This illustration guide is concerning how to illustrate a step by step illustration for kids and learners on a dragon. Imaginary creatures dragons were employed within folklore stories ancient time across many various cultures.
Dragons are quite popular among children as cartoon characters too like Nibbler, Mushu, Dragonite, Cassie because these are popular dragon characters. Drawing a dragon is quite easy and fun since it’s imaginery. They can look like snakes, lions, or Pokémon.
How to Draw a Dragon
Step 1: Draw 2 circles as the head and body of the dragon, connect these shapes by means of 2 lines as the neck.
Step 2: Using lines sketch out the wings, tail, and leg of the dragon. Sketch it lightly and smoothly.
Step 3: In this step sketch out the head, first sketch out the eyes and then the mouth, for reference look at the picture 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 creature. Then draw the nostril, and refer to the image for guidance.
Step 5: Draw some random straight lines on the body, inside the under part i.e., abdomen.
Step 6: Draw spikes on the tail and back of the dragon, this is quite simple to do. Then draw the claws of arms and legs.
Step 7: This is the last step of drawing, erase all the additional lines, and refer to the image below to have a clear and precise image of your drawing.
Step 8: Here dragon is already colored but if you want to color it you can with your own imagination or as per the picture below.
How to draw unicorn dragon step by step:
Step 1: Begin by sketching the head of your dragon, on the right side sketch a line for the mouth and a dot for nostril.
Step 2: Sketch large round eyes and shade it, left 2 white parts to provide them sparkling look. Above the head sketch cone shape cone with the help of a triangle.
Step 3: Sketch the neckline using a curved line up to the tail end.
Step 4: From the inner line of the neck draw foreleg with 2 curvy parallel lines.
Step 5: Draw the inner line of the abdomen from the foreleg and draw a hind leg.
Step 6: Draw the inner line up to the outer line which will be used to draw the tail for the dragon.
Step 7: Draw fringes for the spike above the head and legs for right side as given in the following image.
Step 8: Draw the wing from below the neck.
Step 9: In this step sketch small lines over the abdomen it will provide bulky appearance to it.
Step 10:
Few more step by step dragon drawing:
You may sketch dragon in various ways because it is imaginary and completely picture-based animal. You may let your imagination run wild and sketch to the full. Here we are sharing few more sketches of dragon so you can practice accordingly.
Dragon 1.
Dragon 2.
Dragon 3.
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