The legend behind the dragon is that it comes from high atop the Japanese mountains or dwells in the deepest parts of the Pacific ocean. They are intelligent, evolved, and very wise beings who are usually depicted in drawings, paintings and tattoos as being graceful and free, wrapping beautifully around the contours of the body. Other dragons are tattooed as fierce, fiery creatures that wind serpent-like around the entire length of an arm or a leg. Medieval dragons are usually inked as long, lizard-like beings complete with spiked tails and wings. They may have talons, scales, fangs or dangerous red eyes. However, there is a new design emerging that tattoos dragons in an abstract, or tribal, style. Red dragons, celtic dragons, even cartoonish dragons are showing up more and more in body modification.
