With movies like Lord of the Rings, fantasy art is more popular than ever. Covers a wide range of media including watercolor painting, illustration, and digital painting. Showcases inspirational finished art from today's top fantasy artists.

This is a how-to guide to the essential techniques for capturing fantastic buildings, alien architecture, alternate realities, and ancient citadels. Exploring different media - traditional and digital - this text takes you step-by-step through the techniques you need for turning your own ideas into finished art.

Different fantasy subject areas are explored in a spread-by-spread format through practical instruction, working sketches and step-by-step illustrations. Both traditional and digital media are covered, as well as instructions on painting realistic details such as expressions, movement, skin, hair, armour and jewellery.

A guide to drawing fantasy worlds that covers barbarians, Vikings, the Medieval world, wild creatures, faerie realms, and gothic characters.