Needle felted oriental dragon ~ Zephyr

This dragon is a few years old, I just never got around to taking pictures. I know I mostly do composite images nowadays, but it was such a nice shot I thought it stood best alone (I'll add other views later). Zephyr's not lying on a flat surface here, he's on a wall, suspended on a picture frame hook. At this point he's one of my favorite dragons.

As always, he is made out of dyed wools, which I turned into felt through a process known as needle felting, shaping it as I went. There are no patterns and there will never be a pattern.
Wires are run through his entire body to make him gently poseable--in fact, each of his toes is individually wired and poseable (not much, since they're stubby, but they are), which I'm pretty much never doing again--it doubled construction time. His horns and claws are apoxie sculpt painted with acrylics, sealed, and topped with interference paints. His eyes were blank-backed taxidermy shark eyes (if I remember correctly).

Zephyr started out as just a blue dragon and stayed that way for some time. Eventually I started embellishing with some tribal-styled markings, and went a bit crazy with it by the end. ^_^;; It took many, many, many hours. The worst part is I did one side all at once, and then spent FOREVER trying to duplicate it on the other side.

Note: I have been made aware that there is a pokemon with similar colors and tribal markings, but it was not modeled on this pokemon and the similarity is coincidence--I just liked these colors together.