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Firstly try out the FREE how to draw dragons step by step guide here. It is a great place to start and will give you some background knowledge. Then perhaps try out some of the books out there. My favourite is the Neon Dragon book on how to draw dragons step by step and other fantasy creatures. It is simple to follow as it is designed for youngsters and it is fun. You can get a dragon created quite quickly, though you might need more patience when it comes to creating your own with the family cat as a template (sorry you're not seeing mine! Lol)
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Remember it takes time to learn anything new for most people anyway! (When my sister was taught to paint and draw she went on to produce the most stunning animal pictures imaginable with very little tuition!) Still just because we can't all do that doesn't mean we can't all create art! Don't believe any mystical ideas that you can't paint - it's just not true. Not everyone is going to be the next Da Vinci but with practice you should be able to produce some great dragon pictures.
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 1)
The first part of a short series where a freelance artist doing art for Kazdrea: Dawn of the Dragon's Secret shows how a picture goes from a simple pencil sketch to a piece of finished artwork! Subject: Dreafar the ancient Fire Dragon atop the Wyrmroost Mountains!
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 2)
Feet and Legs Due to the length of time and amount of work each area of the picture requires, parts from now on shall be focusing on different areas of the picture so that they may be appropriately perfected. The second part of a short series where a freelance artist doing art for Kazdrea: Dawn of the Dragon's Secret shows how a picture goes from a simple pencil sketch to a piece of finished artwork! Subject: Dreafar the ancient Fire Dragon atop the Wyrmroost Mountains!
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Great Book of Dragon Patterns: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Craftspeople
Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 12/05/2009)
Thi book is a great idea for those who want to build their confidence and who need structure to their dragon learning experience. With the templates you have a greater chance of success. The downside it that they are not really your pictures and you can't use them in any way you want.
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 3)
Arms and Body To those of you wondering what Kazdrea is: all I'm allowed to say at the moment is that it is the current novelization of a collection of connected short stories written at the end of the 1990s yet kept hidden until now. Sorry for being so cryptic, but I cannot reveal anything more right now; though there will be a website and forum launched soon!
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 4)
Forming the Head The Kazdrea Project is still very 'hush hush', but I have been permitted to share a tag line with you (this is a quote from the author): "Kazdrea is above all a story about how the impossible dream and hope, manifested in high fantasy, can exist, despite everything we know and everything we were led to believe....or perhaps because of it." I hoped that piqued your interest! :)
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 6)
Tail Strike Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone (it's Merry Christmas for me, though I have been mistaken for a Buddhist and have great respect for Shintoism as well ;))! The website provider is proving a bit unreliable, but Kazdrea is just beginning to get a bit of a web presence anyway. So what's next for this piece of Kazdrea artwork? I'm going to do a brief outline of the surrounding landscape in the next episode, and then I shall start colouring it using the computer to create a fully oil-painting quality finished product!
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 7)
Establishing a Rough Background Part of an encounter with Dreafar in the upcoming novel Kazdrea: Dawn of the Dragons' Secret: "Each of her words seared the mind as though on fire. Leonar could have wept; he had so long been the subject of mental intrusions; and this one was as brazen, arrogant, and powerful as that of any god. 'You need think of other ways to do battle,' the voice assured him, 'for as the Empire turns and burns the world to ash and steel, so too is the way of War changed. Honour is dying. Chivalry is lost.' The warrior furiously scanned his surroundings. The fiery light in the chamber seemed to originate from the occasional gaping cracks in the igneous stone walls; ancient portals to distant magma which still churned with the forging of the earth. The chamber itself seemed unfathomably large, with its furthest end hidden by a vast natural pillar some ninety feet across. Spilling out from either side of this pillar could barely be seen coins of copper and gold, and rubies and sunstones and star-sapphires which thrust the burning light against itself in a thousand directions. 'Show yourself!' Leonar demanded in his mind as he begun moving leftward. Then all at once he caught sight of the face Sonya had spoken of, though it was in silver rather than steel: a fifteen-foot-tall giant wearing the most perfect and full plate mail Leonar had ever seen and clutching a sword much like the one he had found on the corpse of the Frost Giant King was carved flawlessly into the catacomb's quarter-wall. There were no eye-openings in his dragon-shaped great helm, and his face was contorted in an endless scream. Leonar's attention shot back to the pillar, however, when he spotted a great movement from the corner of his eye. A red dragon, larger than any living thing he had ever seen or imagined yet still mostly concealed behind the column, had emerged from its left side. In the scarlet light reflected about the chamber, the serpent's scales glittered like the gems in its collection; its chest and neck were dazzling as a blaze, while its head was dark as embers. The voice was hers, and it spoke again. 'I see you have discovered the greatest treasure of my hoard. He in silver...was Surtur, King of the Fire Giants, though his armour was bronze.' She looked directly at Leonar with eyes like burning suns, and held her gaze there as she continued. 'I, apparently, did not mobilize swiftly enough in the Final Battle for Sturmgladius' liking, and he had the audacity to give his greatest fiery champion...magic, to protect him almost entirely from my breath. So it was that he crept into my catacomb, and fired enchanted arrows which I deflected with my arms. He made to strike me down with his sword, cutting first my legs, but I clutched him in my hawk grip and smote him beneath the vein of silver. Then I used my breath, and melted for him his tomb! Thus I created a death-mask of silver worthy of the king, though we of the dragons call him General, for war was his only talent.' Seeing Leonar and Sonya's shock and amazement, the dragon drove her message home. 'The enemies of those under my protection shall fall; all of them. All shall know the name Dreafar; for I am she, the Vision of Fire!'"
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 8)
Establishing a Basic Colour Palette I'm sorry for not being able to give you Kazdrea passages as often as before, but the project remains rather secretive and must be very selective and careful with its web presence. Even with what little exposure it has thusfar allowed itself, it appears that one of its more minor ideas has been stolen within the past year by a rather sizeable company (which shall remain nameless for now but may become apparent once more is revealed). This is all a very tricky business, but I hope for the best. I also apologize for being unable to cut out all the background noise from that which I was taping over. ;)
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 9)
Snow Upon the Mountains OK, ONE more Kazdrea passage to hopefully keep people satisfied until the next update (this one's also the mind-speech of the dragon in this picture; Dreafar): "You did what you had to do, and I do not fault you for it...." She lifted her head away again, and seemed to withdraw into herself. As she did so she also withdrew her burning curtain of mind-fire, and for a moment those present were privy to the depths of the massive ancient star that was her soul. "Across ages ancient thoughts find us...through darkness...past dead stars...so it feels...that every sword has been lifted and dropped, every empire had risen and fallen...and we have only tears in darkness to soothe our wounded flesh...for days are illusions, bitter dreams to blind us to endless night...and as the losses accumulate from a cycle longer than one's perception of life, cold fear echoes across the void, and one would do anything to cast it from one's mind...Hatred truly is a fire...it is one's warmth, and it is one's Hell." (The snippets of background music are from Metroid Prime's Phendrana Drifts)
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 10)
Features of the Mountains Dreadfully sorry about the lengthy delay; I've been tied up for a bit. As an apology, I shall set about answering some of the questions which have been popping up regarding previous installments in this project: Q. How long has it taken to make this dragon? A. As you no doubt are able to tell, I am something of a neophyte with computerized art, and as such went with the traditional oil painting techniques, which involve creating an extremely high-quality sketch before adding any colour. The sketch (which covers Parts 1-7) was done over the course of a couple of months, though the actual time spent working on it directly likely totalled around six hours or so. Q. Did you come up with the storyline for the dragon? A. I did have some influence here and there. ;) Q. Is the dog near the end of Part 5 Mocha, your German Shepherd Dog? A. Yes. She's 3 years old, 92 pounds, just big enough to be an Alaskan Timber Wolf, and has a penchant for falling asleep next to my computer desk. Q. How long have you practiced? A. Well, to make a long story short, I was told at a very young age that I had a talent for drawing, rested on my laurels without improving my art for ten years, then learned the finer points when I actually started trying to draw as a marketable skill. As the saying goes, 'practice gives XP, and XP builds levels' (or something like that ;)), and I believe that just as there are no people who truly can't sing, there are no people who truly can't draw, either; it just takes practice and training! Two things that vastly improve the look of your work beyond the initial stages are shadow and detail; master those, and its just a matter of mastering the look of what you wish to draw! Q. tigerfire12 says: "I can draw a fairly good dragon. The only thing I can't get are the claws. Anyone got advice?" A. Long nails help a bit ;), but to produce the most realistic claws, decide what animal style you want your dragon to be based on (bird, reptile, mammal, dinosaur, etc.) and look at real-world examples of said animal's claws (or fossil/illustration/cg examples in the case of the dinosaurs). Q. Was the random singing in Part 8 from Disney's The Little Mermaid? A. Yes (it's easy to get 'Part of Your World' confused with Aladdin's 'A Whole New World' ;)). I shall take this moment to mention that yes, I am taping over previous recordings to make this tutorial. You shall also find in an earlier part split-second footage of an animatronic sauropod from a 2007 excursion to the Metro Toronto Zoo! Q. When will you be able to clue us in on Kazdrea? Is it a book? A. As of yet I can't do too much more to clue you in on Kazdrea, though I have snuck tidbits of material into the videos (keep an eye out for a bit of the continental map and a few ancient runes from the world's first written language of dragons). Yes, Kazdrea is a book, but it is also so much more! ;) Next time we'll deal with dragon scales!
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How to Draw A Dragon (from Kazdrea) (Part 11)
Dragon Scales - Coloured Shadow Here we focus on dark colours that fall in shadowy areas, so as to provide a basis not only for the dragon colour's but also for the determination of the all-important lighting effects. Original pen lines can be darkened later to coincide with this. The robins nested in a Christmas wreath just outside my house. I watched them grow to juvenile and young adult age and learn to fly, and remarkably they all survived to do so! I just thought that was a nice little miracle to share with the world. ;) Oh, and I'd like to give a bit of a shout-out to Alanna, a friend and fellow life guard, as it is her birthday today and I wish her a happy one! The background music at the end is 'Stygia' and 'Cania'; both of which are original compositions by the author of Kazdrea.
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