How to Draw Supernatural Style

Description

We've been fascinated with myths and monsters since people first started telling stories-and this book will give you everything you need to learn how to not only draw some really great creatures, goblins, ghouls, and more-but how to come up with your own! Everyone loves to draw supernatural beings, from vampires to zombies, werewolves, ghosts, and goblins, supernatural characters have endless possibilities. Whether you want to draw them professionally or design special graphics for friends and family, How to Draw Supernatural Beings is the book for you. Complete with easy-to-follow steps and guidelines, this book will make you a demon of the drawing underworld.

Andy Fish studied art at The School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as Rhode Island School of Design, has has also attended Clark University School at the Worcester Art Museum and Worcester State College. Andy has a diverse commercial art client list ranging from local businesses to International companies. Andy has served Four Consecutive Tenures as Artist/Mentor at Art All State, a program teaming New England's most promising artists with established professionals. Andy currently teaches youth and adult art programs at the Higgins Education Wing of the Worcester Art Museum as well as at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

This little book with its spiral bound pages ( I love those in art books - so useful not to have pages spring shut when you're working) from the "how to draw " series contains a huge wealth of information on how to create supernatural creatures. Andy gives some useful information on what tools to use and then its on to the creatures. Even though we are creating fantasy creatures Andy says to study nature and people from life to have a range of interesting references to work from. He then shows us how to transform this into supernatural style beings. He covers how to create mood and atmosphere in our paintings, and such basics essentials as composition and perspectives as well as the basic creatures so they become one with the surrounding fantasy worlds. The actual creatures he usefully divides into subtypes from goblins and demons along to vampires and shape-shifters and mythical creatures such as unicorns and kelpies. As well as using paints Andy shows us ways to use computer programmes to create creatures using Photoshop ( clearly he too finds MS Paint useless!!) which is great for those with better PC skills than with brush and paints - adapting his instructions from paints to PC is easy for those with the technical knowledge ( not me !) and may encourage those who fear paper and paint to have a go at art. For anyone interested in Supernatural drawing and painting this book is a great find with so much to learn from, and for any younger people you would like to encourage to take an interest in art this would make a terrific present, it'll show them how fun art can be. The pc orientated instruction may encourage those who feel they can't draw or paint to get creative so if you know someone with pc skills but not drawing ones this book would make a great gift.-JeannieZelos.com