How to Improve Your Fantasy Artwork
Fantasy art is different than any other kind of art because it is often composed of things that don’t exist. These things come from your imagination and while you can’t grab a unicorn and ask it to sit still so you can draw it there are some techniques you can use that will improve your fantasy art.
Practice, Practice, and More Practice You probably already know that practice is the single most important key to improving your ability to draw or paint fantasy subjects. But did you know that there are two major kinds of practice and that you should be doing both? Drawing from sight is the first way you should be drawing. You should be spending a lot of time drawing familiar and real life objects. This can be anything at all and it will improve your fantasy drawing and painting even further if you choose related subjects. By related subject I mean that if you like to draw unicorns you should be drawing horses and if you like to draw dragons you should be drawing lots of lizards and reptiles.
Making the Connection between Real life and Fantasy The very definition of fantasy means you have artistic license to draw anything you want. You could draw a five thousand pound dragon that flies around with wings the size and texture of a butterfly’s wings. But would that make sense? Even though you are drawing fantasy creatures, objects, and scenes, you still have to do it in ways that make sense. Musculature moves in certain ways, bones and skeletal underpinnings cause bodies to move in expected ways, and to look certain ways. By drawing and understanding real life object and creatures you will improve your fantasy creatures and objects by making them look real even though they aren’t real. Drawing from mind is the second type of practice you should be doing on a regular basis. Get a blank piece of paper and let your imagination run wild. This is where the fantasy will come out. Draw things that are similar to real life objects and also try to create things that have almost no recognizable equivalent. Don’t be afraid to explore and try all kinds of crazy ideas – just let the visual ideas flow. This is an exercise in creativity and it will generate lots of ideas. These ideas and images can at a later point be hammered out into more advanced drawings and paintings.
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Fantasy Art Women – Who Come Out After Dark Creating Goddess Art
This poem is about seeking out the magic that is mine and yours,fantasy art women., fairies in art, mermaids that sing deep in the ocean to sailors they have captured for true loves sake. All we need do is decide that it is real to us and embrace its music.
Fantasy art women
in your backyard
right where I left them.
Surprised?
Not to worry
I am sure they are still breathing
resting under covers of flower petals.
Fantasy women
who come out after dark
wanting to see if the tide has come in
if the ocean still roars.
They run to meet the foam
laughing through tears
hoping for magic
knowing it can be found
somewhere.
Fantasy art
I keep my canvas primed
ready for inspiration.
Last time I looked
my goddess’ were singing
so I began to dance.
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The fantasy genre has been a mainstay of modern publishing for close to a century now. Since the rise and enduring popularity of such authors as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, a steady stream of readers have been loyal to fantasy fiction as evidenced by the current popularity of such titans as R.A. Salvatore, Christopher Paolini, and the remarkable George R.R. Martin.
Certainly on the surface the appeal of the fantasy genre is based on the escape it offers from the daily tedium of life. However, the escapist element of the literature gives readers more than a simple trip away from their problems. Fantasy fiction engrosses readers because it involves them in problems that are so much worse than those faced by the typical modern person. Losing a job can pale in comparison to the threat of darkness overtaking the whole of Middle Earth in Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy if Sauron is allowed to prevail and inflict his cruel and malicious regime upon the world.
Then in the “Song of Ice and Fire” series by George R.R. Martin there is the eruption of civil war as factions vie for the Iron Throne, the birth of dragons, the rise of a new religious cult led by a sorceress clothed in the red who has mysterious powers and control of a king, and the rise of the wildling tribes north of the colossal ice Wall that protects the civilized lands. The upheaval, danger, and intrigue of Martin’s world makes even today’s turbulent times feel safer.