Drawing And Painting Fantasy Figures

There are over 50 stunning examples featured, offering inspiration and guidance to aspiring fantasy artists.

Learn how to draw and paint the fantastical characters, beasts and landscapes of other worlds.

With movies like Lord of the Rings, fantasy art is more popular than ever. Covers a wide range of media including watercolor painting, illustration, and digital painting. Showcases inspirational finished art from today's top fantasy artists.

A step-by-step guide to drawing and painting a range of fantasy figures, landscapes and animals. There are over 50 stunning examples featured, offering inspiration and guidance to aspiring fantasy artists. Easy-to-follow demonstrations guide the reader through the stages of creating fantasy artwork in a range of mediums, while there are lots more examples and galleries of work to use as a source of instruction and ideas. This books not only shows how to develop and range of images, but shows how to bring the characters to life with emotion, movement and action. It also deals with computer-generated digital art, and gives hints and tips on showcasing finished work.

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.

Escape to a fantasy world with these step-by-step instructions for drawing fifteen weird and wonderful creatures, including a dragon, wizard, unicorn, werewolf, fairy, and more. Completed illustrations are included to color or trace. Plus, there are blank and perforated practice pages with decorative borders and color guides on the inside covers for inspiration. Specially designed for experienced colorists, How to Draw Fantasy Figures and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonard?s paintings known as the ?figures de fantaisie?, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination reconnects the fantasy figures with neglected visual traditions in European art and firmly situates them within the cultural and aesthetic contexts of eighteenth-century France. Prior scholarship has focused on the paintings? connections with portraiture, whereas this study relocates them within a tradition of fantasy figures, where resemblance was ignored or downplayed. The book defines Fragonard as a painter of the imagination and foregrounds the imaginary at a time when Enlightenment rationalism and Classical aesthetics contrived to delimit the imagination. The book unravels scholarly writing on these Fragonard paintings and examines the history of the fantasy figure from early modern Europe to eighteenth-century France. Emerging from this background is a view of Fragonard turning away from the academically sanctioned ?invention?, towards more playful variants of the imaginary: fantasy and caprice. Melissa Percival demonstrates how fantasy figures engage both artists and viewers, allowing artists to unleash their imagination through displays of virtuosity and viewers to use their imagination to explore the paintings? unusual juxtapositions and humour.

Built around a 20-page core of "the basics" — materials, the figure, perspective, light, and color — this full-color guide features eight practical, inspiring exercises in creating creatures of the night.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing such fantasy themes as voodoo, vampires, werewolves, sea monsters, and gothic scenes.