How to draw dragons

How to draw Dragons in movement

2011-12-09T07:40:00.000-08:00

Do you want to know how to draw Dragons in movement? Here is the place to know! Draw Dragons isn´t an easy task and is really funny ... the first things that you must know is that, a dragon in movement has got the body in a curve, specially the dragon tail.

Here you are a tutorial about this:

If you like a video tutorial in which you can draw dragons digitally then here you are some videos about how to draw dragons in movement:

If you are a beginner and you want draw dragons in movements then here you are another simple tutorial about this:

I hope you like this tutorials and enjoy how to draw dragons in movement!

How to paint dragon eyes -more videos

2010-07-21T19:17:00.000-07:00

I found more videos about how to paint dragon eyes.

This is very good tutorial showing how to draw a dragon eye:

This is simple but interesting because use a pencil to make the drawing:

A great speedpainting video showing how to paint dragon eyes:

how to draw a dragon using geometric figures.

2010-07-16T09:26:00.000-07:00

I found this video tutorial that show how to draw a dragon using geometric figures.
I liked the idea of using circles to make the tail of the dragon.

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How to draw dragon eyes

2010-07-15T08:42:00.000-07:00

A great way to learn how to draw dragon eyes is look at reference photos from reptiles, for example, cocrodiles.
Look at these pictures:

Yeah, those eyes look very similar to dragon eyes.... make a search on google for "cocrodile eye" and you will find lots of great reference images.

Also, look at this tutorial about how to draw dragon eyes. It's a little shaky, but it has useful info:

How to draw dragon horns

2010-07-12T07:46:00.000-07:00

I found an excellent tutorial about how to draw dragon horns by Kalaalog.
Horns are a great way of give personality to a dragon, a good way to make it more dreadful.

This tutorial also explain how to draw other addons, like tail or tendrils, even spider-like horns.
Is a good source of inspiration to learn how to draw dragon horns

Read tutorial

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How to draw dragon scales

2010-07-08T09:52:00.000-07:00

Wondering how to draw dragon scales? If you think that drawing dragon scales is hard, think again. This is a great video tutorial about drawing dragon scales:

After watching this short 3 minutes videos and doing some test you will be skilled in drawing dragon scales.

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how to draw a dragon step by step

2010-07-07T05:37:00.000-07:00

This resources will help you to learn how to draw a dragon step by step.

First learn to sketch the body based in bones and muscles. Read this article to know how to draw skeleton and muscles of a dragon

Second, learn how to draw dragon wings reading this article: how to draw dragon wings

Finally watch this video to learn how to pain a dragon: speed painting a dragon

Hope these guidelines can help you to learn how to draw a dragon step by step.

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Modelling a 3D dragon

2010-07-06T05:45:00.000-07:00

I found this great tutorial about modelling a 3D dragon, (in 3D studio Max) it explains everything, from concept to texturing to rigging.

Even if you don't know 3D studio max, it's a good resource to understand how to draw and paint dragons.

View Tutorial

How to draw Dragon feet

2010-07-05T06:15:00.000-07:00

These videos show how to draw dragon feet, claws, talons and paws.
Sometimes the video get blurry, but the info worth it.

How to Draw Dragon Feet Part 1:

How to Draw Dragon Feet Part 2:

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Drawing Dragon Wings

2010-07-02T07:09:00.000-07:00

Sometimes drawing dragon wings can be a really difficult task because is not always clear where to put them or how to draw them when they are closed.

Here there are 3 different tutorials about drawing dragon wings:

Dragon Wing Tutorial (nakase.devianart.com) : click here

Drawing Leather Wings (neondragonart.com): click here

Bat Style Dragon Wings (dreslough.com): click here

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Chinese Dragon Brushes

2010-07-01T07:30:00.000-07:00

I just found this amazing chinese dragon brushes for photoshop and I would like to share with you:
Download Here

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Video : Speed Painting A Dragon using photoshop

2010-06-29T09:35:00.000-07:00

Amazing video showing in 4 minutes the speed painting of a dragon using Photoshop Cs2. The artist made this work in only 1 hour of work. Really awesome! I'm sure he has one thousand hour of training under his belt....

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Drawing and painting dragons

2010-06-28T05:53:00.000-07:00

James Strehle created this PDF to show us tips about drawing and painting dragons
He explains important things like using real animal images as reference (from bats to elephants), the importance of an accurate skeletal structure, and help us to think about the environment and story about the dragon to create a believable character.

Click here to download the full workshop for free (PDF)

A great workshop to make better dragon drawings.

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how to draw a dragon, Jay French's way

2010-06-24T10:11:00.000-07:00

This video show how Jay French (a professional illustrator with more than 20 years of experiencie) draw a dragon.

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How to draw a dragon - The Art Attack way

2008-06-05T07:08:00.000-07:00

The people of Art Attack made a simple tutorial about how to draw a dragon. You can find it here.

A tutorial about how to draw a baby dragon: Dudley the Dragon

2008-03-11T09:32:00.001-07:00

The people of Drawspace created a very interesting tutorial showing how to draw a baby dragon.

You can read the tutorial from here.

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Drawing Dragons: Source of inspiration

2007-11-29T06:01:00.001-08:00

All the artist sometimes need a source of inspiration, sometimes I found this inspiration looking other people work and sometimes looking dragon miniatures.
The great thing about dragon miniatures is that I can see the dragon from any point of view, and they are a good reference when I want to draw a dragon.

Also, they look great in my desk ;)

This is my favourite dragon miniature:

I bought the dragons in a store...don't remember where...and I bought the mini sword in Toledo, Spain.
Anyway, you can find great dragon miniatures in Amazon:

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Another tutorial about how to draw dragons

2007-10-19T10:16:00.001-07:00

Here you can find another tutorial about how to draw dragons.
Visit the Dragoart site

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The art of Todd Lockwood

2007-10-15T13:03:00.001-07:00

I would like invite you to visit the site of Todd Lockwood: The art of Todd Lockwood

Todd Lockwood is a famous artist specializing in fantasy and science fiction illustration.
He designed the dragons of Third Edition Dungeon and Dragons!

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How to draw dragons

2007-10-10T08:55:00.001-07:00

Erkegris has an excellent tutorial about how to draw dragons.
These tutorials are simply huge jpg's, but are very clear:

Dragon Tutorial
Dragon Head - part one
Dragon Head - part two

Dragon Head - part three

Dragon Head - part four

And don't forget take a look at her image gallery

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How to draw Dirk the Daring from Dragon's Lair

2007-10-10T08:28:00.001-07:00

I found an interesting sketch showing how to draw "Dirk the Daring" from Dragon's Lair.

Click on the image Dirk's image for a more detailed view.

For more info about Dragon's Lair visit the wikipedia page.

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dragon pics

2007-10-08T05:26:00.001-07:00

Here's another site where you can find more dragon pics.

Creatures Imaginaires

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how to draw dragons

2007-09-26T18:29:00.001-07:00

Learning how to draw dragons is more than a simple interest for me, is a quest for knowledge!

When I started learning to draw dragons I spend A LOT of time surfing the Net looking for good tutorials, but unfortunately there are just a few good sites and don't have enough information to satisfy my need for knowledge.

So, I simply bought a couple of good books about drawing dragons and since this day I don't need to be surfing the net looking for drawing tutorial any more.

This is my humble list of my three favorite books about how to draw dragons:

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how to draw dragons

2007-09-12T08:45:00.001-07:00

Today I found an interesting site about how to draw dragons.
There you can find some interesting tutorials about how to draw dragon heads, how to draw dragon bodies, how to draw dragon forepaws, how to draw dragon scales and how to draw dragon wings among others.
The site is Dreslough.com.

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How to draw dragons

2007-08-20T11:03:00.001-07:00

If you are reading this surely you are interested in learning how to draw dragons.

First of all, you don't need to be a great artist to learn how to draw dragons, you just need a little pacience, and a good mentor to help you with the basics of dragon anatomy.

When I started drawing dragons I had really big problems drawing the head, the wings, and the paws....ok, ok, and the talons, and the tail, and the scales, and almost every part of the dragon :)

So, I realised that I needed a mentor. Yes, I know, it's hard (and expensive) to find a good mentor who would want to teach me. (And where in the city was I going to find an expert on dragon?)

Because of that, my best approach was to find a good book and spend a some time learning from it.

A book is a mentor. If you learn from a book you can take lessons whenever and wherever you want, and the best of all, you will have lots of great reference images that you can combine to create new and unique dragons!

On Internet there are lots of books about "how to draw dragons", and it's hard to discriminate between good and bad books before buying them.

After a long research I found this book about how to draw dragons and I must say: I immediately fell in love with it! I think this is the best book about how to draw dragons EVER!

If you're looking for a helpful and useful way to learn how to draw dragons, consider getting this book now. You'll never regret it!

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Dragon pics

2007-08-20T10:58:00.001-07:00

Elfwood is an excellent site about dragon pics.

To date there are 43831 dragon drawings posted by fans on the ElfWood site. Take a look! Some dragon drawings are awesome!

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Pictures of dragons

2007-08-20T10:56:00.001-07:00

A good way to learn how to draw dragons and find inspiration is looking different Pictures of dragons from other people.

I highly recommend you visit Linkmesh

Linkmesh is an excellent site full of pictures of dragons.

Here are just an example:

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How to draw dragons

2007-08-20T10:48:00.001-07:00

Here are some interesting articles about how to draw dragons.

This is an excellent article about dragon physiology (skeleton, muscles, skin, wings)

Here you can see some of the dragon pics:

Excellent work, but I'm still thinking that Dragonart is the best source about how to draw dragons :)

I want to draw dragons, but, What is a Dragon?

2007-08-20T10:41:00.001-07:00

Ok you want to learn to draw dragons, but, what is a dragon?

Let's see what Wikipedia says:

“The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a gigantic and powerful serpent or other reptile with magical or spiritual qualities.”

“Dragons are commonly portrayed as serpentine or reptilian, hatching from eggs and possessing extremely large, typically scaly, bodies; they are sometimes portrayed as having large eyes, a feature that is the origin for the word for dragon in many cultures, and are often (but not always) portrayed with wings and a fiery breath. Some dragons do not have wings at all, but look more like long snakes. Dragons can have a variable number of legs: none, two, four, or more when it comes to early European literature. Modern depictions of dragons are very large in size, but some early European depictions of dragons were only the size of bears, or, in some cases, even smaller, around the size of a butterfly.”

You can read the full definition and view some dragon drawings here.

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Differences between Japanese dragons and Chinese dragons

2007-08-20T10:33:00.001-07:00

Searching about the differences between Japanese dragons and Chinese dragons I found this interesting article about how many toes has the Chinese, Korean and Japanese dragons:

Chinese dragons have all five toes. The Chinese believe that all dragons began from China. They believed that as the dragons flew south, they began to lose their toes. The farther the dragons flew, the more toes they lost. So, Korean dragons have four toes, and Japanese dragons have three.

Korean dragons have four toes. The Koreans believe that when the dragons leave Korea and go north to China, they begin to gain toes. When the dragons leave Korea and go north to Japan, they begin to lose toes.

Japanese dragons have three toes. The Japanese though all dragons originated from Japan. They also believed that when the dragons leave Japan and head north, they gain toes. The farther the dragons went, the more toes they gained. This is why the other dragons have more toes. The Japanese believed the breath of dragons could turn into clouds, which could produce rain.

But here's the kicker, unlike most types of dragon, most of the Eastern Dragons have no wings!"

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2007-05-29T18:37:00.000-07:00

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