num_pages: 128
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:
language: English
title: How to Draw and Paint Fantasy Architecture: From Ancient Citadels and Gothic Castles to Subterranean Palaces and Floating Fortresses
publisher: Sourcebooks