Drawing Fantastic Dragons: Create Amazing Full-Color Dragon Art, including Eastern, Western and Classic Beasts

by Sandra Staple

Overview

Create and customize legendary dragons from your favorite fantasy stories or your wildest imaginings with this guide to drawing and coloring mythical beasts.

If you can dream it, this book will show you how to bring your dragon to life in distinct and dramatic color. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, Drawing Fantastic Dragons teaches the tricks and techniques to create your own amazing art. Start with a sketch of the dragon’s body form. Then add the head, tail, arms, and legs. Next personalize it with one of the many styles of horns, scales, claws, and wings detailed in this guide. You will even learn how to add age, personality and animal attributes to your dragon. Lastly, author Sandra Staple shows how to finish your dragon drawing with amazing color effects. Packed with example after example, this hands-on guide features dragons of all shapes and sizes, and includes a special section on how to draw unique beasts like earth, air, and fire dragons, wyverns, hydras, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612437705
Publisher:	Ulysses Press
Publication date:	06/29/2023
Series:	How to Draw Books , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	126 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Sandra Staple is an artist and photographer who has been drawing dragons for over 15 years, and has literally sketched thousands of them. She won awards as far back as high school and had shows of her work when she was in college. She has sold paintings through her website and other sites online art galleries. She runs the popular website canadiandragon.com and lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Section 1 Drawing and Coloring Basics 5

Section 2 Drawing the Dragon Body and Form 11

Section 3 Creating Distinctive Dragons with Personality 57

Section 4 Unique Dragons and Classic Beasts 95

East Words 137

About the Author 138