[Elisha Morganne]

Like I said this is my latest dragon drawn on the computer,

Facts:
I used PSE 7.0 (Photoshop Elements 7.0), This was done not to long ago and I'm pretty happy about it. The text on there is my credits, why? Because I come from a site where graphics/photos/digital drawings are stolen quite often. So just for saftys sake I put my credits on there. I didn't put a BG on it because I just didn't feel like it. Oh, critque is welcome although I know that it is SO not 3-D and that my lines are shaky. Believe me a whole lot of erasing went into this and it still turned out like that. So without further delay I shall now unveil my work.



Oh! One more thing, the silver plate on the head is head armor.

This post has been edited by Elisha Morganne: 11 September 2009 - 02:44 PM

[Emily]

I'd recommend a ruler with the wing's shape of the membrane. That would help the shaky lines even out. Then you wouldn't have to erase so much .

Starters off, if you had more practice with drawing dragons like this, it would be SO much less hard work for you with the shaky lines and everything. Some of it could be the scanner/camera delusions they constantly make, which I hate.

The legs need to be thicker and longer so it matches the right size of the dragon. The way you made the claws should be thicker, also. You should also try making the joints more obvious, as they pretty much just look curved without the joints in the picture. The start of the wing should be more straight instead of those two blobs of it at the start.

The neck is pretty good. It doesn't seem to have any problems that I can see, so that's a plus for you. I guess the shakiness occured with the tail a bit. Try straightening those out and never give up no matter how many times you have to erase. It'll all pull through, I promise . The tip of the tail looks a bit wierd, as most dragons have something more detailed and shaped differently, but if that's the style of the dragon, it's just fine.

The wing looks just too much, if you know what I mean. It's a bit big for my eyes and if you made it smaller, that would look better proportioned with the body. The left end of the dragon's wing, is darkened way too much and needs to be lightened. I'm not sure why you did that, but you might want to fix it.

I do like the blending of the colors, though. The spikes are good, perfectly sharp, and the head shape is pretty good.

Keep practicing, and you'll get better .

[Elisha Morganne]

One of the blobs is the wing joint, I've had a lot of trouble with wings. And I see what you mean by the claws, I have just been focasing on different parts of the dragon. And the end of the tail, I could just plain not get it the way I wanted it to be. So I just settled with that, I have only been doing dragons for a year and I appreciate your help! You seriously don't want to see my first attempt. Horrible, just horrible. And Thanks for the ruler idea! I have a tablet so that just might work! As for the wing size, I figure that dragon wings need to be really big to hold all that weight PLUS a riders weight. Thanks again for the tips!

[Arthryn]

Wings are hard for a lot of people. I've seen so many dragon wings with extremely incorrect anatomy, even from otherwise good artists.

However, once you know how wings are actually put together, it gets a lot easier to draw them. So I've drawn up some quick images in Photoshop for everyone who's ever had issues with drawing wings:

So here is a sample wing:

This is the typical structure of how a dragon wing looks. The most similar naturally occurring wing structure in nature is that of a bat. And do you know how bat wings work? The wings are actually its arms and hands, which have evolved into wings.

So in this next picture, I've broken down the parts of the wing into body parts that you'll recognize:

So as you can see, a wing is really just a special arm. It has all the same parts as your arm, they are just proportioned differently and has webbing. So you can practice drawing a regular old arm, then add a hand, and then add a big claw to the thumb and make the fingers really really long, and then you can add a curved line in between the ends of the long fingers to make the webbing, and then from the last finger to the body (or, I've added a spine to the elbow that holds out the webbing).

Try it out!

[Elisha Morganne]

Ok thanks! I was actually semi-copying a doves wing in order to do that wing. I'll try this one out thanks so much!

[Arthryn]

You're welcome.

Well come to think of it, bird wings are the same in many regards. They have the same shoulder, arm, elbow structure, except when you get to the hand, there is just one long, strong finger, and then this arm is covered with features.

[Elisha Morganne]

Yeah, thats why I made one of the blobs like a shoulder joint so it could move all around.

This post has been edited by Elisha Morganne: 13 September 2009 - 08:57 AM