Some really, really old art that I still like. Commission for Sparra, of their badass gryphon lady outwitting a dragon.

I ended up basing it on a tale I once heard. The story in a nutshell:

The gryphon could not defeat the dragon in combat so she lured it into the sea. Once the dragon had splashed into the water, trying to catch the nimble gryphon, the gryphon smirked at him. The dragon struggled, trying to capture the gryphon with his flames but the water around him had doused the flames that used to burn brightly inside of him.