Dragons

I don't know what's with me this few weeks, I had suddenly fallen in love with a certain mythical creature, namely the dragon. Yes, the fire-breathing, gold-hogging creature that loves to gobble up every knight that passes by. But they are also magnificent creatures that shows grace and elegance, and they are also, well of course, mythical, which is also the quality I guessed that attracted me the most. They are always part of legends. From the ancient Greeks to the Romans, from the West to the far East. And they are almost always so different from each other, there are dragons which are portrayed as gods, there are dragons which hogs gold, capture princesses and kills knights, and there are those which are the kindest, sweetest and most intelligent creature around.

The Frisky
Pencil (Mechanical, 3B)
A4 printing paper
6.6.2012

 Here's something I did today, a pencil drawing of a dragon. It is... well I admit, not the best drawing I did, but I'm still quite proud of it, since it's like the first time I ever drew a dragon, not very bad I think, not trying to be humble at all><

This type of drawing...normally shows a lot of lines,using colours to fill up the picture, but still using the lines to sketch, showing the shadows and and shape of the whole thing. Usually it is done with ink, and then just add a thin layer of watercolour wash, not too thick, but just nice so that the lines and the colours correspond each other perfectly.

I had really admired people who does this type of drawings, since I myself was not confident enough for it, it requires confidence and instinct and skill.But this time, since it's the first and I'm not that comfortable working with ink yet, so I just did it with pencil, and it looked better than I had expected.
Anyway, back to dragons, this dragon, credit to DRAW DRAGON and Other Fantasy Beasts, is not the cover of the book. What? Of course I didn't create it myself>< I followed the basic structure of the creature and some of the details, not copying exactly though, and the picture on the cover is ink and colour. It took me about 40 minuets, and I can say that I need a lot of improvements and learning so that I can create my own personal dragon but well, I am happy.

Some More of Sand Art

The girl that appeared in our performance

 Below are some of the photos we took that day (during sabats)...some of the drawings are really kind of rubbish, but we were having fun and they just came out of randomness.><

Enjoy!

 

Repunzel

She was smaller than my hand, so excuse the horrible drawing..

Statue of Liberty

The (Sandy and) Leaning Tower of Pisa

Both were by Rachel and me. We used too much sand for the tower...and the Liberty looks so cartoonish!

The (Leaning) Effiel Tower

Again by Rachel and me. I was drawing upside down, thus the 'leaning'.

Snow White

I was so proud of this Snow White haha. This was actually the second one I did. (the first was much better, but it was accidentally wiped off during the break, so I redid it in like 5 mins:). I have to say, the nose was horrible, but other than the nose...I'm satisfied. I love the way the sleeve turned out, the shading was quite good. Considering this being my fifth day trying sand art.