back 2000 years in china and you'll be condemned to death for such a high insult towards dragons. Stuff like this needs to be justified, and money isn't enough.









My view on this is a bit different though. I can perfectly understand your concern, and I agree with you as I said, combining humans and dragons is just stupid... But leaving the creatures out of it, the artwork itself, may it be a painting or a little statue, or whatever else, might represent something else. Let me explain.





Anthropomorphisation also called personification, by definition it means giving non human creatures or objects/things human capabilities or shape, and showing it through a way of human expression, like art... nothing more and nothing less and it does't work the other way around. Personification is a very tricky thing in my personal opinion. But, this doesn't mean I'm against it! Personification DOES work if used right, and it works darn good!





For example, an anthro dragon that's basically a human body with a pair of wings and a dragon head, in the form of a painting or statue (using the same example again lol) might represent the spiritual connection between a human and a dragon for instance! Spiritual connections between human and animal have been represented in the form of an anthro creature before, and it's genuine, regardless of how that statue looks like. But, unfortunately as you noticed already, very few people do that... The truth is, some people don't care about making sense, they are just selfish. They have an interest whether it's financial, or sexual, or whatever else... And yes, that is an insult towards dragons of you ask me. And personification is used wrongly around dA and beyond. Totally out of sense. You don't know who's serious and who isn't...





Another good example of personification would be ventriloquists! Those people have a natural talent at personifying things! I mean, Jeff Dunham for example is totally amazing!













Magic can also play a role but it's is different, and taking a good example like lord of the rings or even reality (maybe Dynamo) it proves that many things are possible, illusion or not! But combining humans and dragons for good... I call it strange, and it's not justified by magic! Dragons are better than human, I never ever saw such combination between human and dragon in any proper fantasy. Dragon and human, as the legend sais, can connect spiritually with each other but the spirits themselves can't be replaced, no more talking about physical shape! Humans and dragons can be bonded, and dragons did share capabilities with humans, but it doesn't mean turning into a dragon or anthro dragon... We have seen "magical" capabilities that humans don't usually have, in reality and due to spiritual bonding, but it doesn't go so far. Humans are still humans.









People understood it wrong. First because fantasy is also about making sense and respect (if you respect dragons you wouldn't be downgrading them to a senseless human thing, just because you "own" them) and second, dragons are simply... something else, thus if you draw a dragon it doesn't mean you invented it. You simply drew a new dragon. The only way you can be genuine is by inventing your own thing from scratch, or if you do dragons, do it properly! Owning doesn't mean you shouldn't respect whatever you created. Example scenario: If you care for your characters, you attract more people (as it's reflected through your work) and you make them share the feeling with you, which is what you want right? feelings are part of art and feelings need to be shared, one of the reasons why you share art. Makes sense to me, and of course that was just a rough example.





Humans and dragons can share lots of things. Good example would be dragonheart, where draco shared his heart with einon to keep him alive, BUT, einon didn't grow wings or scales did he? And the fact that dragons could share their hearts came at a cost, and was a magical/spiritual sort of bonding. Draco didn't cut his heart in two cause he would die, he simply shared a part of his soul, but didn't replace einon's, he just "repaired" it, as a human can't live with a dragon soul (it's just too much) and dragons can't live without a soul.





Fantasy is a different reality they said, but reality is still reality! because nature is still nature everywhere... We don't understand because our senses are not good enough to understand reality as it is, that's why we need tools for that. Reality is merely what our brain makes out of the data received from the senses... but so is illusion. And if reality is unique for each individual (it's scientifically proven, I can show you proof if u want) how could reality be real? For me, reality and illusion are the two good and bad sides of the same thing: my own world! Which is as far as my senses can reach. Outside my own world are things we all know of, but we see them differently once they enter our worlds. Just for fun, I called the outside a big parallax.





My concept of good and bad in general is simple : I'm happy for both of them, because I'm able to distinguish evil from bad or good (it can take shape of both). I have learned only when I encountered evil and saw the difference.













There are possible things and impossible things. If fantasy is possible then impossible things aren't possible in fantasy either. And, many fantasies and sci fi things already became reality... so...





And, fantasy is also about believing. Which for me is the most important thing, and as a dragons fan myself, I would rather believe in possible things. Because there is an infinity of them, and whatever is possible, might already be happening. It's a great way to hope.









Fantasy works like imagination for me. It's a simulator standing between inspiration and creation and the end result is a genuine feeling, motivation, believing, etc... all the good stuff.





















I'm not trying to insult you or anything, I'm just sharing my opinion(s). Sorry for any typos, I don't have my glasses and my eyes are quite bad without them...

I agree, actually if you go