How to draw a Dragon for the New Year 2024 - draw a green dragon

The year 2024 of the Green Wood Dragon is ahead of us all, which means that today it is worth finding out what dragons exist and how they can be depicted. We will show you how to draw a beautiful traditional Dragon for a New Year 2024 card, and also attach some interesting options for a new symbol for your creativity.

Preparation stage

To make your own New Year dragon you will need:

  • paper (landscape or paper);
  • plain black pencil;
  • eraser;
  • colored pencils, markers or paints;
  • a little attention and patience.

Cute dragon (the easiest option)

If you are looking for the simplest drawing that even a child can easily create, see how to draw such a childishly cute Dragon for the New Year 2024.

If you like this idea, let's start drawing. First, he creates a drawing with a simple pencil. So, if suddenly something doesn’t work out perfectly the first time, you can always correct it. Our instruction will tell you how to create a drawing step by step.

  1. Draw a circle in the center of the sheet - this will be the head.
  2. Starting from the center to the right, place 3 combs. Draw eyes.
  3. Add a nose and cheeks.
  4. Draw the torso and hind legs.
  5. Add miniature front legs.
  6. Add a tail and comb along the back of the dragon.
  7. Trace the lines with a felt-tip pen.
  8. Paint your baby to your taste.

Flying dragon

For those who prefer fantasy style, there is a great idea - a flying dragon with big wings.

This lesson is also quite simple and does not require any special drawing skills.

  1. Start drawing from the corner - draw the outline of the nose.
  2. Create a long neck with a sharp ridge at the top.
  3. Add an eye and the inside of the neck.
  4. Start drawing the wing.
  5. Finishing the bottom of the wing as shown.
  6. Create the upper part of the second wing.
  7. Completing the second wing.
  8. Outline the webs of the wings.
  9. Finishing the membranes and creating the front paw.
  10. Draw the hind legs.
  11. Create a long ponytail with a zigzag crest.

It remains to color the dragon. You can add details, as well as choose any beautiful color option yourself, starting from a fantasy-style photo.

Fantasy Dragon

We also offer another more complex version of the image of a dragon with wings for those who have basic skills, such as sketching the base and drawing objects step by step.

In this option, you must first create a frame of the picture, and then draw each element step by step.

Chinese Dragon

If you want to create a picture in oriental style for the New Year 2024, we offer instructions on how to easily draw a Chinese Dragon.

As you can see, the Chinese traditional character has its own characteristics:

  • long serpentine body;
  • tail with a "fiery" tassel at the end;
  • different scales on back and tummy;
  • thin mustache;
  • traditional "fiery edge" of the muzzle.

We offer several options for such dragons.

You should start drawing such Dragons from a line that repeats the bend of the body, and only then indicate where the rest of the elements will be located and complete the picture with details.

Here's another interesting option for those who like to draw a picture by cells. It is as simple as possible to repeat such a drawing using a regular notebook or drawing a landscape sheet with cells of the desired size.

Toothless

Another popular character in this theme is Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon.

  1. We start drawing Toothless with a semi-oval muzzle and large, slightly pointed ovals for the eyes.
  2. Next, add a nose and detail the eyes, as in the photo.
  3. The next step is the top of the head with neat scallops in the form of drops.
  4. Finishing the ears, and also adding neat horns and dragon-like elements around the muzzle.
  5. Draw front paws with sharp claws.
  6. Adding hind legs.
  7. It remains to draw a tail and small wings. The picture is ready, it remains just to color it as in the original or in the New Year's way at your discretion.

Three-Headed Dragon

In our fairy tales, there is usually a three-headed Little Dragon, so let's add one more analysis on how to draw such a version of the New Year's symbol for the New Year 2024.

  1. Start creating a drawing with a frame outlining the position of the torso, paws, tail and heads of the future animal.
  2. Detailing the blank.
  3. Draw the elements of faces - eyes and noses.
  4. Erase extra lines and draw a contour. Detailing the Dragon's head and neck.
  5. Let's move on to drawing the upper part of the wings.
  6. Adding bottom lines and webbing.
  7. Draw the front paws.
  8. We draw the line of the hind legs and detail the fingers with claws.
  9. Draw a ponytail line and add a heart-shaped tip.
  10. Add spots on the back of our dragon. The drawing is ready, it remains to add color, as in the example or by inventing your own unique version.

Other options

We also suggest trying to repeat dragons using these simple step-by-step video instructions.

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