Product Description

From conception to publication, the fantasy artist uses his skills to create magical, mythical and monstrous characters and worlds of wonders. This indispensible book gives a thorough grounding in fantasy art techniques. You can: discover where to look for inspiration; know how to visualize the unreal; learn to interpret narrative; bend orthodox rules of anatomy, perspective, and composition to create dynamic effects; and, render and colour your work using pencils, paint and pixels. You can also experiment with genres and create extraordinary characters and settings, from gothic kingdoms to futuristic citadels. You'll learn to depic dynamic action sequences, and produce special effects such as mystical fog, infernal fire and pixie dust. Discover how to become a professional fantasy artist, with advice on tailoring your art to different markets, from comic books and graphic novels to computer games.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27039 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
Review From Imagine FX - What this book does is give you the skills to enable you to go on and develop your own style. --Imagine FX

About the Author
Gary A. Lippincott has been a fantasy painter and professional illustrator for the past 20 years. His work has been featured in graphic novels, young adult fantasy novels, children's picture books, magazines, calendars and even jig-saw puzzles. Gary lives in Massachusetts.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Guide
This is a very good guide to any budding fantasy artist or artist wanting to bring fantasy elements into their work. I have a number of books on this subject and this is one of the best around because it deals with technique.

One of the best books of its kind around
This is an excellent guide, well set out and illustrated with lots of examples. It has a small section on digital art, which I am not in to, but everything is achievable the old-fashioned way. He covers all the basics in a practical and easy to follow manner, and the principles are covered thoroughly and clearly. He also discusses the professional side of things - getting an agent (or doing without), etc. The gallery at the end has some truly inspirational and stunning examples of artwork.
A very well thought out book.

The Fantasy Illustrators Technique Guide
This book brings all the elements of everything you will need to draw fantasy art from start to finish, including the tools and basic equipment to get you started. The book is packed with professional drawings and painted illustrations to guide and inspire you along your creative way.

I found this book inspiring and a creatively organized book to follow with examples and techniques throughout.

The book also gives some tips to find reference material to get focused on drawing fantasy art and also with a small couple of pages telling you how to get in there and sell your art to potential companies, although I would recommend other resources on the internet for detailed information about earning from your art.

A great read this book and one that I reference a bit for creative ways on drawing figures to which it suggested to draw figures with the use of geometric shapes and to me this sounds logical and it really does work!