rmctagg09

Ah, scales. Fish have them, reptiles have them, birds have them, some odd mammals like the pangolin have them, and various fantasy creatures - of which the most important one is the dragon - have them. And any artists who has come across them agrees they can be... tedious to draw. But wait, you say - isn't it enough to draw a lot of overlapping U-like shapes? Well, no. I wish it was so easy, but it's not. Bird scales are different from reptile ones, which are different from other reptiles, which are different from fish... And this is what we're going to look at in this tutorial. (Thinking about it - I should have called it "How to make your dragon look less fishy", but that's not really a clear and concise title. However, you are going to learn this too.) Note that I will leave out quite a lot of underlying anatomy in this tutorial, and focus more on how scales look. There are a lot of differences between the different types of scales, like in which layer of the skin they grow