
- Sketching/Drawing
- Level: Intermediate
- Subject: Dragon Wings
Dragon Workshop: Head | Body | Scales | Wings | Limbs And Talons | Horns And Other Addons | More…
I briefly touched upon drawing wings earlier when explaining how to design dragon body. Let us take a closer look at how we can draw the wings in just about any position.
Anatomic Construction Lines
Here is a construction of an open wing from the inner side.

The joints are denoted by letters and the major bones indicated by numbers. ‘A’ denotes the shoulder joint, ‘B’ denotes the elbow joint, and ‘C’ denotes the wrist joint. This is drawn comparing the open wing to a stretched human arm.

Above is the construction of a closed or curled up wing. Note that line marked with ‘1′ is from shoulder to elbow, ‘2′ is the fore arm, and ‘3′ is the index finger.
Wrapping The Skin

All that is left to do is wrapping skin around these skeletal construction lines.

Sketch the skin of the wings, stretching between the fingers, from index to middle, to ring, to little finger. After that, just pull the webbing like skin to the pit under the ‘arm’.
Various Wing Positions

Study your own arm and examine how it bends or ask your friend to pose for you, so that you can do quick construction line sketches.

After that, practice wrap the skin around it. Let is sag a bit between the ‘fingers’. Once you clean up, you should have a lineart that looks appropriate on a dragon body. If you are doing any closeup artwork of a dragon, consider drawing scales on them - but it is usually on the outer or the back side of the wing.
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January 21, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Roberta Seldon
Great tutorial! Thanks!
January 21, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Vyoma
You are welcome, Roberta
January 24, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Kittygurl521
Nice tutorial! This was just what I was looking for.
January 25, 2008 at 4:27 am
Vyoma
Thank you.
February 14, 2008 at 12:05 pm
james
thanks now i know jow to draw the wings on my dragons i can draw really good dragons but had a problems on drawing the wings
February 14, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Vyoma
Glad that you found this helpful, james.
Would love to see your dragon drawings.
March 5, 2008 at 9:02 pm
clarissa
Thanks I have a book report on ERAGON and i have to draw Saphira.I was looking on every wep how to draw dragon wings and thanks to you my book report wont be as bad as my others. :p
March 5, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Vyoma
That is great, Clarissa.
By the way, is this book report for any academic purpose? Do post a link if you have published it anywhere online.
March 5, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Clarissa
Wow! This is what i needed for my project.
Thank You Very Much!
March 5, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Vyoma
Possible double posting?
March 17, 2008 at 3:53 am
greyelk
can you show me how to draw A dragon
March 17, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Vyoma
Hey greyelk - I have put together this page - Dragon Workshop - that has all the posts published at KalaaLog.com on Dragons.
There is a series of drawing tutorials that should help you out.
March 28, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Andrew
i can now draw dragons again.I could draw super good dragons in the 2nd grade but i lost my talent.So good job on your site it really helps.
March 28, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Trevor Seines
Cool!!!!
March 29, 2008 at 6:42 am
Vyoma
I am glad, Andrew.
Do post a link to your artwork if you have uploaded them anywhere.
Thanks! Trevor.
June 9, 2008 at 8:45 pm
unknown
thnx
June 15, 2008 at 3:44 am
Ana
OMG thank you so much for simplifying it. A friend wanted me to draw dragon wings for him and this has been extremely helpful.
June 15, 2008 at 5:52 am
Vyoma
You are welcome, Ana.
July 28, 2008 at 11:00 am
Boogers
Pritty cool
August 20, 2008 at 4:27 pm
JUSTIN
Could you please tell me 12 types of lines? Like vertical, straight, curved, etc… I really need this for my project.
August 20, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Vyoma
I did not realize there were ‘12 types of lines’ - sorry, cannot help you on that one.