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my favortie book is this. it will help you alot.

but first sketch the drawing. then add sketch line shading, thinking about where the light is coming from. then felt pen color basically using your lightest colors. then add the darker colors of the same hue in the shaded areas if you use three shades of a color it looks great. you will be surprised how fast the drawing will POP off the page once you follow these steps. start simple. like drawing a piece of square wood. ie.

1. draw shape of wood, like a 2x4 or something.
   
2. add grain lines. maybe a knot or two.
   
3. add hatch lines in the darker side of the wood board.
   
4. color the whole thing with a light brown tone.
   
5. color the darkest side with a dark brown. and the semi shady side with a medium brown.
   
   lastly. if you want practice. use trace, and and underlay of some cool simple image you want to copy. then after you get the basic form, go to town on the trace with the colors. will give you a good start and be really rewarding when you see a nice image of a house or car or animal, whatever. the skill or rendering a good proportioned sketch will take time.

I should mention, this is out of a book called Bestiary: An Illuminated Alphabet of Medieval Beasts written and as far as I can tell illustrated by Jonathan Hunt, it's a wonderful book I have loved ever since I first read it as a kid. It's a thin hardcover with beautiful illustrations, and if anyone would like it is ~5 bucks on Amazon.

Edit: Off of mobile, link does indeed work.

Checkout Carlton Mellick III's "The Big Meat". The story deals with this whole concept.

I had one in the series on mythology, egypt, dragons, and pirates. It camp from candlewick press if it is of the same series. I have seen that picture before and think it is in

https://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MGQMGA6H3Z2T43PETTG0

It has a chapter on different types of dragons and some that are in water.

Katya's World by Jonathan Howard


http://www.amazon.com/Katyas-Strange-Chemistry-Jonathan-Howard/dp/1908844132/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462123802&sr=8-1&keywords=Katya%27s+world

https://www.amazon.ca/Book-Sea-Monsters-Bob-Eggleton/dp/1585677604

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Kings-Three-Magister-Trilogy/dp/0756407486

Why watch the movie when your imagination can do the work!