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nidopug [2010-05-03 11:59:36 +0000 UTC]

Tootless is absolutely adorable! And you have him very well portrayed.

Well put tips by Mali.
You have a very good technique down. I can't offer much.
The only thing I could think to tell you is this:
get familiar with certain proportions when drawing something in particular without reference. Think to yourself "How far back does his mouth stretch? Does his nose have a discernable bridge? Are his eyes round or eliptical? What stands higher; his shoulders or hips?"

Keeping all this in mind will help remedy those moments in which you tell yourself "Something about my picture just doesn't look right."

I've tried my luck at drawing Toothless and had no luck. Your doodles prove to be a much better likeness of the cutie. This is really all advice I try to give myselfwhen drawing

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nugginss [2010-04-04 04:37:19 +0000 UTC]

aw these are cute! You really got his personality down.

umm tips
If you want to draw animals (real or imaginary), you need to draw animals. Toothless may not be real, but he is not completely fabricated. From what I can tell, he's like a mix between an axolotl, a salamander, a cat, and Stitch (and probably some other things).
So draw those things! Go find photo reference for those animals (or screenshots in stitch's case, but even he is inspired by other animals, so you might want to look into that), and any other animals Toothless might bear resemblance to (even in the most vague ways) and draw from that. It takes a good while, and it definitely is not a "quick and easy" process, but it's the best way (next to actually going to an aquarium/zoo and observing from real life, of course. But that can be expensive and difficult to arrange.)
As you see yourself improve in those areas, you will find imaginary cartoon animals like Toothless easier to draw.

okay maybe that's not so much a tip as it is a lecture, and maybe it's not immediately helpful, but it's the best advice I can give. You can also just keep drawing toothless until his anatomy starts to become natural, but that method generally takes longer to develop an actual sense of structure, and the knowledge you gain that way is harder to apply to other things.

Hope that helps! Sorry if it wasn't quite what you were looking for tip-wise.

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