How to Draw a Japanese Dragon

Video Transcript

"Hello there. I'm Ralph Papa from papagallery.com and today we're learning how to draw. In this clip I'm going to show you how to draw a Japanese dragon. I'm going to start off with a kind of nice fierce eye. I like to start with the eyes. And we'll put the other eye in here like that. And then we're going to flare out very thick nostrils where they would breathe out their fire. And we're going to give him a sneering face. Almost where his teeth are coming down like this. Then I'm going to put some real fierce teeth on this dragon. I'm going to give him a furry, furry top on the hat. And now we're going to put even some fiery flares that come out of his head like that. Now what makes the nice Japanese dragon is I always like to say like an S shaped body which would come around and flare out to the tail like this. And I'm just going to flare out the tail like that and bring it around and make it gradually thicker as it comes forward. The underside of the body of the dragon would have these lines that you'd see on the bottom of an alligator. And I always like to think of it, a dragon as an alligator. I don't know when they went extinct or how true they were but that would be the shape. And now we're going to put on some fierce, fierce looking claws on this guy. So there's one hand on the alligator. The other one we're going to sort of bring out around here and I'll have it coming down this way. Put those claws on there. And now the skin, here's the top line of the alligator coming across like that. And then you've got all of this little scales on him. And we're not going to do all the scales but we'll just suggest them in spots where you get the feeling that he's loaded with scales. Okay so here we're up at the top of the line here. We're going to give him some scales like dragons would normally have. And I'm just going to give these little triangular points. Just on the top of him like that. In the back part we're going to put a foot out here with also some nice long claws that he would have on his back legs. The other one I'm going to sort of put out this way coming out there. Again because dragon would have those nice claws. We can just suggest a few more scales. It's just little ovals that are sort of covering one another. And you just do it in a few places and to the viewer it'll fill it in that this dragon has scales all over his body. And there we have a Japanese dragon. This has been Ralph Papa and thank you for watching."