Drawing: Dragons

CREATING TEXTURES

Practicing the techniques shown will help you create the appearance of textures such as scales and feathers—features you’ll find on the dragons throughout this book. It’s often helpful to use a photo reference of a real human or animal with features similar to those you want to depict for your creatures. For example, look at patterns on turtle shells and fish for scale inspiration!

Smooth Scales For smooth scales, first draw irregularly shaped ovals; then shade between them. Smooth scales like these are ideal for the slick skin of sea-dwelling dragons.

Rough Scales To create rough scales, draw irregular shapes that follow a ...