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How To Draw Fantasy Characters

How To Draw Fantasy Characters

Your Step By Step Guide To Drawing Fantasy Characters
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 8/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How To Draw Fantasy Characters

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 1h 18m total length

  • Part 1 - Where to Begin3:19

    Plan a fantasy character by clarifying personality, weapon, home, climate, and economic status to shape design and pose. Begin with sketches and research weapon varieties and environments to guide style.

  • Part 2 - Inspiration1:50

    Explore drawing fantasy characters by seeking inspiration from other artists and diverse styles, from Art Nouveau to Neoclassicism, plus botany and animals to diversify and refine your work.

  • Part 3 - Basic Forms5:55

    Begin with the largest forms and build down to the details, using simple shapes and gestures, then study anatomy with references, hands, and face proportions.

  • Part 4 - Poses2:01

    Learn to draw dynamic fantasy character poses by establishing a line of action, sketching torso and limbs in balanced angles, and applying foreshortening and perspective to add depth.

  • Part 5 - Presenting Your Character3:46

    Design your fantasy character through iterative sketches and color explorations. Present it with a reference sheet, full-body portrait, or scene sketch, using the rule of thirds and atmospheric color.

  • Part 6 - Kinds of Classes or Careers for Your Characters38:11

    Explore kinds of classes or careers for fantasy characters—from soldiers and archers to nobles and masters—and learn to design outfits, armor, weapons, and dynamic poses across traditional and digital media.

  • Part 7 - Races/Species for Your Characters22:59

    Explore diverse races and species for fantasy characters, from humans and elves to dwarves, spirits or sprites, water-dwelling beings, and animalistic or winged forms.

Requirements

  • None

Description

If you want to create your own fantasy world filled with your own character creations, try the “How to Draw Fantasy Characters” guide. This guide will help you learn how to create unique characters of all kinds, while also teaching you the basics of human anatomy. You’ll also get tips of how to get inspired and how to create characters of all shapes and sizes.

This guide is for artists of all skills levels – and for those who don’t quite consider themselves artists yet! The guide includes detailed instructions for how to create your characters from start to finish, including written instructions as well as detailed illustrations.

Some of the chapters in the guide are:

• Choosing and drawing dynamic poses

• Exploring different types of fantasy characters

• Warriors, soldiers, and other armored characters

• Mages, spirits, and other magical beings

And others! The guide will start with the basic building blocks of drawing – building up the basic forms in pencil sketches – and help you works you way up to building fully colored character designs unique to you! If you’re ready to create your own magical world, then the “How to Draw Fantasy Characters” guide is for you!

About the Expert

Sierra Crook grew up with two painters as parents, so always has been influenced by creativity. Since she could read, Sierra has been fascinated by fantastic worlds filled with magic, warriors, and creatures; whether they were in books or video games. When she began to serious pursue drawing, she drew herself and her friends as fantasy characters as well as creating her own original characters.

Sierra has eight years of experience drawing and creating fantasy characters, and pursues other fields of illustration and design as well. Sierra will complete her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in May of 2013.

Who this course is for:

  • People Interested in How To Draw Fantasy Characters

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