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Draw & Paint Fantasy Females Review

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Draw & Paint Fantasy Females ReviewImpact, which publishes art instructional books, generally does a good job with the books they print; some are of better quality than others, however. "Draw and Paint Fantasy Females" is a decent how-to-draw book, but unexceptional, though it does offer a few good tips.
What this book won't tell you, and what every artist must eventually learn, is no single book will fully teach you how to draw anything, let alone the human figure. A book can give you a good start and provide some inspiration, etc., but you will need many books and years of practice before you master drawing.
With that said, Tom Fleming, the writer/artist of this book, who is obviously talented (I've seen his work in other venues previous to this book) does a decent job of outlining the process of drawing and painting the female figure. The book is divided up into five chapters and closes with a gallery of Mr. Fleming's work. It is, basically, of the "omnibus" type of how-to-draw books, which, instead of focusing on a couple of techniques, really tries to teach them all and spends about 2 pages on each. Here you'll find discussions of drawing and painting supplies and techniques, anatomy and figure construction, poses, drawing the face, hair and clothing, and also different female character archetypes (sorceress, warrior, faerie, etc.). However, each of these segments is only covered superficially, in general, though there are good tutorials and worthwhile pieces of advice sprinkled about.
Probably the most useful bit of information that is included are Mr. Fleming's techniques for drawing and painting metallic effects and for putting shine on clothing. I've never seen these very challenging topics covered so well in a book before, and those are what sold me on this purchase.
In closing, "Draw & Paint Fantasy Females" is a generally good book on drawing, but tries to do too much in too small a space. However, it is worthwhile for its excellent tips and for its general quality.Draw & Paint Fantasy Females Overview

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Draw & Paint Fantasy Art Warriors & Heroes Review

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Draw & Paint Fantasy Art Warriors & Heroes ReviewAn excellent how-to book! Professionally written, easy to follow instructions highlighted with fantastic paintings by one of the industries most talented and inspiring artists. Having personally worked with Alan during the past 3 years, I have found him to be a consummate professional in every aspect; Elite skill level, easy to work with and very accommodating--wanting to do the best work possible on every project. This book is certainly no exception. Book covers all the important elements of creating great and dynamic heroic artwork as materials needed, proper anatomy proportions, step by step figure proportions, weapons, color theory and mood and the proper use of lighting techniques for the type of atmosphere you may want to capture.
Such legendary warriors as Attila the Hun, Boudicca the Celt, Penthesilia-Queen of the Amazons, the Greek demi-god Achilles, the Norse god Thor and many others (10 in all) are covered from the very basic initial pencil stick figure sketch all the way through to the fully finished painted piece. Each personality comes complete with several "artist's tips" to aid you creating even more detailed and impressive images.
So, whether you are a beginner or seasoned professional, traditional or digital practitioner, one can find a good amount of information and ideas from this book.Draw & Paint Fantasy Art Warriors & Heroes Overview

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Drawing & Painting Mermaids (Fantasy Art) Review

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Drawing & Painting Mermaids (Fantasy Art) ReviewGreat book full of beautiful easy to understand illustrations and teachings. Defiantly worth the 20 bucks! I bought it for my 12 year old daughter and its so good both her and I love it.Drawing & Painting Mermaids (Fantasy Art) Overview

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Angelic Visions: Create Fantasy Art Angels With Watercolor, Ink and Colored Pencil. Review

Angelic Visions: Create Fantasy Art Angels With Watercolor, Ink and Colored Pencil.
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Angelic Visions: Create Fantasy Art Angels With Watercolor, Ink and Colored Pencil. ReviewHere's a book dedicated to drawing angels by Angela R. Sasser.
The book has four chapters, covering the art materials (primarily colour pencils and watercolor), drawing and designing the characters, creating the background and includes 8 step-by-step demonstrations at the back.
On the character design of angels, you get to learn how to draw the different parts of an angel, things like wings, halos, clothing, weapon and other ornaments. The subject is seems well researched enough, the instructions are clear, and gives useful points to look out for. The basic anatomy lessons aren't too helpful because they are too elementary. I recommend getting a separate figure drawing book to help with figure posing and construction.
The chapter on backgrounds covers drawing of clouds, flowers, creating stone and stained glass textures. There doesn't seem to be a lot of variety when in comes to designing backgrounds for angels. This chapter is quite thin and feels disconnected from the book because the examples shown here, with exception of flowers, aren't really used in other paintings.
Finally, the book ends with 8 detailed painting demonstrations. The tutorials are roughly meant to be followed along - you can draw your own angel and then follow the techniques mentioned. It provides good practice on using watercolour. I don't particularly like the style of watercolour is used here though, but different people prefer different styles.
Overall, this is a decent starter guide if you're looking to draw angels. A figure drawing book is highly recommended to go along with this book - that will give your characters more volume.Angelic Visions: Create Fantasy Art Angels With Watercolor, Ink and Colored Pencil. Overview

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Learn to Draw Like the Masters: Dragons Review

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Learn to Draw Like the Masters: Dragons ReviewMy 14 yr old son found this book at our local Michael's arts & craft store. He wanted me to buy it then, but I chose to order it through Amazon for the better price. My son & I, who are both artists,like the different examples showing how different masters would paint a dragon. This book would be helpful inspiration for teen or adult artists to explore new techniques and design styles. It shows DaVinci, Rubens, Van Gogh, and Picasso styles and techniques, as well as a short bio of each artist. I think it would be too advance for little artists as a teach yourself book. Although art teachers could use it for lesson planning.Learn to Draw Like the Masters: Dragons Overview

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OtherWorlds: How to Imagine, Paint and Create Epic Scenes of Fantasy Review

OtherWorlds: How to Imagine, Paint and Create Epic Scenes of Fantasy
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OtherWorlds: How to Imagine, Paint and Create Epic Scenes of Fantasy ReviewYep. There have been quite a few artbooks this year, and I liked a lot of them, in particular another very recent release, "Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth " by Donato Giancola, but this one is even better. It ranks alongside John Howe's artbook ( 2007) from Impact as the best one I have seen from this publisher, and alongside the great Charles Vess artbook from Dark Horse ( 2009) as my overall Fantasy art favorite.
Stunning, stunning illustrations. Needless to say I am a huge fan of Tom Kidd's work and if you are too, you will find here a vast array of dazzling work, as well as how-to instructions. Various topics are detailed, as you can also see in Amazon's search inside function. Kidd is one of the best illustrators the SFF field has ever had and this wonderful book underlines that even more.
Highly recommended.OtherWorlds: How to Imagine, Paint and Create Epic Scenes of Fantasy Overview

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DreamScapes Myth & Magic: Create Legendary Creatures and Characters in Watercolor Review

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DreamScapes Myth & Magic: Create Legendary Creatures and Characters in Watercolor ReviewThis book is both beautiful to look at and practical to use. I have the first Dreamscapes book and had high hopes for this one as well. It DID NOT disappoint. Lots of new information,wonderful samples and Ms.Pui-Mun Law's easy style make this book a diamond amongst pearls! I will be using this for a long time to come. What could make this book even better? Add a spiral binding for ease of use when painting! Thank you Stephanie Pui-Mun Law for making it feel like I can paint too!DreamScapes Myth & Magic: Create Legendary Creatures and Characters in Watercolor Overview

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Digital Painting Techniques, Vol. 3 Review

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Digital Painting Techniques, Vol. 3 ReviewDigital Painting Techniques Volume3: The first I have to say! This is one of the best collection of the book about CG!! it is a art books from 3DTotal Publishing. The printing quality is very great as always, I'm a fan of 3DTotal books for Digital painting technique, I already have all of 1-3 volume and want to collect more in this series(collection). It is very great and very useful to me or anyone who loves, interested or would love to become a digital artist. This book is provide full of "How to make, to learn digital painting in the correct way"..
After I read the article,What i can see from this book, I think it is suit for everyone who want to be or learn in digital painting/artist, there are full of technique from the beginning of the process..they explain from the concept/idea, sketch, process of the making until finish, with so many tips by master artist...So i think it useful! **Even, for the very beginning student/artist, it is so great to know the process in between while develop the basic skill.**
The book is contained a lot of amazing art work with easy understanding article to description the process in variety subject, There are Concept art for game, Monsters concept, sci-fi cities, futuristic marines,steampunk, portraiture and matte painting. This is a good way to improve your skill by learning from those amazing and professional artist.
This book is a great source of learning or improve the skill by learning from "how to" from professional artist and learning some new techniques.Digital Painting Techniques, Vol. 3 Overview

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Dracopedia: A Guide to Drawing the Dragons of the World Review

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Dracopedia: A Guide to Drawing the Dragons of the World ReviewI just bought this book, and it is truly amazing. As a Dragon artist, drawing dragons in a realistic light, I have been frustrated with other book on drawing dragons. This book covers many different types of dragons though out history and various cultures, including the actual history of each dragon as mentioned in its culture. Using both illustration and comments you get a real feel for each dragon species. Dragons being SO culturally diverse and recognizable, its interesting to actually see what areas have developed what dragon myths and ideas. He also covers the biology of each dragon, showing why they look the way they do for their environment, making them very plausible, something other dragon book have left out.
This book doesn't really cover HOW to draw as other book do, starting with circles and lines, but its more geared towards those who have a grasp on basic drawing and understanding of the media you choose to use. O'Connor does work digital, so those who use computer media might get a bit more out of it, but even as a watercolor artist, the way he describes the methods can be transcribed to all media choices. He Shows the development of each painting, including starting sketches, and along with the instructions for each step, then adds plenty wonderful and useful tips.
John Howe's Forging Dragons is another book that i find as equally useful as this one.
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Mechanika: Creating the Art of Science Fiction with Doug Chiang Review

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Mechanika: Creating the Art of Science Fiction with Doug Chiang ReviewIt's not very often you see a great concept artist come up with a tutorial book. Here, we have a great book by Doug Chiang. He's the concept artist for big movie hits like Star Wars, War of the Worlds and Terminator just to name a few.
In this book are 30 lessons and step-by-step tutorials for creating science fiction art, mainly robots. There are details and tips for using Photoshop.
Through these pages, one can see Doug Chiang's process of creating sci-fi concept art. It's always interesting to find out how other artist work, especially one of such high caliber.
His work has also appeared in other books like Robota, and The Art of Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith.
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Digital Painting Techniques, Vol. 2 Review

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Digital Painting Techniques, Vol. 2 ReviewAfter years of skimming through issues of ImagineFX and other "digital painting and illustration" books, it is hard to find sources of information that will provide both original and thoughtful material. The reviews were strong for the first volume so I gave it a chance, and wow what an amazing book. Picking this volume up was a no brainer. These books are clearly geared for the entertainment designer, breaking sections into subjects like vehicles, matte paintings, character designs etc, but what this book does that others don't is provide extra little details that really help demonstrate how the artist achieved the final product. One complaint I have, as do many of my fellow friends at school, as well as other reviewers online, is that many digital painting help books skim over many crucial details and use generic blanketing statements that assume that the reader has a strong foundation in photoshop knowledge. Digital Painting Techniques, both volume 1 and 2 aren't completely guiltless here, but each artist does make a nice effort within there 4-5 page tutorial to either describe little details or show it. It is important that the reader look closely at the provided images to look at things like brush settings (opacity and flow) as well as blend mode, layer controls and brush type etc.
I don't subscribe to online magazine that this book is a reprint of because I love holding a book and being able to reference it when ever I want. This book doesn't just do Dragons, swords and spaceships that other less- than successful books do, it covers things like portrait painting, a little figure drawing and one of the most important sections- custom brushes.
At a discounted price of around $30, this is impossible to pass up, new learners might find some missing details that might frustrate, but read and read again, and it is important to get on Photoshop and play yourself to work out some key ideas to creating interesting art. Pick this one up along with Volume 1, because they don't repeat, this volume is a terrific continuation to what looks to be a very promising seriesDigital Painting Techniques, Vol. 2 Overview

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Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (ImagineFX) Review

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Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (ImagineFX) ReviewHere's a great tutorial style book for those interested in digital painting. Fantasy Workshop is a compilation of tutorials that have been published in monthly ImagineFX issues. If you are already a regular subscriber, you'll see very similar tutorials in Fantasy Workshop.
The tutorials are split into three categories, namely Characters, Scenes & Stories and Manga. At the end is a short FXpose section, which like the magazine, features illustrations from individual artists.
The tutorials are presented in a step-by-step manner with plenty of screenshots and well explained captions. Each artist will talk about their workflow, tips, techniques and shortcuts to creating digital art. More specifically for example, they will talk about how they create realism through texture, and also why they created it that way.
Since the book is about mastering digital painting, you'll see tons of examples on how to recreate paint effects using software. By examples I mean they will show the digital tools used, menus, and settings. The software used are Painter and Photoshop but the art techniques are usually easily achievable in either software.
There are also a few pages where the artists answer fans' questions relating to creating art.
This is a recommended book for anyone into digital painting. There's enough variety featured for everyone to learn a new trick or two.
Here's the list of contents:
- Mind's Eye to Digital Canvas - Jehan Choo
- Modern Classical Painting - Marta Dahlig
- Paint Realistic Ears - Katerina Sokolova
- Paint Realistic Lips - Katerina Sokolova
- Digital Hairstyling - John Kearney
- Paint Realistic Hands - Marta Dahlig
- Create a Heroic Valkryie - Lorland Chan
- Drawing and Painting Dragons - James Strehle
- Create 3D Illustrations - Loic Zimmerman
- Painting a Mythical Beast - Joel Carlo
- An Army Summoned - Mike Corriero
- Create a LOTR-Inspired Orc - Jeff Murchie
- Quick Character Design Concept - Francis Tsai
- Painting Creepy Portraits - Mike Mitchell
- Speed Painting a Zombie - Patrick Reilly
- Painting a Nightmare - Cyril Van Der Haegen
- Create a Great Background - Melanie Delon
- 25 Custom Brush Tips - Patrick Reilly
- Dramatic Concept Art - David Levy
- Create a Dark Urban Nightmare - Lee Carter
- Manga Character Illustration - Michael Chomicki
- Create Fantasy Manga - Cris De Lara
- Fiery Dragon Princess - Svetlin Velinov
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Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters (Masters Collection) Review

Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters (Masters Collection)
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Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters (Masters Collection) ReviewDigital Painting Techniques is a compilation of tutorials written by various talented digital artists. It is broken up into eight chapters with roughly five to seven tutorials apiece, and a gallery at the end. The physical book itself is well bound so that when open it lies flat for easy reference while you work.
The chapters are: Custom Brushes, Speed Painting, Matte Painting, Creatures, Humans, Environments, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and Complete Projects.
The tutorials, with the exception of a few, use Photoshop; the noted exceptions also use Painter. (In the final chapter, one artist also uses Artweaver and Gimp, while another uses Cinema 4D. But for sake of argument, assume this is a Photoshop digital painting book.) And some of the tutorials also come with assets available to download from the book's website.
As for the content, let's say that some tutorials were more thorough and useful than others. While the visuals that went alongside them were stunning, a few of the brush tutorials amounted to little more than how to save a new brush in Photoshop. But the remaining brush tutorials delved into the why and how of creating a custom brush for useful application and saving time, then illustrated its use.
Some of the subsequent tutorials were vague; one example step stating "use a textured brush"--with no indication or example of the texture, only a screenshot of the elapsed painting. Luckily that didn't happen too often.
Most of the tutorials provided screenshots of software settings, brushes used, and picture progress with clear explanations. Creature Concept 101 by Mike Corriero, Paint Luscious Lips by Anne Pogoda, The Human Face by Nykolai Aleksander, and The Environmental Series by Carlos Cabrera immediately spring to mind.
Finally, the book could have used another round of edits for consistency, especially in reference to software terminology. Also, some of the page layouts made it difficult to locate referenced figures throughout (i.e. see Fig 4, which would be an inset of another figure on a previous page). Nothing too egregious, but something to be aware of.
Overall, this is an excellent resource for digital artists looking for inspiration and to learn some new techniques. It comes with the caveat, however, that this is not a book for beginners; you won't find tutorials for preparing a digital canvas, mimicking paint consistencies, or color blending. So while this book won't replace a good foundational book on digital painting, it would make a great supplement.Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters (Masters Collection) Overview

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