Fantasy Art School

Continue drawing lines but use a little discipline and form them into shapes like this here. Make lots of squares and draw the lines vertical horizontal and diagonal. Experiment with different thicknesses and different distances between the lines.
Now draw some circles. This is actually pretty difficult to do. take your time and draw different size circles. Try different approaches like drawing slow or drawing in short strokes or try drawing circles in one continuous motion. practice!
Hard and Soft Line drawing - Now draw some freestyle lines and focus on how hard you press down with the pencil. Do soft and do hard and do a lot of variations in between. It is important to remember that the amount of pressure you use is a tool that is very valuable to you as an artist.
Experiment with the Pencil - Now do some freestyle experimentation and draw lots of different lines. Try little squiggles and checkmarks and even do a little bit of shading. See how much variety you can get out of the pencil.
This is the end of lesson one - Let's Review. You learned two different ways to hold the pencil You drew lines and tried to draw parallel lines in the shape of a square You practiced drawing circles which can be very hard You learned that the amount of pressure you applied to the pencil is important and makes a big difference in how the lines look You experimented with the pencil and tried to make a wide variety of shapes and textures from checks to shading

Let's continue on to lesson two

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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
23. Lesson 22: A Guest artist discusses pencils, his technique and building a library of images

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

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