World Famous Comics: V. Shane Colclough Fantastic Realms!: Draw Fantasy Characters, Creatures and Settings
V. Shane Colclough Fantastic Realms!: Draw Fantasy Characters, Creatures and Settings
By: V. Shane Colclough Publisher: Impact Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Impact Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: February 02, 2006
Product Description: With "Fantastic Realms", readers will discover how to sketch, draw and colour their own fantasy worlds - one of the hottest trends in popular art today. This fantasy art guide begins with the basics and uses easy templates to help artists create fantasy worlds, from amazing characters and creatures to fantastic scenes and settings. This book includes: texture detail keys and colouring keys with each demonstration to show readers exactly how to create the different effects; templates of drawings for readers to practice inking or colouring on their own; and an appendix to help readers choose characters and scene characteristics. This is a perfect book for anyone who loves comics, collectable cards, role-playing games, and fantasy creatures.
Create a new world filled with fantastic creatures. . "Just like adventurers getting ready to go on a quest, artists must prepare themselves before setting out to create fantasy worlds and creatures." (V.Shane, pp15).
How odd it seems that the very first lesson in this book is to `Begin with Seeing,' yet without awareness of the world around you, how can you create a world within or without, the one in which you live?
This truly is an amazing creative book. For example, get a spray bottle out of the kitchen and study it until you see a creature emerge from the contours of the bottle. If you have trouble seeing something different, squint, or turn your head to the side, because you will be able to see a wild animal that is dangerous or a creature that is gentle, or battle raiment for your hero or villain. Something is there waiting for you to find it, much like stereographs.
This is the power of fantasy art.
The book will take you through the basics of fantasy drawing, the tools you will need and additional supplies that come in handy. You will see sketching & shading techniques known as hatching, crosshairs, contour lines, and others. Darker lines make deeper the shadows. If you want a sword gleam, keep it light while all around it is muted and darker.
By following the exercises in this book, you will create heroes and villains, dragons of many shapes and spirit, motion and stillness. There is a new world in this book and it is here for you.
It is so exciting to know that you can combine the knowledge you gain from all of the books on drawing to create cover art or coming books.
Offers everything If you like to draw and enjoy fantasy, then V. Shane's FANTASTIC REALMS: DRAW FANTASY CHARACTERS, CREATURES AND SETTINGS is for you. Packed with both step-by-step inlay illustrations of close-ups for drawing hands, inking approaches, and capturing action and color drawings of full finished products, FANTASTIC REALMS offers everything from coloring keys and notes on texturing and shading to using variety and bar sweeps to give an atmosphere to movement.
Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch
An excellent source for drawing tips This book is an excellent resource for learning how to draw all kinds of different things that would appear in a fantasy setting. It's got fantastic tips about shading, texture, and coloring. I just wish there had been a bit more information about some basics, like proportion for people like me who haven't had any formal training in how to draw.
Exellcent Book!!! well Shane, you kinda already know what i think about your book, but im here to tell everybody out there about how great and super helpful this book is!!!
the night i got this book, i spend 2hrs reading and studying everything cover to cover. the way its writen is easy to understand and the little tips are very handy to use. the next day, i made a few little sketches of many different creatures and humans. then i tried clading knights in a wide range armors and giving creatures much needed textures. i finally drew a small pic of a dragon and show it to my mom to ask what she thought of it. she could tell a great improvement in my art, with lines, postitions, textures, structure, etc.
i used to always draw the same thing, little cartoon characters, mostly using the same format. im starting to learn to draw different things now, letting my imagination wander further and try new things. i never use to draw multiple sketches to decide on were things should be or the position of the character. now i do and i have a better understanding of how things should look, im more organized. backgrounds werent my favorite thing to do, most of my drawings and sketches dont have them at all. slowly, more of my pictures are starting to have enviroments for the characters to be in.
this book has helped me in so many ways, im still improving on things. i use it for refernce all the time and have it next to my sketch book. its just an excellent book to have, i really really like it alot!!!
-Erin Carter "LinkinParkRocker21"
Excellent book I used to draw animals and buildings years ago and decided I wanted to go back to that. And add fantasy creatures to my ability.
This books covers drawing people, creatures and buildings. If you already having some drawing skill, this book is a great help.
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