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Drawing Dragons Tutorialby *JazzTheTiger

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It's a really quick/rough one covering some basics but I hope it helps. =]

I really wanna stress the spinal curve, which is also known as an action line, it's especially helpful when you want to have a sense of movement and energy in your poses and can be applied to anything, not just dragons =]
It's better than starting head first, because you can plan its size and place on a page and you'd be able to know when you're gonna run outta room long before the sketch is finished.

Yes, circles and stick limbs do help map out the anatomy. It may look a bit tedious and unnecessary, but they are the foundations/bones on which you build the body on and are helpful to figure out the pose before you go into detail, as well as keeping things in proportion.

The bat-like wing IS like a human arm and thus has the same range of movement at its joints as your shoulder, elbow, wrist, and fingers- think of your fingers being much longer

Again, I hope this is helpful

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*phoenixrosefireheart Mar 6, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

can you do my oc as a dragon former in her dragon form?

~AK-R Jan 27, 2013

lol...
why do my "friends" keep saying my dragons look like unicorns when I have never drawn unicorns in my life TT_TT
They say its the back legs, but I copy the hind legs from dogs
wtf...
oh yeah, and the wing part... they said that those flying dinosaurs (Im too lazy to look up the name) their wings were arms with two elongated fingers, so you are SO right

aw damn with the hind legs

~DuskWolfAtDawn Dec 1, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

My first thought:
SO adding this to faves ^w^

*DragonFlame123 Aug 28, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Um, I have a question on the muzzle

~Cosmic-Brownie Aug 15, 2012

OMG. This is awesome! I just about crapped myself when I saw this in your gallery! I've been looking for a good tutorial, and BOOM, here it is! The only thing that I can't figure out is hind paws because they're so much more different than front paws... got my hind leg issue fixed though!