The Dragon Contest Winner (in Contests)

Okay, so I met a project deadline today and I finally have some free time again, so I have, at long last, read the entries to"The Dragon contest".

There were some really great entries. My main judging criteria was to approach the entries as if I had never seen a picture of a dragon before, and the best description that gave me enough information to use if I wanted to draw one, while at the same time maintaining the spirit evoked by my leading and ending sentences, would be the winner.

The winner is Sefton :)
QBBarzooMonkey (Canis bellatoris) 76.180.102.43 QBSefton (Sefton) $2000000 -- Dragon winner! 5:09 PM EDT

I especially liked the ship reference as to the dragon's length. There are a lot of seafaring bits in my story, and I could have easily substituted the name of one of my fictional ships for "The Mary Rose" had I written the entry. It's coincidental, but it still caught my imagination :)

Thanks to everyone who entered! :)

Thank you very much Barzoo, I very much enjoyed entering your contest, and would like to see some of the complete product someday.

The sight of any dragon is impressive, but JujuLizard Rex, King of Lizards, was truly awe inspiring. From the tip of his snout to the tip of his tail, he was nearly 25 cloth yards long. Although he seemed to carry his weight with a languid grace, Jack estimated him to weigh as much as 10 of the biggest elephants he had ever seen. Juju's majestic wings, while folded neatly against his body, could spread out at least as long as the Mary Rose and her 78 guns. The dragon was covered in scales, each one catching the light differently, causing him to scintillate with every color of the rainbow. Each scale varied in size from the small ones, about the size of Jack's hand near the dragon's eyes, to the largest on the dragon's back, which could act as a table for a dinner party with 6 guests. The scales were not smooth like Jack expected, but each one was grooved, the ridges protruding outward. They were all about the same shape, regardless of size, and they looked remarkably like a shield, sort of squared at the top, but rounded at the bottom. They overlapped each other smoothly and evenly, and with the light effect, made him seem to flow more than move.

A dragon is shaped a lot like an alligator, but much longer in proportions with four legs, separated by a longer mid-section, ending in a tail on one end, and a head on the other. A dragon however; has longer legs and he sits and moves on them much like a cat does. Each leg ends in claws that were easily the size of 4 men, and could pierce an elephant and pluck him from the ground. The gouges into the solid granite floor of the cave attested to their sharpness. Unlike an alligator, Juju's head began at the end of a very long neck, easily capable of looking atop a castle's highest spire. Juju's head was elongated, with a snout above a nasty row of what Jack counted to be some 50 odd teeth, each one larger than he, curved slightly inward, held behind articulated lips. He had no idea the power, but could easily watch an elephant be taken in with a single bite.

You can say many things about a dragon, his claws, his teeth, his tail, which alone was some 10 yards of his length, and powerful enough to uproot tall oak trees with a single swipe, but if ever you are to meet one, you will remember one thing if no thing, his eyes. Juju's eyes are as big as the tallest man, with elongated dark oval pupils, and a reddish yellowish orange like hue. They glow with an inner light, the colors swirl and you stand transfixed, watching the colors turn and tumble like flame as you feel your soul open to him and like a small childrenﾒs book he reads you, as he now reads Jack.

Cool. Well done Seft!! And I'd like to echo Seft's request about seeing finished work BM!!! ;)