Last year I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to work on a dragon book for Scholastic by way of Becker&Mayer Books. I got to take a crack at designing 16 different mythical dragons from all over the world for a book called Sink Your Teeth Into Dragons.I had drawn hydras before, and so have thousands of other artists. With that in mind I wanted to approach this one a bit differently. Like on the Gargouille , I wanted to try and bring some shark qualities in. The basic idea was, "what if shark but also snake". It was only after I painted it that I realized I had basically created a hognose snake with shark teeth. Oh convergent evolutionary shapes. Looking back I'm glad I had the restraint to leave this guy hornless. With this many heads it would have been a pain in the ass to make him that horny.Photoshop CC: 10 hoursIllustration©Becker&Mayer Books