How I draw a dragon, steps 1 and 2

[bladespark]

I had (still have, actually, it's floating free on the internet) a tutorial on how I draw dragons. I made it back in 1997 or so. And until this year how I did it hadn't changed much, but this year I've done a lot of innovating, plus I've just plain gotten better, so I thought it was time I do a new one. This is as far as I got tonight. It'll probably have around 8 steps. Eventually I'll be putting it all together on a webpage, but for now I'm just posting it to my various galleries/blogs/etc. as I go.





I scanned this MUCH darker than it actually is. I draw very lightly, and draw lots of loose circles connected with swishy lines. I scribble lots of overlapping possible lines and I erase a ton during this step, which is why I keep it light, otherwise erasing will mess it up.

I try to keep the lines loose and energetic, even for a bland sitting pose like this one.

If you can't tell, the dragon is facing away from you, that'll become quite obvious in step two.



In step two I start to flesh it out. Sometimes I'll draw some more loose, scribbly circles to define smaller pieces like the toes, and to round out where the muscles go, but mostly I concentrate on getting a decent outline. Still drawing VERY lightly, I darkened this a lot when I scanned it, and still doing a lot of erasing. I corrected the angle of the left wing, for example, as I filled it in with more detail.



More to come tomorrow, probably.

Comments

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

you sicken me. >.>


not really. im just WAY jealous! XD

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Well, there's about a billion artists I feel that way about. So many people who are so much better than I am! >.

[cajunfox.livejournal.com]

Consummate Vs!