num_pages: 163
description: When artists and designers explore or create a fictional setting the milieu must be completely fleshed out explained and designed. In this book comic and gaming art veteran Mark A. Nelson explores and demonstrates his methods for fashioning visually stunning believable environments for fantasy creatures and characters. Scores of images and step-by-step examples illustrate how variation and experimentation lead to fresh original designs for otherworldly beings their environments and their stories.Nelson discusses how to find ideas and borrow from history to add the strength of realism to a fantasy world. In describing the best ways to establish a habitat he offers specifics about climate terrain flora and wildlife. He shares insights into founding societies in terms of their means of survival manner of warfare spiritual practices style of dress and levels of technology. All visual creatives who work with imaginative material  illustrators comic artists and writers  will take a lively interest in this source of inspiration and practical knowledge.
language: English
title: Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures
publisher: Dover Publications