How to draw a dragon with a pencil in stages: a lesson with a photo

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Dragons are large fairy creatures guarding their treasures. They steal princesses, fight knights, and most often have three heads. But today there will be a lesson on how to draw a dragon with a pencil in stages with one head. This is the Chinese dragon, the symbol of China. It is usually painted red or purple.

How to draw a dragon pose

1. It's impossible to draw something based on imagination alone, without another basis. Try to quickly sketch out your idea without any details - just poses and general proportions.



2. Now make the sketch more specific. Draw a large oval for the chest area. Dragons have huge chests of gold in their realm, so they need powerful chest muscles for their wings to carry the treasure.
3. Draw the shoulder blades for the dragon.



4. Fix the proportions with details and draw a ground line to guide you.
5. Now you need to draw the legs, paying attention to all the joints and folds.
6. Draw a circle at the end of the neck - this will be the width of the entire head, not just the brain.
7. Add a face.
8. It's time to draw the wings. This pose will be prettyunnatural for them, but easier to draw. You can try to draw wings in any other way.
9. Add all the parts of the wings.
10. Due to the perspective of this wing, the other is hidden. Don't be afraid to add parts of the second wing as one dragon would look weird.

How to draw a Chinese dragon body

1. The pose is ready, it's time to add outlines to this naked skeleton. Draw triceps and biceps.
2. Join the muscles to make it look as natural as possible. How to draw a dragon with a muscle pencil? Very simple.
3. Give the dragon additional features of organs, joints and muscles. Everything should look proportional.
4. The bones in the wrists and ankles are especially protruding, so it's important to make them stand out as much as possible.



5. Add the front and hind legs, they should be roughly the same shape.
6. Add the front of the paws, "hands" and "feet".
7. Often the question arises of how to draw the legs of a dragon. It is necessary to work out all the muscles as much as possible.
8. Final touches, detailed work on all areas.

How to draw dragon wings

1. Wings also need muscle - after all, they are weapons. Start with the huge shoulder muscle right at the base.
2. Give her round biceps.



3. Add volume to the base of the wings.
4. Now you can outline the musclesoptional.
5. Add muscles to the other wing and work them out.



6. Don't forget about the phalanges of the wings - they have great functionality, they definitely need to be worked out.
7. Complete the phalanges with articular bones.



8. Give volume to the wings by circling all the muscles and bones.

Dragon Head

Now there will be one of the difficult steps, such as drawing a dragon's head. It's time for more details about the head. The best way to start the head is to create a simplified skull for the base.

1. First, the brain.
2. Second, the eyeballs and the shape of the muzzle.
3. The dragon's torso is slightly turned towards us, so draw the muscles, the beginning of the neck and the sternum.
4. To create a believable dragon neck, don't forget to draw the larynx behind the skull.
5. This will allow you to create that neat triangle with room for your throat to spit out a column of flame.
6. Attach a powerful chest muscle to the wings.
7. Finish the shape of the main body.



8. If the dragon is related to dinosaurs, it will look good with dinosaur legs. Add this shape to the base of the tail to make it more solid.
9. Finish the tail at the end.

Final details

In this paragraph, we will consider how to draw dragon scales, eyes and other details.

1. Let's draw fingers and claws beforethan to draw the whole body. Make pads pressed to the ground.

2. Draw a curved claw.

   

3. Draw another finger, shorter.
4. Many predators have a "thumb" on their front feet. This is useful for holding prey while eating and, in the case of dragons, for catching prey in flight.
5. Mark the entire length of the toes. Create a hump right between the tips - this will continue the joints underneath.
6. Add large paw pads.
7. Don't forget about adding details to the wing joints!

The base of the body is done so you can finish it however you want! One path is shown here, but feel free to create your own details. If you're drawing with a pencil, you can place a new piece of paper over the sketch to draw clean final lines, or use a darker tool to make the sketch less visible.

1. Draw an eye and a nose.

2. Draw wrinkles under the eye.

   

3. It's hard to make any kind of facial expression when you have heavy scales on your face, but the cheekbones themselves can create false emotion. If you want the dragon to look angry or puzzled, draw some big wrinkles on its forehead.
4. On the lips, draw less wrinkles to make them more elastic.
5. How to draw a dragon without horns? It will be a dinosaur, but definitely not a fire-breathing monster.
6. Scale the body and decorateyour dragon.

Good job!