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If you love drawing fantasy but find yourself struggling to get it right,
check out these books & links. If you're a beginner like me, you'll want every possible resource you can get your hands on!
Free Art Tutorials
I have found a number of free drawing tutorials. Some of these tutorials are not fantasy related but provide a good starting point for the beginning artist.
- Tenth Orbital: Information
- Creating wings in Photoshop & how this artist goes about creating some of her paintings.
- William Li - Official website Fenyx
- Figure drawing, metal and reflective surfaces, and transparency are covered in these tutorials. Take a look at this artist's work--it's fantastic!
- Featherdust Studios
- Painting in Painter using the oil pastel tool, a start-to-finish painting in Photoshop, and coloring a scanned drawing in Photoshop.
- Online Art Lessons for Harry Potter Fans -
- Pencil drawing how-to's on dragons, werewolves, unicorns, gryphons and other magical creatures. Scroll down towards the bottom to find the list.
- Dreslough.com - The Home of Dee Dreslough's Artwork and Novel!
- Dee provides several tutorials on drawing dragons. Excellent source for the dragon lover!
- Treelight Studios - Tutorials
- Acrylic, digital & a 'speedpainting' tutorial. Includes links to other artists' tutorials.
- ELFWOOD Tutorials (FARP)
- Elfwood contains the largest home to SciFi/Fantasy art and fiction. You'll find many good tutorials in FARP (Fantasy Art Resource Project). Includes drawing, coloring, painting, composition, digital art, and drawing people & beasts.
- Epilogue Tutorials
- Epilogue is another huge online art gallery. Several digital art tutorials: creating skin tones, painting rocks, and landscapes are covered.
- Blazedent - Drawing Tutorials
- Blazedent offers free tutorials and resources for artistic creators of any media type. We help anyone artistically produce any media type in our online discussion through message boards, our art gallery and allowing anyone of the online community to post their written and/or other media on our site.
- Fur & Fantasy Drawing 101
- Drawing human & fur bodies, fur faces, & inking your drawing.
- Dragonsoulgallery
- Several tutorials about drawing dragons.
- Relastra Photoshop tutorial
- Artist Rebecca Kemp demonstrates step-by-step how she colors in her drawing using photoshop.
- Carmen Keys Faerie Artist * Tutorials
- Fairy drawing & painting instructions.
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Digital inking, creating hair, and creating skin.
- Tutorial Outpost
- Tutorial Outpost - Home to thousands of Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and 3D Studio Max tutorials as well as an active community! You'll find this an invaluable site to further your skills. Not only are there many fantasy related tutorials, but also many other art tutorials that all will help you on your way to create beautiful fantasy art.
- Fantasy Art School Home Page
- The Fantasy Art School Where you learn how to draw while drawing all sorts of fun medieval and fantasy stuff.
- YouTube - Drawing the Human Figure From Your Mind
- Overview: This introduction shows you the concept of invention."The Structure of Man" A Step by Step Series to Understanding Anatomy with over 227 Videos 43 ...
- YouTube - How to Draw Eyes
- Shows you how to draw eyes beginning with the triangular shape of the eye socket, then the placement of the eyeball within the eye socket, followed by the iri...
- YouTube - Fantasy Art of Ed Beard
- Several videos of various techniques of fantasy artist Ed Beard.
Making a Living
Artists often have trouble on how to start selling their creations. Marketing your work effectively can take work, but the results can pay off tremendously.
- Guru.com - The world's largest online marketplace for freelance talent.
- Freelancers of all different skills & backgrounds can post their profile here and look for projects to bid on.
- Outsourcing to Freelance Programmers, Web & Logo Designers, Writers, Illustrators on Elance
- Like guru.com, freelancers can also post a profile and bid on projects.
Fantasy Figures
Drawing and Painting Fantasy Figures: From the Imagination to the Page
Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 01/04/2010) 
Anatomy for Fantasy Artists: An Illustrator's Guide to Creating Action Figures and Fantastical Forms
Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 01/04/2010)
How to Draw Fantasy Females: Create Sexy Cyberpunks, Seductive Supergirls, and Raunchy All-Action Heroines
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 01/04/2010)
Fantasy Landscapes
Your art won't be complete without a lovely landscape.
Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes
Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 01/04/2010)
Fantastic Realms!: Draw Fantasy Characters, Creatures and Settings
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 01/04/2010)
Drawing & Painting Fantasy Worlds
Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 01/04/2010)
Fantasy Creatures
Best part of fantasy art of all--how to create those fantastic beasts!
DragonArt
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 01/04/2010)
How to Draw Fantasy Characters (Christopher Hart's 'how to Draw)
Amazon Price: (as of 01/04/2010)
Draw Fantasy: Dragons, Centaurs, and Other Mythological Characters
Amazon Price: (as of 01/04/2010)
How to Draw and Paint Fairies: From Finding Inspiration to Capturing Diaphanous Detail, a Step-by-Step Guide to Fairy Art
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 01/04/2010)
Drawing & Painting Fantasy Beasts: Bring to Life the Creatures and Monsters of Other Realms
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 01/04/2010)
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- ArtistAnika ArtistAnika Jun 20, 2008 @ 11:34 am
- Great collection of tutorials and books. Thanks for putting it all together for us!
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- Karendelac Karendelac Jul 4, 2007 @ 4:32 pm
- Congratulations on a well designed site.
This was most informative and I learned a lot !
Best wishes,
Karen
Karen at Karens
Kinkade Art Store
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- datingtips93 datingtips93 Jul 3, 2007 @ 3:59 am
- Useful links, thanks.
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- FrooggyDotCom FrooggyDotCom Jun 16, 2007 @ 9:40 am
- Great Art resources to help everyone learn..
You can enter contests once you have created your master piece ...
Check out my list at http://www.squidoo.com/topmodels/
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- JennaLynn JennaLynn Jun 8, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
- great idea and thanks for the helpful links!
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