How to Draw Vampires


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Discover the secrets to drawing, painting, and illustrating immortals of the night in How to Draw Vampires. Over the years, vampires have earned a permanent place in pop culture. Numerous movies, TV shows, and book series have only upped the demand for these mythological beings. And now anyone can learn to draw and paint vampires with this in-depth handbook. How to Draw Vampires covers everything from rendering sharp fangs and glowing eyes to creating stylish immortal fashion. The book also contains 15 step-by-step projects featuring a mix of pencil, paint, and digital image-editing instruction, allowing artists to replicate each scene in graphic detail. Discover how to capture the vampire in a variety of illustration styles, from realistic to anime. Evil vampires, handsome vampires, gothic lairs, and the forbidden love between human and vampire merely scratch the surface of subjects in this must-have title.




How to Draw and Paint Vampires


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Inside you will find all the art techniques needed to create a wide range of vampire and gothic-style works, as well as tips and tricks to get your imagination working overtime Includes constructional drawings, close-up details and instructions in special effects, drawn in a number of styles including manga style.




How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires, and Zombies


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From movies to comics to graphic novels, monsters and their ilk tap into the terror that lurks in the darkest regions of the human collective unconscious. Enduringly popular characters, from vampires to zombies, provide an exciting challenge and appeal to comics and animation artists. How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies features the artwork of comic-book artist and Hollywood monster designer Kerry Gammill, Gene Colan as well as Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Jack Davis, David Hartman, Frank Frazetta, Basil Gogos, and Wally Wood.




Drawing Vampires


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Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing different types of vampires, gothic action poses, and monstrous vampiric creatures.




Draw & Paint Fantasy Art - Vampires


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Ten extremely gradual step-by-step projects show how to conceptualize, draw and paint a great selection of vampire characters. Projects include all vampire classics, from the legendary Dracula to modern pop-culture icons such as a Goth Vampire and a High School Cheerleader vampire.




Rules for Vampires


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The Nevermoor series meets Hotel Transylvania in this “delightful and spooky” (Booklist) debut middle grade adventure set in a world of talking spiders, living forests, and haunted castles about a vampire girl who wants to fit in but first must defeat an evil ghost. After one hundred years of being a vampire, it’s time for Eleonora to have her Birthnight. Since Leo’s last rite of passage, her Grimwalk, ended with her losing her right leg and a good deal of her confidence, she’s hoping to redeem herself in the eyes of her mother, the fearsome Lady Sieglinde. All Leo has to do is hunt down and kill her first prey, and she already has the perfect plan. After all, who will miss an orphan from the bleak St. Frieda’s Home for Unfortunate Children? But an accidental fire causes more death and destruction than Leo bargained for. Instead of killing one carefully selected victim, she’s created several ghosts from the orphanage residents. And one sinister specter, the Orphanmaster, is poised to terrorize the living residents in a nearby town. To stop him and try to undo some of the mess she’s made, Leo must team up with the orphan ghost Minna. Will Leo have the chance to prove herself as a vampire before her Birthnight is over, or will she discover that there are no winners in the battle of undead versus undead?




Learn to Draw Like the Masters


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Vampires reign supreme in this second drawing book from Walter Foster’s clever and innovative series Learn to Draw Like the Masters. Author Eugene Caine guides readers on an informative, artistic journey while he demonstrates how to draw an assortment of spellbinding vampires utilizing a range of techniques from history’s master artists, such as da Vinci, van Gogh, and Picasso. Aspiring artists can discover the history of each featured master and then revel in the “evidence” and in-depth “research” that uncovers the “truth” about the dark underworld of vampires—all while learning to work in pencil, pastel, acrylic, watercolor, and oil. Written with wit and humor by a true vampire aficionado and art history buff, this exquisitely designed book is sure to become a permanent part of every artist’s library.




Manga for the Beginner Midnight Monsters


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Using step-by-step instruction on how to draw Japanese manga and anime zombies, vampires, and monsters, best-selling author Christopher Hart teaches artists how they can create their own spooky manga characters. With the occult running rampant in today's television, movies, and other media, it's no wonder that the scary, monstrous, and dark characters of manga have become so popular. From drawing monster eyes to goth boys, Manga for the Beginner Midnight Monsters teaches artists how to draw these creepy and mysterious characters that they just can't get enough of. Packed with expert tips on drawing: · Zombies · Vampires · Werewolves · Goths · Witches · Sorcerers · And so much more!




Scream


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The gross and gory art of monster making! Within these pages lurk all manner of fiends, monsters and vile, vicious creatures. These are the beasts that have haunted mankind's dreams for generations—the products of mad scientists, cursed family blood lines and the twisted imaginations of artists like you. Scream is your guide to drawing nasty, blood-sucking, brain-eating creeps. Award-winning artist Steve Ellis will arm you with the dark secrets to bringing your most disturbed visions to wretched life. Inside you'll find: 23 complete step-by-step demonstrations for drawing vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies, mummies, ghosts and other classic horror characters and settings A variety of illustration styles, techniques and materials Expert advice on selecting supplies, using color, drawing freakish yet believable anatomy, creating heart-stopping drama with dynamic gestures, eerie lighting effects, and more Eyes falling out of sockets, razor sharp claws, rotting flesh, it's all here—everything you need to achieve new levels of foulness in your own fun fantasy style. Open these pages if you dare, and unleash your worst nightmares!




Fantastic Creatures and How to Draw Them


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Delve deep into a magical world of Kev Walker, and learn how to draw 30 fascinating, beautiful and curious creatures that wander through it. A renowned comic book artist and illustrator, Kev Walker will help you master the art of sketching and illustrating a collection of marvellous beasts through his how-to-art exercises, accompanied by his fascinating advice and the techniques used by professionals like himself. From elementals that stalk you at night or the beasts that lurk beneath the water to the sand creatures that wander the lonely deserts of North Africa, there is a whole world of terrifyingly beautiful monsters to learn of and inspire you. Find stunning finished illustrations along with exciting ideas, hints, and practical lessons on how to recreate the monster yourself, including suggestions for adding movement and texture. From there, morph this precious-looking book into your very own sketchbook-journal and record and design your own fierce creations on the interactive pages inside. Stick and paste inspiring photographs and drawings onto the pages, work little sketches onto the plain sheets, and paint the amazing minute details that appear on your own beast's form - this will be your personal and ultimate notebook journaling your dark adventures. With dozens of imaginative illustrations to inspire, discover this captivating bestiary now and create your own inky keepsake of these legendary creatures to treasure and share.