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How to Draw and Paint Fantasy Architecture

Rob Alexander

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Fantasy architecture made easy.

This book would be a good read for aspiring illustrators and artists looking to draw and paint fantasy buildings and landscapes. The author provides comprehensive instruction on traditional architectural shapes, lighting, shadow, and perspective, as well as creating surface textures and adding dramatic atmosphere to illustrations. With over 250 color illustrations, readers are guided through a series of projects of increasing complexity, including fantasy castles, palaces, and dungeons, offering techniques for capturing fantastic buildings and alternate realities.

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How to Draw and Paint Fantasy Architecture

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ISBN: 9780764145353
Author: Rob Alexander
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Date of Publication: 2010-11-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art
Related Topics: Architecture, Drawing
Goodreads rating: 4.15
(rated by 212 readers)

Description

Get advice and instruction on how to take your world building art to the next level from a leading fantasy illustrator! Look no further for the perfect how-to guide for art students who intend to pursue careers illustrating computer games, children's books, and graphic novels, or fantasy art enthusiasts who want to bring the fantastic worlds they've always dreamed of to life. This book includes comprehensive instructions on the techniques required for capturing fantastic buildings, alien architecture, and alternate realities. This book's opening chapter analyzes traditional architectural shapes that include arches, columns, towers, vaults, and buttresses. The following chapters apply principles of lighting, shadow, and perspective to the architectural forms, and discuss ways of creating surface textures and adding dramatic atmosphere to illustrations. As they go along, readers are guided through a series of projects of increasing complexity in which they create illustrations dominated by fantasy castles, palaces, dungeons, and more. In this book you'll find:
 

Fantasy architecture made easy.

This book would be a good read for aspiring illustrators and artists looking to draw and paint fantasy buildings and landscapes. The author provides comprehensive instruction on traditional architectural shapes, lighting, shadow, and perspective, as well as creating surface textures and adding dramatic atmosphere to illustrations. With over 250 color illustrations, readers are guided through a series of projects of increasing complexity, including fantasy castles, palaces, and dungeons, offering techniques for capturing fantastic buildings and alternate realities.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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