In preparation for family gatherings

[melannen]

Draw a long loopy curve.


Add three crooked lines.


Draw two parallel lines on either side of the original curve, and rays inside the largest crooked line.


Add claws and muscles to the crooked lines, a triangle at the lower end of the curvy one, connect the ends of the rays, and draw a simple snake's head on the top end of the curvy one.


Draw stripes between the original curve and the lower parallel curve, tiny triangles on top of the higher parallel curve, and draw flames coming out of the mouth. (Then, if you have a chance, erase any lines that shouldn't be showing.)

Congratulations! You are now officially AWESOME and have drawn the BEST DRAGON EVER, and you may have to do it again to stop them from fighting over who gets to keep it.

*or elder relation of other gender or connection

Comments

[sara]

You're like Ed Emberly! But not named Ed!

(Actually, one of our Super Cool finds for Herself at the Powell's this month was a how-to book about drawing dragons. In Spanish. Hee.)

[melannen]

Heh, this came up because eldest cousin showed up with this how to draw dragons book, which is one of those how-to-draw books which annoys me because the drawings are so elaborate you basically have to be a high-school level artist even to do step one, and you have to copy the drawings exactly, so you aren't even learning any useful drawing skills. And he really wanted to draw dragons and the book was unhelpful to him.

So I had to resurrect my old "quick dragon doodle" method from sixth grade to teach him, but soon found myself mobbed by all of them.

[sara]

Yeah, I was a bit concerned that this one was above Herself's level until she disappeared into her room with it and reemerged with a nifty drawing of a kirin, at which point I stopped worrying.