Customer Reviews

How to Draw Fantasy Females: Create Sexy Cyberpunks, Seductive Supergirls, and Raunchy All-Action Heroines

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2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I purchased "fantasy females" sight unseen, and with some reservations considering the title. (I find it somewhat degrading to see women referred to as "raunchy"). As a drawing book I considered the book to be 'okay.' The artist covers a lot of different artistic styles from realistic to chibi, to computer-generated. There isn't a lot of drawing instruction in this book. Most of the pics are already fully sketched or in need of colorization only. There is a little too much discussion of poser for a drawing book. Also the illustrations are crammed on the pages with a lot of text, in such a way that I felt the book was poorly designed.

On the plus side, if you are looking for ideas on how to improve your art, and can already sketch the human figure this book might be the book you are looking for. Interesting, but ultimately not particularly useful, especially if you are looking for drawing instruction. If you are, there are better books on how to draw female characters out there.

3 stars.

I purchased this book (without being able to see any interior pages), hoping it would be full of ideas, images, and techniques about how to draw and design "sexy cybperpunks, etc". Way too much time is spent on using Photoshop, Poser, and DAZ Studio. While these programs can be used to make excellent artwork (and I know numerous artists who use these programs), a book on "How to Draw" should not be talking about how to arrange Poser figures in a scene. Using Poser is like photography: you're arranging elements in a scene... there is no "drawing" involved.

I've been doodling on and off for years, and have just recently started to get more serious with my drawing. I was looking for a book that would give me guidance on drawing female figures because my attempts to capture the female form on paper have been quite horrible. This book does not do that. It tells you what they should look like, but doesn't tell you how to get there. There are some black and white sketches of characters already drawn with the colorized final work next to them, but NO notes on how to actually start drawing such characters.

The author touches on using Photoshop, 3D modeling programs, and writing character background stories. No offense, but I'd rather have some suggestions on how to draw the characters; not how to scan and color or spin yarns around them. I mean, the book IS titled "How To Draw...". Granted though, like every other topic in the book, the author doesn't spend much time on these topics.

Seriously, I didn't see hardly anything on how to start drawing, and building these characters up. No stick figures, and very little in the way of rough sketches.

I really feel like I wasted my money on this.

There just isn't enough "how to" in this "how to".

The product is good, but is aimed more at people wanting to make a living off their art. Those doing it as a hobby might be disapointed, since the book looks more at the commercial side of things.

This book was not what I expected, its not a bad book, but not what I was looking for. Glad I only paid three bucks for it

Overall, besides the 'cheesecake' appeal, the breakdown of styles and techniques justify buying this book. I haven't yet, but I might.

I reccomend anyone using this as a learning tool also get a DVD/Digital cable and once in a while use the 'pause' feature, to sketch what they see on the TV. Have a sketchbook devoted to 'life drawing' from this source, seperate from the 'fantasy' stuff. Also, "Drawing and painting fantasy figures" should be purchased first, as more versatile, along with its companion on "Fantasy Worlds".


Poser, mentioned heavily in this book, is also a very good tool. Ever see a movie called "Fire and Ice"? It was done with a "Rotoscope" where artists drew over still frames from a movie that used actors approximating what the animation would be. Today, with Poser and some decent software, such as flash and painter, such a movie could be made far more easily. One of my projects once I think of a good "Thud and Blunder" plot to tribute to Heroic fantasy;-)

I use TrueSpace for more ambitious 3D, but for general figure position experiments, Poser works good. Got a copy of Poser 5 here, and it works great. Previously, I'd used Poser 3, which I got for free in a magazine, but when I got a computer with more than a Gig of Ram, Poser 3 couldn't recognize it.

Drop the How to Draw from the title and you will get what you are paying for. This book covers software and tools used in the profession but lacks any step by steps useful to beginners and contains info already known by anyone with basic knowledge of character design. This book is more of a gallery of created characters.

I really enjoyed the images of this book and the descriptions on how they drew it. This book in my opinion is not for the new artist but the artist that wants to improve his or her skill. This book covers 3d and many different ways artists draw. They even added the way I draw (which is straight into the PC, no scanning or anything) I rarely see that way mentioned in books.

I tend to buy a lot of "How to Draw" books, art books, etc. and, over the years, I've developeda pretty good sense of what works and what doesn't. Unfortunately, "How to Draw Fantasy Females" just doesn't work.

This book is basically a look into different kinds of female sci-fi/comic book/fantasy characters. It gives information on archetypes (actually, there is a little character sheet-type list at the beginning of the book that will help you design different character "types") and provides a couple of pseudo-helpful tutorials on Photoshop and other programs, but is mostly a showcase of different kinds of femals genre characters. I was underwhelmed, to tell the truth - there is very little "how to" to this book at all. Unless you are a collector or a completionist, I recommend just staying away from this one and looking elsewhere.

HOW TO DRAW FANTASY FEMALES. Is the title of the book. I was looking for something to give me ideas and techniques i could use to find my own style of female cartoon style characters. However, this book is confusing in that it shows one example of one style, of one way to create it. Most of it is how to use Photoshop and 3d graphic software to create these characters, there is absolutely no sketches-to solid line-to color explanations or visual aids. If you're looking into graphic design or interested in making 3d models for a video game you'll never produce, then this is it.