Drawing Unicorns & Other Mythical Creatures

by Peter Gray

Overview

Unicorns are an ever popular mythological creature amongst people of all ages, from all over the world.

With the help of this stimulating book, readers will learn to draw these majestic creatures by using simple shapes and lines that they are already familiar with.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398802315
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/15/2021
Edition description:	yes
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	638,203
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Peter Gray is long established as an illustrator of books, magazines and newspapers with occasional forays into film storyboards and costume design, advertising and animation projects. Peter is also the author of many books for adults and children, which have been published in many languages all around the world. Since graduating from Loughborough College of Art and Design with a specialist degree in illustration, Peter Gray has contributed illustrations to many books, of wide-ranging subject matter. Peter has also worked on storyboards and costume design for the film industry and regularly contributes illustrations to national newspapers (Financial Times, Sunday Times) and magazines (The Spectator, Readers' Digest). He lives in Suffolk, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Part 1 Heads 8

Horses' Heads 8

Unicorns' Heads 10

Heraldic Unicorn Head 12

Eyes 14

Ears and Noses 15

Unicorn Portrait 16

Dragon's Head 18

Dragon Variations 20

Human Heads 22

Human Creature Heads 24

Part 2 Bodies 26

Basic Anatomy 26

Proportions 27

Pose and Locomotion 28

Unicorn Running 30

Heraldic Unicom 33

Horses in Perspective 36

Foals 38

Unicorn Foal 39

Forest Unicorn 42

Hippocamp 45

Part 3 Human Hybrid Creatures 48

The Human Body 48

Mermaid 50

Centaurine 54

Sagittarius 58

Minotaur 60

Troll 64

Part 4 Winged Creatures 66

Sphinx 67

Harpy 70

Phoenix 73

Winged Horse 76

Griffin 78

Part 5 Reptilian Creatures 80

Dragon Design 82

Color Theory 84

Chinese Dragon 86

Basilisk 90

Combining Creatures 94