WTF ANCIENT MARINE DRAGON.

So, with Ancient Prophecies coming out, a friend of mine becoming obsessed with this card, and my own natural love of snakey things , I decided to draw an Ancient Fairy Dragon.

The thing is, after looking at the card more and more, the less and less it looked like a fairy. I could tell that the artists were trying and horribly failing to do butterfly wings, starting with the fact that most lepidopterans have a margin that makes the wing more rounded. The absence of the margin instead makes it look like something else entirely:

[link] That's right. AFD looks more like a venomous fish (Pterois ('wings' volitans) than a butterfly. I wanted to draw it with that idea in mind...

...Then went a step or two farther by basing it off of a siren. No, not the seductive kind, but a sort of 'naga' salamander: [link] I tried to emphasize this aquatic nature in the skin texture, but failed miserably since I had a dried lamprey specimen in mind. The main ' salamander' trait is instead the gills that make the dragon all the more marine.

And the forked tongue? That's just there to be cute. I also didn't draw the armor because 1. I suck at armor and 2. this was done freehand.

AFD is (c) Yu-Gi-Oh!, Konami, etc., but I can't help but wonder if I ended up turning it into something else. It's almost like it's been Bogleech'd!