Beasts!: How to Draw Fantastic Predators, Creepy Crawlies, and Cryptids

by Steve Miller

Things with big scary lions, tigers, alligators. Things with long slithery rattlesnakes, anacondas, pythons. Things that lurk under the water waiting to bite your leg sharks, Portuguese man-o'-wars, piranhas.Things that look all mild-mannered but would kill you as soon as look at bears, hippos, killer whales. Things with way too many scorpions, killer bees, spiders.Things with that crush you in a vise-like grip and then eat you Komodo dragons, monitor lizards, giant hawks. Things that may or may not exist but you don't want to be the one to find yetis, sasquatches, Loch Ness monsters. And many more... things. Hungry, angry things.Fortunately, these terrifying monsters are unlikely to turn up in most artists' studios, so let's just stay inside where it's safe, shall we? With paper and pen and the help of Beasts! How to Draw Fantastic Predators, Creepy Crawlies, and Cryptids, artists can create hundreds

Genres: Art

144 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2008

About the author

From 1995 to 1999, Steve worked on Dragonlance meta-story direction and specific print products, along with Doug Niles, Harold Johnson, Stan!, Sue Cook and Miranda Horner. When Wizards of the Coast aquired TSR, the influential Dragonlance authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman once again took charge of Dragonlance story direction, and Steve soon moved onto other things.