A dragon artist's guide to better drawingMagnificent and powerful creatures, these dragons be, with bone-crushing jaws and razor-sharp teeth, it's difficult to tell whether you're dealing with a hotheaded nature or a wise and benevolent beast. Therein lies the trouble with drawing them from life. Make your dragon portraits more authentic (while avoiding loss of life and limbs) with the help of this guide. A follow-up to the fiercely popular DragonArt , this book features ALL NEW dragons and EVEN MORE detailed dragon anatomy instruction. • 60+ step-by-step demonstrations cover a variety of dragons, including medieval, fairy and sea-dwelling varieties • In-depth advice for drawing every part of the beast—eyes, ears, horns, wings, scale patterns, limbs and more • Extra tips and tricks provided by your dragon guide, DolosusaIt's everything you need to draw a variety of dragons—from enormous, ancient beasts with broken scales and fractured horns, to sleek, sinuous creatures with leathery skin and fancy frills. So steel your heart, prepare your trusty inking pen, and venture forth, brave artist—unleash the ferocious, extraordinary, original beasts that dwell within your fiery imaginings!
Jessica Peffer Books
Jessica Peffer is a freelance illustrator who lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. She is the author of the DragonArt series of How-to-Draw books.






Thirty step-by-step demos use brightly colored progressive line art for easy- to-follow instruction. Additional demonstrations cover other fantasy creatures, such as wyverns, basilisks, and gargoyles.
DragonArt Fantasy Characters
How to Draw Fantastic Beings and Incredible Creatures
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Give life to the beings that roam your imagination! Dragons may terrorize fantasy worlds, but they need peasants to munch on... heroes to confront... elegant elves, shrewd sorcerers and dreaded demons to battle. Following on the wings of the ferociously popular DragonArt , this book shows you how to conjure up your own fantasy realms by drawing inspiration from fairy tales, legends and (if you dare) things that go bump in the night. Copy each being as-is. Or, better yet, follow your own twisted imaginings to conjure up creatures from fantastic lands.
DragonArt
- 127 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Dieses großartige Buch zeigt, wie man Drachen und andere Kreaturen noch furchteinflößender und authentischer zeichnet. Mithilfe dieser Tricks werden die magischen Wesen auf Papier zu neuem Leben erwachen.
Draken en andere fantasiefiguren tekenen
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Uitleg van het tekenen van allerlei draken, details ervan en andere fantasiefiguren.
Draci. Jak nakreslit fantasy draky a fantasy příšery
- 127 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Jak kreslit fantasy draky a fantasy příšery. První ucelený a podrobný návod o kreslení draků na českém knižním trhu je zde! Již nemusíte sedět u počítače a hledat kresby detailů a proporcí krále všech mýtických nestvůr. S pomocí této poutavé a praktické příručky se naučíte kreslit a malovat úžasné, báječné i hrozivé draky, bez nichž by nemohl existovat snad žádný fantastický svět. Příručka poskytuje návod, jak nakreslit draky a další fantasy příšery. Základní postupy, kreslířské a malířské techniky. Pro milovníky fantasy příběhů, kteří se chtějí vytvořit vlastní ilustrace.
