Dragonart Fantasy Characters: How to Draw Fantastic Beings and Incredible Creatures

by Jessica Peffer

Book Overview

Give life to the beings that roam your imagination

Dragons may terrorize fantasy worlds, but they need peasants to munch on... heroes to confront... elegant elves, shrewd sorcerers and dreaded demons to battle. Following on the wings of the ferociously popular DragonArt, this book shows you how to conjure up your own fantasy realms by drawing inspiration from fairy tales, legends and (if you dare) things that go bump in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581808526
• ISBN13: 9781581808520
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Impact
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Fly On, Neondragon!

Fantasy Characters and its predecesor DragonArt are the best art books for anybody who wants to draw fantastical beings and creatures. The artwork is amazingly spectacular, the instructions are simple and easy-to-follow, and the text is informative and humorous. Jessica Peffer's website, [...], is also worth a thorough look. Jessica, your artwork rocks! Readers, get these books! -ZephyrDragon

Love it!

This is an excellent resource for artists of fantastical races. It has info for everything and fun little comments throughout the entire book. Wonderfully drawn, coloured, and simple to use, I highly recommend this book to other artists, as a guide on how to make their own wonderful creations.

Best Artist EVER!!!!

Jessica Peffer has come out with the most useful art books that i know of that relate to fantasy. I am a VErY big fan of her work and i recommend this book to every and anybody who is interested in drawing fantasy stuff. GO JESS!!!!

Great companion to "DragonArt"

DragonArt Fantasy Characters follows the steps of the previous book from J. Peffer, DragonArt. This is a great book for an aspiring artist to learn how to draw fantasy characters. It provide easy to follow instruction and shows Peffer's inspiring art. This book is divided into five sections: a preface and four parts. The preface contains a tutorial about how to draw people. It briefly covers all the basics: shapes and shading, penciling and inking, coloring, human body, face, facial expressions, hair, hands and feet. There are step-by-step tutorials on how to draw fantasy beings in part 1, 2, and 3. Part 1 contains 6 classic fantasy creatures: a fairy, a sprite, an elf, a goblin, a dwarf, and an orc. Part 2 contains 6 mythological creatures: a mermaid, a centaur, a faun, an angel, and a kitsune. And part 3 contains 4 night creatures: a banshee, vampire, a werewolf, and a demon. Part 4 is about fashion. It shows a limited collection of clothes, accessories and weapons for male and female characters of various professions: warrior, ranger, rogue, mage, cleric, samurai, noble, and peasant. The step-by-step tutorials are very useful, but this book works the best for me as a source of inspiration. J. Peffer's artistic style is refreshing and extremely contagious. The bad thing about this book is that it's only 128 pages long. Overall, I think this is great book for anyone who wants to learn how to draw fantasy characters.

Bloody awesome

I bought the first neondragon book just because I liked the artwork on her website, and while I loved all the monsters, I have always struggled with drawing people. I'm so glad that she came out with this book, it has helped a lot, and even despite that, the graphics are awesome just to look at! I HIGHLY recommend this and everything else she has come out with. Keep up the good work Jess!