," viewing them as a sort of pseudo-dragon.
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Monster master list.
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