Fantasy Art School

Drawing the Human Form Continued - Adding the skin to the knight - Now lets give our knight some form and fill

Now add the shading to finish up the drawing - this is where you look at the light cast on your subject and use shading to give a three dimensional look to the figure.

Accentuate the musculature of the figure and use strokes with your pencil that go in the direction of the fibers of muscle. Look for low spots on the body and darken these in. Use an eraser to take out the graphite at the highest points of the muscles. The thighs are a good example of this.

This drawing is just a rough sketch to help you understand the process of drawing a human body. With practice and time you can draw some great figures but you have to understand that any good drawing takes a bit of time and concentration. The example shown on the next page of a male torso took about three hours for me to draw. It is a good example of how you will be drawing if you have the patience and do the practice.

Take a look at the more detailed male torso

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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

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

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