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Drawing Fantastic Dragons: Create Amazing Full-Color Dragon Art, including Eastern, Western and Classic Beasts
Create and Customize the Dragon of Your Dreams!
If you can dream it, this book will show you how to bring it 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 customize 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.
If you can dream it, this book will show you how to bring it 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 customize 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.
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144 pages, Paperback
Published January 20, 2023
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April 9, 2019
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to draw dragons, this is a great guide to help you out. The book is more than just pictures to look at. It’s filled with text with tips and hints and guides to what you need to know. You’ll find step by step sections to work on specific parts such as dragon eyes or wings.
After you master the different parts of the dragon tackle the guided lessons on creating different types of dragons from the broad/stocky dragon to the long/lean dragon, to the cute dragon to specific styles like Eastern or Western. There is also a guide on creating a water dragon.
The final section shows you how to add age or gender to your dragons and even how to create an undead dragon. You can create a bird or horse dragon, lizard or feline dragon. The book really covers all possibilities.
Make sure you pick yourself up a sketch book and some pencils if you get this book as you’ll have lots to practice. The kids and I used the book to draw dragons, here’s what we came up with.
After you master the different parts of the dragon tackle the guided lessons on creating different types of dragons from the broad/stocky dragon to the long/lean dragon, to the cute dragon to specific styles like Eastern or Western. There is also a guide on creating a water dragon.
The final section shows you how to add age or gender to your dragons and even how to create an undead dragon. You can create a bird or horse dragon, lizard or feline dragon. The book really covers all possibilities.
Make sure you pick yourself up a sketch book and some pencils if you get this book as you’ll have lots to practice. The kids and I used the book to draw dragons, here’s what we came up with.
November 27, 2021
THE Book to truly learn with*
The other books are mostly line drawings. This book is truly a tutorial, with examples of full color dragons. It shows not only how to draw the outline, but also how to color them so they look 3D. It gives great examples of how to draw different body types, and details like ears, tails, horn alternatives, spine ridges or spikes, scale types. This is the book to learn from and adapt to what you want your dragons to look like.
*This author also has another black and white tutorial book that’s just as good for pencil and shading.
The other books are mostly line drawings. This book is truly a tutorial, with examples of full color dragons. It shows not only how to draw the outline, but also how to color them so they look 3D. It gives great examples of how to draw different body types, and details like ears, tails, horn alternatives, spine ridges or spikes, scale types. This is the book to learn from and adapt to what you want your dragons to look like.
*This author also has another black and white tutorial book that’s just as good for pencil and shading.
August 5, 2018
Great book. Dragons are incredibly difficult to draw (which is funny considering they aren't real and you can really do whatever you want with one). This book offers a lot of great tips, and the pages about drawing eyes!!! Fantastic! 🙌🙌🙌
April 28, 2026
Great book to build a dragon
This is a nice text for exploring the possibilities one can use to create a dragon. It includes hatchlings and gender. I really liked the many examples of horns, tails, scales, expressions and all the other parts that make up a dragon.
This is a nice text for exploring the possibilities one can use to create a dragon. It includes hatchlings and gender. I really liked the many examples of horns, tails, scales, expressions and all the other parts that make up a dragon.
June 30, 2022
This is a paint by numbers book. If you have heard of ”South Park Character Creator”, this is the same: take the Mr. Potato head pieces, and mix and match.
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