quirkycatsfatstacks's review against another edition
4.0
I received a copy of The Little Book of Drawing Dragons & Fantasy Characters through NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
The Little Book of Drawing Dragons & Fantasy Characters is a collection of guides to help artists of all different experience levels dive into a world they love so much: the world of fantasy. If you take a moment to look at the cover of this book, you’ll get a good idea for the art style and guides that can be found within these pages.
This book contains within it fifteen unique step-by-step guides, covering all sorts of creatures of legend and lore. This book includes instructions for all types of dragons, hydras, centaurs, fairies, and so much more. I was extremely impressed with the variety included here.
The guides themselves are quite helpful, and are admittedly striking to look at as well. I personally really enjoyed the artistic style shown, which is always a nice confidence boost when trying to find a good guide to learn from.
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The Little Book of Drawing Dragons & Fantasy Characters is a collection of guides to help artists of all different experience levels dive into a world they love so much: the world of fantasy. If you take a moment to look at the cover of this book, you’ll get a good idea for the art style and guides that can be found within these pages.
This book contains within it fifteen unique step-by-step guides, covering all sorts of creatures of legend and lore. This book includes instructions for all types of dragons, hydras, centaurs, fairies, and so much more. I was extremely impressed with the variety included here.
The guides themselves are quite helpful, and are admittedly striking to look at as well. I personally really enjoyed the artistic style shown, which is always a nice confidence boost when trying to find a good guide to learn from.
For more reviews check out Quirky Cat's Fat Stacks
bargainandbooks's review against another edition
3.0
The artist who illustrated this book is incredibly talented. The dragons and creatures included were well drawn and fantastic. I do not feel I could do these drawings as well. The book seemed to be a more advanced teaching than a learning book. I feel the descriptions about tools used and ways to draw and shade were well done. However once it got to the dragons it was six steps and I just got lost. It was as easy to follow along.
Maybe this is a lore advanced drawing guide. If you’re interested in learning to draw dragons and magical creatures and you have patience this book is for you.
Maybe this is a lore advanced drawing guide. If you’re interested in learning to draw dragons and magical creatures and you have patience this book is for you.
king_lyd's review against another edition
4.0
I love drawing mythological beasts and figured this would be a great start. There were fantastic drawings to copy and I loved the linework. However, and this is a problem I find with many of these books, they give you steps 1-5 of how to draw the basic creature and then their next drawing is fully coloured in with shading and scales and your drawing looks nothing like the finished product. I would love to have a step by step on shading and making your drawing look realistic. There was quite a large chunk at the start about choosing the right materials which was a little too big in my opinion but there was a large variety of different types of dragon and other mythological creatures so I was happy with the choice.
gemmaflanagan's review
4.0
This is a really lovely book.
covering tools, materials, shading techniques, textures and features to mention a few.
Each design has plenty of steps to help create wonderful artistic drawings, and leaving you with wonderful results.
I really love the fairy !Just when you think it cant get any better you find the colour application section at the back, i have to say this takes it all to a whole new level.. amazing.
I loved the book but don't think its suitable for complete beginners.
I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. all thoughts and opinions are my own.
covering tools, materials, shading techniques, textures and features to mention a few.
Each design has plenty of steps to help create wonderful artistic drawings, and leaving you with wonderful results.
I really love the fairy !Just when you think it cant get any better you find the colour application section at the back, i have to say this takes it all to a whole new level.. amazing.
I loved the book but don't think its suitable for complete beginners.
I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. all thoughts and opinions are my own.
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