After selling Rainbow Loom products for a few months at Michaels I decided to try them out for myself. After some experimentation and tutorial videos about different patterns, I learned to make more complex structures and keep pieces from unraveling while I made another. Soon I learned to add pieces to one another and make much more complex 2D shapes. Then I found a basic 2D pony pattern and decided that I wanted this pattern to stand on its own, so I invented a method of stitching two or more 2D shapes into 3D figures. After some practice and preliminary models, I've got the stitching method refined and the pattern for the pony memorized so I can make all kinds of free-standing ponies including manes and tails.

Since I'd already started using two looms bridged together to get the pony pattern to work:
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it took little effort to rework them into a new pattern:
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and with this pattern I could make a sleek body with long neck.

and with this pattern I could make a sleek body with long neck. I made legs and wings first then attached them to the main body as I wove it. This was my first experiment with multi-stage wings so they came out closer to butterfly or fairy than standard dragon. The wings were attached to the upper body and the legs to the lower body. The gray constructs are connected to a split ring so the whole dragon can hang from a hook and have his wings unfurled. The top and bottom halves were stitched up the sides and the head was stitched into place along the jaw line. The spurt of flame at the front is actually securing the entire construction. 

To get a sense of scale, my hand in that shot is about 9-10 inches long.

I like how the legs curl a bit at the ends to improve the illusion of flight while it hangs.

With my new method of stitching parts together and the dragon body pattern, I decided to experiment with the wings more and got a decent width for a proper dragon. I then thought to make a different mythic creature. I did a few new things with this construct. The tail was made with the Monster Tail Loom to give it a gradual width. I used "jelly" rubber bands to get some translucency in the wings and spines. and I made only the top wedge for the head but pulled the two sides into a more conic design as I stitched them together.

Here's a more detailed look at his tail and wings.

Here's a look at the front and a close-up of the head.