Fantasy Characters & Creatures: An Artist’s Sourcebook: Whimsical Beasts, Anthropomorphic Monsters and More! (With over 600 illustrations)
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This captivating book presents a treasure trove of ideas for hundreds of different fantasy characters and creatures. Experienced video game character designer Satoshi Matsuura explains his method for designing characters to play specific roles in fantasy world video games, graphic novels, anime films and fine art illustrations.
This extraordinary sourcebook contains over 600 different character designs as well as an exclusive tutorial showing you how to conceptualize and draw new, believable characters with clearly defined features matching their individual motivations and actions.
The hundreds of characters in this book include:
- Majestic dragons, dinosaurs, monsters and anthropomorphic creatures
- Fairytale ogres, orcs, trolls, giants, elves, fairies, hobbits and dwarves
- Kawaii critters like the Owl Bear, Werechipmunk, Cat Fairy and Mouse Knight
- Zombies, Yokai, demons and oddballs like the Death Mole and Sushi Monster
- Kings, generals, monks, shamans, knights, rogues, assassins, mercenaries and more!
Indispensable for fantasy world artists, this book is an endlessly fascinating storehouse of creative ideas!
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61 reviews for Fantasy Characters & Creatures: An Artist’s Sourcebook: Whimsical Beasts, Anthropomorphic Monsters and More! (With over 600 illustrations)
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Original price was: $19.99.$14.99Current price is: $14.99.
Kamchai Loketkrawe –
The 16 year old that received this for his birthday, loved it as he is currently doing character design and would like to be a game developer as a career. I am always trying to encourage him to follow this dream and not end up doing a job he hates as does happen to a lot of creative people. Five stars
Kathy –
Conforme à mes attentes 👌
Kamchai Loketkrawe –
Love it.
Sara Abraham –
I discovered Satoshi Matsuura’s original book in Japan and purchased it immediately, despite not knowing Japanese. I really love his illustrations and creativity, so I was excited when the English version was announced and I preordered.
Not only is the text in English, but the illustrations are larger and more colorful because of the glossier paper stock. So if you have the Japanese version, the English version could be considered an upgrade.
For those not familiar, Satoshi Matsuura is a talented character artist. This book is filled with hundreds of clever, whimsical, and imaginative characters — a creature codex.
Each character consistently has an English and Japanese name and a tiny silhouette — an important part of unique character design.
Each category has 10-60 characters. Some of the categories include dragons, reptiles, sea creatures, beast warriors, human warriors, yokai, zombies, and even plant and food monsters. It’s an impressive amount of work and very inspiring.
I especially like the section of the book where he explains his design process. There’s really valuable information on finding information, defining silhouettes and negative space, shading, coloring, etc. There are about 12 pages in this section, so very useful insight and techniques for artists and art lovers.
If you appreciate character design, I highly recommend this catalog of creatures. It’s in my top 5 art books.
Amazon Customer –
Often when buying art books the advice that comes with them is generic! In this book Satoshi gives actual practical advice: a solid investment! Gorgeous design great advice!
Kindle Customer –
This book has tons of excellent character designs and ideas. I like the cartoony feelings that comes with each drawing. They remind me of Vanillaware’s Muramasa.
Crhistopher Passarelli Pedroso –
Bought as a gift for my 7 year old nephew who was into monsters/dinosaurs/dragons, and liked to draw. Seemed to really like it.
bluecactus31 –
This book is amazing and inspiring. So much skill and creativity on display.
Amazonian –
Sou suspeito a falar, já que Satoshi Matsuura é meu Designer de Personagem favorito…mas este livro é um oceano de inspiração! Recomendo muito!
Douglas elvira –
I am a fan and all the character designs are awesome.
However, kind of disappointed by the low resolution of kindle version.
It is like a pdf of highly compressed jpg images.
K T –
A really, really great book to generate new ideas. Lots of shaped-based silhouettes and unique usage of negative space. Even each character has a small image with just their shadows to show this! The artist’s creative process is explained in detail and with accompanying pictures to demonstrate how earlier iterations were adjusted and improved on.
As a content warning, there are bare breasts for some of the characters. Doesn’t bother me, but might make unaware parents upset.
Douglas elvira –
Las ilustraciones son hermosas y los detalles son fantásticos