Anime Dragon With Large Wings Spread Wide

This is the most demanding sheet in the anime set, and it rewards anyone willing to sit with it. The dragon fills almost the whole page with its body twisted into an S, head turned back over one shoulder, jaw open to show teeth and a forked tongue. Two long horns sweep off the skull and a ridge of spines runs from the neck all the way down the tail.

The belly is banded in wide plates that stack like stepping stones, while the back and flanks carry individual scales drawn small enough that a fine tip pen or a sharpened pencil will serve you better than a marker. Both wings open behind the body with slender ribs dividing each membrane into long panels.

Behind everything sits a circular arch built from ribbon, dotted beading and a flower medallion at the top, and large open poppies rest along the bottom corners. That arch is worth planning first, because a single flat tone across the ribbon gives the busy dragon somewhere quiet to sit against. Deep jewel tones on the scales and something pale in the wing panels will make the wingspan read as translucent skin stretched over bone.

Four clawed feet finish the pose, each toe tipped with a curved talon left blank inside.