DragonArt Ultimate Gallery

DragonArt Ultimate Gallery
Author: J "NeonDragon" Peffer
Publisher: IMPACT
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781440316845

From scales to tails, your favorite fantasy creatures in one awesome book! No on captures creatures quite like NeonDragon. Even the fastest fantasy creatures can't escape her watchful eye, and before long, she's caught them in full form—glorious, unique and alive with colorful detail! This book is packed with endless inspiration for fantasy lovers and myth mavens of all ages. From dragons and dryads to gryphons and mermaids, this book gives you all of NeonDragon's best beasts (or beauties, depending on your point of view). Take a peek and see for yourself. Inside you'll find more than 70 fierce and fiery creatures you can study up-close, in their natural habitats. NeonDragon also shares her best tips, techniques and insights so you can borrow from her creative process to make your own fantastic creatures. She even shows you initial sketches and details shots along with information on the tools she uses. DragonArt™ Ultimate Gallery. It's like a petting zoo for fantastic beasts and mythological creatures (except without the smell, the fire and the danger of being eaten by a dragon). Let this book take you to new realms of imaginative possibility.

DragonArt Fantasy Characters

DragonArt Fantasy Characters
Author: Jessica Peffer "Neondragon"
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2007-08-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600613705

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 night. • Breathe the life into your beings by basing them upon fundamental human anatomy—proportions, facial expressions and gender-specific characteristics. • Color-coded, step-by-step demonstrations (simple enough that even the dullest of dwarves could follow along!) show you how to create a sordid cast of creatures, including goblins, orcs, sprites, angels, mermaids, centaurs, vampires, werewolves, banshees and more. • Accessorize each being by tailoring them with tusks, wings, hooves, daggers, armor and various apparel, from the fine garb of nobles to peasant rags. Copy each being as-is. Or, better yet, follow your own twisted imaginings to conjure up creatures from fantastic lands.

Dragonart Evolution

Dragonart Evolution
Author: Jessica Peffer "Neondragon"
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2010-07-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440310475

A dragon artist's guide to better drawing Magnificent and powerful creatures, these dragons be, with bone-crushing jaws and razor-sharp teeth, it's difficult to tell whether you're dealing with a hotheaded nature or a wise and benevolent beast. Therein lies the trouble with drawing them from life. Make your dragon portraits more authentic (while avoiding loss of life and limbs) with the help of this guide. A follow-up to the fiercely popular DragonArt, this book features ALL NEW dragons and EVEN MORE detailed dragon anatomy instruction. • 60+ step-by-step demonstrations cover a variety of dragons, including medieval, fairy and sea-dwelling varieties • In-depth advice for drawing every part of the beast—eyes, ears, horns, wings, scale patterns, limbs and more • Extra tips and tricks provided by your dragon guide, Dolosusa It's everything you need to draw a variety of dragons—from enormous, ancient beasts with broken scales and fractured horns, to sleek, sinuous creatures with leathery skin and fancy frills. So steel your heart, prepare your trusty inking pen, and venture forth, brave artist—unleash the ferocious, extraordinary, original beasts that dwell within your fiery imaginings!

DragonArt

DragonArt
Author: Jessica Neon Dragon Peffer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2005-09-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600613853

How to Draw a Dragon: "Cautiously approach the dragon, offer it a piece of candy or a little sister, and draw while it happily munches away." From the artist behind the wildly popular NeonDragonArt.com, DragonArt will help you create mythical beasts that awe, delight, and disturb the sweet dreams of little ones. Armed only with your trusty pencil and ink pen, you will begin your artistic quest by conquering a super-easy dragon that even the densest of wyvern could draw. With pace quickened by this cool achievement, you shall forge bravely onward to discover simple secrets and spiffy tricks for making your creature friendly or fierce, sorrowful or cynical—drawing them from all different perspectives, in flight or at rest (so vain, those dragons—they love to strike a pose!) and incorporating various styles of heads, limbs, wings, horns, frills, scales, tails and other details to make your particular beast original, believable and so darn groovy. Because dragons enjoy having others around to terrorize, disembowel and occasionally hang out with, this book will also teach you how you to populate your alternate universe with a whole cast of fantastic creatures, including mythical griffins, guardian gargoyles and deadly basilisks. All this within the curiously compelling, beautifully beastly, and brightly colored pages you hold in your hands, which by now are no doubt trembling with keen anticipation. So quit dragon your feet! (Ugh, wyrms hate puns!) Buy this book now and make your wildest, wickedest, fire-breathingest fantasies come true!

DragonArt Collector's Edition

DragonArt Collector's Edition
Author: Jessica Peffer "Neondragon"
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440324190

Make your fantasy world a reality. Conjure up the mythical heroes and fantastical beasts that roam your imagination. With just a pencil, some paper - and perhaps a broadsword - you can unleash the mighty monsters of your mind, including deadly dragons and brutish orcs, or ethereal inhabitants such as elegant elves and mermaids. Artist and dragon expert J "NeonDragon" Peffer (along with Dolosus, her fire-breathing dragon familiar) will give you tips and tricks to help you create your own unique fantasy world full of legends, fairy tales and things that go bump in the night. Surpass the drawing skills of mere mortals with this master collection of easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction. • Learn to build even the most elaborate characters through simple color-coded diagrams demonstrating how to use basic shapes, three-dimensional shading and a variety of color schemes. • Create complete scenes, and enhance your creations by learning how to draw believable backgrounds. • Discover how to relay facial expression and personality. • Accessorize your mythical minions with a variety of unique details such as beards, wings, fins, hooves, fangs and tusks. • Dress your Victorian vampires and noble centaurs in fantasy fashions to make them warriors, rangers, clerics, peasants, or any role you can imagine. In fantasy, there are no rules, and anything is possible. The more you draw, the better you'll get. It's your world: Now go create it.

Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana

Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana
Author: Michael Witwer
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0399580948

An illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the beloved role-playing game told through the paintings, sketches, illustrations, and visual ephemera behind its creation, growth, and continued popularity. FINALIST FOR THE HUGO AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE DIANA JONES AWARD From one of the most iconic game brands in the world, this official DUNGEONS & DRAGONS illustrated history provides an unprecedented look at the visual evolution of the brand, showing its continued influence on the worlds of pop culture and fantasy. Inside the book, you’ll find more than seven hundred pieces of artwork—from each edition of the core role-playing books, supplements, and adventures; as well as Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novels; decades of Dragon and Dungeon magazines; and classic advertisements and merchandise; plus never-before-seen sketches, large-format canvases, rare photographs, one-of-a-kind drafts, and more from the now-famous designers and artists associated with DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. The superstar author team gained unparalleled access to the archives of Wizards of the Coast and the personal collections of top collectors, as well as the designers and illustrators who created the distinctive characters, concepts, and visuals that have defined fantasy art and gameplay for generations. This is the most comprehensive collection of D&D imagery ever assembled, making this the ultimate collectible for the game's millions of fans around the world.

DragonArt Mythical Monsters

DragonArt Mythical Monsters
Author: J "Neondragon" Peffer
Publisher: IMPACT
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781600610745

How to Draw and Paint More Fantastic Creatures From the creator of wildly popular fantasy artwork, J "NeonDragon" Peffer, DragonArt Mythical Monsters shows you how to create even more awesome, delightful and frightening beasts! You'll begin your quest by discovering simple secrets and spiffy tricks for shading and painting your dragons and other fantasy monsters using the supreme materials in this kit - from a set of acrylic paints and paintbrushes to a drawing pencil and a drawing pad. You'll forge onward to conquer a super-easy dragon that even the most foolish of ogres could draw, and you'll also learn how to incorporate various details - from horns and wings to scales and tails - to make each magnificent beast original. Once you've mastered the art of drawing these creatures and using shading effects to make them come roaring to life on the page, use the paints in this kit to give them a splash of brilliant color. Quit dragon your feet! Take this kit home (kindly buy it first - the author has debts to pay) and make your wildest, wickedest, fire-breathingest fantasies come true!

Facial Expressions

Facial Expressions
Author: Mark Simon
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-09-21
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0823008312

All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad…look glad…look mad…madder…no, even madder…okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever. Facial Expressions includes more than 2,500 photographs of 50 faces—men and women of a variety of ages, shapes, sizes, and ethnicities—each demonstrating a wide range of emotions and shown from multiple angles. Who can use this book? Oh, only every artist on the planet, including art students, illustrators, fine artists, animators, storyboarders, and comic book artists. But wait, there’s more! Additional photos focus on people wearing hats and couples kissing, while illustrations show skull anatomy and facial musculature. Still not enough? How about a one-of-a-kind series of photos of lips pronouncing the phonemes used in human speech? Animators will swoon—and artists will show a range of facial expressions from happy to happiest to ecstatic.

Dragons' Domain

Dragons' Domain
Author: Bob Eggleton
Publisher: David & Charles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600614576

A guide to drawing and painting dragons that offers information on tools, drawing and watercolor techniques, step-by-step instructions on drawing dragon parts, inspiration, and five projects.

The Fantasy Illustrator's Technique Book

The Fantasy Illustrator's Technique Book
Author: Gary A. Lippincott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Drawing
ISBN: 9780715326862

Learn the how-to elements of creating fantasy art using pencils, paint, and pixels from the master illustrator Gary Lippincott.