Free Download: How to Draw a Dragon

Are you often found daydreaming of far away lands and fantastic creatures when suddenly a voice resonating inside your head, like a dragon's grunt, heard inside an empty cave, wakes you up to realize that you've been dissociating the entire time, at a social gathering, again?

You don't have to answer! I know it's a hard confession to make... But, if you want to draw a dragon to scape your mundane reality, this Free Download got you covered!

1. Foundation

Let's fixate on each of the dragon's body parts as I'm sure you've done plenty of times before in your mind.

You can decide how many limps, heads, horns and wings it has (remember you have free will in this role play we call "life"...), but for now we will show you a more conventional prototype from which you can expand afterwards... Am I being condescending, enough...? It's just the character I'm role-playing as, don't worry!

2. Line Art

When designing a rawly fantastic creature, the secret of the line work lays on the delivered and accidental imperfections that give the character it's uniqueness... But you can also go overboard with it. What if your dragon stopped resembling a dragon...? That would be sacrilegious!

3. Color

If you're working digitally, organize each color on a separate layer for efficient editing. A simple palette might work best if it's your first time drawing a dragon. If your life up to this point, consisted of non-stop daydreams there might be a lot of firsts you will have to get through...!

Don't worry, the free download doesn't include bullying! But it does include a more in-depth explanation of each step and more in between steps to learn all the nitty-gritty from.

Fantastic creatures come in all shapes and sizes, like the fantasy fanatics drawing them. If you'd like to expand your creature repertoire, Domestika has much more to offer!

If dragons light your inner flame, wait to see what ogre-unicorn hybrids do to you...! I just hope it's something pleasant...

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