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