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Draw Your Own Fantasy Characters: Design Original Characters for RPG Worlds and Beyond

by Tamara Osborn

A drawing guide to building fantasy casts

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A drawing guide to building fantasy casts

Tamara Osborn’s guide combines more than 25 tutorials on drawing fantasy characters, from anatomy and expressive faces, hands, and feet to features such as horns, wings, and fangs. Its subjects range across elves, dwarves, orcs, centaurs, merfolk, lizardfolk, angels, devils, and vampires. The book also addresses how to move beyond familiar stereotypes in its treatment of classic fantasy races. A final chapter turns to the design choices that help define a character’s identity, including body modifications, clothing, setting, and other visual signifiers. Step-by-step instruction and artist tips frame the book as a practical resource for developing original character designs.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Artists interested in drawing fantasy and paranormal character types.
  • RPG creators developing original characters and casts.
  • Learners seeking step-by-step character-drawing tutorials.

Themes

Fantasy character designDrawing anatomy and fantastical featuresOriginal character developmentVisual identity and storytelling

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Book overview

Your Master Guide to Otherworldly Characters

Bring the far reaches of your imagination to life with this epic handbook for fantasy character design. Led by illustrator and character designer Tamara Osborn, you'll learn everything you need to know to draw amazing characters and perfect your approach to visual storytelling. She provides over 25 thoughtful tutorials--alongside pro artist tips of the trade--on how to depict:

- Accurate anatomy and expressive faces, hands, and feet
- Fantastical features like fangs, horns, and wings
- Classic fantasy races like elves, dwarves, and orcs that break free from stereotypes
- Anthropomorphic favorites like centaurs, merfolk, and lizardfolk
- Popular paranormals like angels, devils, and vampires

Paired with a final chapter on how to inject personality into your drawings and take your OCs to the next level with body modifications, clothing design, setting, and identity signifiers, you'll be ready to craft your dream cast of characters in no time. With accessible, step-by-step tutorials and plentiful art inspiration, this guide is the perfect all-in-one resource to design and draw epic original characters.

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