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| Fantasy Artist's Figure Drawing Bible: Ready-to-Draw Characters and Step-by-Step Rendering Techniques | 
 enlarge | Author: Matt Dixon
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 282232
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Spi
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 6.5 x 1
ISBN: 0764161148
Dewey Decimal Number: 740
EAN: 9780764161148
ASIN: 0764161148
Publication Date: July 18, 2008
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Product Description
Students of fantasy art who open this book will learn how to imagine and draw a wide variety of mythical characters to illustrate legends, myths, and fables. Author Matt Dixon presents both ideas and techniques for creating fantasy characters, demonstrating how to pose them correctly, and give them appropriate costumes to fit the story being told. After advising on uses of both conventional and computer art materials and tools, he coaches his readers on basic methods for sketching figures, adding tone and color to the illustration, and providing correct proportions and balanced composition. A detailed chapter on human anatomy follows, with instructions for transforming human figures into convincing fantasy characters. The bulk of this self-teaching manual consists of a directory of fantasy character types, each of them shown with concept sketches, constructional drawings, and fully-rendered images, all supplemented with instructive captions. The directory consists of approximately 30 different character types, including:
* Warrior * Wizard * Princess * Hero * Peasant * Elf * Gnome * Barbarian * Goblin * Witch * Vampire . . . and many more
The text is supplemented with more than 600 full-color illustrations.
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Concise, Clear Basics August 17, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was a fan of Matt Dixon's work, so I bought this book as a bridge from the standard art technique texts I own to working towards a Fantasy-style.
This book is well-organized with a concise overview of drawing and coloring techniques, followed by a large gallery of Fantasy characters and creatures. You'd probably want a couple more books that would fill out the sections of art technique with more info, but this one is a fine place to start and will give you plenty to work on by itself.
The character gallery is very complete. It gives you a thorough look at 30-40 archetypes of characters from Fantasy. Each has a complete work-up with a finished painting, line art for copying, initial sketches, and alternate faces and accessories.
Overall, it's quite clear , friendly, and much, much better than many of the other "How-to-Draw Fantasy [fill-in-the-blank]" books. Oh...and I appreciated the covered ring-binding that allows it to lay flat.
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