This drawing tutorial is about how to draw a dragon step by step for kids and beginners. Dragons are imaginative animals as they are used in mythological stories from ancient times in different cultures.
Dragons are also very famous among kids as cartoon character as Nibbler, Mushu, Dragonite, Cassie are a few famous dragon characters. Drawing a dragon is very simple and interesting as it’s imaginative. They can resemble snakes, lions, or Pokemon.
How to Draw a Dragon
Step 1: Draw 2 circles for the head and body of the dragon, join these shapes with the help of 2 lines forming the neck.
Step 2: With the help of lines outline the wings, tail, and leg of the dragon. Draw it with a light hand and easy strokes.
Step 3: In this step outline the head, firstly outline the eyes and then the mouth, for reference see the image below.
Step 4: Inside the eyes draw the pupil, and teeth inside the mouth. On the head draw horns and ears as it’s a mythical animal. Next, draw the nostril, and follow the image for reference.
Step 5: Draw a few random straight lines on the body, inside the under part i.e., abdomen.
Step 6: Draw spikes on the back and tail of the dragon, this is very easy to do. Then mark the claws of arms and legs.
Step 7: This is the final step of drawing, erase all extra lines, and follow the image below to get a clear and exact image of your drawing.
Step 8: In this step dragon is already ready but if you are willing to color it you can with your imagination or according to the image below.
How to draw unicorn dragon step by step:
Step 1: Start with drawing the head of your dragon, on the right side draw a line for the mouth and a dot for nostril.
Step 2: Draw big round eyes and darken it, left 2 white portions to give them shining look. Above the head draw cone shape cone using a triangle.
Step 3: Extend the neckline using a curvy line up to the tail end.
Step 4: From the inner line of the neck draw foreleg using 2 curvy parallel lines.
Step 5: Extend the inner line of the abdomen from the foreleg and draw a hind leg.
Step 6: Extend the inner line up to the outer line which will form the tail for the dragon.
Step 7: Draw fringes for the spike above the head and legs for right side as shown in the image below.
Step 8: From below the neck draw the wing.
Step 9: In this step draw small lines on the abdomen it will give bulky look to it.
Step 10:
Few more step by step dragon drawing:
You can draw dragon in many ways as it is a mythical and total imaginatory animal. You can use your imaginations and creativity to the fullest. Here we are providing few more dragon drawings for you to follow and practice.
Dragon 1.
Dragon 2.
Dragon 3.
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