Dragons!

I do wish dragons were real, they are such interesting creatures. A dragon is a creature that is typically portrayed with reptile or serpentine features, they feature in many myths in different cultures around the world.
Each of these cultures have effected how the dragon will look, for example: The European dragon (my favorite ones) which comes from folk traditions of Europe. There is also the Chinese dragons from China, with it's Japanese dragon counterpart from Japan from their folk traditions.

(Images from: www.dragon-zoo.com and www.draconika.com)

 One of the famous dragon legends from England is Saint George and the dragon, whom is also the patron saint of England.
 According to legend, a dragon was terrorizing a town, and every day the dragon demanded a sacrifice of a beautiful maiden. All the young maiden of the town were all but sacrificed, apart from the King's daughter. She was to be sacrificed, unless they can find a knight who can slay this terrible creature.
The king said that he'll give his daughter in marriage to the champion who is able to defeat the dragon.

Saint George was determined to slay the dragon, and save the princess once he learnt of this.He traveled to the town where the dragon lived, when he came near to the town, he could see the princess being led by her attendants to the place where she'll die. Saint George spurred his horse and followed. As soon as the terrible dragon saw him, it rushed from it's cave. The dragon was terrifying, its head was immense and with a long tail. Saint George was not deterred, he struck the creature hoping to wound it. Alas, it didn't it's scales were too hard and broke Saint George's sword. Fortunately, he found a enchanted tree that would protect him from the dragon. He regain his strength to attack the creature, this happened once more.  However, the next attempt, he manage to wound the dragon via piercing it under it's wing, where there were no scales to protect it. After this, the dragon fell to Saint George's feet dead.

(Image from: www.draconika.com)

In addition to my other research on dragons, i've also found some of my old books on dragons I had as a child. These books are: Dragonology The Complete Book of Dragons and Working With Dragons A Course In Dragonology. Here are some segments of those books on mood boards.