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How to Draw Your Dragon 6-1

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Good lord. Big giant tutorial reference image. I think this has more words than some of the essays I've written. XD
But it kind of needs them. Wings are notoriously complicated and they're probably the thing that drives people to ask me "How do you draw that?!" the most.
So here's part 1: bat wings.
I'll probably also be doing bird, pterosaur, and possibly fin wings later, and they probably won't be as long as this one because this is also meant to cover generic wing stuff as well as bat wing specifics.
That said, this is easily the longest reference I've done yet. Hopefully the sheer amount of information is enough detail to help people! Even this might not be enough!

... Long reference is LOOOOONG.

Part 1: Basics
Part 2: Skull
Part 3: Eyes
Part 4: Basic Flesh
Part 5-1: Back Legs
Part 5-2: Front Legs
Part 6-1: Bat Wings
Part 7: Torso
Part 8: Facial Expressions
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TeaDragon77's avatar

relating the folding of the wing to a limp wrist really helped me picture it. Thank you so much. I am not an artist but I am trying to write a novel with dragons in and want to learn how to draw them for an basic illustration for my own descriptive purposes. So Thank You Very Much. (Also I am a geek and like to have science down in my fantasy).