Create Your Own Fantasy Paintings!

Fantasy Paintings is a subject that really challenges artists on many fronts! Doing these black/white fantasy drawings means you must have a good artistic foundation in perspective and realism.

Second, you must be trained in the natural world looking at plants and animals. Even the human world with its man-made architectures can be a requirement depending on the job.

Lastly, you must be disciplined and creative enough to tie everything together to make you own worlds come to life!

While this is no easy task, there are always tips and tricks to help you out on the way. As such, we will start drawing fantasy type creatures and environments, to help you with tying your imagination together, before we start painting the subjects.

Let me be your personal coach as we tackle the subject of fantasy paintings together!

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Current fantasy painting lessons

Fantasy Drawings
Read this quick introduction on fantasy drawings so you have an idea of what subjects will be covered before painting anything.

Angel Wing Drawings
A popular theme, this is a quick guide for creating your own angel wing drawings so you can start using it on all your other fantasy drawings and paintings.

Angel Drawing
An angel drawing require knowledge from multiple disciplines to draw correctly. Follow along as we tackle on drawing these holy messengers.

Phoenix Bird
To make your own phoenix bird drawing, this lesson will focus all its attention to creating light from a dark background to portray fiery effects.

Devil Wings
If you understand the anatomy of an arm, drawing devil wings is relatively easy. The challenge is figuring how to manipulate it to form a wing.

Demon Drawings
Using simple blocking techniques and dramatic placement of the main light source, here is where you learn to create demon drawings with creatures showing malicious intent.

Drawing Dragons
Drawing dragons will require a lot of patience and layer management because of all the intricate details. Nevertheless, it is a fun subject to explore.

Drawings of Elves
This particular drawing exercise will take you through practicing a few additional digital art tools as well as armor design elements to create your own drawings of elves.

Female Elves
A bit more advanced, the drawing of female elves will incorporate a few custom brushes to get a mystical effect. Other than that, all the basic tools are still used.

Drawing of a Fairy
This drawing of a fairy will teach you layer management and effects as you will be using quite a lot of layers to draw these beautiful life forms.

How to Draw a Unicorn
In this lesson, we are going to learn how to draw a unicorn on your computer using basic art skills and digital art tools. You can use animal references to help make it easier.

Mermaid Drawings
This may be the hardest digital art lesson yet. So pace yourself, use all you know from the lessons on this site, and be patient as you learn mermaid drawings in this tutorial.

Broad Swords
Learn how to draw broad swords as we tackle on two different fantasy swords and one two-handed sword in this quick digital art lesson.

How to Draw Swords
This lesson will focus on rendering a symmetrical and asymmetrical sword designs to learn how to draw swords with your digital art software.

Elven Bow
This tutorial is designed to teach you how to draw an elven bow using very simple gesture lines. The end result is a realistic fantasy bow that you will be proud of.

Fantasy Weapons
This particular tutorial will talk about other fantasy weapons that you can draw on your computer. Take what you learned from previous lessons to help you create unique weapons on your own.

More to come soon!

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