This is how to draw The Dragon from Mercury. His head is straight up and has a dome and goes straight down. He has three black eyes. His eyes are arranged in an upside-down triangle. There is a ruby on his forehead. He is outlined in fire, except for his tail and his wings. His body is gray with four arms and two legs. The arms stick straight out. He has three fingers on each hand. Each foot has a pointy nail. His left wing is multicolored. The scales are colored purple, red, green, yellow, and orange. His right wing is horizontally striped blue and purple. The blue is thicker than the purple. His tail sticks to the right. It sticks downward. His tail is gray. His tail is outlined in black. That is how to draw the Dragon from Mercury.

This is what went well when Jillian and Hokyung drew our alien. First of all they almost got our whole alien the right color! They almost got the feet right. They also almost got the paper’s left wing right. And of course they got the gem right.

This is what we could’ve said to make our description more clear. I think we should have said that the tail sticks over the right shoulder, the pointy nail is gray just like the body, the body is about the size of a grapefruit, his wings are a little bigger than a kiwi, the fire is all red, and the fire touches his body. I think our explanation for our head was perfectly fine but obviously Jillian and Hokyung didn’t understand so I am listing another way we could have said it: “the head is like the end of a hotdog.” And by the way, Jillian and Hokyung—you did a great a job!