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how to draw dragons: front leg by ~Kielrae:iconKielrae:

Categories Resources & Stock Images > Tutorials > Traditional Art > Drawing > Animal Anatomy

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'rae tries to be helpful!

sorry to the maybe four people who've been waiting for this for such a long time, but i've just been really busy lately...

i realize this is not a real tutorial *per se,* but i still think it would be useful. if i ever have time, i'll make something like this for every major body part. once i've done that, i could perhaps combine them and call it a tutorial, huh?

to that end, here is a link to the complete skeleton:
full skeleton

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Mood: Joy ~Velnior Nov 23, 2008, 8:52:32 PM
Yay, yet another random how-to-draw dragons thingy.

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*Denodon Nov 23, 2008, 11:47:07 PM
That's good work there, I like it.
The way you've drawn it makes the anatomy of a dragon forelimb appear all the probbable.

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~Kielrae Nov 24, 2008, 9:03:43 AM
see, the trick to making it look probable is just to take the bones of a real creature and stretch them into the shape you want. the muscles still connect to the same bones in the same places, they just become a slightly different shape. my dragons are usually a mix between hunting cats and several different kinds of dinosaurs.

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~Kielrae Nov 24, 2008, 9:48:16 AM
actually, it's not *that* random. people have been asking me to make things like this.

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*Denodon Nov 24, 2008, 9:58:04 PM
yeah, I kinda noticed the dinosaur thing as I was (and still am in a way) a dinosaur buff. That method you use though works as you can see.

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~Kielrae Nov 25, 2008, 8:30:09 AM
hoorah! yeah, dinosaurs provide a pretty good analogue for semireptilian creatures, both big and small. i like the skeletal structures of hunting raptors the best because they are both powerful and agile. howevr, they walk on two legs and i prefer dragons that walk on all fours for some reason. that is why i blend cats into my designs.

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*Denodon Nov 25, 2008, 10:37:39 PM
oh okay. I use raptors as a basis for alot of my bipedal dragons and wyverns. For normal dragons I usually just have them based partially on mammal-like reptiles but mainly its all from the imagination.

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~Kielrae Nov 26, 2008, 7:51:15 AM
heh. the role of imagination in the process cannot be overemphasized!

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*Denodon Nov 26, 2008, 11:22:15 PM
It certainly can't

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