skeleton of dragon - art

iraidamatheus (60)in #art • 8 years ago

Welcome friends!

On a trip I made a few years ago I was able to visit an anthropological and paleontological museum. While there I saw several fossils of animals and people who lived there many years ago. Reminiscing that trip came to my mind the question "how will it look be the skeleton of a dragon?", So I investigated a little about the hypotheses that are formulated regarding the appearance of these mythological animals and I set out to draw the skeleton of a dragon . Here you can see the final result, and if you continue reading my publication you can see the process of this drawing.

Materials:
-Graphite pencil HB (Number 02).
-Paper page.
-Draft.

ELABORATION PROCESS

To begin with, I drew the skeleton of the dragon with the pencil, here I just dedicated myself to drawing a simple figure which I would perfect later.this part took me quite a while, since each bone had a different shape from the others.

After having the figure ready I proceeded to define the details. I started by the skull of the dragon, definids to darker lines and shading the holes of the eye and jaw.

Then I continued to shade along the neck bone by bone, accentuating details of light and darkness.

This shading process was really complex, since the bones I drew were small and I needed a lot of precision when marking with the pencil. Fortunately, with patience I was able to continue shading up the dragon's thorax.

At this point I decided that it was best to highlight the lower legs and bones and then shade at the end.

After 2 hours of work I was able to finish the delineated that I wanted, now I only had to finish the shading and the details that would make the drawing more attractive.

As can be seen in the photograph, I already had more than 50% of the shaded skeleton.

After resting my hand a little, I managed to finish the complete shading of the dragon's body. Now all that was missing was the detail of the horns.

I drew guide lines on the horns, since these would go in a dark tone with some details of light.

Here you can see from a general view how was the result of the shading of the horns. (Later you can see with details the skull and horns of the skeleton).

DETAILS OF THE DELINEATE AND SHADOWS PROCESS OF THE SKULL AND HORNS

FINAL RESULT

After more than 6 hours of work I was able to finish my drawing. I'm getting into the technique of shading with graphite pencils and I'm really satisfied with the result I got.