Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will be drawing an Oriental dragon.
We begin with the body making an ¨S¨ sort of shape, and then a curl
like so.
Remember that Oriental dragons are more snake-like
and less like a lizard.
So we continue with the bottom of it, twisting again.
And a little fluff of hair at the end of the tail.
I correct some of the lines so that it looks better
more even, and then let’s draw the head,
the snout, the eyes and some texture.
And now, let’s draw the hands.
Oriental dragons have the body similar to a snake, except that
they have 4 legs, or 2 hands and 2 legs.
like an eagle´s claws.
And on this one, on the right one let’s draw the dragon´s`
pearl, that shiny ball that sometimes
they have in her hands or that they are chasing, or they may also have it in their mouth.
And I will tell you a nice Chinese story about that, in a little bit.
Pearls are very precious and they are a symbol of wisdom
… and as you probably know, the dragon is also a symbol of wisdom
so it is proper that he has the pearl,
but the pearl also represents the Sun the holy Sun, and since it is also
in the shape of an egg, it represents ¨life¨ so it may have different meanings
depending also what region the dragon is from.
Let’s draw the scales on his back and then give some light to the ball,
and add some color to it.
I think this will be the only object I will use color for, other than the blueish
that I am using for the dragon
and some black for the claws and for some of the darkest shadows.
I’m drawing on light-blue cardboard paper
the list of materials, as usual is in the information below the video.
There are of course many differences between Oriental, that is Eastern
and Western dragons,
not only physical, as we mentioned,
but also in their meaning and personality.
While in the West dragons are usually evil and something to be afraid of,
as they bring destruction, in the East dragons are an omen of good fortune,
they have good powers, particularly the control of water and rainfall,
and as the survival of people generally depended on their crops,
the rain was very welcomed and therefore also the dragons.
There is a nice old tale that says that near the river Min
in China, there lived a woman and her son, they were good people but very poor,
every day the boy hiked into the countryside to cut grass and he sold this to the villagers
as fodder or fuel, with his small earnings, mother and son managed to survive,
but one year a terrible drought stroke the land, life became even harder for the family,
the boy couldn’t find anymore green grass,
after a while, the mother became ill from hunger.
One day he was walking by a dry river bed, when he found the brightest
and greenest grass he had ever seen;
he cut it and sold it well, being able to feed her mom properly.
Next day he went back and found that the grass had grown beautifully again.
After a few days of this repeating, he found a bright, beautiful, shiny, pinkish
pearl under the grass,
he brought it to his mom who got amazed by its beauty and placed it in an empty rice jar.
Next morning the jar was full of rice!
This is a miracle! said the mother and they ate happily, that night they placed
it in a money box, and by next morning it was overflowing with coins,
they became abundant and shared their wealth with other people.
But two jealous neighbors came into their home to steal the pearl,
to protected it the boy put it in his mouth, and when pushed by the man, he swallow it.
He felt a burning feeling and drank all the water in the house,
and then all the water of the river.
There was a thunder and rain poured down,
the villagers were so happy because the drought ended, but the boy started to grow
and scales filled his back; The woman cried as she watched her son turn
into a dragon. Then he walked into the overflowing river,
the boy turned around and looked at his mother,
but he knew he would not change back,
and he became the guardian of the river.
"Farewell, my son!" she called, "guard the river well," and he did!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo