Drawing Dragons

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How To Draw Dragons

Drawing a dragon can be quite easy depending on how you approach the subject broken down into easy to follow steps. This Lens article will attempt to show you many different ways to draw your own dragon by giving you the inspiration and the step by step know how to draw a dragon or something that resembles a dragon.

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What follows is and will be a comprehensive Squidoo Lens on the subject of drawing a dragon in all shapes and sizes.

Dragons are the popular creatures of many a fantasy art painting or perhaps one of the key icons of fantasy.

And drawing dragons is usually just about how you approach the steps to make that happen, having an idea in your mind about how they would look, then take it from there.

How to draw a dragon is a very popular search term and you can find links to new drawing tutorials right here as and when they get published.

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How to draw a dragon in four to five manageable steps

It all starts with a curved line or structural shape

1. Beginning with the skeletal structure or frame, roughly mark where you want certain design elements to appear such as wings, body, arms, legs head and tail.



2. Build on top of your original draft drawing replacing or even changing design elements to suite your ideas of how you want the dragon to look like.

A lot of the planning of the drawing and the way it will look will be finalized here.



3. Try to draw a sense of character and personality now, see the drawing below against the next and see how it adds character by drawing in details such as scales, horns, claws and even armour.

I tend to exaggerate the dragons head somewhat in the drafting process as this helps to add atmosphere and character to your drawings at this stage.

4. This is the part of your drawing progression that I enjoy as you can add light and shadow sources from any angle by either inking your dragon art with black ink or just darkening the drawing with a soft 2b pencil, this is the defining stage of your dragon drawing.

Other ways to set your dragon drawings apart is if you set them in a scene, which can help to place your dragon in an atmospheric setting, mountainsides are always a good backdrop to put your dragons against as the sense of scale makes it look realistic in terms of size and scale.

See how to draw a dragon by Wayne Tully

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Dragon Flickr Photos

Pics of dragons

Get inspired by Dragons! Chinese dragons or whatever dragons are available to look at and be influenced in the area of dragon art

Honolulu Festival Parade - Dragon Dance by jdnx
Honolulu Festival Parade - Dragon Dance by jdnx
Honolulu Festival Parade - Dragon Dance by jdnx
Honolulu Festival Parade - Dragon Dance by jdnx
Honolulu Festival Parade - Dragon Dance by jdnx
Honolulu Festival Parade - Dragon Dance by jdnx
Honolulu Festival Parade - Dragon Dance by jdnx
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Honolulu Festival Parade - Dragon Dance by jdnx
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Drawing A Dragons Head YouTube video

Dragon Head drawing tutorial video

How to draw a dragons head video tutorial.
How To Draw A Dragons Head Video
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  • Rhizza18 May 9, 2012 @ 1:40 am | delete
    You know what , I love dragons too..If only dragons exists..By the way my 10 year old brother loves to draw dragons, and unbelievably he knows how to draw better than me. So thanks for the five steps you show above. I'll practiced it!
  • Feb 22, 2012 @ 7:22 am | delete
    What a great lens. Thank you for sharing.
  • naheedahsan Feb 20, 2012 @ 8:27 am | delete
    thanks for the idea..
  • meisgood132 May 5, 2011 @ 1:39 pm | delete
    What a wonderful desplay of talent thank you very much for shareing. I love to look at pictures of dragons they just fascinate me.
  • BigGirlBlue Jan 1, 2011 @ 10:01 pm | delete
    Totally cool.
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