How to Draw A Dragon:

Drawing Dragons For Kids Art Projects

Learning how to draw a dragon teaches all sorts of drawing skills as well as being one of the most fabulous art projects for kids.

Catherine has taught herself art and I've asked her to show you how to draw a dragon so you can use her simple techniques to encourage your family to have a go.

Learning how to draw dragons suits everyone because you can't go wrong and:

Dragons are notoriously forgiving

- so whatever you do will look great!

See how to make dragons come alive!

As you'll see Catherine, our resident homeschooling Dragonologist, has already discovered lots of dragons living in our house. Her dragon drawings show off a beautiful underwater Pearl serpent dragon and a fire-breathing Asian silver dragon. That should convince you that learning how to draw dragons makes for one of the most enjoyable art projects for kids.

Dragons are also perfect for homeschool art projects for kids because you can adapt them to all kids ages and abilities. The art skills you develop as you learn how to draw a dragon can be used in any kids art projects that involve drawing animals.

The bonus factor is that drawing dragons allows you to let your homeschooling imagination run riot with wattles, crests, horns and fantastic coloration. That frees up your drawing skills and lets you explore homeschool art projects for kids in new dimensions.

How To Draw Dragons

The great thing about learning how to draw a dragon with Catherine is that she can show you how to learn drawing from the bottom up. It's not many people who get taught how to draw by a child! But actually that's a fantastic opportunity to see the techniques she has used to develop her homeschooling art skills - and that gives you a great insight into how to draw.

You can get even more help learning how to draw a dragon by downloading for free her fantastic homeschool dragon coloring pages. She's done coloring sheets for all ages which will really help when it comes to drawing dragons.

Obviously, her homeschooling drawing skills have developed over time, so let's start with some early dragons.

Art Projects For Kids: Draw A Dragon Basics

This homeschooling kids drawing shows you how to draw dragon body components. When you're drawing dragons, there are a few simple homeschooling rules that can help.

Obviously, if you're homeschooling young children, you'll be delighted if your child's drawing consists of a big splodge for the dragon body and a smaller splodge for the head. But, as your children get older, you'll probably find your art projects for kids will benefit from a few homeschooling dragon tips.

How To Draw Dragon Body Parts

• Make the body an oval circle shape.
• Triangles are very useful for drawing dragons. See how she's used them on the back, the head, the wing tips and even to make the dragon tail?
• Rectangles are great for dragons too; the neck is nearly one and the head's not far off.
• Catherine's got lots of tips about key things you need to think about before you start learning how to draw a dragon in our page on kids homeschool activities. Where does your dragon come from? Is it taken from ancient or modern art? Will you draw wings for a European dragon or is it more of a snake-like Oriental?

  

  She'll also show you how to become a full-blooded Dragonolgist as you draw your own dragon species, find a treasure hoard and make dragons out of junk.

Drawing Dragons For Kids Art Projects

Catherine's going to take you through how to draw a dragon from start to finish. Dragon drawings star in many of our homeschooling art projects for kids and to learn how to draw one yourself it helps to follow stages.

With homeschool dragon art, the head and the tail come first. You'll see a few triangles in this drawing. You could use one for the tail, though Catherine's homeschooling one bears more relation to a circle. See how she's put a slanting line above his eye to add a more reptilian effect?

Now for learning how to draw a dragons' wings and legs. You'll see more triangles for the toes and wing spurs and if you're wondering how to draw dragon wings you can see they're almost oval.

Homeschool dragon drawings do have a lot of triangles don't they? You can see them in the teeth, the head crest and along the spine. She's even using them to decorate the tail. But you can see the start of lots of swirly circles in Catherine's dragons and homeschool art projects. Look at the tail plumes and the top of the head crest.

More homeschool swirly circles and she's beginning to fill in important black areas like the eye, the claws and the wing spurs. Drawing a highlight for the eye always works if you want to create a mischievous homeschool twinkle!

Now for the coloring. Homeschool art projects for kids are a great opportunity to practise with different art media. Catherine's favorite homeschooling choice is a mix of good quality felt tip pens and coloring pencils. She draws in pencil and then uses a black ink pen as an outliner. Almost there...

Dragon Drawing

Here he is! This is your chance to really enjoy yourself by inventing really colorful dragons. I love the way she's got an olive green head with extra wattles, crests and body parts in pink, yellow, purple, blue and orange.

Drawing dragons is a fabulous way to develop your kids art skills in homeschooling. Obviously, there are lots of different homeschooling ways to learn how to draw dragons - Catherine's just showing you what works for her.

Draw Your Own Guide To Dragons

Keeping Baby Dragons

Guide To Dragons

Once you've learnt how to draw a dragon, why not invent your own illustrated dragon story as part of one of your art projects for kids? If you click on this pdf you'll get a free story worksheet, and there are lots more free story writing worksheets here which you can practise your art skills on, including one on how to keep dinosaurs!

Art Projects For Kids

Once you've started learning how to draw dragons we've got some great homeschooling kids art projects to try:

1. Homeschool Dragon Crafts come alive as Catherine shows you how to make this magical paper lantern, perfect for art projects for kids. Your kids will learn how to make a homeschool stencil and draw dragons on tissue paper so they can light up their bedroom with dragons!



2. More kids art projects as Catherine shows you how to make model dragons in our page on homeschooling Art Activities For Children. Based on the Dragonology books, she's designed her own models out of card so you can draw your dragon and then learn how to make wings and tails fit together to create flying model dragons perfect for a kids homeschool mobile.

If you want to put drawing dragons in context, Wikipedia has an interesting article about where dragons come from, including the fact that dragons are said to have taught humans to talk!

Dragons make for the most fantastic homeschool art projects for kids precisely because there are so many ways to draw them and you can have so much fun while you learn.

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