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Draw Like an Artist: 100 Fantasy Creatures and Characters

Step-by-Step Realistic Line Drawing - A Sourcebook for Aspiring Artists and Designers
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Draw Like an Artist: 100 Fantasy Creatures and Characters presents over 600 detailed sketches illustrating a wide variety of fantastical beasts and characters. This guide leads artists through fundamental techniques such as proportion, anatomy, and spatial awareness while teaching how to draw mythical beings like unicorns, mermaids, dragons, vampires, and zombies from multiple angles. Step-by-step instructions demonstrate the journey from initial shapes to final shaded drawings, making it an invaluable resource for realistic fantasy art.
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This book is ideal for student and aspiring artists, illustrators, and animators, especially those interested in fantasy, gaming, and augmented or virtual reality. It serves anyone keen on enhancing their drawing skills through detailed, structured guidance on creating compelling mythological creatures.

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Draw Like an Artist: 100 Fantasy Creatures and Characters shows readers step by step how to create realistic drawings of a wide range of legendary and mythological creatures.

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Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of fantastic beasts and beings, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Fantasy Creatures and Characters is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring artists, illustrators, and animators working in fantasy, gaming, and augmented or virtual reality—anyone who's seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills and create compelling mythological marvels.

This contemporary step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental art concepts like proportion, anatomy, and spatial relationships as you learn to draw a full range of amazing life forms—including unicorns, mermaids, dragons, vampires, and zombies—all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Brynn Metheney's classic drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.

Learn how to:

  • Establish basic shapes and symmetry
  • Articulate lines for body shapes, forms, and shading
  • Add defining details

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Fantasy Creatures and Characters is a library essential for any artist who's interested in learning how to draw these richly imagined and visually and culturally influential legendary beings. The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631599644

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 September 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 700 b-w illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Brynn Metheney is a concept artist specializing in creature and character designs for film, games, and publishing. Her clients include Sony Pictures, Dark Horse Comics, Disney Publishing, Dreamscape Immersive, Warner Bros., and Wizards of the Coasts, and she has been involved with such projects as Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Warner Bros.'s Scooby-Doo, and Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You. Brynn also teaches creature design at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California, and The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. She lives in the greater Los Angeles area.

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