Drawing Fairies

ISBN-13: 9781838576288

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing

Publication Date: 05-15-2020

Pages: 96

Product Dimensions: 8.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.20(d)

Peter Gray is long established as an illustrator of books, magazines and newspapers with occasional forays into such fields as 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, from classic fiction to educational and historical, for UK publishers Penguin Longman and Oxford University Press and Ernst Klett in Germany. Outside book publishing, Peter has worked on storyboards and costume design for the film industry, most recently on Oliver Stone's blockbuster Alexander, and regularly contributes illustrations to national newspapers (Financial Times, Sunday Times) and magazines (The Spectator, Readers' Digest).

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Part 1 Fairy Faces

Human Faces 8

Fairy Faces 10

Facial Features 14

Fairy Hair 18

Hats, Horns and Headdresses 22

Templates 24

A Fairy Portrait 26

A Graphic Portrait 32

A Pastel Portrait 34

Part 2 Fairy Figures

Proportions 36

Pose and Posture 38

Drawing from a Live Model 40

Dynamic Figures 42

Creating a Fairy from a Skeleton 44

Hands and Feet 48

Part 3 Fairy Fashions

Folds and Wrinkles 50

Styles 52

The Croquis 54

Wings 56

A Fairy Fashion Design 60

Color 62

Part 4 Fairy Folk

Curvacious Fairy 64

Elfin Fairy 68

Child Fairy 70

Dark Fairy 72

Goblin 74

Faun 76

Part 5 Fairy Flora and Fauna

Integrating Figures 80

Flowers 82

Small Creatures 84

A Fairy Companion 86

A Fairy of the Forest 90

A Fairy and a Fish 94