A Childs Thought

At seven, when I go to bed,
I find such pictures in my head:
Castles with dragons prowling round,
Gardens where magic fruits are found;
Fair ladies prisoned in a tower,
Or lost in an enchanted bower;
While gallant horsemen ride by streams
That border all this land of dreams
I find, so clearly in my head
At seven, when I go to bed.

Second project for illustrating literature, this is a three part seamless illustration of the poem "A child's thought" by Robert Louis Stevenson. I decided against depicting scenes verbatim and instead put on a different take to the story that still held to the poem's imagery.

The 'dragon' is my own fabrication; I wanted an almost cat-like serpentine dragon with a bit of eastern influence, and with a hint of the demonic (spikes, hooves). It's a dragon in definition, a nightmarish and powerful monster. Are the soldiers running away or on it's side? That's up to you.