A complete art course built around the legendary world of vampires, this book shows both beginners and more experienced artists how to create spine-chilling works designed for maximum impact. It features vampires, their hapless victims, companions, and associated gothic folklore.

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.

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.

DIVOver 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. 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. /div

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.

Discover the secrets to drawing, painting, and illustrating the undead in How to Draw Zombies. From the pages of great literature to Hollywood movies, zombies are appearing everywhere. Now aspiring artists can bring them to life, so to speak, by learning to render them with pencil, paint, and digital image-editing software. How to Draw Zombies gets into all the gory details, such as creating bloodshot eyes, forming robust brows, and imitating the look of pale, dead flesh. The book also features 15 step-by-step projects that guide artists from initial sketches to finished works of art, including a Voodoo Queen, a zombie climbing out of a grave, a zombie out for a midnight snack, a gothic zombie, and even a zombie romance.

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!