Fantasy Art Templates: Ready-Made Art to Copy, Adapt, Trace, Scan & Paint

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This book offers a number of shortcuts for artists who want to draw dramatic fantasy characters and scenes. It provides "off-the-shelf" figures, poses, and backdrops in the form of simple line art sketches, ready for painting or digital rendering.

Combines clear instructions with outline drawings you can scan, trace, hand paint, digitally color, or use as reference models for your own drawings

Contains templates for essential fantasy figures--wizards, warriors, dragons, demons, and many more characters--that you can adapt to portray famous characters or invent new ones

Saves you time you'd normally spend sketching from scratch, and helps you give your pictures a professional touch

Rafi Adrian Zulkarnain specializes in fantasy illustration, character design, and concept art. His work has been featured in many magazines and digital art books.

Jean Marie Ward writes science fiction articles and stories for newspapers, magazines, and web sites and has co-authored a fantasy novel.

Fantasy artists, graphic designers, and art students will value this book's many shortcuts for creating action figures in "off-the-shelf" poses. The author-illustrator team provides templates for more than 50 fantasy types, including wizards, male and female warriors, elves and fairies, giants, pirates, mythical gods, angels and devils, dragons, griffins, ogres, ghouls, goblins, sirens, and many others. Generic templates capture each prototype fantasy figure in a series of action poses that designers can adapt to portray famous characters or invent new ones. Step-by-step instructions cover drawing, tracing, scanning, and painting fantasy figures, as well as scaling them up or down, introducing backgrounds, and using color to evoke different moods. More than 500 vivid illustrations will prove true time savers for artists and designers, and will show budding art students how to give their own illustrations that polished and professional look.

Jean Marie Ward is a fantasy novelist and a short story writer in the science fiction genre. Rafi Adrian Zulkarnain is an Indonesian painter, illustrator, and graphic designer who specializes in science fiction graphics.