Fantasy Art

All around us inspiration can be taken from the real life images our eyes capture everyday, these mental images are stored in our computer like brains for lots of creative stuff that we as humans do quite naturally, whether it’s making the perfect cup of tea right down to making the bed with origami folded sheets.

Drawing and creating fantasy art comes about when we are drawn to or sucked in by the contagious and inspirational artwork of other artists and then we tend to see realistic looking life landscapes in paintings and the inspired choices that the artists made and combine all these mental images into our own imaginative creations.

To see how other artists do what they do and how they do it is best. But also inspiration can be found within stories, books and lists of words, theseare far better to imagine your creations with, something that you read and then conjure up images in your own mind as to what can be sketched on paper.

Medieval history for me is a good source of inspiration especially for castles and knights armour that kind of thing, years back in real history has influence in the future of many created pieces of artwork, whether it be a painting or portrait. Your imagination can be used to exaggerate your influences and make them your own ideas and concepts.

Art of the past can be one of the main sources of inspiration, because many artists had little distractions such as the internet or even television, so they had the time to concentrate on their works of art and become good at it much quicker. But even now there are more and more fantasy artists out there who are earning a reputation as quality and professional artists from their own websites and blogs and the ability to command artist commissions from all the available sources.

One of the largest fantasy art sites filled with fan art and professional fantasy art is Elfwood and perhaps is one I look at most for inspiration in fantasy art.

The drawing of the demon  tree below was based on an idea I saw elsewhere but it gave me the inspiration to draw something that I liked, so always draw what you like and what passes the time for you with ease and you will draw some of your best stuff always.

Zazzle is a great place to network with other fantasy artist on the zazzle network, you can find art by these artists on a great range of products and get to know these artists and their work.

Sites like Zazzle are worth a closer look, because they can get your art out there online much quicker if you have some good designs already to upload to the ranges of merchandise available, or you could specialize in certain types of products with your designs.

I’ve started one to give you an idea if you don’t already know about Zazzle, it’s something similar to Cafepress, a print on demand service were you can set or mark up your own prices on your art designs. I have opted for a fantasy art/photography design gallery.

Zazzle offers lots of opportunity to add almost all types of artwork and designs to your chosen range of products, this is one of many opportunities you should use to get your art out there, plus it’s a learning experience to sell your own artwork, so have a go.

There are many fantasy artists on Zazzle and they have various designs and styles, I have had fun looking at the different Zazzle galleries because to look at other artists work can be of great benefit to your work and influence some new art from you too.

I would certainly give Zazzle a try for their good intentions to reward the artist or designer and empower them to create a business online out of their artwork, in fact I am in the process of this right now, although I may have to separate the fantasy art and the photography into two online stores.Get ready to Zazzle!!!