Fantasy Art School

Drawing the Human Form - We start with an Adult Male - Our Knight

Here is a thumb nail of the last part of this lesson. take your time and your drawing will improve!

Drawing a Man - For This lesson we are going to continue using our steps by beginning with the creation of shapes like tubes, cylinders, ovals, circles and rectangles. Remember that everything you see is made up of these basic shapes and it is a good way for you to start a drawing. When drawing these basic shapes of an object you will be able to get a good feel for the perspective and the size relationships of everything.

The General Scale of a grown person - Generally, a man in the standing position can be measured in eight different parts and each part is about the same height as the man's head. You can see in the drawing here that I have made eight different sections with each one being the same size as the man's head.

This is how you should start your drawing. Lightly draw eight horizontal lines about one inch apart then draw an oval for the mans head so it takes up the top one inch section.

An important thing to remember - This is the scale for a human being! And this scale is very important in the world of fantasy drawings because when we distort this scale we come up with some very interesting things. For example: If you were to make the head bigger than one eighth of the whole you might have something that looks like a goblin. What if you make the head smaller than this scale? You might be working on something like a troll which has a body that is much bigger in proportion to the head. If you wanted to draw an elf you might make the body more slender and the arms and legs longer than the average human ratio.

In future lessons we are going to experiment with this distortion of the human figure but for now we will be simply drawing this classical human figure - it is after all the basic hero shape!

Now do this lesson. Draw out your eight section rectangle about at one inch increments then draw a rough oval in the top section for the knight's head.

Continue on to the next lesson - Drawing the shapes of the rest of the body

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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

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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