Mastering Fantasy Art: Drawing Dynamic Characters: People, by John Stanko

By John Stanko

Convey the facility of realism for your fable drawings!

Great myth paintings transports audience to a realm the place the most unlikely turns into much less so, and all demeanour of wierd beasts and beings reside. It takes greater than fierce mind's eye to create those worlds. nice reference photographs help you draw what you certainly see, delivering that all-important hyperlink to truth that enables delusion artwork to take flight.

Mastering myth paintings exhibits you ways to exploit photograph references of types and props to create extra exact, fascinating and special characters and drawings. begin via studying the dos and don'ts of operating with a version, tips on how to arrange your lighting fixtures, and what makes a robust reference pictures as opposed to a foul one. Then stick to besides sixteen step by step demonstrations as grasp gaming artist John Stanko brings to existence wizards, sorceresses, barbarians, elves, vampires, dragons and extra. beginning with person characters and dealing towards compositions with a number of figures and motion poses, you'll tips on how to transcend the connection with create daring and unique delusion scenes of your personal imagining!

16 action-packed demonstrations provide specialist suggestion and methods for:

• growing an imaginitive solid of characters and creatures
• choosing the right poses, standpoint and lighting
• constructing actual costumes and exclusive weaponry
• Composing a conflict scene
• Seamlessly combining picture references with electronic editing
• Drawing really good landscapes

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