roar!

I can draw

I can draw
I can draw
1
F ind out how to draw all kinds
of fantastic creatures with this
step-by-step guide

Start with simple outlines to create your

own amazing drawings

Get expert advice on tools and

techniques, plus ideas and inspiration
to make all your pictures unique and
fun to draw
2
From monsters to unicorns,
use colors and shading to bring your
magical creatures to life!

splash!
3

$7.99 USA
$9.99 Canada
Printed in Slovakia

ISBN 0-7566-1986-6
50799
DK Publishing, Inc.

Discover more at
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I can draw
 Contents
LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH,
MELBOURNE, and DELHI
✺✺ ✺ ✺
Designed by Penny Lamprell &
Laura Roberts-Jensen
Illustrated by Clare Wilson
& the Peter Bull Art Studio
Written and edited by
Carrie Love & Lorrie Mack
US editor Margaret Parrish
Useful stuff 4
Photography by Andy Crawford
Publishing manager Susan Leonard
Production Seyhan Esen-Yagmurlu
Flower fairy 6
Jacket designer Karen Hood
DTP designer Almudena Díaz Ballerina fairy 8
Consultant Emma Drew

First American Edition, 2006

Published in the United States by
DK Publishing, Inc., 375 Hudson Street
New York, New York 10014
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Copyright © 2006 Dorling Kindersley
Limited
All rights reserved. No part of this
publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted in any form
or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording, or otherwise,
without the prior written permission of the
copyright owner. Published in Great Britain
by Dorling Kindersley Limited.

A Cataloging-in-Publication record for

Tooth fairy 10
this book is available from the
Library of Congress. Fairy faces 12
ISBN-13 978-0-7566-1986-2
ISBN-10 0-7566-1986-6 Mermaid 14
Color reproduction by ICON,
United Kingdom
Printed and bound in Slovakia
by Tlaciarne BB S.R.O.

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 Elf 30
Magical colors 16 Elf parade 32
Princess 18 Wizard 34
Prince 20

Expressions 36
Witch 38 ✺✺
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Shading 22
Unicorn 24
Dragon 26
Giant 40
Texture 42
Body parts 44

✺✺
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Scale 46
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Index 48
More dragons 28
Useful stuff Oil pastels
for coloring
in your
drawings.

C REATE YOUR OWN MAGIC with the

tools below. Bring your drawings to
life with colors and shading.
Soft pastels
can create a
gentle look
which is good
for fairies and
princesses.
No. 2 pencil

4B soft pencil
For shading
effects, use an
charcoal eraser or your
finger to smudge
colored soft pastels and
paper charcoal.

sketch pad

colored
pencils
Color in a
drawing with
water-soluble
colored pencils.
Use a wet
paintbrush to
pencil soften the color
sharpener and make it look
more like paint.

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References
Stuck for ideas? Take a look
around you and see what
inspiration you can get from
toys, magazines, and
newspapers.

feathers

pictures from
magazines,
postcards, and
books

felt-tip
pen for toy figures
strong and puppets
color for reference

ballpoint
pen for
strong
outlines

jewels

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 ✿ 1 Use a large oval
for the fairy’s
head, and smaller
✿ 2 Give the fairy
wings and a
wand. Draw in
circles for her her hands,
joints, hands, arms, and legs.
and feet. Lines
make up her
arms and legs.

Flower fairy
I AM A FLOWER FAIRY, see how
I flutter my wings. I am as
pretty as a petal. I sprinkle
magical fairy dust with my wand.

✿✿✿ ✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ ✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿

✿ ✿ ✿✿✿ ✿✿
✿ ✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ ✿✿ ✿✿
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 ✿ 3 Add eyes, hair, a
mouth, and a
nose. Decorate Use shading to
your fairy with a decorate your
pretty dress fairy’s dress.
and striped
stockings.

✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ ✿✿✿
✿
✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ ✿ ✿✿✿ ✿✿✿
✿✿✿✿✿✿✿ ✿ ✿ 7
 1 Start with
some circles
and lines.

2 Draw arms,
hands, wings,
feet, and legs.

3 Draw in your
ballerina’s face,
hair, and dress.

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Ballerina fairy
H ERE IS THE LOVELY dancing
fairy, so light on her toes.
Make her dance around your page.

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 1 Use lines as the basis of
your fairy’s arms and
legs. Circle and oval
shapes make up the
feet, hands, and head.

Give your fairy

2 wings, legs, arms,
a hand, and a
tooth to hold.

3 Draw hair, eyes, a

nose, and a mouth.
Give your fairy a
pretty dress
to wear.

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 Use shading
and stippling
to decorate
your fairy’s
hair and dress.

Tooth fairy Zzzzz

D REAM OF TWINKLY STARS,
as your very own Tooth
fairy comes to swap your tooth
for some money!

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 Taddaaaa!
Fairy faces
Y are
OUR PENCILS, PENS, AND PASTELS
like magic wands. Use them to make
your fairies look beautiful!

Try some
smaller
flowers for
your fairy’s
crown.

Fairy headwear
There are plenty of ways
to dress up your fairies.
Create amazing headwear
for them to fly around in.

Here’s an
interesting
design!

Make a pretty hat

that looks like one
big flower.

♥ ♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥ ♥ ♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥
♥♥♥♥♥
♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
♥ 12
 Fairy hairstyles
Be creative with your drawings and
give your fairies some fun hairdos.
You’re the one with the pencil so you
can decide what to try out; short
and curly or long and wavy!
This fairy’s hairstyle
is fun and easy to draw.

Draw thick and

wavy hair using
curved lines and
Decorate your shading.
fairy’s hair
with a ribbon
and give her
a necklace
to wear.

To get this
unusual
hairstyle use Fair ytastic
lots of
spirals in a
pile on top of
her head.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ ♥ ♥ ♥♥♥♥

♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
♥ 13
 Begin with circles and
1 lines for your mermaid’s
upper body; add curved
lines for her tail.

Draw in her fingers, two

shells, a belly button,
2
and an outline for her
neck and arms.

Give your mermaid eyes,

3 hair, a mouth, and a nose.
Put scales on her tail.

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 Mermaid
“
I LOVE TO SPLASH AROUND IN THE WAVES and
swim with the fish. I visit the shore every now
and then, but I live in the sea since I can’t stay
out of the water for too long!”

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Magical colors
H AVE FUN AND GET CREATIVE when
coloring in your magical creatures.
See the amazing difference that pastels,
water-soluble colored pencils,
and felt-tip pens can make!

Witch
Color in your witch’s hair, dress,
and shoes with colored pencils.
Don’t make her dress a solid
black; use shading to make it
lighter in some areas. Create a
rough texture on her hair and
broomstick using oil pastels.

Wizard
Using felt-tip pens, make
your wizard’s cloak look
like velvet. He is a wise and
old wizard so keep his hair
and beard white.

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Flower Fairy Before you get going try
out some different
This flower fairy has been combinations of colors and
colored in with soft pastels. materials on the side
Use two colors and blend of the page.
them together.

Mermaid
Color in your pretty
mermaid with water-
soluble colored pencils.
Elf
Use colored pencils
to decorate your elf.
Try different shades
of green for his hat
and shirt. Add depth
to your drawing by
shading his bag and
scarf to make them
look worn.

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 Princess
ribbit!
M EET THE PRETTY PRINCESS.
She looks sweet in her
patterned dress. She lives in a
magical kingdom. If she kisses
the frog he might turn into
a prince!

Begin with basic shapes and Make an outline for her dress,
1 lines for your drawing. 2 arms, neck, and shoes.

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 Use shading and coloring to
dress up your princess!

Draw her hair, eyes, mouth

3 and nose. Add a crown, hearts
on her dress, and a frog for
her to hold.

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 Basic shapes and lines make Draw an outline around the
1 up the main body parts for 2 prince’s body. Give him a
the prince. cloak and clothes.

Prince
D RAW A ROYAL PRINCE who
ready to rule a kingdom,
fight a dragon, and charm a
is

princess. In order to look the

part he needs a crown, a
sword, and a stylish cloak.

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 Put hair and a crown on the so g!
3 prince’s head. Draw in his I’m rmin
cha
face and give him a belt
and sword.

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 felt-tips

colored
pencils

Use colored
pencils as well as
2B, 3B, 4B, and
No. 2 pencils to
build up hatching.
Use different
shades of colored
oil pastels felt-tips to create
strong effects.

soft pastel

soft pastels
create soft
effects

Oil pastels can also Charcoal is especially good for

create shadows—try soft shadows on the ground.
using two shades of
the same color.

charcoal

eraser

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Types of shading
Shading
He looks a
bit shady...

C REATE A 3D EFFECT on your

drawings with clever shading.
Make your dragons and witches look
more scary, and your princess and
prince more important by using areas
Soft, diagonal lines will add depth
to your drawing, but make sure of light and dark.
not to press too hard.

Shady wings
See how these wings have
been improved with dark
and light shading.
When crosshatching, draw lines
in two directions, one over the
other, pressing lightly.

In stippling, shading is created

by using lots of tiny dots.

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 Start with cirles
1 in different sizes
for the unicorn’s
head, body, and
leg joints.

Draw an
2 outline for
the body.
Give it
a tail, ears,
and a horn.
Draw two
curved lines for
its wings.

Finish the
3 wing with lots
of curved
lines in a
row. Give the
unicorn a
mane, eyes,
a mouth, and nose.
Decorate its horn.

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Unicorn
A UNICORN IS A MYTHICAL CREATURE
with magical powers. It looks like
a horse, but one with wings and a horn
coming out of its forehead.

Use shading to make your

drawing look more interesting.

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 Draw straight lines for the
neck and legs, a squiggly line
1 for the tail, and circles
for the head and
main body.

Add wings, ears, and feet. Draw

around the main
2 body outline.

Fill in the dragon’s face.

Use triangles for the
3 ridges on
his back.

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Dragon
L EGENDS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
describe dragons as large fire-breathing
reptiles with wings. Dragons were seen as
terrifying creatures that often guarded
treasure or maidens.

Puff!
Use shading on the
dragon’s body to make
him look more lifelike.

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 Draw circles, Create an outline around the
1 semicircles, squiggly 2 dragon’s body, head, and tail.
lines, and a triangle. Give him wings!

Begin with basic shapes Draw around the shapes to

1 and curved lines. 2 make your dragon.

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 Draw eyes, a mouth,
and nose. Use shading
on his wings.

More
dragons
I N FAIRY TALES PEOPLE were
terrified of dragons because
they were thought to fly and
breathe fire. Princes were
sent off to kill dragons in
order to protect people—
and rescue princesses.

Use shading on his skin and

draw lines on the front
of his belly and neck.

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✿
1
Draw a large
circle for the elf’s
head, and lines
for his legs and
✿ 2
Give your elf
shorts and a
T-shirt to wear.
Draw an outline
arms. Use basic around his
shapes for his arms, hands,
body, feet, and legs.
and joints.

Elf
E that are popular
LVES ARE A TYPE OF FAIRY
in myths. These tiny people are said to be
friendly to humans, although sometimes they
can misbehave! Santa Claus has elves working
for him as his helpers.

✿
30 ✿ ✿
✿
3
Add in his eyes,
mouth, ears,
and nose. Draw a
hat and a bag.
Dress him in
striped tights
and shoes.

Use shading on
your elf’s tights,
scarf, and bag.

✿ ✿ ✿ ✿ ✿
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 Elf parade
Once you’ve drawn some
elves try drawing lots of
trees and snow!

H AVE FUN DRAWING THE

ELVES ON THEIR PARADE.
Do you think they are on their way
Bearded elf

to Santa’s workshop?

Friendly elves

Begin with basic shapes and lines, then give Copy the shapes and lines in step 1.
clothes, shoes, and bags to the elves. Draw an outline for the elf’s body.

1 1 2

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 Draw me Use different colors and
a hat! shading techniques to
decorate your drawings.
Friendly elf

Helpful elf

Follow the circles and lines in step 1, Start with shapes and lines, then give the
then give your drawing more details. elf a big nose, clothes, and an apple to hold.

1 2
1

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 Start with basic shapes Draw a hat and a magical
for the main parts of the wand. Dress your wizard
1 wizard’s body and lines for 2 in a long gown.
his legs, arms, and neck.

Wizard
W ATCH THE WIZARD as he waves his
star-shaped wand to perform
magical spells and tricks. He is powerful
and his name means “wise man.” The
most famous wizard was named Merlin.
Have you heard of him?

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 Give him some hair and a
beard. Fill in his face with
3 big eyebrows, a nose, Abracadabra
and mouth.

Decorate his gown with

yellow stars and moons.
Use shading on his hat
and gown to make them
look real.

35
 Expressions
M” IRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL,
is the fairest of them all?” Try
drawing different expressions on your
who

magical creatures’ faces.

Sad fairy

Draw the fairy’s head, Add a nose, mouth, Give her wings, hair,
neck, and eyes. and teardrops. and a crown.

Happy witch

Draw the witch’s head, Draw her nose with a wart, Shade in her hair and
neck, shoulders, and eyes. her hair, mouth, and chin. draw a hat.

36
Angry goblin

Use two crossed lines to Draw his jawline, eyebrows, Draw his hair and shade it in.
draw eyes in the right place. nose, and an ear. Put stubble on his chin.

Tired giant

Draw the giant’s head, Put in detail on his face Shade in his lips and hair.
eyes, and ears. and give him shoulders.

Surprised elf

Start by drawing the elf’s Add a nose, mouth, Draw a hat and shade in
head, neck, and eyes. ears, and eyebrows. his eyebrows and mouth.

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 Start with
1 circles and
basic shapes for
the witch’s body
and broom.

2 Give your witch a

hat, arms, hands,
and cloak. Draw a
cat sitting on
her broom.

3 Draw a nose,
mouth, and eyes
on the witch and
her cat. Give the
witch some hair.

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 cackle!
cackle!

Witch
H ubble bubble, here comes
trouble... watch out for the
flying witch and her cat. Stay
away from her cauldron!

39
 Begin with basic lines Draw around the
1 and shapes for the 2 shapes and lines to
giant’s head, body, create the arms, body,
legs, and arms. fingers, and legs.

Giant
“
F EE, FI, FO, FUM! I
smell the blood
of an Englishman. You had better
stay away from my hen that lays solid-
gold eggs, or I won’t be a happy,
friendly giant!”

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 Give the giant some hair,
3 eyes, a nose, and mouth.
Draw his shoes and clothes.
fee,
fi, fo,
fum...

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Texture
M AGICAL CREATURES have a range
of textures, from feathery wings
on fairies to shiny scales on dragons.
Try out different materials to make
Wings need long, soft
your magical creatures look lifelike. pencil strokes to make the
feathers soft and light.

Words to think about

scaly furry bumpy

Use a soft pencil or pastel
to make fairy wings look
light and delicate.

lumpy smooth slimy

hairy prickly spiky

feathery shiny Mermaid tails and bodies

have overlapping scales that
have a texture like fish skin.

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Textures in nature m ake a delicate
Ssscales
uld f ai
Look around you (in your wo r
are ssso

yw
re
home, outside, and in books) sssuper

xtu

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to get ideas for adding more

flowery te

.
texture to your drawings.
.
Can you guess where each

es
cal
texture is from?

ese shimmery s
T his
nicorn could fly
Au aw
ay

h
w

at t
ith

ps are like a
bum
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 troll’s
nose boil
Body parts
M AGICAL CREATURES ARE
ALL UNIQUE. Have fun
drawing all their body parts!
Once you have tried all the
characters in this book use this monster
runny nose
page to give you more ideas.

witch
Hands
Use shading around the
witch’s and giant’s warts.
Give the witch pointed
fingernails and the
princess pretty pink ones!

goblin

beak
pixie
Noses
Be creative when
drawing and
coloring in noses
on your magical giant
creatures!

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 troll

dragon
dragon
gnome Wings
Draw wings with all
Feet and claws kinds of textures
and shapes.
Use lots of different colors for the feet
and claws on your magical creatures.

Tails
Magical creatures’ tails
are not at all alike. The
mermaid’s is slippery
and scaly, the dinosaur’s dragon fairy
is spiked and sharp, and
the unicorn’s is wispy
and wiry.

unicorn mermaid

unicorn

45
 Scale
We’re only
little
M AGICAL CREATURES are very
different in size. There are
tiny fairies and gigantic giants.
Be creative and try drawing a few
Tiny fairies magical creatures on one page.
Make sure you keep them to scale.
Fairies are usually very small.
Have fun comparing your
drawings to real-life objects Hmmm... I
to see the difference in size. think I prefer
the frog

Fee fi fo
fum?

Life-size
Silly sizes Some magical
creatures should be
You can play around by
drawn to look life-
changing the scale of different
size, such as the
creatures around to make
prince, princess,
some funny pictures. This
and unicorn.
giant isn’t so big now that he’s
standing by an oversized elf!

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Fly away
The witch looks like
she is farther away
because she is
smaller than the
Any size
flying dragon. Some magical creatures
come in many shapes and
sizes. Dragons can be big Where’s
and scary or small and the beach?
sweet. Try drawing both!

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 Index
B F M T
ballerina fairy 9 fairy 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, mermaid 14-15, 17, texture 42-43
12-13, 17, 36, 45 45 Tooth fairy 11
C fairy tales 29 monster 44 troll 44, 45
color 4, 5
crosshatching 23 G P U
giant 37, 40-41, 44 pixie 44 unicorn 25, 45
D gnome 45 prince 18, 20-21, 29
dragon 26-27, 28-29, goblin 37, 44 princess 18-19 W
45 witch 16, 36, 38-39,
H S 44
E hairstyles 13 shading 4, 7, 11, 13, wizard 16, 34-35
elf 17, 30, 32-33, 37 19, 2-23, 25, 27, 29,
expressions 36-37 33
stippling 23

It’s magical.
Bye bye!
Acknowledgments
Dorling Kindersley would like to thank: Karen
Hood, Tory Gordon-Harris, and Jane Bull for
design inspiration; Rose Horridge and Claire
Bowers for picture research; Zahavit Shalev and
Fleur Star for editorial assistance.

Picture credits
Picture credits t = top b = bottom c= center l = left r = right
© Judith Miller / Dorling Kindersley / The Design Gallery 36tr.

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 roar!
I can draw

I can draw
I can draw
1
F ind out how to draw all kinds
of fantastic creatures with this
step-by-step guide

Start with simple outlines to create your

own amazing drawings

Get expert advice on tools and

techniques, plus ideas and inspiration
to make all your pictures unique and
fun to draw
2
From monsters to unicorns,
use colors and shading to bring your
magical creatures to life!

splash!
3

$7.99 USA
$9.99 Canada
Printed in Slovakia

ISBN 0-7566-1986-6
50799
DK Publishing, Inc.

Discover more at
www.dk.com 9 780756 619862