Beginner's Guide to Fantasy Drawing

Bought this one for my little brother who is an artist like me and he LOVED it. I'm personally a fan of Martin J Abel, the artist who illustrated most of the book, and his work. I think anyone can read this book and be inspired and informed on the simpler side of shape language, anatomy, color theory, and material range.

I got this for my friend for his birthday. He's an art teacher and said he liked the book. It had some good tips and was nice beginner tutorial for fantasy drawing.

Pretty good book, I'm a beginner and it helped me a lot to start to draw characters in the style I like. Kindle version has some formatting issues, but they are mostly in the titles, and doesn't prevent you from reading text.

There was a lot of good content in this book, and despite this one issue I would have been happy to give this as a present to my child. However the ways female characters were depicted in this book often was "sexy" whereas male characters were "tough". We would have been fine if everyone was tough, but why are all female characters in short skirts and revealing low cut dresses? Can't we get past this?We bought three books and kept the other two:https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737622513?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details (great for young kids / beginers)The really wonderful book for older kids and more experienced artists: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1440308357?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Every flip of a page made me more and more excited to get practicing! I have some experience with drawing, but have done little humanoid work. This really breaks everything down in a digestible and comprehensive way!

Excellent book on drawing fantasy characters and creatures. Very enjoyable page layouts. Includes reviews on drawing, color, and anatomy basics. Really pleased with the medium sized book format. Easy to take anywhere. More content than I expected.

Definitely a must have for any artist, especially those getting into character design.

Simply atrocious formatting. Pages with no text, and text kerning issues. Pages have to actually LOAD all the text in, I've never seen that in any of my digital art books. And it isn't like once or twice, this would happen EVERY other page.