Fantasy Art School

Lesson 10- Distorting the human shape to create fantasy creatures

Distortion and fantasy creatures: We have taken a look at the average human male and you have a sense for the symmetry and even-ness of the body. but maybe you want to draw figures that are not human. This is where knowing the human body is actually very important because it is when you distort the average shape you get some really good variations. This illustration shows an average human and two other figures. They are all humanoid and they are all the same height but by distorting the shapes we get some really good creatures. the center figure is very troll-like because we have made it very thick. Notice how the legs are shorter and very stout. The shoulders are much broader and the overall figure is very thick. This makes it look shorter even though it is the same height as the human. In the third figure I have thinned out the whole body; the legs,torso, and arms are all very slender and this makes it look muscular ina wiry way. This would be a perfect starting point for drawing goblins or elves.

You should practice doing some distortions of the human shape - Be creative and let your imagination flow. Do body distortions and try some facial distortions.

Le'ts continue on to the next fantasy art lesson - In this next lesson we take a break and do some doodling to help cultivate creativity.

This is a Storm The Castle Website

Fantasy Art School HOME PAGE

Fantasy Art Lessons

1. lesson 1 - Holding the pencil and getting a feel for it and warming up with lines
2. lesson1c how to draw a straight line
3. lesson 2 - Drawing some simple geometric shapes
4. lesson 3 - Understanding and using Perspective
5. lesson 4- foreshortening in perspective
6. lesson 5- Drawing depth and distance
7. lesson 6-Using lines of varying thickness
8. lesson 7- drawing form and shape with a medieval mace
9. lesson 8- Drawing metal - We draw a medieval helmet
10. lesson 9- drawing our first human form
11. lesson 10- Distorting the human form to create fantasy creatures
12. lesson 11 - doodling and creativity break
13. lesson 12 - a Morning star mace - drawing textures
14. lesson 13 - how to draw chainmail
15. lesson 14 - How to convey action in your fantasy drawings
16. lesson 15 - How to draw sword shapes
17. lesson16 -draw an armored knight
18. lesson 17 - Draw a fantasy dagger using the Five-S method
19. lesson 18 - Creating space in your drawings - A Dragons Lair
20. lesson 19 - Practice by drawing dragons
21. Lesson 20 - Drawing from Memory
22. Lesson 21 -Draw a Catapult

Fantasy Art Lessons from Guest Artists

1. How to draw a magical genie using Corel and Photoshop

Art Books & Supplies

1. Art Kits
2. Art Books
3. Fantasy Art Books

Stormthecastle.com
Castlefiction.com
The Telescope Nerd
Epic Fantasy.com
The Medieval Armory
THe Fantasy Guide
The Heroic Dreams Blog Knight-Medieval.com willkalif.com
make-video-games.com

---------
All Materials, unless otherwise stated are Copyright©
Kalif Publishing and StormtheCastle.com check out my copyright page for information about how to use any work on this site

If you have questions
or would like to
contribute you can contact me as customer support

---------