Friday Creature Feature - Trogdor

Rounding out the Year of the Dragon, I felt like I had to do one more dragon-related blog post. I'd planned to write about Spyro the Dragon, but life got busy with buying a house and such. Instead, I'm going to bring us back twenty years to the inception of Trogdor the Burninator.

Sbemail #58: Dragon

Trogdor began as a throwaway character/doodle in a random Strong Bad Email video. The premise was simple: Strong Bad gets an email requesting a drawing tutorial. But since nothing can be too simple, the request for Strong Bad to draw a dragon resulted in a dragon-man burninating the countryside. The video quickly turned into nothing short of a phenomena (at least as far as Homestar Runner is concerned). 

How to Draw Trogdor

The steps to draw Trogdor are pretty simple (I mean they come out of Strong Bad's masked mouth, so they have to be simple):

1. Draw an S.
2. Draw another more different S.
3. Close it up real good at the top for his head.
4. Using consumate V's, give him teeth, spineitties, and angry eyebrows.
5. Add smoke or fire and wings for a wingaling dragon.
6. Last but not least, every Trogdor must have a beefy arm growing from the back of his neck.

Trogdor's Legacy

Despite being a drawing meant for only one email video, Trogdor became insanely popular. The Homestar Runner ended up featuring Trogdor on various games and cameos. Even amongst regular humans, Trogdor (or at least his theme song) has been one of the more famous Homestar Runner references across pop culture--I mean, he was referenced on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so that's pretty famous. So please finish off the Year of the Dragon the right way, by following Strong Bad's steps to draw your own Trogdor and make sure you send us a copy.