With Chinese New Year upon us, I guess I hit on something timely!
I was quite pleased with this result. The blue pencil rough was clear and provided a good sense of how the perspective and form should be - I wanted it to look like the dragon was flying up, but then turning back, perhaps getting ready to blow fire at us. I did some contour lines on the body to suggest the form and perspective and then added lots more in the inking. I intentionally drew the dragon in a figure eight as I wanted to keep it all on the page.
I tried to shade the inside of the mouth and nostrils such that it looked like light was glowing from inside. I was fairly successful there, but the ink from the pen was a bit too forthcoming and it got too dark too fast. The excited, dog-like eyes turned out well. I like the horny knobs for eyebrows and the loose limbs are a bit reminiscent of a sea otter but perhaps a bit too languid. Nice tail end. Looks sharp.