Real European dragon. Smaller than a horse. Basically a scaly dog.
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Tbf medieval pictures aren't exactly known for their great use of perspective and proportions
The size is proportional to the rank/importance of the person depicted
So by that you mean that is some hugeass soldier riding his humongous horse.
One of their steps scaling an entire country or something?
YES
I wonder what an Asian person's perspective on this would be
So far I've just seen people that I think are western
Am asian, am chinese, am amused and chuckled. Because Dragon in chinese is 龙(lóng) and that corgi is definitely long
If we were to insult your dragons, it's probably about how fat they are
Dragons in American folklore:
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Dragons have 4 legs and 2 separate wings, none of this wyvern shit.
I thought dragons had only 2 legs and a beefy arm sticking out the back of their necks?
Wings evolve from legs though, generally speaking. This means that a four legged dragon with wings would have conceivably evolved from a six legged creature. You can get hand-wings or arm-wings, and we’re not entirely sure but think insect wings may have also evolved from legs or some other kind of similar structure.
But pretty much you can either have wings or legs/arms. You have to trade them in. That’s why the whole angel/demon thing doesn’t work either. The traditional harpies work but they’d be furry and not feathered. I haven’t worked out the wingspan for them but you could probably come up with a reasonable guess. They’d be more bat-people than bird-people, and I suspect that their chest areas would be less generously proportioned than is typically seen in the artwork. I’m not going more into the physics of that one though.