Kathleen Kay

 

Some of you will be familiar with the tiny dragon in the corner of the Welsh postage stamp. The one in my reference book is just about a quarter of an inch square.

 

To avoid infringing copyright, the design should only be used as a source of inspiration, rather than for line-by-line reproduction, so here I shall show you a way to elongate the whole design, giving scope for many subtle changes. I have enlarged the minute original dragon, so that, we can see what we are doing, and, over it, I have drawn a grid of exact squares, say ½" x ½".

 

Next, we draw, in ink, a matching grid, but using rectangles say ½" deep x 1" across. The shape is now twice as wide. Referring to the original drawing, plot the lines of the dragon onto your rectangular grid, using a soft pencil.

Connect your lines with emphasis on the elongation. Keep a rubber to hand, so that the soft pencil marks can be modified as you develop your design.

 

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