Fantasy Artist S Figure Drawing Bible

Provides step-by-step instructions on drawing figures and creatures in fantasy art, including wizards, heoines, goblins, and witches, and provides advice on art composition, color schemes, proportions, and inspiration.

This practical guide offers artists a huge resource of ideas and techniques for creating extraordinary fairy creatures.

Drawing fantasy, manga and comic book characters is very popular at the moment. These areas appeal to a wide range of budding artists from schoolboys wanting to make their own graphic novels to those wanting to develop fantasy games on their computers. This book is a good, sound text on how to develop characters - a bit of personality but mostly how to work up preliminary sketches to the final finished character. There are sample pages from various artists' sketchbooks and lots of drawings in different poses to show how to convey different features, postures and movement. There are also outline figures that can be traced and then coloured in or developed further. All in all, this is a useful sourcebook for anyone interested in drawing fantasy figures. It is in the handy wirobound format.

"A comprehensive guide for fantasy and science-fiction artists and students working in traditional or digital media." - p. [4] of cover.

To draw and paint the fantasy figure an artist must have a full working knowledge of anatomy; this practical guide is the only anatomy book artists need to achieve this. Illustrates all male and female bone and muscle structure through anatomical diagrams, and then shows the techniques needed to render a fantasy figure using anatomical building blocks. Presents a specially commissioned, 30- page reference section of anatomical photographs packed with male and female poses to which the artist can refer time and again. Concludes with 4 in-depth step demonstrations of fantasy characters to put all the theory taught into practice; accompanied throughout by the author's fantastic images.

Provides instructions on the basics of human anatomical drawing, perspective, and composition and provides methods for transforming the human figure into a fantasy figure.

Based on the popular class taught by professional artist Steve Beaumont, this book presents actual class tutorials as step-by-step exercises, combined with insider tips used by professionals. Projects are broken down into easy-to-follow steps so that artists can follow precise techniques and achieve impressive results. Taking the human form as its central theme, the book looks at some wild and magnificent figures such as angels, vampires, warriors and other mythological characters. Filled with stunning colour images, the author guides readers through the basic stages of drawing anatomy and figure drawing, before progressing on to designing fantasy art creations.