How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions - Guide to Drawing Clothing, Armor, Swords, and Dragons for Role-Playing Elves, Orcs, Druids, Sorcerers, and More: Customize Your Fantasy Character Step by Step
Video game artist Chrissa Barton’s How to Draw Your RPG Character taught you how to draw your fantasy role; now learn to customize your character with story-building details like armor, weapons, accessories, and more!

Special features:

  • The step-by-step method makes it all so easy! With over 500 step-by-step illustrations and a layflat binding, it’s simple to follow along.
  • A great gift for the gamer! Full color throughout, with beautiful renderings of suits of armor, a full range of weaponry, creature companions, and more in a premium package with decorative spot varnish and foil stamping on the cover
  • Learn from an expert author: Artist and popular Instagrammer (@chrissbug) Chrissa Barton has AAA credentials in video game illustration and animation.

Chrissa Barton’s inaugural book How to Draw Your RPG Character covers the basics of drawing the faces and figures of all the different character types and classes of Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games. In Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions you can level up even further by learning ways to customize your character to make it uniquely your own, whether you are a human, half-orc, elf, gnome, dwarf, tiefling, or halfing. Chrissa covers in step-by-step detail how to draw:

  • All weights of armor, from light protection for a rogue or druid to full heavy armor suitable for a fighter or paladin
  • Robes, cloaks, and other clothing
  • Accessories like boots, a wizard’s hat, different styles of helmets, and gloves
  • All manner and styles of swords, as well as hammers, bows and arrows, and magic staffs
  • Symbology to include in the design of clothing, weapons, and armor to communicate lineage or allegiance

There is also a chapter devoted to creature companions that includes how to draw a:

  • Wyvern
  • Owlbear
  • Wolf
  • Horse and unicorn
  • Raven

The final chapter shows how to put it all together, with tutorials for fully drawn characters customized with details that pull from all the tutorials included in the book.

With its layflat binding and more than 500 step-by-step illustrations, How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry, & Creature Companions makes customizing your fantasy character fun and easy!

 

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How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions - Guide to Drawing Clothing, Armor, Swords, and Dragons for Role-Playing Elves, Orcs, Druids, Sorcerers, and More: Customize Your Fantasy Character Step by Step
Video game artist Chrissa Barton’s How to Draw Your RPG Character taught you how to draw your fantasy role; now learn to customize your character with story-building details like armor, weapons, accessories, and more!

Special features:

  • The step-by-step method makes it all so easy! With over 500 step-by-step illustrations and a layflat binding, it’s simple to follow along.
  • A great gift for the gamer! Full color throughout, with beautiful renderings of suits of armor, a full range of weaponry, creature companions, and more in a premium package with decorative spot varnish and foil stamping on the cover
  • Learn from an expert author: Artist and popular Instagrammer (@chrissbug) Chrissa Barton has AAA credentials in video game illustration and animation.

Chrissa Barton’s inaugural book How to Draw Your RPG Character covers the basics of drawing the faces and figures of all the different character types and classes of Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games. In Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions you can level up even further by learning ways to customize your character to make it uniquely your own, whether you are a human, half-orc, elf, gnome, dwarf, tiefling, or halfing. Chrissa covers in step-by-step detail how to draw:

  • All weights of armor, from light protection for a rogue or druid to full heavy armor suitable for a fighter or paladin
  • Robes, cloaks, and other clothing
  • Accessories like boots, a wizard’s hat, different styles of helmets, and gloves
  • All manner and styles of swords, as well as hammers, bows and arrows, and magic staffs
  • Symbology to include in the design of clothing, weapons, and armor to communicate lineage or allegiance

There is also a chapter devoted to creature companions that includes how to draw a:

  • Wyvern
  • Owlbear
  • Wolf
  • Horse and unicorn
  • Raven

The final chapter shows how to put it all together, with tutorials for fully drawn characters customized with details that pull from all the tutorials included in the book.

With its layflat binding and more than 500 step-by-step illustrations, How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry, & Creature Companions makes customizing your fantasy character fun and easy!

 

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How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions - Guide to Drawing Clothing, Armor, Swords, and Dragons for Role-Playing Elves, Orcs, Druids, Sorcerers, and More: Customize Your Fantasy Character Step by Step

How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions - Guide to Drawing Clothing, Armor, Swords, and Dragons for Role-Playing Elves, Orcs, Druids, Sorcerers, and More: Customize Your Fantasy Character Step by Step

by Chrissa Barton
How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions - Guide to Drawing Clothing, Armor, Swords, and Dragons for Role-Playing Elves, Orcs, Druids, Sorcerers, and More: Customize Your Fantasy Character Step by Step

How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions - Guide to Drawing Clothing, Armor, Swords, and Dragons for Role-Playing Elves, Orcs, Druids, Sorcerers, and More: Customize Your Fantasy Character Step by Step

by Chrissa Barton

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Video game artist Chrissa Barton’s How to Draw Your RPG Character taught you how to draw your fantasy role; now learn to customize your character with story-building details like armor, weapons, accessories, and more!

Special features:

  • The step-by-step method makes it all so easy! With over 500 step-by-step illustrations and a layflat binding, it’s simple to follow along.
  • A great gift for the gamer! Full color throughout, with beautiful renderings of suits of armor, a full range of weaponry, creature companions, and more in a premium package with decorative spot varnish and foil stamping on the cover
  • Learn from an expert author: Artist and popular Instagrammer (@chrissbug) Chrissa Barton has AAA credentials in video game illustration and animation.

Chrissa Barton’s inaugural book How to Draw Your RPG Character covers the basics of drawing the faces and figures of all the different character types and classes of Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games. In Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions you can level up even further by learning ways to customize your character to make it uniquely your own, whether you are a human, half-orc, elf, gnome, dwarf, tiefling, or halfing. Chrissa covers in step-by-step detail how to draw:

  • All weights of armor, from light protection for a rogue or druid to full heavy armor suitable for a fighter or paladin
  • Robes, cloaks, and other clothing
  • Accessories like boots, a wizard’s hat, different styles of helmets, and gloves
  • All manner and styles of swords, as well as hammers, bows and arrows, and magic staffs
  • Symbology to include in the design of clothing, weapons, and armor to communicate lineage or allegiance

There is also a chapter devoted to creature companions that includes how to draw a:

  • Wyvern
  • Owlbear
  • Wolf
  • Horse and unicorn
  • Raven

The final chapter shows how to put it all together, with tutorials for fully drawn characters customized with details that pull from all the tutorials included in the book.

With its layflat binding and more than 500 step-by-step illustrations, How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry, & Creature Companions makes customizing your fantasy character fun and easy!

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684620883
Publisher: Mixed Media Resources LLC
Publication date: 08/05/2025
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 0.33(w) x 0.39(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Chrissa Barton is an illustrator, animator, and popular Instagrammer (@chrissabug, with over 228,000 followers) whose experience ranges from AAA game development to independent character-driven illustration. Chrissa also creates online drawing tutorials and resources to help others to pick up a pencil and tap into their own creative potential. She is the author of How to Draw Your RPG Character (MMR, 5/14/2024). She lives in Utah.

Table of Contents

Welcome Back to the Realm of Imagination!

Chapter 1: Customizing Your RPG Character Basics

            Character Drawing Step by Step

            Drawing Fabric

            Drawing and Coloring Different Materials

            Color Schemes

            Symbology

Chapter 2: Clothing

            How to Draw an Outfit on a Character

            Tunics, Blouses, Vests & Corsets

            Robes

            Cloaks

Chapter 3: Armor

            Armor Weight Classes

            Layering an Outfit

            Light Armor

            Medium Armor

            Heavy Armor

Chapter 4: Weaponry

            Magic Staff

            Sword

            War Hammer

            Bow & Arrow with Quiver

Chapter 5: Accessories & Musical Instruments

Boots

            Sandals

            Wizard Hat

            Helmet

            Gloves

            Personal Ornamentation

Belts

            Waist Bags

            Potion Bottle

            Scroll

            Lute

Chapter 6: Creature Companions

            Crows & Ravens

            Horse

            Wolf

            Wyvern

            Owlbear

Chapter 7: Characters

            Human Paladin and Her Unicorn Mount

            Half-Orc Barbarian Astride His Wyvern

            Halfling Druid with Her Owlbear

            Elf Ranger and His Wolf

            Dwarf Fighter and His Pony

Elf Sorcerer with Her Raven

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