Can dragons fly without magic? Let's try to figure it out.
I found a random formula on the internet for calculating bird wing area based on body mass: Sโ0.15โ m^2/3. A dragon, even the smallest one, should weigh no less than a horse. Otherwise, how could it carry off a princess or at least a donkey? The average weight of a horse is 500 kg. If we plug this into the formula, we get approximately 12 square meters of wings, which should be about 6 times larger than the size of the dragon itself. And here we have problems. First, this formula is for birds, and dragons most likely don't have feathers, hollow bones, and other adaptations that birds have developed to be lighter. Second, wings of this size would significantly affect the mass themselves. The catch is that as wing size increases, mass grows faster than lift. So it turns out that without magic, dragons can fly only backwards using jet propulsion from their mouths; wings alone wouldn't be enough for them.
But I'm getting distracted.
We'll start drawing it with the most difficult partโthe wing. Try to convey the shape of an extended S with a very long top. Then we'll add the inner part of the membranous wing to it.
When the wing starts to take shape, you can try to draw the dragon's body and the second wing. After that, all that remains is to add details.
