No One Mourned The Dragons
Lola P.
Digital: Procreate
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I have always been somewhat defensive of dragons as the definite villains in their stories, and liked to write or imagine stories where dragons were the heroes. I hated those books where the goal is to kill the last dragon, like driving a species that the book glorifies to extinction is a victory. This illustration is about how no one ever cries when the last dragon is slain, a whole species wiped out from fantasy worlds, a common trope, and the characters of all those stories never mourn them. They may have been evil or not but they were alive and now they aren't anymore and no one cares. I drew it mostly because I thought it was a poetic tragedy, but also because it can be seen as a metaphor for the crass way humans treat other species, especially those they find distasteful or frightening.
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Creativity is humanities greatest tool for communication. Art is the only way to truly connect with other people, I think, and to communicate something in the most direct and powerful way. It can make people think about the things you want them to, or to understand an experience unlike theirs.
