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Frill-Necked Lizard

Frill-Necked Lizard line art illustration (click image to enlarge)

Frill-Necked Lizard line art illustration (click image to enlarge)

Artist's notes:

The Frill-Necked Lizard was completed on 5.23.2010. The Frill-Necked Lizard was completed on 5.23.2010. I had been meaning to draw this impressive reptile for over two years. I finally got around to it last weekend. I really thought the frill was going to be extremely difficult, but in the end the blending of the dominant colors (red, orange, some grey-blue and purple) turned out to be not as tricky as I had suspected.

Information about the Frill-Necked Lizard:

The Frill-Necked Lizard - also called Frilled Lizard or Frilled Dragon - is a medium-sized reptile native to the humid, tropical savannah woodlands of northern Australia and southern New Guinea. The name comes from the large frill around the animal's neck which, when threatened or frightened, it will unfold and display along with a gaping mouth to discourage possible predators. The frill is also used in courtship, however most of the time it is folded back against the reptile's body. The lizard is primarily arboreal and spends much of it's life in the trees. They are insectivorous feeding on beetles, cicadas and termites. Some consider the Frill-Necked lizard the reptile emblem of Australia.