Mythical creatures are pure magic and blasting them on paper sure is fun! Add your touch to all your drawings, let your imagination wander free! Step by Step guide is the easiest way to learn how to draw without limiting your creativity.
I’m here to guide you on how to make the basics, the main structure of your drawings, how to make every line and angle work. Everything else that follows will flow smoothly and accordingly, just how you want it to be.
Mythical creatures are all about different mix matches of animals, magic, and more, so be comfortable with making your own. Hey, if it doesn’t exactly look like in your head, don’t beat yourself up. Every developed skill needs practice, be patient, practice, but most of all, Have Fun.
WHAT DOES MYTHICAL CREATURE MEAN?
A mythical creature is an imaginary beast, animal, or being that is believed to be a real creature in ancient myths.
WHAT IS A MYTH
A myth is a legendary story without checkable facts or natural explanations
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MYTH AND A LEGEND?
A Legend contains some facts, sometimes a little exaggerated, but has actual events; meanwhile, Myth is storytelling not based on facts.
WHICH MYTHICAL CREATURE WAS BELIEVED TO BE FANTASY BUT TURNED OUT TO BE REAL?
The Giant Squid was once believed to be mythological and has been found that it exists!
WHAT IS THE RAREST MYTHICAL CREATURE?
A creature called “Leshi” that guards the woods, and its defense mechanism is to take you to its cave and tickle you.
WHAT IS THE SMARTEST MYTHICAL CREATURE?
The Centaur is known to be the wisest and a brilliant creature.
WHAT IS THE MOST POWERFUL CREATURE IN MYTHOLOGY?
There are many awesome and super powerful mythical creatures so anyone can have their favorite or their opinions, but the top ones are Dragons, Basilisk, and Kraken.
WHAT IS THE SMALLEST MYTHICAL CREATURE?
The Pixies.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST MYTHICAL CREATURE?
Aspidochelone is said to have grown to the size of a small continent.
WHAT IS THE DEADLIEST MYTHICAL CREATURE?
The Manticore.
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURE CAN MANIPULATE TIME?
Fairies are known to manipulate or modify time; when we think only a night or a short visit has passed, we come back to find that years or centuries have passed.
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURES ARE IMMORTAL?
Dragons, Unicorns, Vampires, Ghosts, Kirin, Magical Turtles, Fairies, Phoenix, and more!
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURES DRINK BLOOD?
Vampires and Chupacabras.
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURE CAN HEAL?
The Unicorns’ horn contains healing properties that can heal sickness or wounds, but there are a lot others.
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURE CAN SHAPESHIFT?
Werewolves, Wererats, Wereanything…
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURE GRANTS WISHES?
The Ceasg is also known as the Scottish mermaid.
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURES CAN FLY?
Dragons, Unicorns, Phoenixes, Manticore, Pegasus and many more.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF A MYTHICAL CREATURE THAT SINGS?
The Mermaid and Siren, their voice is so beautiful they use it to lure victims into making them do anything they want.
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURE CAN BREATHE FIRE?
Chimeras, Dragons, amongst others.
WHAT MYTHICAL CREATURE LOOKS MORE LIKE A HUMAN?
Dwarves are the closest. We look almost alike besides the significant height difference.
STRUCTURE
In drawing, just like with any other new skill, there are specific steps in which learning them will help us understand the basic concepts for the structure.
The structure of a drawing helps it maintain its proportions.
The main structure of any object can be composed with basic geometrical figures, dots and lines that overlap each other.
HEAD’S STRUCTURE
The head, just like the body, is formed by different basic geometrical figures, dots and lines.
PROPORTIONS
When we are drawing our environment, we can discover our own style of drawing by altering certain features and creating a completely different drawing than the one you started with.
Some variations may be to magnify or minimize your drawing’s eyes, tracing thicker or thinner or even to change the drawing’s original head, hands and feet proportions.
BEWARE! Always remember to respect certain features proportions or your drawing can turn out to look deformed.
Good Example
Wrong Example
LINE OF ACTION
Once we get the hang of the structure and proportions of our drawings down, we look into the line of action. What the line of action does is that it allows us to introduce movement into the body of our drawings by indicating the place where the movement is going to go.
