Thanks for the feedback.

That's the thing about photo-manipulation, my work can only be as detail as the lowest resolution photo I use.. and unfortunately I'm very limited by the fact that I'm not willing to pay for professional stock, so all the photos I use are free (and generally only medium res at best). I'm not particularly happy with the background either, but I made the dragon long before I decided to add it to a background.

The position is based on someone else's drawing of a dragon that I used as reference. I haven't received any complaints from a number of dragon-related groups on deviantArt (and my dragon obsessed girlfriend, who this was made for), so I'm assuming it's actually an ok pose. The tail is the trunk of an elephant (remember this is composed of modified photos), and was the only image i could find for free that curved in the direction I wanted.
As for the colours.. you'll have to take that up with my girlfriend - this is my take on one of her characters, and she picked all of the colours. Same goes for the hair.. she did a cartoony dragon version of herself and it has hair..

I don't know what to tell you about the 'keeping warm' part.. if you'd read the description properly you'd know that this was entered in my girlfriends "What Can Tia Do To Keep Warm?" competition, that started earlier this winter. Yes, I know dragons are technically reptiles but they're also imaginary and have quite a mythological history of living in my country, which is not warm.. spending time in the sun is a tall order in the UK, so it's easier for the dragon to just migrate somewhere warmer for a bit.