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How to draw a dragon

Start with the curling body, with legs and a tail and finish with the eyes, the teeth and the last details.

Finished, it has 47 areas to color: 48th of 50 here, counting from the simplest (one of the harder ones). Close to it: flying saucer and t-rex.

Main colors in the original emoji: green, light green and dark green.

The six steps

1. The curling body, with legs and a tail.
2. The head and the belly.
3. The mouth and the claws.
4. The horns and the first belly stripes.
5. More belly stripes and the nostril.
6. The eyes, the teeth and the last details.

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How to draw a dragon: 6 steps

25 shapes over six steps, then a box to draw your own.

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How to draw a dragon: 4 big steps

Steps of 4, 5, 7 and 9 shapes, drawn bigger.

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Dragon to color

The finished drawing: 47 areas.

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Color and trace: dragon

Color it, then trace the word.

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New parts are black and what is already drawn is gray; how the sheets work. Draw something else: elephant, fire engine, fish, flying saucer, fox, ghost, giraffe, heart with ribbon, helicopter, horse, house, ice cream.

Drawings adapted from Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0: turned into outlines, and checked so every area can be colored.