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You asked for it, here it is!
it's my first tutorial so I hope it will help! I tried to make one a bit different from the usual anatomy ones you can find on deviantart. I focused more on the details, shapes, types of dragons, so you can diversify the types of dragons you're drawing!
I hope it will help!EDIT: About the WINGS attached to the top of the shoulder: some people said it's impossible for a dragon to fly with wings at this place, but I focused on aesthetics more than on anatomy logic (after all if we follow logic, you should have to make your wings with a very precise size, calculate everything according to the weight of your dragon, etc, etc) Dragons don't exist and that's why it is fun to draw them. I chose the example of the wing attached to the shoulder because it's for me the most beautiful one and the one we see the most even in professional artworks, because it looks more "badass" and elegant. But of course you can put the wings lower on the back, or attach them differently to the body. I just won't guarantee it will look good. There are so many different ways to draw a dragon ^^
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Comments: 220
This really helped since I've been trying to draw dragons. Thank You!
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I'm happy if it could help you!
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very cool! trying to learn to draw dragons!
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Le problème ici c'est que chaque dragons sont diffèrent et donc les tuto aussi...
C'est un peu dure pour un débutant ><
Je vais pas prendre celui la en premier mais je vais le garder pour plus tard
Merci !
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Oui celui-là n'est pas pour les bases anatomiques mais plutôt pour varier les styles une fois qu'on sait les bases ^^
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ohhhhh beau travail, le dragons pour nous c'est super. ^^
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pour moi les dragons sont des créatures magnifique et mystérieux.
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Nice - this will be good for inspirations
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Wow, c'est très intéressant ça !
Excellent !!!
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Cool contente que ça te serve ^^
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Scales can also transcend into feathers for air dragon wings and the lithe and fluent forms of serpentine dragons (you know the ones with no arms and legs). Just adding some tips to the fire is all.
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Yes of course you can make more original scales as well ^^
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The thing with wings is that they can be attached to the top of the shoulder, as long as the flap of skin extends down the back more. This looks better, in my opinion, and it would create more lift so dragons could fly more easily.
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Yes it is possible to do that. Depending on the type of dragon, it can look nice or not
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Ouais!! Enfin!!!
ais tu ne pars pas de zéro...
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Non mais y'a déjà plein de tutos sur le net qui partent de zéro... je peux pas apprendre à dessiner à un débutant en juste un tuto ^^" ça c'est des "petits plus"
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Pourquoi?
T'as pas la patience pour enseigner?
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Je ne sais pas si je saurais partir du début!
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regarde y'en a tout plein! [link]
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Oui mais c'est mieux si c'est toi
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Tu me donnes tout plein de travail
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Coucou, en regardant à nouveau ton tuto, je trouve que tu mets ici qu'un descriptif de tous les attributs possibles des dragons. Ce qui est très bien mais tu ne nous donnes aucune méthode (même en ne partant pas de zéro!).
N'est-ce pas la fonction du tutoriel?
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Un tutoriel ce n'est pas que quelque chose de "pas à pas", j'avais d'ailleurs proposé dans le sondage "création pas à pas d'un dragon" mais les gens n'avaient pas voté pour ça, ils avaient préféré les différents attributs d'un dragon (écailles, cornes, anatomie générale). Mais il y a tellement de tutoriels déjà sur l'anatomie des dragons, je voulais faire quelque chose d'unique.
Dans la barre de recherche tapes "tutorial dragon" et tu en verras plein ^^
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Ok, mais pour les attributs, pour être qualifié de tutoriel, il faut montré comment on arrive aux résultats, non? Tu nous montre que le résultat fini...
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Non il y a différentes sortes de tutoriels. Celui-là est juste pour les gens ayant déjà des bases. Sinon personen n'apprendra jamais rien, ce serait triste si tous les tutoriels n'étaient que pour les débutants ne sachant pas dessiner! ceux qui savent déjà dessiner mais veulent juste des astuces et idées supplémentaires pour s'améliorer ne doivent pas être oubliés.
Il n'y a pas que les grands débutants qui ont besoin d'apprendre tu sais 
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Non pas du tout, d'ailleurs, c'est déjà fait mais disons que je ne suis pas pour l'emploi du mot tutoriel dans ce cas... Ce qui n'enlève rien à ton travail qui est excellent de mon point de vue!!!
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C'est parce que je t'aime beaucoup
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No offense, but there's too much "Hanging Butt Syndrome" [link]
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That's true, I focused on the Aesthetics more than actual true anatomy logic. If you look at almost 99% of the dragon illustrations on deviantart (including the professionnal artworks) all the wings are attached right on the top of the shoulder.
So that's true, a real dragon wouldn't be able to fly properly like this, but visually it's the best and the nicest. And as dragons don't exist, people tend to chose the design they think is the most beautiful and elegant
All these dragons are wonderful but cannot fly (wings too short, too thin, attached on the shoulder... examples:
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They are painted amazingly but it still feels like the artists never saw a wing before or have any idea how it works which is very off throwing for people that actually know just how much this wouldn't work. Yes, it's stylized but at least in my opinion this kind of wings doesn't look good on a painting that tries to depict them somewhat realistically, it would look okay on a very cartoony dragon that intentionally doesn't look like it could exist but on that kind of dragon they just look odd and out of place.
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There are so many ways to draw wings, this is just one way among so many. Even most of the realistic-looking dragons you see in artworks would not even be able to fly correctly, you can't just apply bat wings on everything. So this is just one way to do it, people are free to inspire themselves from that or not. This is a tutorial to draw dragons (cartoony ones, or others), not a biology book
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I agree that some may choose that style as it may appeal to them more but it should be a conscious choice, not something you do all the time because you've never learned how wings really work or why those would neither be functional nor how real wings work.
Tutorials are often viewed by young artists that have no idea how to draw an anatomically correct (or at least close to correct) wing and said artists often blindly trust what they are told so when presenting heavily stylized wings you should at least tell them that those are nowhere near real wings and give them links to other resources that can help them get a better idea of ho wings work.
As for the slapping on wings part, I agree but there are ways to make it seem much more convincing and it can be fun to try and work out how such wings could work or at least make them look like they could work.
So it's not really the wrong wings that bother me but that it may confuse or hinder some young artists from learning how wings work before trying to bend them to their style as it's always best to learn the rules to break them.
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There are many, many tutorials about dragons and especially about dragon wings on deviantart and internet, and people who find my tutorial also find all the others in the browser, so I cannot put links to all the wings tutorials. People need to decide by themselves if they prefer drawing in a cartoony style, in a realistic style, etc... (I think the cartoony style here is quite clear) I said in the author comments that this is just one way to draw that and that people can find many other ways to draw dragons and wings if they like.
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Yeah, I know
To be honest I prefer dragons whose anatomy actually seems plausible. The others just put me off, no matter the artistic skill
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Ok, it depends on people then 
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It also depends on the type of goal you have, I guess. I'm more concerned in understanding evolution and creating alternatives, so plausibility is a must
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