Drawing and Dragons

     Oh, you expected something about Vocaloids? Sorry, today's special is giant flying lizards. It's also gonna be pretty long, but whatever, I have time.
     Sorry I added the pictures late, but the process was incredibly annoying, you wouldn't even believe. It involved downloads, uploads, screenshots, and no fewer than twenty-eight images and Google Drawings in a folder named Temporary. Yeesh.
     For as long I can remember (AKA, about Kindergarten after my Mermaid and Pegasus phases ended), I've loved dragons. I read lots of books about them, things like that. So, for my birthday one year, my mom got me this book because it had a dragon on the cover and it looked good:
     I devoured the series, and made my first OC, Princess River (sound familiar?) by fourth grade.
     Then I tried to draw dragons: 
Maroon

     That's actually my third attempt, I threw away my first and second. That should tell you more than enough about them. You may also notice that she has no legs, literally because I didn't want to draw them. In general, her shape is defined not by circles and lines, but by various curves. She isn't shaded, either, because I was scared of shading and thought it was hard.
This is actually River, believe it or not
     I pretended to get better, but didn't actually alter my original technique for making dragons. This one is my most recent of that style, a picture of River. I was unsatisfied and frustrated, so I stopped drawing dragons for a while. But one day, I decided to pick up the pencil again and started a different style:
River again
     We're going somewhere now. It's still defined by curves, but there's room for improvement. Over time I refined, changed and organized the lines to be more faithful to the dragon shape. I never expanded past a headshot, however. That was fine, this was learning to draw, not just draw dragons.
Azalea
     Ah-ha! This is the first one where I used circles and lines, connected together. This is about the pattern I used then:
My masterpiece
     With more drawings I moved around the circles and the lines, made them different sizes.
Guess what? It's River again!
     (this may look familiar for some of you)
     I have mostly perfected the shapes! What's left? Okay, she doesn't have shading, but I don't want to do shading. It's hard.
     Come on, it can't be that difficult, right?
     YES, it can be that difficult. Stop bothering me. I'm not doing this.
     Let's see what happens, shall we?
     NO NO NO NO-- fine. Me, you're annoying.
Anonymous SandWing
     WHAT. IN. THREE. MOONS. IS. THAT. Is that even my art?!? I've got to keep doing this shading thing! Maybe combine it with color?
River, yet again. I seem to never get tired of drawing this dragon.
Now with color!
     Now I can do anything, can't I. But before I do a full body picture, let's just get some advice from a friend on eyes:
One of my friends as a dragon
     Ah, there we go. Now, what was it I said about "anything..."
River flying
     I'm really proud of this drawing, even though I haven't even colored it yet! This is actually my most recent drawing. I'm excited to see where this takes me in the future. I actually didn't use any resources except for Joy Ang's reference drawings in Wings of Fire and my own brain (and that friend's advice on eyes that I mentioned). I'm still not comfortable drawing legs, or wings, or eyes, but I'll get better. And maybe when I'm ready to go through the harrowing process of getting drawings from paper to blog, I'll share some of my even-more-recent sketches here.

Comments

  1. Felix V.April 2, 2019 at 10:10 AM

    That's very impressive.

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  2. MosnarNoedigApril 4, 2019 at 3:56 PM

    Verily, this is a product of majestic skill. I wish you luck in your endeavors.

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  3. RiverMay 21, 2019 at 8:44 PM

    And now I look at even the most recent one with disdain. I need to do another post with dragon art sometime.

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