Ralph Masiello's Dragon Drawing Book

This is the second Ralph Masiello drawing book we've purchased. They are really fun and relatively simple to follow along. He does a great job breaking down the shapes, step by step, to teach how to draw some pretty cool dragons. We bought this book as a fun gift to inspire one of our sons who loves drawing dragons (he is almost 6yrs old). The shapes are definitely a challenge for him at this stage, but he has been inspired by the different types of dragons and their unique elements.

My son bought it when the illustrator/ author came to his school. He is 8. He read it cover to cover and has spent many happy hours drawing dragons and knights since.

I recently purchased a number of "how to" drawing books, for myself and a couple to give to my kid nephew. Of the wide assortment of styles and instructions and subject matter, Ralph Masiello's books are a personal favorite. At this point, I have no aspirations (nor talent, I think) for producing fine art. Masiello's step-by-step, line by line illustrations allowed this very impatient student to accomplish an actual image right away. His demonstrations allow the individual to see where to start a drawing and how the image comes together. Once practiced and confident in my improved skills, I was able to apply what I learned to creating the creatures in different poses and create scenes of my own imagination -- not just pen or pencil, but embroidery, mixed media, etc.... anything a crafter can dream up using materials on hand.

Nine year old grandson loved it! Seventeen year old grandson said he wanted the same book. 5 Stars!

I bought this for my grandson, who had already checked it out of the library and it was time to take it back. School was ending so he couldn't check it out again. He really liked all the aspects that were shown in the book. My grandson is 9 and it really did improve his drawing, especially the little particulars that make a drawing complete and professional looking.

This addition to Masiello's drawing series is more advanced than his Ocean Drawing Book and is probably better suited to the 8-12 age range. Along with his detailed step-by-step drawing instructions for eleven kinds of dragons, he provides some historical and mythological information about each dragon, including by a nice map showing the geographic locations where stories about them originated. He also supplies a bibliography for further reading.

This ambitious book instructs the reader in drawing dragons using several styles of artwork, including a realistic style (as much realism, anyway, as can be expected from a mythological creatures) as well as Mayan, Thai, and Chinese styles of representation. For budding artists or dragon aficiandos, this is an excellent book for fanning the flame.

This book was my kids favorite out of all the collection I purchased. Again, some pictures can be challenging but they learn how to draw through repetition and effort! :)

Gift for 10 year old. Enthusiastic receipt by child

Ralph Masiello's drawing books are so liberating for people, both kids and adults, wanting and learning to draw. I have the entire collection in my classroom library and they are always a favorite go to choice for "center time."

I gave this to my eight year old. She loves drawing dragons. She's been working in this book and took some of her drawings to show and tell and got a lot of OOHHHs and AWWs from the class.