Comment on Smaug by ConceptArtOrg
technically wyverns are dragons but they more green land and Scandinavia, what we usually think when we think dragon is the European breed four legs two wings lots of fire
According to Wikipedia, wyverns aren't dragons. They might be wrong, but... whatever, it doesn't really matter.
by all technicality there are multiple things called a wyvern and or a dragon plus wikipedia tends to miss things either way smaug was bad ass and look extremely natural in the environment
If you actually read Tolkeins biographical descriptions of Smaug, he is described as being 'a large snake like beast rather than a dragon as we know them today' and in Tolkeins SOLE piece of art shown for smaug, his forelegs are ridiculously withered anyways
this one was more of bat and Komodo dragon hybrid in it's movements and looks not really snake like
In his head, yes, howerver if you look at him there's very little difference between his hips and shoulder to his body. And his motion, he coils around everything gracefully, instead of some lumbering brute
when chasing the dwarves he is very lumbering but I will give you that during the treasure room scene he is very serpentine
Whilst chasing the dwarves he is also stretching himself between bridges, clearly struggling to reach
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Yeah, smaug was pretty awesome looking. As soon as I got home from the movie I wanted to sketch him. Do you know where I can find his body concept art or something to use as a reference? That would be much appreciated, as I've looked around and only found head concept art from the movie...
you could look up the new Zealand airline not sure if it's full body but it has a lot of him on it
Can you give me a link?
just google it should pop up or better yet google smaug 2013
smaug 2013 only came up with pics of his head, and the new zealand airlines thing blocks his main body 
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