title: DragonArt Mythical Monsters: How to Draw and Paint More Fantastic Creatures
author:  Jessica Peffer 
description: <div>Jessica "NeonDragon" Peffer is a fantasy art illustrator and author of <i>DragonArt: How to Draw Dragons and Fantasy Creatures</i>. Her style has overtones of the popular Japanese manga/anime. Trained at the Columbus College of Art and Design, she has done character and logo commissions, and runs a popular website, www.NeonDragonArt.com.</div>
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  DRAGON’S CURVY ASSISTANT
  
  
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  ANNABELLE WINTERS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  ARTHUR
  
  
  Red swirls.
  
  
  Yellow streaks.
  
  
  Slashes of iridescent purple.
  
  
  Splashes of midnight blue.
  
  
  I step away from the massive canvas and raise my left eyebrow as I examine my
  latest masterpiece. The sun blazes in through the open window of my castle’s
  East Turret, and I breathe deep of the hot, salty air that flows over the Dead
  Sea and swirls against my bare skin.
  
  
  “Looks like every other fucking painting you’ve done over the past three
  hundred years,” comes Brogan’s mocking growl from the stone staircase leading
  to the bowels of my castle made of blackstone and goldleaf. “How about drawing
  something that actually looks like . . . I dunno . . . something!”
  
  
  “You’re right,” I mutter, rubbing the rough stubble on my massive chin that’s
  as peaked as the sharp towers of my castle. I know my annoying younger brother
  Brogan is just fucking with me, but he does have a point. “It’s sh