Easy Dragon Drawings
8 free drawings in PDF, to color online or to copy by hand.
A dragon is the one creature where nobody can tell you it is wrong. There is no real one to compare it to, so a child who gets the legs odd has invented a kind of dragon rather than failed at an animal. The collection runs from a baby still in its shell to a single eye surrounded by scales that will take an adult an evening.
Dragon drawings to print and color
These dragon drawings print free, color in on screen if you would rather not print, and each one lists the steps for copying it by hand.
Start here: the easy ones
The baby dragon is still inside its shell, which removes the legs entirely, and the cute dragon is built from circles. Both work from four years old.
Heads rather than whole dragons
The dragon face fills the sheet with no body to proportion, and the dragon with a crown is friendly enough for a child who wants a dragon and not a monster.
Dragons doing something
The fire breathing dragon rears up and sends out a long jet of flame, and the dragon over the mountains flies with both wings spread above a range of peaks.
The long ones, for adults
The dragon eye is one eye and the scales fanning out around it, and the realistic dragon is scaled row by row with ribbed wing membranes. Both want colored pencils and a whole evening.
Everything prints free with no sign up. The unicorn drawings and the mermaid drawings sit beside this one under fantasy creatures.
Common questions
What order do you draw a dragon in?
Head first, then the neck down into the body, then the legs and last the wings. The realistic dragon lists its steps in that order under the drawing. If that is too much, the cute dragon is the same idea in eight short steps.
Which dragon is easiest for a small child?
The baby dragon hatching from its egg. The shell hides everything below the chest, so there are no legs to place and no balance to get right, and the broken edge is just a zigzag.
Is there a dragon page for an adult to color?
Two. The dragon eye is a close up of one eye with scales fanning out to the edge of the sheet, and the realistic dragon is scaled row by row. Both ask for colored pencils rather than markers, and both take an evening.
Does a dragon have to be green?
Any color at all, and that is the point of the subject. Nobody has seen one, so nothing on these sheets is wrong. Green and red are what most children reach for; two tones of the same color laid along the scales will always look better than one flat fill.