Consider the characters in the painting: the Virgin, baby Jesus, St. Margaret, St. Louis, two angels and a dragon. Although St. Louis is the French king Louis IX, he was revered among the ...

Ultimately, the niceness is a poison, the very definition of killing with kindness. Bluntly, when everybody is nice, everybody is a little bit boring - and in fantasy, that just doesn’t fly.

This Hitofude-ryuu artist can paint an entire dragon’s torso with only one brushstroke. The traditional Japanese art technique began during the Edo period in Japan from 1603 to 1867.