Dragons intended to be visually relatable to a human audience can’t be the spiky, expressionless lizards you see in Skyrim. Expressive eyes, eyebrows, smooth features, a generally approachable appearance, and a full range of human facial expressions are non-negotiable. So Game of Thrones’ dragons are not a good example of how dragons “should” look in the context of the dragons being “just people.” A better example of that would be the Wings of Fire graphic novels:
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And if these renders are too messy for you, you can always look online. Passion artists are superb at nonhuman cartoon character design.
That being said, there are a few issues with G5’s dragons, related to color theory and the Elsa-face thing that G5 is doing with all of the characters.
Or bats.
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you might be thinking of wyverns
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Not to mention that the front legs bend in the wrong direction, they have pony legs not dragon legs…
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