Hello Friends!

My practice of the day is another incredible creature. It is a new dragon made with charcoal pencils!

Earth Dragon

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:

• Mechanical Pencil.
• HB Leads.
• Charcoal Pencil Soft.
• Brush.
• Diffuser.
• Moldable Eraser.
• A4 Opaline 300G.

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let's start!

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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!!