My practice of the day is another incredible creature. It is a new dragon made with charcoal pencils!
In mythologies there are different dragons, including elementals, Water, earth, fire, air, light and darkness. Today i wanted to illustrate a new dragon for my collection, since i have learned how to make them and i feel like a child with a new toy!
the dragon that i chose to illustrate is a Dragon of Earth, it is a voracious beast, very agile on the surface of the ground, with a skin as solid as rocks and a huge physical force!
For this drawing i will need:
Ready the sketch, i started by illustrating the eye, i did the drawing taking the side of the dragon because it shows better its characteristics.
with the charcoal pencil and the HB pencil i was illustrating the corrugated skin, giving similarity to the rocks, i gave the volume with the moldable eraser, delicately clearing at the edge of the shadows.
In this step, illustrate the mouth, keeping the same texture of rocks on your skin, and making thick scales.
I illustrate the fangs protruding from the mouth and their horns giving texture to worn bones.
I had a problem with the tone i used, where i could not highlight the different scales, however when giving volume with the moldable eraser, it looked good!
I could stain his skin a bit, making rustic strokes without blurring and this gave him an incredible texture!
at the end of illustrating the face, in the back part i gave a darker tone just approaching the horns, to give the feeling that it is less exposed skin.
His longer horn i illustrate with the HB pencil so it did not have the same dark tone as the skin, although it cost me to differentiate the shadows i could find the right tones.
Finally i illustrated the neck, without flaking, just keeping the same rough skin.
I made scales on his back and kept the texture rough, giving the sensation of rocky skin.
Around 10 hours of work and a lot of patience, this is the Final Art!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
It looks great right? ... Lately, i really like doing this type of illustrations! i'm already eager to make a new drawing!
if you liked write your comment! let me know what you think of this piece!
Until the next time!!
