Good Day Steemians!

Today, I'll show you my drawing of a flying wyvern called Rathalos and how I drew him. He's actually one of the main monsters of the Monster Hunter franchise. He's pretty hard to kill.

Here is the reference material I used for this drawing as I've discussed on the Rathalos Preview Post. This Deviantart Artist sure does produce good quality digital artworks. I haven't practiced digital drawings yet because of my lack of equipment (I do not have a touch screen device wide enough that has a pen or a pen/tab set to draw like a Wacom), so for the meantime I have focused on the things I'm able to create.

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That Hunter above is definitely in trouble, he looks low level cause of his equipment, it looks like things bought from store. I'm sure though that he will improve in time.

I will be sketching the above reference using ink pens and a paper. Afterwards, I also plan on digitizing my piece and provide some touches on it. If I still have time to do it. I do have a full time job and it's taking most of my time. Not to mention I work nights and right now (as I'm typing these words) is actually my sleeping time.

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The Drawing

Here's how it all started out. First, I've sketched the Rathalos using a pencil. Some fine light lines should not obstruct the drawing whatsoever. I've written my username here and labeled my drawing. It's best to sketch some lines to guide you on the drawing process too.

The sketch above will be our basis for the pen drawing. I inked in the left eye and brows and part of the nose and some teeth for this process.

I continued drawing the rest of his left face. Added a bit of shading using cross-hatches. The hardest part of this was drawing the ridges on his face.

Next up, you can see the full face of Rathalos but still require an ample amount of work on the whole drawing itself.

Added in some more features like his horns, ears, smile, etc. I started to outline his body's feature here as well and started to shade the darkest areas:

I've completed his face here, as well as his right wing, the plates on his left leg and some more shadows all over the drawing:

The Rathalos is almost finished. We just need to add in more shading to his backdrop as well as on his feet. A bit more detail on his wings might be needed as well:

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Here's the Finished Drawing:

You can look at the details on this drawing on this zoomed in photo:

I also would like to show you how it looks compare to the reference drawing by editing it into a GIF, transitioning from the reference into my drawing, just look here:

I already tried a few edits using Photoshop to add in some colors into the drawing, it's not as good as the colors from the original/reference but it looks better than just the plain drawing in black and white, this one looks more alive:

Thanks for viewing my art guys! I hope you enjoyed my post!