Chinese Dragon Clip Art

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Chinese dragon clip art is easy to find on the Internet. You can determine whether or not a dragon is Chinese by looking for the nine animal parts that comprise a traditional Chinese dragon.

How to Determine if It Is a Chinese Dragon

Nine animal parts combine to form a Chinese dragon:

  • Deer – Horns
  • Camel – Head
  • Devil – Eyes
  • Snake – Neck
  • Cockle – Abdomen
  • Carp – Scales
  • Eagle – Claws
  • Tiger – Paws
  • Ox – Ears

Dragons: Chinese Culture

The dragon is the symbol of China. The ancient Chinese believed dragons were their ancestors and the Chinese emperors were the sons of heaven’s dragons. Dragons became so ingrained within the Chinese culture that the emperor’s bed was called a dragon bed and his throne was the dragon seat.

Chinese mythology claims that dragons fly the souls of the dead to heaven. In feng shui, two dragons facing opposite directions represent yin and yang.

Free Chinese Dragon Clip Art

You can find quite a few free sites for dragon clip art. You will need to determine if the drawing truly represents what you’re looking for. Whenever using clip art, never link directly to the clip art, instead, download the clip art directly onto your hard drive.

The easiest way to do this is to place your cursor on the drawing, right click and save. Next, you’ll upload the image into your website design program and then publish it onto your website. Never simply right click, copy and then paste into your program because this will link the graphic directly to the providing site which in turn steals bandwidth from them to host the image on your website.

Bitmap Versus Vector Clip Art

Bitmap images are the most popular clip art and are made by groups of dots (pixels). Bitmap file extensions:

  • GIF
  • PNG
  • TIFF
  • JPG

Vector clip art allows you to edit the color and line curve. You can take the image apart and rearrange or even remove aspects of the design to customize for specific uses. A vector image will print at 300 dpi even when you enlarge it whereas bitmap pixels will not conform to enlarging and appear jagged or what is known as pixilated.

Dragon Clip Art: Website Uses

All of the clip art you find online can be used for your website. Just be sure the creator is giving you permission to use it. Copyright laws apply for the Internet the same as any other media.

Some of the uses you may find for clip art:

  • Borders
  • Backgrounds
  • Logos
  • Banners

A couple of examples:

Clip Art for Printing

Adding a Chinese dragon to a restaurant menu visually conveys and reinforces Chinese cuisine. You can use vector clip art for printing applications.

  • Digital
  • Screen
  • Stencil

Many clip art sites are free yet don’t overlook fee-based clip art:

Clip Art Choices: Color or Black and White

It's a personal choice to use either color or black and white clip art.

Tattoos

You can print vector clip art onto a transferable stencil and use it for tattooing.

Chinese dragons are a composite of nine animals.

Vinyl Ready Clip Art

This clip art can be printed onto vinyl for various uses.

  • Decals
  • Signs
  • Vehicle graphics

Vector clip art:

T-Shirt Transfers

You can download clip art to create a transfer for t-shirts and other items.

Posters and Desktop Wallpapers

Some clip art is available for ordering as a poster or downloading and printing your own poster. If you prefer you can use the clip art as a wallpaper for your computer.

Authentic Chinese Dragons

If you are truly on the hunt for Chinese dragons, always check to be sure you are downloading the real thing. You can determine if a drawing is an authentic Chinese dragon clip art by using a check list of the nine animal parts found in traditional Chinese dragons.

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