I Teach My Drawing Process of Drawing Dragons - Tatsus

1. Introduction: What's happening, folks, and welcome back to another IPC I, pink creatures class here on Skillshare.com. And thank you all for leaving reviews and feedbacks in comments. Because today's class is addressing a little bit of the common said. And I'm going to take you through my drawing process. And the first video in this class will be just the basics of drawing dragons. But I specialized in drawing taught suits and tattoos are from the Yochai family and Yochai basically roughly in English means strange spirit. And they basically are folklore creatures from Japan, characters and creatures from Japan in them highly inspired Ukiyo-e and Pokemon and did human in Studio Ghibli and a lot of entertainment franchises out of the East in from the lovely country of Japan, which is my heritage. And so the difference between dragons and taught Sue, basically, dragons are from Western mythology and have wings and elementally major the fire over in Yochai and each inland tattoos are water serpents and so they represent mythologically inside of our stills in folklore wise, to support us from not submitting our humanity to any darkness or any machine or mechanics. We will be drawing tattoos, although they look like Eastern dragons a lot. They have a lot of similarities to drag it in there creature features. Like I said, the first video. What I'll be concentrating on is just the basis of the exercises. I will go through all the drawing terms and drawing possibilities and different choices. And ultimately it's up to you to get your drawing skills, the basic drawing skills of drawing shapes and the fundamentals which I like to call the cool rules because I was worked with younger students and drawing. And I teach them the fundamentals and so they can have a much pleasurable time drawing and continue drawing because I always like to say, in what I call art ventures, everything you do in a class or anything that improves your drawing or painting or your creation or crafting skills, you should be successful. So I call them art ventures, so be successful. So you'll keep returning and do a lot of repetition, which allows you to get better, find your own style and have a much more enjoying the experience drawing and painting. The first video I will go through drawing of the basics of drawing a top Sue and how I do it and there's many ways to do it. So I will just show you the basic construction, how I do it and talk to you about every technique and tip I can and have you draw along with me. And then the second, third video, I'm gonna show you this hat and how I actually applied drawing straight with ink and draw my tattoos or must be will know them as dragons, but they are taught sues TAT SU. I'll see you over in the next video. We're get out a ballpoint pen or some basic inking drawing tool. And let's go through the basics. I'll see you over there. 2. Drawing Lesson - Drawing Dragons - Tatsus: Like I said in the intro, this is the drawing lessons. So I loved to use a big stick or any type of ballpoint pen. Big sticks are just so wonderful my favorite drawing tool, and I always like to use a big stick or a ballpoint pen is drawn not a pencil because I believe pencil is a whole nother realm of drawn in it's almost like painting to me. And when you use a ballpoint pen, you can basically draw and you can't say I can erase and all that. And it's not about shaping, it's about really just drawing. What I suggest right here to start off is, is parallel lines. Parallel lines are exactly what I'm doing right here. And I'm putting angles to them. I'm drawing the shapes that make up a Dragos head. And we're basically going to concentrate on the Dragos head or the dragon's head or the tattoos head today. So basically what I want you to do is do what I'm doing right now. Do a whole bunch of parallel lines and use a lot of angles and curves and just practice getting the lines looking like you want to so they're parallel. Don't have to be completely exact, but have to get at a point where you liked them. The third drawing I did on his example of how to do a horn by just putting dots. And that's another exercise. Just put a bunch of random dots and then draw parallel lines to the dots. You just connecting the dots and always try to use your whole arm, not just your wrist and draw. The last thing I just drew were how I do a lot of tattoo or horns. Because tattoo horns are modeled after a deer or fauna. Fonts. And basically, you have to design your own way of doing your own horned, your own way of doing. I just did some fins right there. I'm doing a fin again right here because tattoos or water surface. So they have a lot of features, what I call creature features. Aquatic creatures. Right near my left hand right now, my pointing finger right there is what's called the sale. So it looks like a fin too, so you can see how everything is a parallel line and it's curved. Mainly what I want you to do right here is do as many parallel lines as you can and curve them. Right here I'm showing how you do an inner scale belly, see which once again is parallel lines. The next thing to do is practice doing basic shapes. So this is like a circle, right? Is for more of an oval. And this is the basis construction kit to doing tattoo or drag go from a front view. So the view you see me. Now I'm showing you the basic shapes that make a side view. And there's all different types of dragons and taught sue the draw all different shapes and I think the most challenging one. And if you give me feedback, I'll do of course on this about really exploring the Find the way you draw these creatures. Right over my shoulder here, move over a little bit so you can see it. You can see the major component is just a small little oval circle, not a perfect circle. Then it has a snout which is precis. You can see all the parallel lines again. So a lot of the basics of drawing Dragos and tattoos are parallel lines. And so I'm here, I'm taking that shape. I'm using the crosshair method, pretty much invented by Walt Disney Company to really find the placement of your eyes. But once again, I think a lot of it is your creativity and the only fundamentals that I really encouraged to practice and hone down our parallel lines and curves and angles. I'm showing you how I take that little shape right there and I start adding the Creature Features. And you can see how I'm applying all the parallel lines and the shapes are drawn before because I have those basically those taught Sue horns that are somewhat modeled after a deer are fond. Of course, there's ears. And then you see me add it a little bit of the cheeks, the cheekbones, and then there's the snout in the front, which a lot of times you can go you can put your eyes down so you have tier two eyes down, right? And then this line right here, right here is how you form the snout so you can come right from this I line up here, come around the eye and then do the snout. You can see on there how I did that right? Right the eyeline and then the snout, then the cheeks above the eyeline. Then the key is the parallel lines are attached to the top of the head. They're not like our next which are attached down here, their top to the bottom of the behind the head. So you can see how the parallel, parallel line is so important. And once again, there's the beard because a lot of them will have a mustache or beard. Then the main features do you have to basically concentrated on figuring out how you draw are the nodes. You can do a nose that is around nose like mine. And that's mainly what a lot of tattoos have. Dragons have a lot of lizard nose. And so you see I just did slits and then I do a parallel line on top of the slits to define the nose. Here's how I'm showing you on the side view, how you start adding a lot of the angles. And once again, it's just parallel lines again. So practice your parallel lines and your confidence in them. Then your angles, right? So you can add on the horns, you see I added extra point sharpness, right? And then once again, the basic triangle square and a circle and ovals and ovals are probably the most powerful and drawing creatures. I'm using my little triangles to do the teeth down there. And of course I'm not doing lots and I'm putting in a sale, right. So I showed you how I drew it right above practicing drawn sale. Now it's right there. And once again it's on a parallel line and an angle. That's the basis of it. Now I'm going to turn the page and I'm going to show you the symbol of the front view. Once again, draw yourself an oval. This is why I like ballpoint pen because it really much acts like a pencil. I can do what are called suggestion lines. There's my parallel line connecting to the back of the head, which will give it its neck. I'm doing a little bit of a crosshair to show you I am so experienced, I don't need to do that. I more shaped my style and my flavor, my drag on my taught soup. And then they're right there. I'm using that technique right between the eye. After you get the eyes laid down, you lay it right there, you see, you can go back in the video and watch it. And that's where I basically drag down and then I do the snout. And so it has the snout. Then I'm doing more of a traditional ones are more like a human nose for the zoo and a lot of them have nostrils on their nose and big ball on the top, not necessarily just two slits, kind of like a lizard. Tattoos take a lot of things from camels, dogs, and probably hippos are rhinos, Western dragons. They take things more from lizards and reptilians, and they also take things from big animals like elephants are giraffes. That snout is kinda like a draft, but a lot of it is like a lizard where tattoos definitely bring in more of the other type creatures. And now I'm doing a side view. And there's that parallel line again and just a small little ovals, almost circular shape. And then there's the snout, long snout. And this is more drawing a tattoo more and traditional dragons because dragon's head, that big snout and a, I bought all a lot of my tattoos a lot after dogs. So they have more of a dog snout than a beak, like almost a flamingo are almost like I was saying, reptilians. Then the center line on the side view is pretty much I drew it right there. It is pretty much the one side of the oval, right down the center. And then you keep everything. You don't show too much of the other side and the other eye, you can hint it a little bit, but it's very in perspective. And then a key to pay attention here is that cheek line I just put in. And then one thing that sometimes I don't follow very much, and I, when I start to render and paint my Otsu, it'll come out kind of funky if I don't remember that lot of times, but the bottom lip is just their chin to so they don't really have like lips like us and then a chin. And so it's always on the very bottom, those things. It also designed that way to give my character's emotions so you can make them smile. There's my sale again, and I'm doing a little bit of scales because the water creatures definitely requests below. I will do some more courses that goes through civic gland doing scales and bodies of these creatures and other creature features. But basically that's the basis of it. And at the basis is parallel drawings. So go out and do your parallel drawing. I will upload a bunch of these for the class project, just the sketches so you can see how rough I started out. And let's head over to the next video where we're going to show you all this in process and repeat a lot of this stuff and show you where I'm applying it. Drawing on a much more difficult surface as snapback hat. So I'll see you over there. 3. Drawing with Ink onto Hat Demo: Welcome back to the drawing demonstration portion. We just went through the video lesson and hopefully you guys got your ball points out instead of drawing and have a grass more of how to construct your drag, your tattoo. And doing a lot of that. I constantly am always working in my sketchbook, not specifically for to do the hat or to draw tattoos, but always experiment and find, like I said in the last video, I think the biggest challenge for you as an artists or creators to figure out how you draw them. You can take things from other animals and that's what a lot of mythical creatures are all about. Like if you can see right here, I'm doing that side angle version like I was showing you, but doing more of my style and making it a tattoo. So you can see before I added the neck and some of the other features right there. Basically it looked like a wolf. And using wolf ears too, I didn't go into the ears and the drawing process. But yeah. Just to give you a little background on the surface here it's a snapback hat. Use the chart to get the ones that have a Canvas texture. But I'm gonna fully paint this. So I did what's called JSON. Json is a medium that is I think it's a lot like just white acrylic paint. It has a polymer based plastic base. It's basically a primer that you put on any surface that you want it to be a little bit smoother and for the acrylics to stick because I will use acrylics to paint this. I will use some pigment inks, will basically do this. It's kind of a messy process. I don't really always share the videos because it's kind of boring. Just to learn how to just take this white paste, which is like I said, a lot like a type of acrylic primer. And then you just put one codon and then I usually use a hairdryer and I dry it off and then put another codon and then dry it off with a hair brush and use I go three coats to get it. It's still kind of rough smirk surface because when you do it on a canvas or a woodblock or something that you're going to paint on, usually smooths it out, so gives you an acrylic base. And acrylic loves to stick to acrylics. Work really well. Then after I've done is all dry and then ballpoint pen seems to work very good. When I first started drawing and painting on hats. Tried to figure out a way I could erase it so I can really draw and kind of failed at that. And so just took it as an opportunity to really drag in and kind of get to my roots of a lot of street art where you got to just do it. You can't erase and you can't all do that. Here I'm doing the front view and I'm doing the classic taught Sue and the version I like to do, which is very much modeled after camel and the dog and those types of animals. And I did the side view of the parallel lines of the neck again. And you can see how I did the snout, put the nose right there and employed those deer like horns. And you can see, the more I'm clear about where are those parallel lines going, how I construct the taut suit. Then I can put more features in and start adding more details and bringing them alive as a character. So it has its own personal personality. And I didn't show arms, which like I said, if I get some requests, I'll go into more construction of a whole Otsu tattoos or water serpents. So they really don't need the wings. And I'm willing to do stuff like that because I do sometimes draws Dragons with wings and that's a whole design process. So definitely you requested below if you'd like to see that. As I keep going on, you can see the basic construction methods I employed and they're all pretty much in place, which are the parallel lines attaching the body and the neck to the back of the head. Not like a bottom of the head like ours. I employed didn't employ the lizard type of slips from the nose because this is my style and I always put them more taut. So who knows this? If you look at a lot of Japanese tattoos and Eastern dragons, which are basically in Japanese, are called RHIO or basically the main ones I loved to draw once again are the tattoos, which are the water serpents. I left this in the video because. I'm showing you of how I use the basic construction and a lot of it I don't construct like I was showing you in the drawing area because I've been doing it so much and I'm really familiar with how to just draw now and have a dragon or a tattoo character come out of me. And this one right here I'm showing you because it is where you start adding all the Creature Features and make it original to your story or your type of drag or tattoo. And this one I loved doing musical ones and so I'm employing right now if you can see it, I put headphones on him. I also made him my famous piano teeth. I love doing. All right, that makes them more mechanical. And then I'm making his horns out of his head. Be horns instead of animal horns are actually musical trumpets. And then I put where I usually put the gemstone or the third eye. And in my story they're called the storage stones. I put a musical note. I just wanted to show you. After you get the basic instruction, you can draw kinds of fantastical things. And a lot of that, once again, is just going on an image search engine and pulling up a whole bunch of guitars are horns. And once again, the basics are parallel lines and angles, and proportions and perspectives. That's all you got to think of. Now I'm just drawing some environmental stuff. I decided to do these kind of orbs floating around. I love making my Dragos and my tattoos, all horror and holding magical orbs. Here's another example of doing a drag, but adding all kinds of features to make it a character. So I put a snapback hat on this tattoo and flip flipped his litter and then have his horns coming through and made it like one of the classic gnome creatures where I don't even show his eyes and he's got his head all the way down above his eyes. This last one then I'm filling up on the back is actually one of my original characters that is in one of my stories. So just wanted to show you how you can construct your own tattoos or drag or dragging, and then give its own personality and really pay attention to the features. And then you can redraw them again and again and employment his story and this creature is called hue more humor. And he's a real fun tattoo and reasonably drew them on a huge panel and just painted them in a loosely sketch pain and it was really happy with them. So I rendered him and drew them all out. And here he is again. What you do to keep it on what's called on model is just always remember she's features in where the placement of all what type of horns he has, how many spikes hat on it where his story stone is placed. His demeanor, his cheeks, one of his big things is huge cheeks because he's funny. And you can see I just once again, I basically employ the very basic drawing techniques of parallel lines. How to construct that snout, the different kinds of nodes I'm going to use. Then since I model a lot of my tattoo after dogs, they have a split mouth just like a dog or a cat. That wouldn't be specifically employed in a dragon. But that's something I decided to do. A lot of times. A lot of the features that I choose will also be employed to show form and contour. And so I usually like a lot of times to put mask, just like dogs have markings around their eyes are a little masks. I use a lot of those lines to show the farm. Because what's important when you show a tattoo or dragging from the front view is he really show that it has a snout because as humans we don't have really that big old muzzle, that snout. We have these little receding lines that show our mouth is round, but like a dog or drag or a tattoo. You got to show that it has around snout in front of his mouth. So a lot of times I'll use a lot of markings are lines to basically show that form and I'll make them in that form. So now I'm just showing what I do. I sketch all that originated with a ballpoint pen. Now I'm using my zebra. It's not like a lot of those other ballpoint. Zebra is actually a drawing manga, anime pen. Basically it has a synthetic brush tip, which means it doesn't have the individual hairs, but it has a synthetic plastic brushes that I can flick and bend. And so it gives affects like a brush. And I'm just going back now and putting in the refined lines and still leave a lot of suggestion lines in there. But I know I'm headed toward the acrylic. So any of the lines I get in the way, the clarity of the image or the illustration. I will use the acrylics too, opaque legal over it. But right now you can see how I really got this character going, the musical tattoo with his headphones and dilute them in and after the ballpoint, I've figured out all the form what is shaping the illustration. So definitely with the zebra analysis, just bringing the zebra back into basically sharpen all the details and bringing out the illustration. I also will do the first pass to basically get the drawing so it's punching and it's fully there. It's illustrated. The second pass, I will go back and start darkening the lines which brings out the tattoo or the character, the creature, even war. At this point, I'm working in what's called composition mode. I'm not just concentrated on one of the to2. I'm bouncing all over the hat to kind of just see the competition composition come forward. Now the competition of the comp, composition come forward. It's a lot like painting now, looking at the overall composition of the hat and how it appeals. I have this on speed paint and actually because I like to really enjoy the process. So you do the inking process and the best part where you started into define the actual lines and not just you suggestions and sketchiness and get the drawing ready to be colored with acrylics. This last video is really short. I just threw it in because I started the coloring process and I did in ink. Just going to talk a little bit about why I'm doing this certain things because I did not fully color in it yet. But definitely this is the really exciting part of the process is when you've had you gone from the basics of your construction, parallel lines in your basic shapes and angles and your perspective, and your proportions. And you have your fantastical tattoos on your drawing surface, on your canvas, or in this case a hat. So it gets the area exciting. And I'm basically just setting it all up now to paint more values and shadows I can punch in right now to define what's going on. And so a lot of it doesn't get lost when I'm painting. And getting all acrylic. I call it critically. When acrylics gets too mushy and you don't do it in sessions. I will see you over in third video. It's a short one. You got your drawn and definitely go back to the first video and this video and get your style down and employed those basics I showed you to get your tattoos sale and free in this world. So I'll see you over in the last video piece. 4. Slight Coloring on Hat: Welcome back to the final video. And this one is just slightly short. And I'm finishing off once again, really a lot of the values. So I'm really concentrated on polices where the illustration could get lost. Like a lot of times, fingers, hands, what are called the whips. I didn't really show you in the drawing process how to do whips on the top Sue. But that's a major creature feature of the tattoo. I'm looking at it and I got my ink already. I loved these Escher brush pens, colored brush pens, they have pigment ink, which means the ink will not fade. And it's just a quick way of like start to render where I'm gonna put a lot of the color and of course, I'm calling right now to put a lot of form and the orbs. And so you can see what color with kind of contour lines and shading, which gives them form and so they look 3D. Now, I thought I'd also start to work on little bit the part that I know from my experience sometimes will get lost new illustration, like I was saying, because either illustrations getting too crowded and I didn't leave enough space, or just really fine details that you got to pay attention to. Make sure you preserve enough for the highlight and everything in there so you can articulate the viewer current, articulate what's going on. Especially in fantastical drawings. Because fantastical you're always pushing the limit, especially my drawings right here. This is neither a weapon or an actual paintbrush or a pen. It's some type of magical or Harry Potter one paintbrush. So just got to make sure it articulates so people can be confused what it is, but they can open their wonder and their imagination in the storyworld and curiosity and figure out what it is. Then showing right here with this purple brush pen. How easy it is to use watercolor techniques and save a lot of the highlights on these headphones in rendering really quick and look really powerful. Punch and pop, pop. I think I switched to another color just to start the coloring process. But a lot of what I'm doing right now is really starting thinking about when I do enter the coloring process, what types of color theorem gonna apply. So the figures pop out of the background and the background gives a good stage for the characters and the creatures. Have a yellow right now. And so I'm experimenting a little bit with color theory and what could be yellow and red and the background will be blue, so I have enough contrast, so the hat really pots. I of course always love rendering the orbs and the shiny things. Part of this is doing my art venture. And once again, I define art venture of anything that I take you through in my classes on Skillshare, I want you to have a good time and I want you to be successful. And that's why I tried to keep them really basic and tried to make them to step-by-step because it is drawn in painting from your imagination. And at the ultimate level of Gettier, to love Imam, you have to love doing it and do it often. Get frustrated, too much. Fine mediums that really fit the subject you want to draw. And then take it to the next level. But always have fun. Always feel you accomplish something. And thank you all for watching this. My drawing process and of course leave any more comments and I will address them at home my classes down. Thank you all for farm. You come along for the journey. Makes sure you tell others and you share this. 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