Fantasy Art

Yet another drawing video series, this time of me drawing a flaming skull in 5 steps, although I will add to this and ink the drawing and then colour it later on, it does show you how to draw a good flaming skull in five easy steps

Here’s the playlist link - How to draw a flaming skull

Over on Youtube I created a 5 part series on how to draw video of a demons head, I go through the selecting the quick sketch design to the actual drawing of your basic idea and then to the inking stage, certainly there are more of these videos to come and they will be interesting to watch too.

Here’s the link to the quick playlist for the demon drawing videos - Drawing A Demons Head

Drawing venom is a great character to draw and one that can be learnt to draw through a series of step by step quick lessons.

Drawing the grimreaper of death, a popular image which appears on tattoos and other fantasy media such as comics and fantasy art paintings.

how do you draw a grim reaper?, in simple steps that will help you draw to a plan of anything you put your mind to. The Grim Reaper is one iconic image and it’s up there with Skull art and Dragons, it is such an overused and also an ancient icon of death that it is fitting that we get to grips with drawing this dark reaper of death.

We know from elsewhere on the internet or that other artists have envisioned an image of a dark robed figure with skeletal features which resemble the passing of life and the shadowy figure holds a scythe for which to scour the lands for new souls who are about to pass over to the next life.

And it is this classic vision we can use to start as the basis of our grim reaper. We all know what the Grim Reaper looks like, so have that image in your mind.

We first want to sketch what we want to see and envision for our Grim Reaper, so a sketch is always on the cards for our first draft drawing, below we see a shape, a wire frame if you like of our intended reaper to visualize, we want to develop this further and we want to make this drawing our template to do better.

For awhile now I had been considering starting a youtube channel dedicated to drawing fantasy art, but up until now I had no time to set one up, due to the work commitments I set myself up for, but now I just decided to make the time and just get on with or I figured I never would. I already have at this posting 9 videos uploaded and there will be more as time goes on, because drawing fantasy art is certainly one of my hobbies and so I can do it some kind of justice.

Here’s the link - Fantasy Art Drawing Videos At Youtube

I enjoyed doing these few start off videos on this Youtube channel and will do more very regularly, so remember to subscribe when you get the chance, as I will also do requests for drawing anything fantasy art, so comment and rate them if you wish.

Fantasy castles are part of what makes fantasy worlds special and you can draw them anyway you want, I draw fantasy castles the way I have done for years on a crumbling old mountain that looks like it will fall down with the castle sitting at the top in a precarious position.

I realized I don’t think I’d ever change the way I tackle drawing a castle, it just looks kind of cool for a castle to be at the top of a mountain.

Here is another castle sketch that made it on to the tutorial step by step article:-

Drawing trolls can be fun, but they don’t necessarily have t be traditional trolls that others draw, take for instance my take on a troll, it looks more like an ogre with huge muscles, but it’s my drawing so I’ll cry if I want to.

It’s not a set in stone thing, just take whatever inspiration from what you can as that what counts more than being forced to draw in anyone elses way.

Here is a black line drawing of the troll that was in that tutorial to give you an idea of what processes were involed in this little project:-

I recently did a witch drawing tutorial and thought I would link to it here, witches are best drawn the classic way of black hat and tatty robe with long pointy nose and long finger nails.

Here’s one of the pre sketches of that witch drawing tutorial project:-

I am currently at work on more of these how to draw tutorials as I hope you find them useful for inspiration and by no means are they the definite way to draw something as fantasy art should follow your own imaginational path.

Today I would like to go through my thoughts on drawing monsters, these creatures are highly imaginative once you get going and they can be be scary or not so scary to look at.

The following monster drawing was created with the thought of a demonic creature in mind to start off with and from there it evolved into something else entirely but still a monster creature.

The ideas behind drawing something from your imagination is quite interesting to think of, because they all come from many things that visually I like, so there are other influences that make my art happen. All you have to do is have a single thought or idea and run with it, the creative process helps you along if you are in the mood to draw and sketch.

Drawing monsters is one thing I love about drawing because the possibilities are endless and the monsters are far more imaginative if you get a little bit of quiet and the time to sit down for drawing and sketching, additionally I would recommend you do the imaginative side of drawing creation as mny times as you can fit in a week, because this keeps your creative mind fresh and alert to more ideas more often.

I like youtube videos, especially the ones that help you do stuff and inform you of a higher and more methodical way of thinking and here I have found a playlist of useful videos covering such important art techniques topics as:

• Drawing portraits
• drawing eyes
• Paintbrush technique
• shading methods
• And many more

The best thing about these videos is that they are collected from lots of different sources and they can be applied to your fantasy art drawing as a whole and particularly the huge video section on drawing portraits is highly useful for your building up of drawing methods and experience with drawing different concepts, I recommend going through the videos that interest you and there are a couple of Ed Beard Jnr videos in there too which I always like a bit of his work and his easy explanations of how he creates his artwork and shading concepts.

Here is the link to the video playlist at youtube, just let it run as long as you want to see all the videos(there are 40 videos in total: