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Nachiii ā Dragon Scales Tutorial
Published: 2011-03-18 12:10:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 22031; Favourites: 210; Downloads: 141
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My first tutorial by request from Anihilation92 .I hope it's helpful
and I'm sorry if there are some mistakes in my English.
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Still helps me even after all these yearssss
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I never even thought about the fact that drawing scales in a particular order would make it look man made... Extremely helpful, I really appreciate this tutorial!Ā Ā
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Haha, thanks. Though this tutorial is really old and I'm more like ashamed of it, telling people what's right or wrong 
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No problem, I don't think it's bad at all.
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vampirefreshblood.deviantart.cā¦ I used this. It was very helpful, thanks
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Hey, no problem. I'm glad it was helpful to you. It's a beautiful picture
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For some reason my brain isn't comprehending step 3 OTL
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Really? I thought there's not really much to comprehend. It's just about shading the whole shape, so it looks a bit rounded. But honestly, I think this isn't such a great tutorial, I think there must be a lot of better ones on DA
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I looked over it again when I wasn't so tired and got it. xD
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Haha, that's good to hear
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When I put scales on my dragons, I use pre-set texture-maps on Paint tool SAI 
But this can help, because my hand-drawn scales look bad... (similar to third scale-set in middle-right in the examples)
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I don't have Paint tool SAI, so I don't really know what those scales look like. But I always prefer to do textures such as scales, grass and all by my own. It just feels a bit like cheating to use some pre-defined brushes. There's also no wxperience I can get from it. So I encourage you to find your style in painting these stuff. I thing once you get the grip of it, it might become fun to draw 
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could u make one on feathers too? thats the one thing i still fall on my face trying to draw
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I'm sorry, right now I'm quite bussy with several other pictures and I probably won't find time for it anytime soon. And I'm still not quite sure how to draw feathers so they would look realistic, either
But I bet there are already awesome tutorials on drawing feathers here on DA.
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great tutorial! this ia a new way i haven't really seen before and i really love it! i think i'll try this out next time
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I'm glad you like it. Thanks again
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Your scales are so good. I usually don't have the patients for drawing each indevidual scale like that and shading too.
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Thank you
I usually don't have the patience either, this tutorial only shows what it would look like, if I had
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Wow, I think that I've to try this someday
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it's actually a very good tutorial, especially the shading part
i have to say though that it doesn't look more natural when the scales are so different, look at snakes for example, the scales are perfectly shaped and sized, all the same.
that's my opinion^^
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Thank you. You're probably right about the snakes. I think it depends on how you draw it. If you draw the scales as I drew it and crossed it, it looks much more like roof tiles than scales. I really think it looks more lively and interesting if there's a little difference to each scale. But this is just my way of drawing dragon scales, not the universal truth
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It's really ok, I'm happy that you're happy
And it was a good practise for me
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