Nov

How to draw dragons

Posted by: Sébastien in Uncategorized

Drawing tutorial on dragons:
Learn how to draw a dragon of sword & sorcery

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Dragon head

Dragons forms

General drawing tips on dragons:

Many adaptations of dragons have been done, so no exact law of doing them exist. As you can see in “dragons forms”, you can play with various forms and obtain differents types of dragons. The important thing is that you keep them close of their lizard influence. After you practice some, you’ re gonna have a feal of what you like in your dragons. You can also look at dinosaures and snakes to inspire you.

How to draw a dragon in 3 steps:

Step 1: First, Draw a quick pale sketch of all the general dragon forms, circles and differente shapes. This will be the frame you will use as a guidelines for the rest of your drawing. Keep in mind that you should do a quick rough sketch of forms like that to start any kind of drawing themes you do. The important thing to do in this first step is to grasp the proportions, pose and mouvement of your dragon.

Step 2: Then, you begin to draw the dragon head, body, and anatomy on top of the forms and shapes you’ve drawn on your sketch in step one. Don’t go to much into details. Try to obtain the general traits and lines.

Step 3: Finish your dragon. It’s the time to go into details. Chose the right lines and forms you want to keep. Try to personalyse your own drawing. Put ink on it, and erase the pencil sketch you’ve used as guidelines. So here it is you sould have your dragon ready to burn and eat the next knight comming to save the pretty princess. Notes: Some artists do step one and two with a non-photo blue pencil. Others use hard mines beetween h and 8h.

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