Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55054 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Synopsis
From finding inspiration to capturing diaphanous detail, a step-by-step guide to fairy-painting techniques. Drawing and painting fairies is a delightful and eternally popular art form that poses its own unique challenges: how do you paint an imaginary subject? How can you capture the luminosity and tiny detail of a figure that might fit in the palm of your hand? This book explains the techniques to bring your fairy art to life. It supplies the know-how and the skills in the form of practical techniques, linework to trace, and constructional drawings that clearly demonstrate how to form heads, faces, and figures that are easy to copy. For the beginner artist there's linework to copy and trace, and then colour using whatever technique appeals. Easy-to-follow constructional drawings reveal how to simplify shapes and figures to create flower fairies, nymphs, and sprites; trace a basic form, then complete your fairy however you wish. Learn how to capture the grace and movement of fairy gestures; use stippling and impressing to add texture to fabric and wings; learn how to lay variegated washes and reserve highlights.

Customer Reviews

inspiring and fun
I bought this book as my little neice kept asking me to draw fairies for her and my results lacked magic. This is a great book for getting started with, particularly if you're not that good at drawing people and faces.I found the instructions clear and easy to follow and the gallery of complete artwork really got my imagination going. If you are not a confident artist the easily copied examples of eyes, lips, hair, clothing etc can be mixed and matched in your own drawings to get you started and give you confidence. My own fairy drawings are much improved and my neice a very happy little girl

A book that Covers all you need
This is a book that covers just about everything you need to know, do, draw and paint. With simple informative step by step instrutions, that dont treat you like an idiot. You will very quickly be creating, changing and dreaming up new ways to paint and draw Fairies.
I cant rate this book highly enough...this should be sold as the definative handbook on how to do.
Great value for money and if you buy no other book than this you will not go wrong.

Beautiful!
I love this book - its got gorgeous artwork and easy to follow step-by-step techniques to help you improve as an artist. The amount of colouring techniques shown make it great help for any style of artist, not just the fantasy/faerie orientated. The thing that really makes it stand out from the crowd is its emphasis on originality - there are "swipe files" included, showing different hands, feet, costume, lips, eyes etc - encouraging the reader to play with their artwork, developing their own style.