title: Drawing Dragons: Learn How to Create Fantastic Fire-Breathing Dragons
author:  Sandra Staple 
description: <DIV>Sandra Staple is an artist and photographer who&nbsp;has been drawing dragons for over 15 years, and has literally sketched thousands of them. She won awards as far back as high school and had shows of her work when she was in college. She has sold paintings through her website and other sites online art galleries. She runs the popular website canadiandragon.com and lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.</DIV>
zlib_text: > > Theros couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Dragons, small red dragons
  > that seemed to be made of flame, were crawling off the sword that now glowed
  > red in the heat of the blazing fire.
  
  > > He shut his eyes, rubbed them, looked again. The dragons were still there
  > … scuttling across the white-hot coals. One jumped out of the fire, landed
  > on a wooden bench. The dragon vanished, changing to flame. The bench began
  > to smolder and smoke.
  
  > > The firepit was filled with the tiny dragons now, hundreds and hundreds of
  > them. They dashed up the wooden beams that supported the roof. They crawled
  > to the worktable, dropped among the tools. And everything they touched—even
  > metal—burst into flame.
  
  > > “Come away, master! Come away!” called Theros’s apprentice. “There’s
  > nothing you can do! Give up!”
  
  > > “By Sargas!” Theros roared. “Never!”
  
  > > Then one of the dragons jumped on his leg. It burned through his long
  > leather apron in just an instant, touching his flesh. The pain 