J “NeonDragon” Peffer - DragonArt: How to Draw Fantastic Dragons and Fantasy Creatures
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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 cynicaldrawing them from all different perspectives, in flight or at rest (so vain, those dragonsthey 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!
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DRAGONART
How to Draw Fantastic Dragons and Fantasy Creatures
J NeonDragon Peffer
DragonArt How to Draw Fantastic Dragons and Fantasy Creatures.
Copyright 2005 by Jessica Peffer. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by IMPACT Books, an imprint of F+W Publications, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236. (800) 289-0963. First Edition.
Other fine IMPACT Books are available from your local bookstore, art supply store or direct from the publisher.
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DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA BY FRASER DIRECT 100 Armstrong Avenue Georgetown, ON, Canada L7G 5S4 Tel: (905) 877-4411
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Peffer, Jessica
DragonArt : how to draw fantastic dragons and fantasy creatures / Jessica Peffer 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-657-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-1-60061-385-2 (EPUB)
ISBN-10: 1-58180-657-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Dragons in art Juvenile literature. 2. Animals, Mythical, in art Juvenile literature. 3. Drawing Technique Juvenile literature. I. Title: How to draw fantastic dragons and fantasy creatures. II. Title: Dragon Art. III. Title.
NC825.D72P44 2005
743.87 dc22
2005013013
EDITED BY
Mona Michael
DESIGNED BY Wendy Dunning
PRODUCTION ART BY Kathy Gardner
PRODUCTION COORDINATED BY Mark Griffin
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| Centimeters | Inches | 0.4 |
| Feet | Centimeters | 30.5 |
| Centimeters | Feet | 0.03 |
| Yards | Meters | 0.9 |
| Meters | Yards | 1.1 |
| Sq. Inches | Sq. Centimeters | 6.45 |
| Sq. Centimeters | Sq. Inches | 0.16 |
| Sq. Feet | Sq. Meters | 0.09 |
| Sq. Meters | Sq. Feet | 10.8 |
| Sq. Yards | Sq. Meters | 0.8 |
| Sq. Meters | Sq. Yards | 1.2 |
I'd like to thank the following people for helping to bring this monstrosity to life. Lo, you've helped to unleash doom upon the masses, carried within the brightly colored pages of this seemingly harmless tutorial book:
Alex Kolesar, Christy Pasqualetti, Will Sebree, Joseph Kovell and Mindy Timpone, for patiently listening to me whine, moan and ramble incoherently about deadlines that were looming over my head. Your free counsel wascheapand uminvaluable!
Mona Michael, for calling, e-mailing, and nagging the artwork and text out of me. If not for her, this book probably wouldn't be in your hands nearly as soon as it was. (She makes me sound smart!)
And of course, Mom and Dad for giving birth to me, raising me, and throwing me tenderly out into the world.
J NeonDragon Peffer (a.k.a. Jessica Peffer) just finished her senior year at Columbus College of Art and Design. She hopes to someday work as an illustrator in the fantasy market full-time silly dragonergirl. Neon has had her work in print since 2002 when a few little spiffy fairy knick-knacks from Raven Images launched her into the published world. The paper and ink that you hold in your hands feel its power, tingly, yes? is her current baby. Hold it close, treat it as something precious. Sleep with it under your pillow at night. This book is full of power!
Neon runs a spiffy-keen website at www.neondragonart.com (you're writing this down, yes?) on which she shares her art, online comics and a few computer art tutorials. It's snazzy, and sure to take up a good seven minutes of your time.
If you've picked up this book, chances are good that you love fantasy. Fantasy worlds are fun vacations from the mundane. They're inhabited by some of the most exciting creatures around. Fantasy creatures can't help but be exciting there are no limits to what they can be. After all, the only rules they must follow are the ones your imagination creates for them.
Nevertheless, most fantasy creatures have deep roots in ancient myths, fables and legends. The phoenix, featured in such books as the Harry Potter series, firmly stands on the Egyptian legend of the phoenix (page 102). And the Chinese story of the dragon's pearl has been repeated countless times in children's literature.
Other creatures are fairly recent creations of very specific world settings. Books such as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and video games such as Final Fantasy go to great lengths to create unique creatures and histories.
Modern-day fantasy creatures are sometimes a spin on an old legend. The Sandman comics and Harry Potter books take well-known creatures of mythology and place them in contemporary environments, sometimes tweaking the creatures a bit so that they fit more smoothly into those worlds.
Where the creatures spring up affects how they are drawn. In purely mythological stories you'll probably want to stick closely to the original description of the creature. With a specific world setting, you'll want your creature to look and feel like the others in that universe. With a spin on a legend, you get to do a little bit of both allow the creature to retain many of its defining characteristics, while blending it into the look of the world you're building.
Take the basics of drawing from the following pages, then use them to create your own creatures. Fantasy is all about your imagination. Give it space anything is possible.
Now, let's draw some dragons!
Dragons and fantasy creatures, by their very nature, have no firm blueprints. In made-up worlds, rules are made to be broken. However, the creatures all share some similar characteristics. Anatomy must be functional. By studying each piece of the anatomy and understanding how it works, you'll learn to build your own beasts.
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