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| The red dots represent points on the skeleton below where the dragon
can bend - elbows, knees, hips, shoulders, spine, etc. As you can see from
the skeleton on the right, there's a long bone that connects the foreleg
to the weight bearing portion of the shoulder. It's the equivalent of our
scapula and collar bone structure in humans. Since this dragon does not
have wings, I didn't bother drawing in the sternum (breast bone along the
middle of the chest between the forelegs), which I think would be quite
large to support the weight of the wing muscle along with that of the shoulders.
I'll cover that in the wings tutorial.
Some day, when I'm rich, I'll make a mannequin of a dragon. A mannequin is one of those wooden posable little doll people you see in art stores for helping to draw humans in proportion. Now, with one of a dragon, you could pose it and draw your dragons in any pose! :-) I'll try to create a poseable rendered dragon body as well for those of you lucky enough to have rendering engines, so you can pose it in virtual space and use it as a guide for your drawings. |
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