Folio
Western- Breathes fire, reads by candlelight
- Has never singed a single page
- Lends books, charges interest in apples
Free dragon OC generator
Dragon OC Maker & Creator
This free dragon OC creator draws your dragon from the choices you make. Pick a body type, from a four-legged western dragon to a wingless eastern dragon, a wyvern or a draconequus, then choose an element, a role, two colors and what your dragon hoards, and get your dragon OC as finished art.
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- Western fire dragon
- Ash-grey scales, ember flecks
- Hoards old maps
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Ideas
Dragon OC ideas to start from
Stuck on a dragon? Load one of these into the generator, then change the body type, the element or the hoard until the dragon feels like yours.
Mizzle
Eastern- Rings a bell before every storm
- Farmers bring the laundry in when she does
- Hoards rain bells from every valley
Postmark
Wyvern- Fastest mail route over the mountains
- Lightning keeps her on schedule
- Keeps a stamp from every stop
Bergamot
Anthro- Runs a tea shop at the foot of the pass
- Warms every kettle with one breath
- Knows each regular by their cup
Geode
Hatchling- Hatched from an egg that looked like a rock
- Hoard so far: one shiny pebble
- Sneezes tiny crystals
Hodgepodge
Draconequus- Swaps everyone's hats at dinner
- Part fox, part moth, part owl
- Pranks stop the moment anyone is sad
Art styles
One dragon, every style
Emberlyn, a western fire dragon who hoards old maps, drawn five ways by this dragon OC creator from the same description. Switch the art style in the generator to do the same with your dragon, or set Output to Ref sheet for front, side and back views of the wings and tail.
Know the rules
Dragon body types, explained
Folklore has no single dragon. The body type decides how your dragon moves, flies and fits into a scene, so pick it first and add the element and the hoard after.
- animals in the Han-era Chinese dragon
- 9
- animals in the Han-era Chinese dragon
- claws on a Ming or Qing emperor's dragon
- 5
- claws on a Ming or Qing emperor's dragon
- legs on a heraldic wyvern; a dragon has 4
- 2
- legs on a heraldic wyvern; a dragon has 4
- winters the Beowulf dragon kept its hoard
- 300
- winters the Beowulf dragon kept its hoard
Sources: Chinese dragon (Wikipedia); European dragon (Wikipedia); Beowulf, chapter 32 (Standard Ebooks)
Western dragon
The dragon of European legend: a scaly, horned, lizard-like body on four legs, a separate pair of leathery bat-like wings and a long tail. It guards gold in a cave or castle, and the dragon in Beowulf already breathes fire. Six limbs make it the hardest type to pose, so let the generator handle the anatomy.
four legsbat-like wingsfire and gold
Eastern dragon
The Chinese lóng: a serpentine body on four short legs, a mane, whiskers and stag-like antlers, and usually no wings. It flies by magic, rules rivers, seas and rain, and often holds a flaming pearl. Five claws marked the emperor in Ming and Qing China; Japanese dragons usually have three.
no wingswater and rainflaming pearl
Wyvern
Two legs and two wings, with no front legs. Heraldry has told the wyvern apart from the four-legged dragon since the late Middle Ages, and the word goes back to the Latin for viper. With no arms in the way, it suits lean, fast sky dragons and couriers.
two legswings, no armsfast flyer
Amphiptere
A winged serpent from European heraldry: a long coiling body, a pair of wings and no legs at all. The name means two-winged, and old descriptions give it feathers the colors of a sunrise. The Feathered Serpent of Mesoamerica, Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs and Kukulkan to the Maya, is a cousin worth reading about.
no legsfeathered wingscoils
Anthro dragon
Stands and walks like a person, with hands, clothes and usually a job. D&D's dragonborn are the best-known example: dragon-headed people who became a core player race in 4th edition. Build a dragonborn adventurer in the D&D character creator, and any other upright dragon here.
uprighthands and clothesdragonborn
Hatchling
A baby dragon just out of the egg: an oversized head and eyes, stubby wings, soft scales and horns that are only nubs. It is the easiest way to make a cute dragon OC, and it can grow up: draw the same OC as an adult later and keep the markings.
big headstubby wingseggshell
Draconequus (Chimera)
A word Lauren Faust coined for Discord in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, from the Greek drakon (dragon) and the Latin equus (horse). In the show it means a creature with the head of a pony and a body made of all sorts of other animals. For your own draconequus OC, mix parts Discord does not have, like a fox tail or a moth wing.
dragon + horsemismatched partsmischief
Names and hoards
Name your dragon, pick its hoard
Dragon names often join two words into one, like a nature word and a dragon word. Mix a name from the two banks, then choose what your dragon hoards: gold is the classic, but a stranger hoard says more about the character. Every click goes straight onto your dragon in the generator.
Dragon name mixer
nature word + dragon word
Hoard ideas
Pick what your dragon cannot stop collecting.
Guide
How to make a dragon OC
Every OC dragon starts with a silhouette and ends with a story. The generator handles the drawing; these five choices are worth making first.
- 1
Pick the body type before anything else
Four legs and wings, a wingless serpent, two legs and wings, or upright like a person: the body type sets the silhouette, how your dragon flies and what it can hold. Decide it first, because the horns, colors and gear all hang on it.
- 2
Make the element visible
An element should show on the body, not only in the breath: frost on an ice dragon's scales, an ember glow in a fire dragon's throat, gemstone spikes along a crystal dragon's spine. One element reads better than three.
- 3
Use two colors and one marking
Pick a main scale color and a second color for the wings or mane, then add one marking in Extra details, like a pale belly, a chipped horn or freckles across the snout. Color has carried meaning for a long time: the imperial dragon was red under the Ming and gold under the Qing.
- 4
Decide what it hoards, and why
A hoard is the fastest way to show personality. The dragon in Beowulf noticed a single stolen cup, so a hoard is something a dragon knows down to the last piece. Gold says proud; old maps, teacups or seeds say curious, gentle or patient.
- 5
Set the size and the place, then the name
A pocket-sized companion, a rider's partner and a mountain guardian live very different lives. Pick a role and a background to match, then name your dragon last. Dragon names are often compound words, so search the Wings of Fire wiki to check that yours is not taken.
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FAQ
Dragon OC maker FAQ
Yes. Signing up gives you bonus credits for one free image, subject to availability; the free preview carries an occreator.org watermark. A purchase unlocks your remaining bonus credits. No card is needed to sign up.
A picrew or dress-up dragon maker stacks parts one artist drew, so every dragon shares the same pose and pieces. This dragon OC creator draws a new picture from your choices, so the body type, element, colors and hoard come out as your own dragon, in any of five art styles.
Seven, in the Body type picker: Western (four legs and a separate pair of wings), Eastern (a long serpentine body with no wings), Wyvern (two legs and two wings), Amphiptere (a winged serpent with no legs), Anthro (upright, with hands and clothes), Hatchling (a baby dragon) and Chimera (a draconequus). For a Dragon-type creature of your own, the Pokémon OC creator on this site has Dragon as a type.
Legs. In heraldry a dragon has four legs and a wyvern has two, and the two have been told apart since the late Middle Ages. A wyvern has wings where a dragon has front legs, which makes it lean and fast. Fantasy books and games mix the words freely, so pick the shape you want and call it what you like.
Yes, pick Chimera in Body type. Lauren Faust coined the word draconequus for Discord in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, from the Greek for dragon and the Latin for horse: a pony head on a body built from all sorts of animals. To keep your draconequus OC from reading as Discord, skip his parts (a deer antler and a goat horn, a lion arm, an eagle claw, a bat wing and a pegasus wing, a snake tail) and build a new mix. The MLP OC creator on this site covers ponies, kirin and changelings for the rest of your cast.
Yes. Every field is optional: click a picked option again to clear it, then describe your dragon in Extra details, from the number of horns to the shape of the tail tip. The ideas, the name mixer and the hoard list are there when you want a starting point.
Yes. Pick Anthro for a dragon that stands upright with hands and clothes, and describe the outfit in Extra details. For a dragonborn with a D&D class, armor and a holy symbol, use the D&D character creator on this site, which has Dragonborn as a species next to the class and gear fields.
Anything it cannot stop collecting. Gold is the classic: in Norse legend Fáfnir turned into a dragon to guard a treasure, and the dragon in Beowulf burned the land after a thief took one cup from its hoard. A stranger hoard says more about your OC, so try the Hoard ideas above, like books, star maps, teacups or keys.
Give your dragon one clear strength, one real weakness and something it wants. The classic trap is the rarest color, every element at once, the biggest size and a tragic past on one dragon. Pick one element, let size cost something (a huge dragon cannot hide, a pocket-sized one cannot carry much) and give the hoard a reason.
Yes. Set Output to Ref sheet for front, side and back views with palette swatches, and keep the Plain background so the wings, horns and markings read clearly. The side view matters most for a dragon, since it shows the wing shape, the tail length and how many legs it stands on.
Keep Anime, the default here, for painted fantasy creature art with rich color, which suits most dragons. Semi-real gives an oil-painting look, 3D a toy-like figure, Chibi a round sticker-ready dragon and Sketch a pencil page from a field journal. Every style reads the same fields, so you can draw one OC dragon all five ways.
Dragons come from folklore, so an original dragon you design is your own character: post it, use it as a profile picture, share it on DeviantArt or take it to an artist for commissions. We do not claim your OCs. Franchise dragons are another matter: Toothless (DreamWorks), Spyro (Activision), Smaug (Tolkien), Drogon (Game of Thrones), Charizard (Pokémon), the Wings of Fire dragons (Scholastic) and Discord (Hasbro) belong to their owners, so keep their names and looks off anything you sell.
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