How do Draw your Dragon

1. PROMO: Hello there. My name is Maria Abramovic and an artist director and animator. And here I'm going to teach you how to draw dragons. I've had a long career in animation, designing character and illustrating books. And I've learned one thing that the first steps are the most important. Another thing I've learned throughout my career is that it is important for two characters in likable, appealing. You like dragons, you like medical crutches. And you think that there is only one way to do it. Here. I'm going to prove you wrong. I'm going to teach you many ways of how to approach drawing Katrina dragons. You can find your own design. You're going to learn how to use a simple structure like a stick figure to design the basis of your drug. And from that point on, the design becomes really easy. You'll also learn how to give appeal to your drug and you will learn how to draw the same drug and in different poses. But it's this course, only about one drug. Of course notes. This is just to start. If you're a beginner, you can use this course as a basis to start drawing your own cartoon characters. Dragons are interesting and mystical creatures. Usually no one has seen a real dragon. We've just seen dragons in stories in films. That's why dragons can be anything we want them to be. This gives us the inspiration and the freedom to design dragons in any shape and form. Its normal accuser that you've drawn the wrong dragon. Follow me in this course. I'm going to teach you step-by-step of how to draw your dragon. I promise you, I want this one to see you in the course. 2. Introductions: Here are a few words of introduction to believe that you can only draw stick figures. What if I told you? This is actually enough to start drawing dragons? In fact, you will be able to draw anything, anything you want, like dinosaurs, alligators, cats, aim of babies. And you'll be able to combine dinosaurs, alligators, cats, and even babies to create cute dragons like that. In this lecture, I'm going to teach you a very simple technique where you can describe the character. You want to draw with a very simple skeleton structure based on just spheres and stick figure. Then you will be able to easily flesh out your character and character traits the way you want it. Let me show you how to do that in this fun and exciting lectures. 3. Perspective: Hi there. Before we get into the fun part of drawing dragons, I'm going to talk a little bit about perspective because we are going to use a simple method. We've drawn spheres to find where the Perspectivas start with loosely drawing a sphere. Don't push too hard, just draw from the shoulders. From the shoulder down heavier hand-drawn loosely. You can see that the more is fierce and more doodles you draw on the paper, the better shape of the sphere you're gonna get. This is going to be the basics of our drawing farther on. So I'll start practicing with doubt. Now how do we find the perspective with sphere? Now if you're looking at the sphere from straight ahead, we're going to see a clear line that is horizontal and another one that is vertical. The sphere contains thousands of millions of lines like that. Now imagine that the sphere is also see-through. It is transparent. The farther away we go from the center of the sphere, the more does lines were appear like ellipses. And the farther away from the center we get, the wider the ellipsis appear. We can use that to describe the perspective. Now, let me visualize it even clearer. With a 3D illustration. You understand it even better. So here we have a 3D sphere. Let's imagine that we can see some of the lines on that sphere. Let's imagine that this fear is also a see-through. We can understand that we see the sphere from straight ahead because we can see a clear horizontal and vertical line going across the sphere. The farther away we get from the center, the more the lines appear like ellipsis. And it works the same bulb whites horizontally and vertically. And how is that relevant to us when we draw cartoony dragons? Well, imagine that we have a pair of Arts on this sphere. This is our character. Now imagine that the sphere is given transparent. We see that the eyes are a sphere as well. But we soon with turn this character in one direction or the other direction, move the camera. Now the eyes are not spherical anymore. They're more like an ellipse. Using this imaginary lines of the sphere, we can describe the perspective of our character. Using the vertical lines. We can find where the symmetry is, for example, of the character's face, but also the character's body. What the board is split into symmetrical helps. But of course, we're not going to always have these 3D sphere that will help us find the guidelines we need to practice to find them or cells. To do that. Continuing the exercises by drawing a couple of ellipses Going along the sphere vertically and horizontally. And try to place a pair of eyes here and there to see how you can find the helpline where the eyes are lying on and how the perspective changes depending on where the head is turned. You can draw as many lines and you find necessary. Don't get discouraged if you don't get it right the first time. It is all about exercise. When you start drawing your character, you don't have to draw all of these lines. You just have to know that this is a tool that is available to you and you can draw just one line. I'm going to show you exactly how to do it in the lectures ahead. So don't get scared. If you don't get it right now. You're going to get it later on. Just hanging here with me and I'll show you how it's done. Now let's start with the fun part. Drawing dragons. 4. Basic Skeleton: Let's get started with creating the basis or the skeleton for our dragon designs. And I'm going to give you one pose, one skeleton. And you can use that to design different designs. I'm going to show you how to do it here. So Dragons have four legs and all quadrupeds animals have kind of the same structure. Because our drug and we are going to be cartoony. We're going to simplify its structure and its skeleton. And another thing again for Dallas who've been watching my other lectures, we're using two pencils, one blue and one black. And we are going to design the rough sketch with our blue pencil. Then we're going to refine our drawing with a black pencil. What is that? It's because when you are a beginner, you think that if you draw your first drawing and it's not right, you're worthless, you're not a good drawer. That's not true. What do you think? What you need to know is that every artist is beginning with kind of a sketch or drawing. That's why a blue pencil will allow you to have a drawing that feels more incomplete. While a black pencil will make you feel like you've done your drawing and then you will make you feel kind of bad if you've done to do a drawing that you are looking for. Now let's start working with the shape, the sphere. This is going to be the shape of our body. I'm going to do just one posting profile for this dragon. I'm going to do a different proportions. Assume that this is our body and use your hand very loosely. Don't press like doubt. Just loosen your hand to work from the shoulders down and make this sphere, this circle. And the more, the more times you're, you're rounding sphere, the bather sphere, the sphere you're getting, as you'll see, this is our body. Now let's design the legs for Dragon. And the legacy is the same structure like a horse, like a cat, like an alligator, as it took like a dinosaur. They have the back leg. They have one skeleton that ghost-like that forward and one leg that goes a little bit in this direction and then we have the feet like that. The front legs are usually a little bit stilted. And if you see them in silhouette, they kind of like justice trade line. Let's assume that this is the ground where ora dragon as standing on. And here we have the front leg and of course, there is a knee even to the front leg. Let's signify where the needs with a slight sphere. And here is another sphere. This is just the body of our Dragon. In this, in this character, we're going to have Dragon that has a long neck, like a dinosaur. So we'll have just a little curve, like dot. And here for the face, we're going to have another sphere. And this sphere is going to be some kind of like an egg shape instead of a complete sphere. You can break dots fear down a couple of times later on. But let's just designed a simple, basic form. What else does or drug and half, it has a tail, of course. And let's have the tail start from here somewhere and just format like a curve up to here because we have an imaginary line on the dragon being on the ground. And if you assume this is the ground soldiers, and thus the tail will just go down to the ground like that. And here we have with just a few strokes are very simple skeleton of the dragon. But of course we don't see the legs on the backside. And let's do that. So how do you design the perspective and how do you know where the other legs are on the backside? This is where I'm teaching the very simple method of using the sphere as deciding the perspective. If you have one sphere and you split it in very, very tiny spheres like ellipsis in the middle, you will get a lot of, a lot of small, small ellipses like that. And if you split it in half, you will have this ellipse like that here. The leg that you have. If you split this fear even in horizontal level, there will be other kinds of very small ellipses like that. The higher you get, the more the ellipse will look like the sphere, like down the leg is if you imagine that this ellipse continuous over there. So the leg will be, will start somewhere on the point of this ellipse, on invisible point that we don't see, of course, because dragons are not transparent. But we need to imagine them transport when we built their skeleton will margin the legs out from there. And everything else is kind of like a shorter than this one because this also has a perspective. This leg will end up here. And this one, this photo will end up here a little bit slightly behind and in front of this leg. And let's do the same one for here. This leg will end up on this sphere, this ellipse over here. And it will, the knee will be a little bit on top over this leg here. And the lower leg will be over here, and then the fruit will be here. Now, we have the skeleton of a dragon. So now let's quickly lived out and have that complete. And let's have some more designs, some more different shapes and same pose. The same way of doing it. But let's play with the proportions before we go ahead and actually designed the dragon. This time, let's make a giant, giant body. Same principles. Let's have them neck and let's have smaller head like that. Again, these Gangnam legs, but let's have them tinier, very small legs. This one, this one here. More straightforward. And these legs, front legs here like that. Imagine there is the ni over here. Let's design the back leg. Same way. You don't have to draw all the time these ellipses, you can imagine that just the leg that is behind this one will have kind of a perspective shortening and just add it like that for the next poses and nitrogen's. And this one is over here and tail over here. Tiny detail. Let's leave that here and we have another little Dragon here, even though you can't see it. It's going to be exciting when you see how things get together. Now let's have tiny body, very, very small body for this little dragon, 2D cartoony dragon. When you draw the body of a character tinier and you have the head bigger than the character becomes more childlike. Because children, babies, they have, their head looks bigger and it's more on proportional compared to you to grown ups. So if you have bigger hands of a dragon, let's design the head here. It immediately looks like a Baby, like a small acute or Dragon. Let's add detail. And now let's have another drug on over here. What shall we be? Let's have like a more normal, normal body, another sphere, and it doesn't have to be just round sphere play with the shapes, have an egg shape, have a more longer shape. And see what you get. Just follow your instinct when you start drawing like that. And when you lose a new fear of drawing, your body, your intuition will, will drive you and we'll show you what your next design is going to be. This is very interesting, even though you think it's us, cycle baba or it's like nonsense. Believe me, this is how artists work. And if you are drawn to art, you probably know this feeling like you've, you've imagined something and you don't know what is this thing is coming from. You've just drawn something out of your imagination. And you can't really tell why you drawn that. And then it suddenly makes sense during a weird kind of way. So here are four shapes. Let's go starting with designing oscillate the dragons. So you can see how many different designs you can do it just this simple, simple exercise and simple structure. This is kind of like designing a house. I mean, you don't start designing, building a house by putting the windows on, right? Because there was nothing to put your window walks on. So if we've been starting drawing by starting from the eyes and the nose while you don't have a body, don't have muscles to don't have structure. This is why this method is so useful. Let's start from the first drug. And even though it's a really sketchy here. Now we can see that this shape, this skeleton is kind of like the spine of the drug. And the drug on snake is of course not so thin, just like a line. It has some thickness. And let's just draw the same line a little bit farther away from, from this line that connects the body. And actually the neck is also, can be described like small, small spheres because the neck is round. It's like a tube. If you have the ending of the neck over here is going to be like an ellipse. Ellipse. And there are also a lot of all, a lot of small, small ellipsis around shapes that describe the perspective of this neck of this tube. Because one of the challenges for you as a beginner when you draw something is basically the perspective. I mean, you know how you want something to look like. You just don't grasp the perspective using this simple methods will free you from that burden. So let's have the hub, the header with a drug and it's kind of like the head of the crocodile or the Tat or so it's, it has a split line in the middle. So if you see this hadn't perspective, we'll have it like a little bit turn in three-quarters, three-quarters will. It means that we will see a little bit of the other sides. After dragon. You can describe this head with two spheres, one here for the eyes and one here for the nose. In the eyes. You can split the whole thing into just have a line going through this whole thing, even though you can't see it, because three-quarters is a tricky, tricky perspective thing. You have one eye on this side. And if this is a sphere, you will, you have to follow this shape. The middle of the line. There is an I, there is a thickness of the drug and over here there is an I on the other side. Let's have some eyebrows over here. Let's put the eyes on the pupil so we have the drug and being alive already. You can adjust this later because now you're just discovering how to draw this dragon and why we have this sphere. The sphere is also signifying that there is a middle part that connects this sphere and this sphere and there is a nose. The nose is a little thicker. So you can also use this part of the sphere to design the nostrils. So you can draw kind of like ellipses, like dots to find y. The other nostril is you have this one upfront, design one here. And the other one will be kind of like over here but turned on this side. So I'm not gonna see it with just see the silhouette of it, Something like that. Yeah, and this is something that you have to imagine and you have to train yourself to see the shapes, how this shape would look on the other side of this drug. And this is basically the trickier part, designing the face and how things look symmetrically on the other site. When you grasp that you grasp dealt with a lot of training with not freaking out, that all my god, I control of never drawn blah, blah, blah. This is just a story someone had been telling you because they are also afraid of drawing. What might be now on you'll learn to draw. You can show them well. Everyone can draw. It's just a matter of loosening your hand and your mind. So now let's do the mouth. Now, here is the face of the dragon and the mouth is basically following this shape. So what you do is just follow this line and you see this is also designed thing. Let's have a smiling Dragon will have them all being up to here. We're drawing more of a cartoony dragons. Now. This is the head. Let's connect it with a neck like that. And now let's follow the shape of this body over here. And here, and here is the stomach. You'll see how easy it is when we have, when we have this skeleton. And now the tail is the same thing like the neck. It's actually a tube that's going down. So there is an ellipse over here that connects this tube to the rest of his body. The way just following connect this line here With the end of the line. And it's kind of imagining this is something that we don't use now, but when we know the perspective, we can use it later to add more details and more patterns under the dragon. And now k, This is the tail. The perspective looks like dad. So how do I add other details? But right now you just connect the body. You can go out with because this is experimentation. Now you can play with the shape. You don't have the drug and figured out right away. Sometimes we need to induce several drawings to know that what kind of drag them did you want to do? Okay. So now we have that and now we have the legs and the legs and the dragon. And we can just place another round shape on this part of the leg. And smaller one over here and another one on the leg. This one here, same thing here. Do you want to have thicker legs like that? And this one is the smaller one. And this one even we don't even see, Let's see if we see it even. You can play with the shape like that. So now we have this muscle or legs and what you do is just to connect the spheres, just connect them as simple as that. You have the skeleton, you have the forelegs structure drawn very simply. You just connect it. That's it. That's the simple thing. You see. You kind of, you drew a dragon. If you follow these steps, you have drawn your dragon, your first dragon maybe. Now we don't see because this one is hiding the back leg. We don't see a lot of the back leg so we can skip it, but we know that it is there. And we can just throw the fruit because the food is not hidden. We're going to see that over here, the fourth, and we can make some nails, for example. Here, the males at the Drucker, what else does the drug and it has these spikes. That's what drug and look like. Now, when dropped the spikes, we imagine that this dragons backside is kind of like over here, almost visible. And then because he's turned his head towards out, so the neck is a little twist it. So you have to follow this imaginary twists that you see now that you've drawn your dragon, draw the spikes. But here on his back, we maybe see the spikes on his bike. We see this backbone and the how it follows the body. You just follow it writes to the sales, to the end of the tail. Like that, that sense. And what else does the drug and it has wings. And we haven't put that in our design. That's because we didn't know how or dragging will look like. And the wings is kind of like a detail. So you can have like the wings again with just a line. And if you follow the shape of the sphere with a man lips, you will know that the other wing, kind of like on the other side like that. We don't see it is as if we have the transparent dragon and we have this triangular shape. Just a smooth triangle. Signify maybe like tiny wings because we're going to have a cartoony dragon. And now we can have bat wings like that's just add a line like that and like that and you actually can make up your own kind of wings. How did they look like? I'm going to have this bat wings. That's follows this kind of very simple shape that I drew quickly. But it gave me guidelines to how the dragon will look like. This is our first dragon. And in the next part I'm going to refine it with a black pencil so we can clearly see what kind of design did we get and add some more details. So follow me there. 5. Refining The First Dragon: Welcome back. Are you excited to see what you Dragon will be with the details? With the black pencil. Just start filling in the details and find the contour of your Dragon. Let's have the eyes forest. We give more life to it right away. When you draw the eyes forest, you kind of get a sense of who these characteristics. And it guides you to how to, how to do more details on the character later on. The eyes. The eyes are the window to the soul. And that's true even for dragons because we think of dragons we prescribe or human emotions to them. You don't, you don't have to you don't have to draw everything on the face. You can jump in and draw the body. Here. You are free to do whatever you want and how else you want to fill in the details. Because you already have the shape you drag an already looks good. So you can just look better from here. Just find the middle cheeks and nose. They have this one. What separates the two parts of the face? You'd have some kind of by lip here and follow that shape. Has the smile here. And the lower lip. I hope you are following me along in this tutorial and you'll see how easy things get when you're not afraid. Really, when you have someone tell you, showing you that you can do it. There is a structure to everything artistic. Believe me, no one has started by just drawing right away. Having a perfect structure. I mean, have you seen an architect build a house without a drawing, without knowing where to build how. I mean, that's pretty strange. You don't expect them to do that, but you expect yourself either start drawing. You think that you have to be drawing right away and you have just perfect drawings. Does not how it works. And it's kind of like frame to know that you're not bad. You just haven't practiced enough. The thing is that even if you make things not so good in the beginning, just draw another one and draws, draw another one and another one. Practice makes perfect is actually pretty true. Because even the greatest artist, if they don't practice, they kind of lose training and not in a good shape. And thus like that for everything. I mean, if you buy, learn how to bike. If you have them buy for a long time, your little shake in the beginning, not pretty confidence went riding a bike. But the more you write, the better you get. Here. I'm just not paying attention to all these scribbles over here with the blue line. But you see how freeing it is to have this blue line, to know what their perspective is. You see that this transplant dragon leads you to make better and better drawings. So let's keep this design Canada around it. Nails. We've chosen this design, so let's move on. Let's just do it. And I feel like I don't want to see dots the lower leg a little bit. So I'm just gonna add this detail and see if it's better and it feels better already. This is kind of our perspective kind of thing that when you do something from your imagination, you have to feel it. You have to imagine how would it look like? And sometimes you can decide that you want to have a better silhouette. You want to see that not this drug has not only one leg, it has two legs. So you can trick the perspective, add something that maybe it isn't there. Just for the sake of a nice drawing. As you artist, you have that freedom and isn't that nice? Here we have the contours of our dragon. Now, let's give it more. More shape, more details. What can we have like here? I've added already some kind of Bob wrinkles from the skin, wrinkles the drug has from his legs while tells do they have even this line that I drew that was his neck. It kind of suggests me something really funny that in order to have this different kind of patterns on the stomach and on the front. And they have more efficient like patterns on the back. Let's follow this shape. And continuous like over here. And then the tail, it continuous maybe over here. Let's say This person is like, like that. This is up to you really. Your imagination is your dragon. Be alarmed to draw your Dragons. And because the dragons are mythical creatures, there are all kinds of shapes and you can decide what kind of drug and you want to make. We have that this pattern here, the dragon. And here we've followed the bodies are here, starts the body. So we have to follow the perspective of the body. And here is the legs. Just suggests the legs have all different kinds of patterns of more like the person that they have on the back. Kind of like fish-like pattern. These rings become even thicker in the stomach. Something like dots. You can play around with the shape. And they continually become even more spaced out in the back on tail, then they got smaller and smaller. It might be here, they just disappear. We don't see them. Now let's add this button. Like smaller on his face. You don't have to feel the whole dragon with it is something that's called graphic element. You just need to add a couple of, a, couple of places. Have the dragon already feel like it has this fish kind of pattern on this part of the body. And here we follow the shape of the body, the direction of the body. So we follow this line here and here we follow this line here. It goes downwards and it turns around here. So it follows this line over here. Just drew a couple of these on several places. And that will just suggest your viewer that this dragon has that kind of patterns. Over here. And also on the tail. You can actually find different kinds of patterns. I mean, these are obviously because they looked like dinosaurs and like alligators. And alligators have this kind of skin. And that's where the dragon patterns come from. Human design your own shaped in snipe. No one has really seen a dragon besides from the films. And if you've seen how you draw your, how you train your drag on where I've got inspired from the name. You'll see that different kinds of dragons. Now I'm going to just shade his legs are to signify that it is this leg is back and it's like you don't really want to have a clear shape of this leg. You want to have some perspective shading. And here you go. If you follow me, you have your first dragon. Maybe just shade a little bit under the dragons feet just to signify that there is a volume to it. There is kind of a perspective. And this dragon is now alive. It's a real character, is something you can use in your book. Or you can start from here and just design more of these dragons and be proud that you've done. Here it is. And maybe we can just finish. Shade the wings Black. Just to have some different, some more graphic and grabbing elements and have the drug and look better and better because they're bat wings. Or maybe they're just green, but because it's black and white, you just want to even or black and white drawing. Look, right. Congratulations, this is your first dragon. Now let's see what we can do with these other shapes. I mean, this is good enough, but can it be better? It can always be better. Let's go for the right. This one. In the next chapter. See you there. 6. Designing The Second Dragon: Are you excited about this little dragon or big dragon, whatever. So let's do it. What can we think about? So when I started, I didn't know what kind of dragon I wanted to draw. I just played with the shapes. So that gives me an opportunity to design something very new. Let my subconscious find out what kind of drug and I want this one is a fat one, right? So I'm going to connect the neck, draw this ellipse here that connects the tube, the neck, like the other ones. Have this dragon, have this big beak. I don't know, chin or something. So let's add that. Let's add another sphere here. My game look weird, funny, Interesting, Interesting. That's the thing that when you free yourself, you can have your characters look interesting. You don't have to be bound to strings to preconceptions how things need to look like. You can just do whatever you want. And that's how new things are created from people that say, it doesn't have to look that way. I can do a differently and just design something new. What can happen? What's the worst that can happen? You can waste a piece of paper. So up, It's not like you saving lives right now. You're not. A doctor. Says like that will be a little more dangerous to say in like what's the worst that can happen? If you are a doctor? Here, let's have this chunky legs because they are so, so tiny and we know that we have a ni over here. Let's just combine them into one big chunk leg. This is cartoony drawing and we can do whatever we want. And let's have this chunky leg being even chunkier and this one even more. And the stomach go down to the grounds, chunky little monster dragging the tail. Let's design even this shape, ellipse shape for the two, just for our sake to note that this thickness is what we want. Let's continue even from here, let us have this chunky, chunky dragon and very short tail. What about the face? I mean, what does it look like? Nothing. So let's have one ball here. Once fear for her face, once fear for the nose. And as we said, this is going to be the chin. Let's split this in half. We know wherever the eyes are. Now we already have these training. So we have one eye over here and let's have the I being on top of the head. I just came up without and so can you too. That's how is it is, That's how easy it is. So let's have these eyes popping out of his face. And let's have the eyes already visible. So we have this character. Let's have the mouth because this is going to be a big jaw. The jaw would look bigger if the mouth is higher up. So this is the nose from up. This shape here is no. So let's have an ellipse over here and split it into. Also, this round shape is in other nostril that's on the other side. This one is on the side. This is going to be the mouth. Now this is tricky what to do with a pencil. So geode on the bigger paper and not on a small paper. And let's have the mouth being over here. Like dots. Maybe some kind of a Jaggard mouth. Like doubts and more like of a crocodile, funny looking, funny looking guy. And let's have some kind of shape around the eyes, make him look even scarier. And this jaw here, to look kind of funny and interesting. We can maintain neck even thicker, even thicker. And that's what the blue pencil is for. To play around with the shape before you find the character. Let's have some eyebrows even on top of the ice, they're like sticking out from the body because it's culturally dragon. Again. We can make it. Anyway. We want some nostrils. Maybe these are tiny and nostrils here. Like that. Let's have this moment is sticking out like that a little bit, just a little bit and teeth sticking out from the lower part of his mouth. Why not getting human? Now it's getting interesting, funnier kind of dragon. Now we want to see when we have this shave. And I see, you said because this is also sphere and it follows this middle line across all the face, all these spheres on the perspective lines so we know the volume of this shape. So maybe let's add some wrinkles here on the neck that connect the neck to the body. Goes, this is flesh. We can end up here with the chin, but it's filling up the feeling, the shape filling the character. And then you wouldn't be funny to be even, even thicker, even fatter kind of dragon. And here we have the fetal as manganese, elephant feet, elephant legs. Let's make this chunky, chunky legs and tiny feet because they're covered. Fact it's a fatty dragon. Cute, cute fatty dragon. But look how much different this dragon needs from this one. That's what I mean. You can design your own dragons as soon as you have the structure. Just easy. It's very, very easy. You can play with the shape. I know. I didn't know what happened. Inspire to, to draw the dragons been dismissed, reads basically who the dragons are, their character. That's also another way for you to get inspired to draw by defining, by finding who the characters are. And they inspiration sometimes or often or always, is more important than your skill of drawing. Because if you have the inspiration, you can learn this technical stuff. It's easy, but the inspiration is where things start looking interesting, where your design become when your designs come to life. And thus, that's what the real artist is, the real creator. It's not like just doing things that you know how to do. It's also discover who these characters are, thought you were working on that you're doing. So let's have some kind of funny stuff on this drug unless awesome. I don't know, feathers, spikes over here, some kind of off looks like ears but also like feathers. Let's hire him spike. Spikes looks smaller. One the details of the drug and looks smaller. When they are smaller. The dragon look even chunkier, even fatter. So it's always about a proportion. The proportion from one shape to the other. In comparison. Let us have the same kind of elements. Sometimes you want to repeat the elements, the same kind of elements on his tail. We have some spikes. Here. Let's design some wings because GL swats separates dinosaurs from dragons. They have wings. I want to kind of wings. We're going to design even tinier than those. But have kind of like a bat wings, right? So I'm just going to put small segments here. Instead of just three. I'm going to put a couple of segments for this dragon. And again, I'm planning to have him look chunkier because that's what we decided. Hence, this perception by making the elements of the dragon on his face smaller. Here we have, or dragon, the next Dragon. What kind of shape where I went to how we want to have like chunkier, smaller shape of this kind of patterns over here. And maybe I liked this part patterns. So I'm going to add this kind of a dragon like Patterns even on him look like a lizard and it makes him look funny. It feels good, it feels nice, right? And it's completely, completely different. Time for the black pencil. Let's see. Let's define this character even better. John's mind those lines now you know, when you fill the shape in which lines to skip. Human, if you don't know, to start with, draw it another time and then you will know. It's like, you know how you know how your face look like or your friend's face look like. And if they do something funny with their face, you notice it is the same thing when you draw something. And you get to use to who they are, their personality of this character. And you like no. What did you do next? Maybe it's a weird explanation. If you're a beginner, you don't know what I'm talking about, but keep working. And eLC. Before I start drawing. I felt like that too. I mean, my teachers, I had this guy's teachers, some very, very skilled teachers, wise. And telling me about this, getting the sense getting to fill in a drawing is like What are you talking about? I'm struggling just to find the shape. Now I know exactly what they're talking about. One, I've been there when I learned the crafts and done thousands of thousands of drawings. Now, it's offering to know that you can never mess it up. You can always, always try it again. The more you try. The mode is feeling I'm talking about will appear in your gut basically in your vision. And you, maybe you just listen to some music or some podcasts or something. And the characters would just come underneath your pencil and it will be more and more enjoyable. Believe me, in this process. It is, it is holidays. Just keep doing it. I just hope you're following alone. Designing this junkie drag. It looks funny. And believe me, sound, maybe your dragon doesn't look exactly like mine, but that's where your personality comes in and all of your dragons will be different from mine. You can never really exactly copied out. Very close, but it will have your own specific and you should embrace it because that's, that's something that will be part of your creativity or your originality, that you don't need to copy someone, your own original. That's why we are all different and we want to see different designs. We don't want to see the same design over and over again, right? We want to see interesting thing from different people. We depend on each other's creativity. When you design something nice out there, You make me inspired as well. Because it's going to be different. And it can be a shape or character or something that will lead me to say like, Wow, that's really cool. And maybe I can do something on my designs, seeing what you've done. That's how creativity works overall. Mean, I guess you have favorite artists as well that inspire you that you like to look at, look at the drawings and LAN. And this is actually the best way to learn is to copy some favorite artist drawing. Now here are the stomach is so big that he can't even see the backside here. We can see a little bit of this leg here. Stomach is on the way here of this chunky dragon, so never mind. Don't need to draw it. And let's follow alone. And drawing on these feathers here or whatever they are, spikes. They just come out of the blue. Something I thought about while I was drawing the dragon. Maybe you want to do something else. So what kind of pattern you want to have? Maybe some kind of spiky dots here. You know, the dragon's have some kind of, you know, skin abnormalities. They need to look a little disgusting because dragons are supposed to be mean. When we design main characters, we add some abnormalities to them so they look a little disgusting. But because we liked dragons, they're mystical and we liked mystical and this drug on his life became cute in the way. Let's have his chin being kind of like a fish instead. And here has this kind of skin and abnormalities and the whole this area can be jawless. Fish. Fish liked areas. Maybe you noticed that I'm not using an eraser. And thus the thing, if you want to learn how to draw, just the thing of freeing yourself for not being able to draw from just like doing this rough sketches underneath will make you a better artist and not using an eraser. You don't need an eraser. This is your kitchen, this is your backstage. You're on your own experiments. You don't need an eraser and you will be goods and you are good. It's just have to get this filename free yourself. You see if designed to dragons mortality using an eraser. Wow. So here we go. We have these two different dragons. Are you excited to see what's hidden under this other two shapes? So MI, because I don't know, we got this shapes, we got this structure. Let's see what we got to find. Let's follow our intuition in the next chapter. 7. Designing The Third Dragon: Okay, welcome back. Are you ready? Let's do the next Dragon. Will say, this is a baby dragon. This is something that we did when we were doing the sketch and now we didn't expect it to be baby dragon, but because it has this characteristic as a baby, Let's use that to make immorally a baby dragon. So what do babies have? They have big eyes, big eyes, cute, cute little mouth's. So let's do that. Let's give the area for the eyes. Just make another sphere over here. The area for the eyes even bigger. And let's have the whole this thing to be just the mouth. Two spheres. We've been through this process before. It's just about proportions here. That's it. You can do it. Again. Let's split this fierce in half. And because this is three-quarter the whole, this same goes for a line that splits this big sphere in half, but also this just spheres. So we can separate. So we can find when the nostrils are where the mouth is, you know, the process and just connecting it. This is fear of stars here. And let's have one big eye on this side and one big eye on the other side. But now we don't see it because it's like these eyes are big. So it's turned in this direction. Direction. It just overlaps. And if it's invisible, it will be like over here, but there is a nose over here, right? So we don't really see it, but we see just a part of it. And let's have this eyebrow Solver here. The big mouth. I'm just looking for it. I don't know where it is. It's the discovery for me too. What else? Don't baby? They have big checks. Maybe let's say I'm gonna have a cheek here. Follow your thinking process also to know what you want to do. I wanted to have a cheek and cute lips. Let's see how does it look like? Let's have giggle pupils, like a baby. But still the dragon, not a baby, a baby dragon. And another eye over here. So here are the eyes and now you see how these lines now suggest to you where the eye shapes our eyeballs are going to be like here. And it doesn't matter if you don't get it right. You're free to explore. New year's free to take this line or this line or this line explorer from the start. That is what is blue lines are for to free you to explore the shape and the character. Because neither you or I have this character. You'll follow me along on a character that I haven't drawn before. I'm doing it on camera in front of you. And so do you. Just to see the principle of how you create a character with these questions in your head, with perspective questions, sweats, structure questions. With skeleton. Then with character question, who this character is? Is this character Cute, evil, good, bad? Yeah, That's it. That's how you design. You have these questions in your head and you answer them through the process, and that's how you find your character. So we said the mouth will be over here. So let's just have these big mouth. And so this is our sphere, right? So it splits in half over here. And now we have these lips here. Whereas in Australia, let's have a nostril over here. This is, the nostril is within this sphere. This is the front of the mouth, the nostril over here. And if I continue this shape for the perspective of this fear here, another nostril will be approximately over here on the backside. I'm going to places like like that, but it's smaller because we haven't perspective. And things get smaller the farther you go. Sorry, let's have this cheeks, maybe even bigger checks. Let's have the mouth. Over here. You can always describe whatever you want. If you have trouble finding something just to another sphere there. Let's have his body be tiny, tiny neck like that and very tiny, even tinier. And very tiny body might be just a little bit thicker. Slightly, slightly bigger back, cute little tail. It's a baby dragon, so everything is just cute. It could be evil baby but does not want me went. That's going to be for the next baby and evil dragon baby. Now we don't have a lot of space for this feet and our design is also not suggesting that will have just two parts of a feed. So let's just do one big shape. One big shape here. Describe it within spheres. And this is also a design thing that if you have some bigger elements on this part and, or somewhere, you want to simplify some other boards. Because if you have too much of details everywhere, this is something that will feel off balance. Of course, there are no rules. I mean, I've been telling you the rules and now I'm telling you these are these rules. Well, did not really rules. It's kind of a process of discovering how you can have your character looking at the past being and having the attention of your viewers. And this is just kind of a rule of thumb. Simplify some things. If you have more details on other things for the sake of the design, for the sake of the appeal. And sturdy feet and we can't see them. We will have to zoom in. Let's just define the no straws here. Like that. One last row here and one over there. And we don't see the nose on the other side, just the shape. And the middle part here. Here we go. Here we go people. We have another design. Now they're Dragon designs out of nowhere jobs by learning how to make the structure. Now, let's have this big, big, cute spikes. They'll not be spikes, there will be more alike, soft baby spikes for a soft baby dragon. They get smaller and smaller on his back. Not yet well developed. And then they'll get bigger. Indiana, just like a nice shape. He's cute and yeah, that's it. Let's have him smiling cheeks like are on the way of this myelin, how the babies have, their cheeks are like push it, pushed up when they smile because they have this baby fit their face. One thing to learn how to draw, It's like observe, what do you want to draw? Observe the way nature behaves or physics behaves like if you wanted to see like how the baby behaves. Well, what are specific stare the bigger eyes that chunky legs and feet and arms, the cheeks, the mouth that pushes the cheeks. Things like data elements like that will help you in your own design. And now I got very tiny front for this and drag it, cover it like that. And here you go. Now you will have the wings. Again, one here and one here. What kind of weeks we want to have? Well, maybe we'll have like some kind of wings like a feather. Why not? It's fits our design, right? So we can do whatever we want. Like got me a fine feathers and you can just shave them, is one single shape. Actually it looked more like an angel. Right? So this is something that you can try to say, well, does it work? Doesn't work. If it doesn't choose something else. Just filling them up with one tone like that made him look more like wings. We don't want to draw angels, we want to draw dragons. So let's keep dots. So let's grab the black pencil and let's draw the details. Okay, let's refine this dragon. It is so nice when you have the character down. This is like icing on the cake. The cake tastes delicious and you know, what do you do now is just make it even better. That is what having a structure looks like. You build it from the ground up, not the other way around. And now that you have your character, you can redraw it. You can refine it. You can yeah. Do whatever you want. You can change it. But you don't have to wonder. Whereas the body gonna be where the I is gonna be. And then you end up saying, I cannot draw. Now, I've never been able to draw. I can only draw stick figures. Well, you did draw stick figures, but that was just in the beginning. And then you use that as a skeleton basic for your Dragon. Isn't it nice to know? And this cute little spikes that are on the back of his head, but we can't see it. Now. We can even have some shading around the eyes to make the eyes as if they're inside I globes make it even cuter. Mentee eyes pop out even better. Tiny little cheek and refined the lower lip. Have the other ending just sink in there in the flesh, the baby flesh around the cheeks. Now that we have so many spheres, we see that what do you do is just connect the spheres. You connect one skill with the other. That's what we do here. And connect the neck. Like that. Adding patterns, shading along the way. Because every little detail helps us with the other little details. Let's have these wings, just suggest feathers. This dragon wings. My be kind of a new kind of dragging now Burj dragon. I hope you are enjoying the process. Because enjoying the process makes you learn. Did you know that's when you enjoy something that you do? Dopamine releases in your body. It makes you feel good at the same time. And it enhances your focus and it makes you run faster. So enjoying what you do is very, very important for how fast you're going to learn to do that thing. If you don't enjoy what to do, what you do, you will give up very easily. That's why I'm trying to design these lectures as enjoyable as in simple as possible. So you can have this dopamine rush and you can learn faster. You can get the most of this lecture. Because the thing is that after this lecture is not only that you can draw just dragons, you can draw anything. This is how the process is, and then just use the same pattern to desire what design, whatever you want. You can design cats, you can sign dogs. You can design dinosaurs because they're kind of similar to dragons. I'm in, That's where the dragons come from, from, dinosaur kind of shapes. Now what do we want or baby dragon to have its patterns? Let's have this like this kind of drag and then kind of like look as if mom and baby. So let's just have this keen on even on this baby dragon. And have this kind of small spheres here as if he has whiskers. Let me talk. You wouldn't have whiskers. Just kind of elements, graphic elements. Make is making your character look better. It gives you a suggestion of who they are, what kind of texture they have. But also it suggests the perspective of his character. Like for example, I mean, these lines here suggests that there is a shape that goes around like that. The neck is not flat. And this shape here is not flat. It has volume. So it just makes your character look better. When you draw graphic elements, just draw them along the lines of the shape. Also observe, observe where these lizards, how do those patterns placed on their skin, on their body? Copy that. Having inspiration from there. That's it. And now let's have some shading here to signify that, or little dragon is on the ground, just gives us more volume, makes the drawing looks even better, more enjoyable, more pleasure for you, and more knowledge, more dopamine release, and you just get better and better. That's why I'm out here it is, or baby dragon. Now you can draw one more kind of dragon. And you started by knowing how to draw no dragons. Well, let's move ahead with the fourth Dragon. See what's given in there. What kind of thing we're going to find out what this dragon follow me in the next lecture. 8. Designing The Fourth Dragon: Okay, so let's do another one. And then I'm going to leave you to do your dragons on your own. But before that, let's join today, Let's do one more Dragon. Same shape, same structure, different designs. What is going to be here then? What can we do? Let's have, let's try to find out. Let's have this drug on, maybe have this big nose, beak shape. Let's have the mouth. Now is being over here. And let's have this part being kind of like like a crocodile. Why not? Let's have the mouth. Just being over here like our crocodile, evil dragon. Toasty even drop evil dragon. And let's again do the ellipse design. The neck. Kind of a smaller neck, more triangular mic. This time. Now, let us have the tail longer. That's just a lot elongate detail because the sharper shapes you have, the more scary and dangerous and evil character is going to be. So let's just add more sharper tail for this dragon. Okay, let's draw this shape here for the leg and this one for the lower part of the leg. More kind of like a crocodile. And let's have the one here, the sphere for these leg and the one for this leg. It said some sharper shapes and larger larger feet. This time. Yeah, why not? We are designing as we go along. So whereas the tail is going to attach it here, is it up here? Let's try it this way. Let's try it over here. It's an experimentation. Before you know what to do. It's an experimentation. But when you have the elements and you'll have your questions in your head, what kind of drive them do you want? Do I want to have one of the queue dragon? Do I want a dangerous dragon? Do you want them fat dragon or just regular George dragon? The guy who was a drug and who wouldn't be noticed by other dragons if it was in the dragon world, right? And let's just have some kind of off turn on the tail here and then it was like a long tail. Now we have this kind of shape. While what we can do with it, let's discover, Let's publish this shape like that. And let's just find to see what kind of off. We're going to have. Alligator, evil dragon. Okay, So we said like sharper shapes. Describe more evil characters. Let's have his eyes being more like, lizard-like. We have the eyeball here can signify it with another sphere. But small ice, like a lizard, an evil dragon. Or at least maybe just have the eyelid drop on top of his eye, making the eye even, even more evil. Nobody other eyes. The center of this sphere, you already know. And the other eye is over here. The eyelid drops. On top of the eye. Maybe hemo, look even more evil. Starts getting born. And evil dragon. We said the mouth is going to be over here. Let's have him like Jaggard map, like a doubts. And let's have some Chief out sharp native evokes danger and even us as well. What else can be more sharp? Let me his nostrils. Let's make them sharper this way. Like triangular nostrils. Yeah. Why not? And the other nostril, we know it's going to be just a silhouette so you don't even need to draw the other spheres anymore because we know how the shape is going to be. Let's form the eyebrows and the mouth here. Let's have the mouth sticking out a little bit so we can add some sharp teeth sticking out to this dragon. But it's not as cute as this one on the chunky one. On the top. It's more uneven. And sneaky one. There, this kind of drug and says, Well, like because dragons, we are trying to combine dragons. Several species together, humans, we want to humanize the dragons. That's why, that's how the characters are dance, how we perceive them. Through our own eyes. That we perceive the characters. We know. How evil looks like in our eyes. Squinted eyes and sharp objects, sharp features signify fear, jewels danger. Because sharp on objects to us are dangerous. We know we can cut or self-harm or knife. And yeah, You know what I'm talking about? And now let's have the sharpness and long legs here as well. Long nails just signify the sharpness and the evilness of this dragon. It's not really evil, it's not that dangerous, but it's still more dangerous than the other dragons. And let's have his back like design like he's back, he's getting chunkier here, this upper body. And smaller. Choose a tail. This is also our design kind of thing. Got the tail is glad you're getting spikier and spikier until the end, starting like that. So let's get these elements being spiky on this dragon. Dangerous dragon. I hope every time you draw, you ask these questions in your head. There will guide you in, they'll help you. And believe me, in your career as a designer always. If you choose that, if you just want to draw your own dragons. These are going to be questions that will pop up in your head all the time. So just get used to them and get rid of the questions that says like, can I do it all looked at me and I have never drawn before and it looks horrible. And if you draw with a buddy, with a friend, so I will look, your, yours looks much better than mine. Tom, do that to yourself. Don't say is untruths to yourself. Adjust, That's will put you down. Does it help? Doesn't help you to draw? No, not at all. Ask the questions that you need to ask for the sake of your character, because your characters are waiting to be drawn by you. The characters that you see from your favorite movies. They're done by artists that have gone through this discovery process. Do you think that they knew how to draw these characters? These characters have been redrawn over and over again, thousands of times until they come to life in the big screen and gets approved by the director or even by the artist. It is a process. So let's have this lower part of the dragon, again. Being like a crocodile. You know the process and kind of like maybe spikier patterns on him to increase the danger of these character of who he is. And he starts to look nice. Even though it's a dangerous guy. I mean, you wouldn't believe that you will draw not only one, but for different dragons. And I encourage you to start now using the same principle, the same structure we did it here. Just find some other dragons. Black pencil. Let's see who this guy is. Make sure that the pencil is sharp. But because this guy has this tiny details, It's not like the baby where we had this big face and facial features are important for our dragon. That's where the character is born. In the face. You see the face, you know who he is, and his face is tiny on this paper, then you need to enhance it. So make sure to sharp your pencil. Going to give him students and black, black dark rings as if he hasn't slept a lot. Because he's been thinking obviously eval plans of how to sabotage his fears, his other dragons. And not only that, he's been thinking how to eat some. Tiny little bunnies, cute little bunnies or whatever, that's what you will drag and do. The eating. Cute things. We get even more scary, scared from them. That's how we want to know. You want to feel that this drug, and it's up to us to rebuild this danger to our audience. Whatever. We design these things for, these characters, for. What is the story we have in our head? What do you want to happen? Well, I forgot to draw the wings here. I have some big wings. He is able to fly a lot. Big wings just have that triangular shape that we drew in this kind of like maybe split it into because it's getting even bigger on the other side. But smaller because we have perspective change. Remember, split that into another wing over here. Another structure, it's like bats, bat wings. And another one here. Here we go. We've got the wings and it's good that we didn't draw this shape. But even so, because we are experimenting, we don't need to worry about the scratches and doodles underneath the black shape. Because this is our kitchen or we're drawing kitchen. As long as we learn how to draw the dragons. This is the most important. It's not to make the best drawing from the get-go. It's learning how to do it. You can see the difference because when you know how to do it, you can do it over and over again. That's the whole point. You go on to do. One thing just once. You want to learn how to do it many times. And also how you can elaborate with it. How you can change it, how you can draw it again and again and even getting better and drawing it in a different poses. Something I'm going to talk about a little later on. For those of you who've already seen my lectures from the other lectures in this course has said, I have probably know the process and how easy it is. When you have when you use this structure. And you know that totaling, messing things up, just the part of the process. It's not excluded. It's not like either this or the other. It always is a part of the process. That's make the process more interesting exploration thing. You will discover that when you learn how to draw, because you have this resistance in you, you want me to draw and kind of view. You imagine showing the drawing two PROs. You want to hang it on the wall. I mean, you've done all this effort and you want your first drawing to be amazing. If it doesn't happen, you get annoyed. You might be put yourself down by saying I can't draw. You, give it up. But I'm telling you if you hang out here, if you continue working, continue drawing, you will discover it's not the final drawing that is really enjoyable part is the discovery process. It's these blue lines is this rough sketches that are even more enjoyable than the final drawing itself. That's when you go into the next stage of your creativity and your drawing career. As an artist. You want to develop. You want to be better. You want to design different characters. You don't want just to do just this one drawing. So don't be discouraged. That's what I wanted to tell you while we're here. I hope I've encouraged you to continue drawing and I hope you have a really big dopamine release now. I hope you feel good, you feel happy because we've drawn forth, draw a drawing of a dragon. You've drawn your Dragons. And Houston, Do you believe it? It's fun, right? We have four different dragons and I hope you've had fun drawing them. And you have the structure. You know how to begin, you know how to involve the structure. And then you know how to discover Discovery dragons first, before you add in the details where the black pencil. I hope you had fun and I'm going to continue with the next part. And I hope to see you there. 9. Posing your Dragon: Welcome back to this next chapter of oral lecture. And here I am going to teach you how to use the same principle that you're used to design your dragons. But this time, how you can use that to move the same dragon around, basically to draw different poses with the same character. First of all, we can design one Dragon to use as a design. Then we can play around with this design. Do more poses here of the same drug. I'm sorry, you know the process. Fear. Let's make the sphere chunky. I want to have this Chang Qi dragon. It's easier to show them how we can fix different pulses. We have more scope to work with here. You'll remember one leg here, one lady here, and feet. And on the other side, approximately here. Long neck here, the feet a little bit onto diagonal, the front legs and the skeleton. The legs, where are the Denise? Just find them approximately here. The tail. Let's design yet another drug. You get an extra Dragon here. Let's have this dragon, two shapes, one forward and one for the eyes. Let's find the middle. Ellipse, this dragon in three-quarters. So it goes through the whole egg shape, but a little bit just in from this outer line here. And let's find the eyes. Let's have him have this big eyes on both sides. The face of this middle line, this separates the two halves of the dragon. And let's give him some eyebrows like that. Let's do Denovo straws. This one, this one, this is going to be on the other side and we're going to see the whole for this notional or here. Give him some eyes. This one, this one, and shape the face. Now let's find the neck. Over here. Let's go back to the head. You can go forth and back different parts of the drug on because they're going to be rebuilt you in different stages. Just follow your instincts. Maybe a smile, smiley dragon. Design them body. Let's have him have this chunky legs. Big sphere here, smallest sphere here. Don't care about the leg on the other side. Just find the shape. You want. The tail. This one here, one here, one here. Let's merge them more to have a more of a Cup Junior look. Just combine these fear here with this one here and get like an even shape. The legs, kind of chunky called spheres here because there'll be standing on the ground. Let's have the other leg disabler little bit here and some nails. Basically, we have the shape or Dragon pretty quickly. Add some elements. The process dots it. That's how long it takes. Now let's refine with a black pencil and get our drug on the ready for. Moving around. Here you see that we see the transparency of this dragon here with the eye behind, but we don't need to draw the whole eye because we don't see it. Just draw one here. So I'll continue the nose. And this part of the nose is visible by the middle of the nose is over here. There is this face continuous like here. Just wrote a nostril that we see. Have some shading. There is a flesh, the eyebrows. There is a globe in here. Mouth. Dragon with the altitude. Let us do the spikes just to have more Jews going, just to have more fun. I want to see you like the shapes are coming together. And a lower cheek, the lower part of the mouth, the head, maybe some kind of like that. Let's shape the body. Go for the legs and flush them out. You just follow the contours of what you've already did. It start easy. One, you know the structure. I hope you've exercised from the previous lecture and you've discovered you've done some pretty nice dragons of your own. Explore different shapes. You feeling inspired to learn some more. The leg is over here. Let's have wrinkle here of the flesh going inside its shape. This dragon has pretty big, pretty small tail. What do you notice? Dots every lecture you draw, especially if you drove them one after. If you do them one after the other, you will getting better and better and much better and faster of doing this drug. And it's going to have a leg Visible a little bit just for two silhouette. So let's design some patterns here. Goes from here, from the neck. Have this kind of warm like patterns and here is the stomach. Let's have the leg being on top of this lower part. They continue more spread out chunks patterns here. The scheme of this, a snakelike patterns that the snake would have underneath. Just like that. And I, of course, I always forget the wings. The wings people can be added at anytime it goes there, little dark jobs do the shapes, batch shapes, the wings, like dots. The other wing. Just curve like that. And then this way, and this way, the bat wings play around with these shapes. So it looked for goods, even if it's black and whites. You want to have your design looking girls. Looking at feeling, I really wanted to have this roughness to sketch. It feels like you've been working like you've been exploring. And sometimes these are rough sketches didn't look even better than the red is sketch. You'll see the hand drawing behind it. And it, it's nice. It feels, it feels nice and good. And now our dragon is with a closed mouth. Let us give them, Let's give him some texture. Some kind of scheme. Snake-like skin. New name, just a few of it to describe the texture on this on this back on his dragon. Maybe that's enough. So we have another dragon that is completely different from the drug as we already didn't. I mean, how many dragons can you do? You can do many thousands of different dragons. It's just your imagination but stops you. You fear, but now you don't have the fear anymore. You don't, you're not afraid of exploring that now that you see how easy it is. You say I'm trans so many drugs, guns now, how can I move them? I'm going to show you that here and let's continue with that in the next lecture. 10. Dragon in a sitting Pose: Okay, so let's do the first pause. Now we're going to use the power of like a Baby, like as if a baby is sitting. Even though this is not a baby dragon, we're drawing cartoony dragons. The first thing we can think about is how is the skeleton looking line underneath the flesh? We know the legs are shaped like doubts so that one bone here and one here. And now we want them to sit like a baby with a leg stretched forward. And we want to the drag them to be a little bit hunched forward. We start always from the bottom. You can split this thing, this shape in a couple of different shapes. This is the body. This is one leg here. You sitting down, solve one leg here. And the lower part of the leg here. This is the bone, and this is the foot. Now, let's find the perspective of the sphere. If I drew a manual lines like that. Whereas the other leg, the other leg will be on same curve somewhere. Here. Here. If you assume that the perspective is this way, the leg will be this way. Or at least we can draw it this way because we can decide how we want this drug on to sit. Here. We can add a little bit of bending of the legs. So let's have one line here like that and one more here. Thus the bones and foot going this way. You're working with stick figures. Now, whilst we want to do is fine word his legs are. For this purpose, I'm going to split the dragon into shapes because there is a spine going this way from this drug on. And to find the upper part, I would like to have a helpline, help shape here to find the stomach, these two parts of the drum because there is bottom part and then there is an upper part like a chest porch. Here. I want to know what the tests are because it's a more complex pulse. So I would like to draw it here. I'm going to put the shape of the tail here behind and where are the other legs? They will be like one leg will be bent here on that leg. I want it to be as snowman. Here are going to be the shoulders, but he's a little bit leaning forward. The shoulders. Here, this is one bone. Again, this is the other. And this is the hand. This the other arm is going to be a little bit on the other side, we're going to see a pod, part of the arm here, the upper arm, and apart of the other arms, let's have them bend on over the stomach. Here is the hand. And the phase is going to be around here. For example. We will on and continue this fine here with another line. And you can refer it out and you can follow this line for the whole spine. Somewhere in the middle. You have to eyeball these things. And here we'll have the eyes, the nose, and the dragon looking forward at us. Little bit more forward. So the middle line is going to be here. And we have the split line here so we know where the symmetry of the nostrils are. And here you have to eyeball it. Here is one nostril and approximately the same position is the other nostril. Here, R is one, and the eyebrow here is the other eye. Everything is just wrong. Widths fears. It's easy. And he's actually looking up at us like dances, like, are you drawing me all so cute? I know we have like kind of the beginning of the seating dragon. Now, let's find where on this snowman is. The next starting, maybe somewhere here. And you know, the neck is kind of a tube. And the tube is kind of like an ellipse worried attaches because we see it from tilted from site. Now let's find the neck. You can try that a couple of times until you find the position of your Dragon. We have the neck. Now, how do we find the middle line for this chunky body? Well, if it says one shape, Let's follow in connect these two shapes, two spheres like that. And the middle will be approximately here because we have already decided approximate. Well, these legs are, so draw the middle line of the body and let's connect it. And because we decided to have two parts, here is one part. Here is the stomach. It builds some kind of, you know, chunk from his body like that. Just connect this line for the stomach to see whether aware the dragon is sitting. Okay, we're done with that. Now. Let's do the legs. Another sphere on top of the armature, so-called the stick figure. This is the bone. So you basically know what a bone is now fill it up with muscles before we draw the skin. Basically, here is another one. Just m. What you need to look for here is kind of like follow the proportions that this dragon heart approximately when you start with and when you start posing it, you need to do that approximately before you actually get to know exactly how big things will be in perspective. Now because we have this leg turned a little bit towards us, we need to draw the lower part of the leg. That's what we're gonna see a little bit. This one is going to be bigger than it actually is because there is a perspective. And things that are closer to us appear always bigger than there actually are. Things that are farther away from us appear smaller than they actually are. The other leg will be really, really smaller, much smaller than the one here and the satellite. Well, they're not the same. What Dan, you're doing it right? Just do some magic black cover. These lines, basically find the shape. Okay, now we have some kind of Michelin Man. That's good. That's good. Yeah, gone and we are working on it. Now let's do the same thing for the arms. And here is the other one. Here is going to be hand. We have one arm here and behind, just fill up with shapes. It doesn't matter, don't get disturbed dots. It's like Dude those everywhere and who counts? Barely see what shape is. That's when you're working form. The pore here or the hand. And here is the tail. Now we have this machine drug on man, and now let's shape the parts a little bit. How would they go? You just connect this side of the sphere here with the rest of the spheres? Here we have this leg, but the thing is that we look from the lower part of the leg. So you draw another ellipse that split the foot into. There it is. And you add some nails. And you can see that you're actually with this Michelin guy. You've actually have drawn the dragon. Sitting down. Just connect the other parts like that. Also. Now we can see this arm here. We cannot see everything because this arm is in front of us. And now we have this poll. You can adjust it. You can adjust it accordingly if you think the shape is not right or you want to make it a different way. That's what the blue pencil is all about, to be able to change it. Like that. And now you add this bikes. Now we're not going to be able to speak to see all of the spikes. But we can even tweak it a little bit because we want to have this graphic elements, even if the spikes are farther back and we will not be able to see a lot of them. You want to add them because it gives the dragon, this dragon like Look. They continue TO just grabbed the black pencil. Let's refinance. To see that we've got a shape. You've got a dragon sitting down in this position. Looking at us. When you do the dragon, when you drew the eyes a little bit of a cross I becomes Qdot because it reminds us of babies. They have, they look like the hand is crossed. Eit, here is the middle line and now we're not going to see the mouth, but we're going to see more of this nostril over here. It's going to look a little different because we've changed the angle. We see it from. A little bit more challenging, but you're going to learn how to do it. So far. Follow the instructions. Let's do a mouth over here and let's have it opened. Just to have a better silhouette. Again, the same thing with the silhouettes. And we can have his teeth showing little TIF like dots. The mouth. Yes. Now we see how he looks like with his mouth open and explore the face. This is also one thing because when you draw your Dragon for the first time, I mean, you turn now how this character looks like from all, from all poses. That's why it is important to have a turnaround. Know artists know that when you start drawing new characters, you need to do that as an exercise to know what your character looks like from different angles. Now we have the stomach here, the PO, the front legs and become hands. So it's more humanized dragon. Now it's more like if you have this character for a children's book and they're going to be sitting more like babies. That's how you use, you can use this poses. Now you can, now you just, what you're doing is discover or like draw over the lines of the blue pencil. That's why I'm telling you so important. With a blue pencil, you have to make these mass. You have to discover all the perspective for this doodle things before we find where everything is. That's why he's so nice later on, just follow the line and then you don't need to think so much. You can just relax and see you Dragon came to life because the shape is already there. Enjoying twisting the nails a little bit. Just like Christmas presents now. Feels good. It gives confidence. You don't have to think. The character just comes to life. The tail. Let's have the arm here and like this patterns over here, now they've changed the direction. But because we have this line here and we know that these shapes follow this tube, follow the perspective MDs, chests, our turned this way until six flora it went how the lines are on the stomach. Like dots. Just do some patterns along character like that. We can add some shading just to make sure it looks like he's sitting on the ground. We have a slightly different perspective. We're looking, the camera is looking a little bit down on him, source is lower and the camera on this guy. But that felt nicer for the pose and the silhouette of this character. So you'll see that as long as you follow the law perspective for all the parts, it doesn't matter how you twist the camera. We can still figure out one parkin lead you to how the other parts behaves in this pulse. But if are important for you as a designer, is to draw characters and to draw people from different poses. This is how you learn. And then you can draw characters from your memory. This is one pulse, and let's have some other pulses here. In the next lecture. 11. A flying Dragon: Hello there. Let's make another pulse of this character, actually flying. For this. You have to kind of imagine how, how the legs and everything would be if they fly, when they fly. So you might want to look at some references and so on. But I have it in my imagination. I'm going to start the body like that for this one, because I wanted to twist the upper body. I'm going to add another sphere actually here for the upper body. Now, I want to have a spine going this way, so I'm going to have the neck here. Go ahead here. He's like in profile, but flying off, so receive him underneath his stomach. For that matter. I'm going to decide what his shoulders are in this position and have, for example, the shoulder B here is one and this one is B here. He's be like a cat, like a cat in deer. I'm going to draw one line here. Here is like a more difficult perspective, but let's challenge ourselves. And one line here for this leg, and this is, for rapport is some kind of like that. Now, the position of the other arm is behind over here. So let's have these bone here. This bone here, and here. Okay. Now God dots, Let's go with four kips. So we have this bones, like wanting just going forward and then back. Whereas the perspective, Let's do another line here to find the perspective. Let's place it on this line here. The other leg is kind of like almost behind one link here, forward and one leg there. And this one, Let's have a little bit unsymmetrical. One link here. And the feet is like flying off the tail as just follow this, finding the tail. Like dots. We are ready with our skeleton. Now, let's find the perspective. Okay, so we've done the head, turned upwards a little bit. Let's find the front area to break it down into different parts like we did for all the lectures and dispatch. But now he's looking upwards, so his eyes is over here and we're not going to see the other eye in a way. That's kind of my good farm because then you don't have to think of the symmetry. Let's have a look towards us as he's saying, as if he's saying or by. And you see, you need to find kind of like feel the proportions from this original model to the pauses. So he has this distance from the eyes or the nose, kind of like long, long nose. So I'm going to also open his mouth for this shape. I'm going to see whether mouth ends and maybe add another line. And trying to add another sphere here for the nose Trump. Just make them those toll-like dots. We actually also see the other nostril a little bit like a dance. And this is the head. Let's make it clear. Let's make another sphere here so we know where the head is and we can end this lines here that can guide us not to miss the Scollon though, the fullness of his head. That's why it's so easy to make cartoon characters because we can define everything was just spheres. Whereas the neck. Thank you. So over here on this shape and we try to simulate approximately, okay, this neck is so long and it's a little bit thinner up and he's little bit thicker down here. Like dots, maybe a little bit thicker. You can change it accordingly. As you go alone. Let's shape the body. For the body, you just ignore the middle line here. You just connect. This shapes is basically one sphere broken down into two. Why? Because I haven't drawn this along with you. And I don't quite know whether we're the upper bodies where the shoulders are but or character has some kind of a newborn human proportions. Having this chest area here. Give me guidelines for where I wanted to put the upper arms or the legs. We have one huge chunk of your leg here. Define it with some flesh on those stick figure on those bounds. And another one here, the leg here. Now it's smaller because it disappears farther in. Another one here on top of this leg, just to a Michelin man. That's how you make dinosaur. That's how you may dragons, just Michelin minds over and over again and then you get a nice-looking to drag them. Here. We're not going to see it, it's on the other side. We have to adjust it. If you see that it's not quite right. Here is the tail. Touch us behind here, but we don't see it. We just the tail. Now we add some winks. Its applying the triangle thing, the bat wings. You just make two shapes. It is too hard. One shape like that, and one like that. And then you add these small details, you just follow the triangular shape. The other wing, same thing. Have some dis bad bones inside and follow it. Now you add the spikes. And now we really won't be a bombing even if I want us bikes here, I would love to. I really don't see them. So this time, I can't drink. I can't drink the perspective too much. That's going to be very aware of. Not gonna add them. Maybe just here. Okay. Please give me that I need to add some more spikes. I need to cheat to make a nice design. You can do that. We can cheat because we are artists. And artists. Cheats fruit, imagination. Designing this goo called characters. Let's make him smile. Defined. Now, the parts of the Michelin Man bending like that. This one is bending like that. Maybe you will see another spike here, connective on these bonds and this, this leg is behind the body. So you're not going to have to define these bones here. And as Michelin Man, here, you define this foot, this leg using front of the body. We're going to see that here you can add some wrinkled from the flesh of the leg. That's enough with the blue pencil. Let us go and defined or character. We have the eyes. Saying goodbye, goodbye. I've had fun with you. Drawing me. The null is true. Now we have the mouth and you see that actually can see how the shape goes around and we can see the mouth being opened. Follow the lines you see because you don't see screwball. You see lines, right? So just do that. Follow your instinct. Know, we can do some teeth now. Here too. You can see one of these shapes they kind of suggest, suggest called the face of this dragon ease. Shape. Their hand. You don't have to draw now the whole thing, because it's just help lines, skeleton flesh, muscles, helping us move. This help lines to helping you design your dragon. Now we're going to see more of his stomach. So we need to acknowledge dots for this texture here. And let's add that. This one here. Just connected spheres. That's what it does. What you do. You've done, your job is done. You just connect the spheres and enjoy your creation. This one was behind. Stomach comes in here. Let's draw some lines and you see that I'm drawing in the shape of the sphere because they also have volume. This is one you know, your perspective. You can just add these lines along. The dragon. We have the wings here. Shade in black. Some elements on the dragon. That's it. I'm dance pose is done. What I'm going to encourage you is to find, to take a picture of your cat or just cat from internet or anything really. And try to find with spheres and these bones. These bones are, where are the bounds for those animals. And just make a simple structure like the one we did here. Out of that. Create your own dragon and see what you get. I hope you enjoyed this lecture. 12. Design a Simplified Dragon: Hi there. Now you've done all these exercises and you still feel that, well, this is too difficult for me. Those fears and the skeleton, I don't know where the legs are. I mean, is this the only way to draw dragons? And of course not. There. So many ways to draw dragons. Because design, character design is so vast and it's not only about dragons in it's also about style and preference. So here we're going to play and I'm going to show you a very easy and fun exercise. You can try out different graphic styles and different approaches to your design. And does not only about dragons, but about any kind of design. You can simplify the shape. You can start from something very simple that doesn't give, remind you of a dragon or to shape. Look for specific or characters in this shape or those shapes that will lead you to an interesting design. We're going to turn this one into game. Start with just randomly drawing different shapes. Just do whatever, wherever you feel like. Let's have maybe some kind of a cube here. And let's have while what say something like a triangle here. Let's have There's some kind of a cube like dots. And let's have a shape like that. Just play, don't think really, just add some shapes here. Let's have something like dots. I'll square here, maybe we'll sphere. Okay, What else can we have? Let's have a tiny triangle here. And even tinier square or whatever shape it is. I'm just making these things up. I'm not thinking. Let's have another sphere, another square or whatever shaved. This is some kind of a doodle here. Just doodle it out. Another one. Let's have a big Guan here, like a chunk of mountain or something. Just let us take a line and have another, maybe. I don't know, something like dots. We have the shapes and they taught look anything like dragons. But there are hidden designs in those shapes. And the only thing that stops you from seeing dots is actually your preconception that it has to be done in a certain way. If you free yourself from this preconception, you would be able to find interesting designs just by doodling and these things you can do, just sitting on the phone doing nothing and you will be designing new dragons. So what do we see it here? Let's explore this shape while the dragon is connected. So let's say this is the body and thus it have to be realistic dragon. Now, it can be really stylized the dragon. So let us design some kind of bottleneck. Let's use this square-shaped, you make a square Dragan. And here is the nose. I mean, we see some kind of shape already. Do we have to have these legs like Does he know like split into? No. Let's have some really stylized, stylized Dragan and have just chunks as legs and give him a nails. This one here, something like an elephant or something. And let's give it some wings. This time. Double wings like that. And we have funny looking dragons shape without a face, without anything out of that. What else can we add to that? Let us give him tail. We can give them As long tail as we want to. Now what can we do with the face? Because it's a stylized dragon weekend, do whatever we want. Let's put some eyeballs here. Having looking at us. Do we have to make nostrils? Let's combine this shape and make very stylized nostrils. Stylized means that they're very simplified. Because designs have so many different ways of approach. We can make things stylized, we can make them photo-realistic. We can explore shapes in all directions and see what suits us. Do we have to have a mouth, maybe not for this drug and let's give him maybe some spikes, long spikes on the bank, let's say I want to drag on, we'll have spikes like that. This design is perfect for children's book. Or some patterns. You want to have. Maybe some patterns on your pillows or printed patterns on a t-shirt or cover. Something pretty. It's very decorative and it's also cute. This is something that you can explore and teach yourself to free yourself from boundaries of what, how things should be. So let's give him some of these patterns here to have this dragon likes Kim. It just makes the character more interesting. And here we'll have the legs looking like an elephant. So will signify the nice. We can even add some other leg there from behind. We don't need to add one here just to give it more perspective. Let's draw that with a black pencil. And see this kind of funny character of a dragon that we did only by randomly placing shapes on the paper without thinking, without analyzing. Because this is a very important lecture for you to learn that your imagination is free or when you don't put preconceptions of how things should be. We're felt not only about design 3D array here, about everything we have in life, like how things should be about right and wrong. But you see, you're here from different cultures. Sign up for my lectures. And for example, all of you have traditional meal that will say like, I cannot think of anyone not liking this meal. There a lot of people that haven't even heard of that meal. This preconception as made it your traditional meal. And you say, I like this is the world's best meal. And the thing is that it's good to explore different recipes. That's why so much fun to go to different countries. Explore different recipes, and satellite is the same ingredients. But I've never really thought of mixing them up like that. This is the same way with this drug and design. It's the same kind of character. It's the dragon we're drawing. But there are so many different recipes to how you can draw the dragon. If you're understanding and if you are open to that. While there is no stopping you whatsoever in designing all kinds of dragons and designs. And maybe you have an interesting book inside. You. Thought you wanted to start for a long time ago, but you've been trying it to struggle. You've been struggling with designing the dragon, or you didn't even know how, how you would approach designers because you have specific, something specific in mind and they haven't been able to meet it really and you don't know how to approach it. But now you can explore your own designs. Design this book of yours. So here we have our first design. Let's continue with the nice, this one and see how you can find another design in that. 13. Different Design Approach: Okay. Are you still with me? Now? Let's see, what is this kind of Dragon? This looks really weird and you can think of, you can make a drug on our thoughts. I mean, it's difficult for million to a now too because I didn't know what it is. But let's, let's free my imagination and just doodle it out, see what it comes out of it. Okay, so now I want to have an order there is a neck. Let's connect this neck with just chunky and neck and have this tiny, tiny little body. And maybe think of and different kinds of auspicious AF, design. Like it might be like a hippo or something. So let's have this dragon have this chunky, chunky legs. They are taking a big part of his body that have not close like that, but maybe just signified that it has something like a hippo, like nails on something. And it has these tiny tail. Let's put it in the air like doubts. Now we can look like a really, really funny, Let's have him have him for years, like dots and we'll give him an eye here. Now the ear on the other side. Let's zoom having looking at us. Here, I've made some kind of line here. And now that I said it looks like a mouth, so I'm just gonna pick that up and make it into a mouth. Stretch it over here, and continue this shape. In decorative form. You can play also with the perspective. You don't have to have a perfect perspective. That's the fun of this method. That it doesn't have to be always correct. So I'm going to place on those straw over here. And the other one is on the other site. Just something like ****, it can be anything for you. You can experiment with that. I'm going to make, what can I make? I'm going to make tiny dots here like a hippo thing. Let us give them double lip like that. Like a hippo. And this is just something that I discovered by looking at this shape. It has nothing to do really with proportions or anything. I'm just playing around with the shapes, trying out different things and balancing it out. As I go along. This dragon will have rounded around it shapes on its back. It's kind of funny. Little looking proud Dragon, baby or something. Let us give them some wings. And you maybe have like big wings, tiny dragon with large wings. Some kind of a bat like wings. Maybe let's play around with the position of the bones of the rate of these wings. They're just an dig up over here. Adding another one on the back might be just like a silhouette. Just playing with the shape. Dragon is done. Let's go over it with black pencil and define the features. See what we got in here. For a dragon. Very stylized, specialized dragon, very simple, simple shapes. There is no really clear anatomy to it. You can't see the bones that we drew before and finding this position decent data and so on. No, This is just playing with the shape, having a shape for the body and for the head, and trying to find out the character within it. Exploring it basically. If you've drawn it with me, if you're drawn exactly the same shapes and follow me alone, then you would maybe draw the same dragons. I'm bad. If you just listen to me and said, I'm going to randomize my own shapes. You might be have different position of your shapes of the head and the body. So you might get different dragons, um, even if you do now exactly like I do, connecting the shapes in the same way, like using this queue, but something you may get different dragons and thus the fun of it. This exercise, it lets you explore different shapes and also teaches you that there is not only one way of drawing, that you can be free from what you've known about yourself. Even though you're doodling, you're actually doing some pretty nice cool characters. So I hope you enjoyed this process. And now you'll see that the course itself decorative. We don't see these other eye. And what kind of shapes we want to have here. Maybe we'll give it some this snake skin, heap or dragon. So with snake skin, That's weird. Dragons, are we or they can be anything? Yeah, because they're born out of our imagination. And they consist in our imagination. And that's why it's fun doing them. And here you go. Two completely different dragons are of this shapes. Let's explore these other ones too. I'll see you in the next lecture. 14. A big Dragon with a small head: Let's continue. This one here is look, it looks really funny. I'm seeing small head and a big body. I mean, that's definitely obvious. But I also wanted to give it small legs. That's the first thing I see. I didn't know what you see me. You might be using something different, but that's for you to explore or imagination or experience. Basically lead you, lead us to see different things. So I'm just going to follow my intuition and just follow the shape that I see. And we have this head here like that. So what can we do with this? Let's have the eyes being over here this time. Have the head being large, like a bird, something, something like a boat. Given the eye, a mouth, small mouth. And it's kind of like a dinosaur. This guy connecting it with, with a neck. Whereas the tail, the tail goes down here. If you want, you can draw a helpline like we did the previous lecture, or you can just follow whatever comes to you, the instinct. It can be a small tail from here, or it can be a large tail starting from here. I want to do large though this time. If you feel like if you feel that gives us do a small tip, there are no rules. This table is connecting to the dragons. Body. Just marches towards the stomach. Maybe I'm just going to round this up a little bit. Just kind of this part of the body. Recall, we have this one because it looks kind of like a dinosaur. It feels like what I'm going to give it here. Let's give him this freckled skin. Spiky, spiky back. I mean, you might be down to want to have spikes. Don't put any Guard to explore these kind of spikes on this, on this drug. And I'm going to give them Tiny Wings. Tiny, tiny wings. Maybe something like bird wings or maybe like an insect wings. Why not? We can explore and giving him even insect wings. That can be anything. And just shade it. I'm going to have it actually have this skin here, like a dragon skin that we did on previous Dragon's. Why not? This is just a graphic element and the graphic elements can be explored forever. What else can you give them? Some as long as you have the shape ready, you've done and you can play around with the shape of graphic elements we can add. You can take away stuff, especially if you work on a computer or on the iPad. You can put stuff on a different layer and add staff takeaway stuff, whatever whatever you want. No. I Let's fix it with dispenser, black pencil. Will this drug and have some nostrils. Let's give him a tiny nostrils over here. Difference to other dragons. Kind of have this, this cute little head, like a lamb IQ little dragon. Maybe he's dangerous bots. Here. It looks funny, it looks nice. I'm going to give them the same pattern here, unlike the skin up nor been abnormalities on this stack. Because sometimes one of skin on one place you want to have the same scheme on the Dragon, on the other place. Otherwise it will look weird. Well, why not? You can make it work with your designer. I mean, I have my own preconceptions as well, which I'm breaking daily. And it frees me to, we are all having this preconceptions and ideals thought, would've been thought that things should be in a certain way. This is the same thing for me, even though I've designed for many years. I still have these boundaries within me. Dots tells me that it has to be this way and it has to be that way. And sometimes I see something, I see someone doing it differently. And I just get so inspired because I see that my way is not the only way. Whatever I do, it is my take on it. And as I mentioned before, we need each other's creativity to inspire each other, to be better and to make more interesting designs. Because this is things that we aren't given as present to the future, to the future artist and to the people, to children who would look at this designs there will, for these children and for these people, these designs are real. They are real characters. And they will believe you if you give them these character that is born from your subconscious, from your imagination, they'll take that and we'll even make a story with it. They'll wonder what his character leave or what it eats, sleeps, and what kind of noises does it make? Its kind of unbelievable to think about? Because you've just played around, started from a shape, a shape that you haven't even given any thought of a random shape. And you let your subconscious and you're matching nation lead you to character that becomes real for someone. Someone words, make a story out of it or with it. And getting spire also to make their own stuff. Here it is. Or next, simple design. Now let's explore these two in the next chapter. 15. A simple Dragon with a small body: Alright, now this is a tricky one, right? These two shapes connect them. It's kind of like mostly you want to connect this one and this one. This is challenging, so let's try it out. Let's see what we got here. Now. Let's connect the neck to the body. This is kind of a dragon. Doubts. I wanted to have him, it looks like he's looking up. I'm going to continue this shape and give him an eye over here. And I want to have an opening his mouth. So I'm going to add another shape here and have this part b, just the mouth and this shape here be the nostril. And I'm going to continue this show for the neck. And I'm going to give him a long, long tail like that, like a snake a little bit. And I'm going to have him standing up. So I'm going to have some kind of arms here. And I'm going to do to them quickly with some spheres using things from the all method, from our old methods. And I'm going to have him like this chunky legs over here, standing. Then I'll have to readjust the shape of the tail. Like that. I'm gonna have this Little Tummy. Here. I'm seeing some kind of a tummy. And let's have chunky arms like shapes and some kind of a cute little nails like dots. And let's repeat that pattern here. Having the same nails. Sometimes when you design and you start with a pattern or something like, for example, this kind of nails. You need to repeat it for the feet as well. Because otherwise it's not so, it's not harmonizing with this design. In a way you have to be consistent with whatever you choose to design. And now it has this very funny little body with large hips. And let's make it a stomach. This pattern of the stomach, very tiny stomach. And let's continue dots on his neck. Let's give him some wow, bird-like feathers and work on that tail. It needs to sit on the ground because now we established with the feet, we made a tail before. We might have feet and the legs. And now he established that the ground is over here. We have two a readjust the tail. The tail is on the ground and not flying off. That's why you need the blue pencil. Because while you are designing, things will change. They may change rapidly and we are not using an eraser. So the only thing is that your eyes will not notice the mistakes. As long when we get the right shape, the audience will follow the lead, given them with a solid shape. And especially when we thicken it with black pencil later on. And so we'll have this long tail, kind of like matching the neck. And let us give him this. I hear more around it. Now this guy software to more changes or software through suffered. We had more changes on this guy instead of this other guys. And this is just for me, for you. Maybe it was smart, simpler, but it happens. And that's why the exploration process is, is for. Let's have some spiky little things on his back. Dragon alike. We don't see them because this dragon is body is turned towards us. We can continue them over here on the tail because the tail is laying on the ground and turn towards us. And here is something tricky because we made a tail turnaround on that. So we will need to follow this pattern as if the tail, the tails back is over here. So we will see some spikes on top of the tail and they will start turning in the other direction. Ending up here defining some kind of perspective. Now, let's finish it up with the black band, so let's discover what else we can improve on this dragon was born from very unpredictable kind of shapes. We had no idea how he would connect these shapes into Dragon. Even I didn't know. I loved playing these exercises myself as well, especially when I'm in a meeting. Yeah. Don't tell this to anyone. I do. One in the meeting. Now obviously everyone know. Yeah, It actually makes me focus and explore the shape. I start from a doodle and they tried to find the character within the studio. And I went, I do that. Then this character leaves me to design another character, adults, something that they are in relationship with the talking or doing something together as all my notebooks are filled with, we are dragons and people, and birds and cats and strange creatures and whatever, whatever my mind gives birth to adult moment in the meeting. Starting from adjust to doodle. Sometimes they have three eyes, five, I sometimes the half several bodies. And if you'll look at my total sales like this is a mental person. But we are, We artist are mental people, aren't everyone. The good part is that we are allowed to go months to go wild with all creations. Because people are accepting that artists should be managed to be able to come up with this stuff. So consider yourself lucky that you can do this stuff. You're allowed to be crazy. Hope you're seeing what I'm doing because this is one, this is a tiny, tiny detailed dragon. Very small details. I'm just finalizing them in from the view in front of the camera. Starting from nothing. You see that she'd done have to have a plan before you design something. This is a game and games encouraged. Also learning when you don't have any rules. And when you free to explore your creativity. And you can, you can put on some roles later. The things that I said in like, Oh, well they need to have this and this kind of patterns and you can put in these roles later. But for the starch, just explore your creativity. Let's put some whims in here. Again, the same bat wings. It's just I shouldn't be putting more effort for the wings. But to me it's kind of like a detail dragon that is already done. And if you want, you can explore different wings and put the wings later on then having different texture. Looking kind of different than from one Dragon to another. But for now, dragon has this Wings where I decided team who have these Dragon will have big wings. In comparison to other Dragons. They can, they can be even bigger and it can be huge. It doesn't matter. This kind of dragging his kind of done because it's so tiny, I'm not going to put any other details on his body. I'm just gonna leave it like that. That's all next dragon. Now, let's go ahead with this other two Dragons. We see what they got there. 16. A simple seated Dragon: Okay, so let's start with this bad boy drawing here. This line reminds me of a mouth. Someone had to use it. Something that I didn't put them on purpose. But I'm going to use it. I'm going to start from this one. Have the lips below it like that. And I'm going to mic, I tinier, I maybe. Why not? Nostrils? Let's put the nostrils down here next to the mouth. This is what, Why? Because why not? That's the thing. Why not? This is the design process you done. The only follow rules. You follow. Why notes? Let's have Dragon have his teeth from the upper Mao for upper lip, lip being visible. Having this goofy guy looks to me as if he's sitting down. So let's make him got him a bear body sitting down. So I'm just going to draw some spheres here, like the legs. Use half of the spheres, make another sphere in front of the bet as the front legs. This one here. And just trust me, trust me on that. This is going to be the shape. I'm going to use this fear to signify why the law part. The leg is and just round it up here because it's not really a sphere where the dragon is meeting the ground with his foot. And the same thing here and signify the lower part of the leg here. He's kind of like sitting down dragon. And now let's simplify this shape. Let's give him like an even day alike. Look. Just connect the head to this shape here and see what we get. So we don't have to have this line here, so we can have the head finishing up here. Now, what can we do with that? We can have this Dragons sitting like a cat, so we can have his front legs being like small here and sitting like a chat, like an animal. So let's position one sphere here, N1 sphere here. Do you see it? No. They look like kind of like chest, right? Well, you will see it soon. Mike. Another line here to signify that is up front legs and another one here. It doesn't have really feed. It has this decorative chunky feed that we drew. On the other spot. This one has even upper part of the legs. And let's give them the nails like that. For males around that nails. And let's give the hands the same lens. Do you see it now? Here it goes. He's this case chunky body. This is the neck going in here and the body is continuing down here on. Actually, I did not like that, so I'm going to leave that out. Just habits smooth like about it. I can fix that later on. The black pencil by adding other patterns in front of it. Let's give him some spikes, bigger spikes in here so we can see it. And the spikes continuing behind. We don't see the spikes on his back. His tail is over here, chunky tail like that. And the spikes come from his back, continue on his tail like that. Large spikes this time. What do we have for patterns here? Let us give him the skin. This snake skin but with larger, larger patterns. Like fish because we've gone for this chunky large design. Everything is kind of large. And chunky. So why not give him this kind of skin chunk here? Not so small patterns. The same on the legs of dough, much smaller because they are the skin there is not as large as the skin on the body. Newman here. You just need to do it a couple of times to have done to her signify that this is the dragon skin. Those kind of patterns. Maybe some of it. Here. I'm going to continue this spikes actually even farther out. He's like a punk guy. It's like a hair count. The wings. Do we have to see the wings? Maybe they're folded on his back. So we don't necessarily need to see it. Winks. Just let us put him there. As we've just started. Bat wings. Again, smaller wings. Now, let's fix that. Whatever we have to fix with a black pencil. Let's give him some texture under the eyes, It's like a skin. The lower part of the I have even bigger contrast. The eye and have it more expressive. Eyes are very important when you design character. Because that's where the character comes from, from the ice. Design and enhance the features of the face. Can go back and forth during different things on the character. Because it will help you and it's fun, It's fun to see how this character comes to live out of nothing. You get it inspired to do more and more stuff on this character. You know what those staff are gonna be. And you'll see that we drew this pattern here to start with, but I didn't like it. So now I'm cover, I've covered it with another sort of skin. And these lines, we don't even see them anymore because we have different definition here. The skin and those buttons. You can never do what's wrong. You can never fail with this. Very nice to know. You can do as many mistakes as you want. Even if you get too messy or with your character. Well, start to another character. Start on New Thought. Another paper. If you haven't notebook. You can take it with you everywhere you go. Fill it up with characters like that. You will be surprised how many characters there are in you and how many stories they evoke in you. So I encourage you to have a notebook like that. Maybe a smaller one, maybe not as big as this one. You can you can draw at all times because you have a lot of time where you don't do nothing. And instead of scrolling on your mobile, meaningless tweets or Instagram counts or whatever you are stuck with looking at. I mean, I'm stuck with a lot of stuff that's we're living in this time now. Attention is caught somewhere else all the time. When we are drawing, when you're drawing these on paper or even on or device on iPad, it's very easy to get distracted and stop doing it. Maybe in looking at some other things online like others designed online and very easy to get discouraged and so on. There are people that are so much better than me. Well, it depends what you, what you like really, and what do you call better goals? These designs, they are not photo-realistic designs. Alpha dragons that the kind of like fantasy, like some people who like fantasy that we'll look at these designs. And they'll say, these are just children drawings of all. Yes, they are. Of course. That's what I wanted to do. Style. And what do you, what do you think is nice and what do you think that you're better or worse? This is about perception as well. It's about your own style, so you should not putting yourself down. What I wanted to say in the first-place is that drawing your attention away from all this Instagram and Twitter and just choose something good for yourself. Feel yourself upwards. Large amounts of dopamine. By doing these exercises, by discover how good you can draw. Discovered this new characters that you have with the new one. New stories will not only boost your creativity and make you feel better and more creative, it's also good for your health. Funny enough. Yeah, that's true. So here is another dragon out of the shapes. And now let's do this one, this weird one, blood's gonna be. Let's find out in the next lecture. 17. A dragon laying down: Welcome back. I hope you had some break, some refreshment, you got coffee or juice or whatever you're drinking together for this next challenge with this kind of weird guy. I mean, what is this shape and how that can become a dragon. Now, I hope you all learned that it is a dragon with his past experience with this password designs that we got nice dragons from. Okay, so what does it look like to you? To me, it looks like this dragon is like flat on the ground, dot what? It reminds me off. Let's do that. It looks like this. His neck is plots on the ground as if this is the ground and this is his body. Let's design some neck here. So this is where the neck is lying on the ground and it's a triangular neck. So let's connect it with another line. Here. We have weird-looking, I don't know, lizard or something. Let's have his legs like stretched on the ground like a baby. Does have a sphere here as if the legs are like that. Both of them. The sphere here, 40 back leg. And let's design the tail that is just coming around his body and coming over here with just a line like that. That's all we need for now. The good thing is that what I want you to encourage to not get stuck in one detail and just finish it like have the nails done here and everything done and have this unfinished jump from one part of the body to the other. Because you'll get suggestions on the weight from your subconscious swatch you need to do next. What we have here, it looks like he has this very long head. Let's take that suggestion and have a nose like not. Have given a triangular head like dots, just add a triangle. Triangle. You can see doubts. It's not just fear. So you can build dragons from It's even triangles, anything, anything. Now, here is the symmetry because this dragon is in three-quarters, we see that all these dragons are kind of in the profile this time with chancy, the other eye, except for this one here. This one is in three-quarters. Any member three quarters is like it's not completely on in profile on the site. You can see a little bit from the other eye and the other part of the face. There is a line that connects this point and this point here. You can have this line how you want that. You can have it straight like that. You can have a band like that. You can round it up upwards. I will go with my own instincts here and you can try that out in a different way. Going to bend the line downwards. So I want to use this line over here because that's what's my intuition told me to do. I want to use it and have this long face, small and long face with bigger nostrils in front. And I'm going to use that to play some nosotros on both sides because this line continued hearing split the nose into parts. Here as well. This triangle is split in two parts. Thus the symmetry for the ice, but now we have another natural on the other part, taking in consideration the perspective of three-quarters. Here, we have this eye and you'll have a sleepy, sleepy drag on. So let's put some sleepy eyes over here. Sad, sad, or sleepy is dragging, is tired. Let's take now the triangle that I already put and continuous to be part of the mouth. Because because maybe we're misled. Why not? Because why not? That's the designs designer's best and most powerful word. Here. We're going to give him some teeth. The teeth are actually like laying on the ground as well. That's funny. It's really funny. Sticky tape sticking out from a dragon. Here we have a funny-looking face. Let's around up now. The dragons body. Unless have his feet. We did. This. Leg's over here. This is because the legs are like dance threshed out. So we need to have the same shape of length over here. So let's do another sphere here. This one is a little bit in perspective costs we see it's closer to us. You, you suggest that you get this notion by seeing that the sphere is very much around, so it's not an ellipse like that, which means that the perspective we're looking at the leg from the front. So the next shape is going to be over here. We connect these legs. You want to have a foot on his dragon? Let's give him some food for change. We'll have just a sphere like that, and we'll have some nails here. And nails here. Define where the foot is. We see the back of the leg because we have drawn this sphere and now we can fix the perspective without it looks like the or Dragon is lying down. And we have that tail. Excuse me. We have the tail. I have been talking for a long time. Like that. You know, the tail turns. My good tone over here. This part of the tail here is kind of like a chunk. That is, if you see it like a sausage, this part of the sausage is turned on. We see the upper part. There is a perspective change here. That's how you signify it. You just make a line here and it's kind of let you start on YouTube, not YouTube, a new tube for detail. Those videos have automatic caption. So some of the things that I say are translated strangely, and I'm sorry about that if that's happened, That's why this time I'm trying to talk much slower than I did on my previous videos. The caption understands and that you understand it. Now, is it because it's the three-quarters we talked about. There is a line over here. It's not really not really a silhouette. The spikes are not really on the back. There is a tiny line that is the middle line that defines the symmetry, the bulk part of the body for this drug. And this is how we signify it with a line that goes here so we can follow it out. And it turns it goes back and hide, stare body apart and it come back, it comes back here on the tail. And because it tells is turning, so this is Didn't middle line of this tube, the perspective line that follows these two over here. So we kind of like follow the spikes alone. The tail here. That's it. This drug and has his wings folded. So we kind of like going to make said or sleepy little wings folded like that here. We can only see one of them, something like that. And here's our dragon. And let's have some skin, some drug unlike scheme here. It as well. Not as tight as this one, just give it a different characters. Now, the black pencil to discover, or dragon or a new triangular dragon. The I here, the one here. Now let's give them some shading under the eyes to enhance the eyes and the eye globe that there is some kind of depth there. We've got some very interesting design. This is something that we wouldn't have gotten if we started the traditional way. The first, the first thing that I showed you, even though we kind of did a similar thing, there weren't designing big and small shapes. This is taking it even farther ahead. And this is more a technique that can be used to make more decorative style of design for children's books or for decoration. Something that is not very anatomically correct. It hasn't have this defined features of the legs and everything is still has some anatomy, but it can be broken down into different pieces and simplified and played with. Rules are not as strict. Where the legs and the feet, the legs. Legs are the wing here. That said when. Sometimes you have to study the shape more if you want to define them. What's all this when you want to study it a little more, if you have this design for your children's book, how is the relaxed when looking, looking like? Let's have legs on the underside of the legs here and the clause. And we can see kind of like the knee from the backside. And this stomach here. This was given, remember, all these things were given. The shapes just by doodling, just by throwing some shapes on the paper. Without thinking. We found the dragon within. Actually. What you can do is not only for this kind of dragon, you can have the same principle for every kind of character. That's why this lecture is not only how to draw dragons, but it gives you a suggestion and technique and principles of how to draw anything else. But dragons are fun to draw. So that's why I might electrode like that. But I heard me one other lectures here that are about how to draw cartoony characters. They are involved some other techniques and other interesting ways of drawing characters. There are more designs, more explanations even there. If you want to learn even more. And you got caught in this kind of easy way of designing. You are learning. I would recommend you to take this other courses as well because your potential, you don't know what will trigger you don't know which teacher, which lecture will inspire you to that level. That you find the artist insight. That's how it is with me. I still keep on learning. I keep on finding new teachers, new interesting people to learn from. Still. Because artist, the artist and never done, you always need your development in a different level. You want to try different things. Here. I'm going to give it this a stomach thing. It's kind of hidden. And you kind of see adjust a little bit here and it will excuse lying down. Just a part of the stomach could give it some nice feature. I'm going to shade it a little bit just to signify what a perspective is, to give up more volume like that. That's it. I hope you enjoyed these lectures and you learned a lot. And the most important thing, you get inspired and you're free from your preconceptions of how to do things and you have explored your creativity. That will make me very happy. If you're happy with that.