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Drawing: Dragons
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Drawing: Dragons

by Michael Dobrzycki
July 2007
Beginner to intermediate
32 pages
2h 20m
English
Walter Foster
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HYDRA

A hydra is a many-headed dragon. It can have as few as seven or as many as one million heads! The hydra has notoriously bad breath because it exhales poison or acid. This monster often inhabits rivers.

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Step One I start by using a 2H pencil to draw the basic shape of the hydra. My main concern in this step is to make sure all these darn heads can exist in the same place in a plausible way!

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Step Two I draw the legs and feet, which at this point look like a robot’s. Then I continue building the shapes, adding facial guidelines to the heads. ...

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ISBN: 9781600580321