How to Draw Your RPG Character: A Step-by-Step Guide to Bringing Fantasy Characters to Life - How to Draw Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, Dragonborn, Warriors, Humans, Orcs, Halflings, Tieflings, Wizards, Druids, Barbarians, Bards, and More

by Chrissa Barton

Overview

Level up your gaming experience and learn to draw your RPG character!

Special features:

• Beginners Welcome! Even if you’ve never drawn before, the author’s step-by-step method, with over 450 illustrations, is incredibly easy to follow.
• Comprehensive Reference: Learn to draw everyone in your fantasy world—humans, halflings, gnomes, elves, and more—portrayed in a wide range of classes.
• Great Gift for the Gamer: Features premium paper with a layflat binding, printed endpapers, and color foil stamping on the cover.
• Expert Author: Popular Instagrammer Chrissa Barton (@chrissabug) has AAA credentials in video game illustration and animation.

With more than 450 step-by-step illustrations, How to Draw Your RPG Character by fantasy illustrator and video game artist Chrissa Barton teaches you how to create your own custom character even if you have no idea how to draw. She starts with a super-easy-to-follow primer on basic drawing techniques, then takes you through how to draw different body types, facial features, and hairstyles.

In the final section, Chrissa puts it all together, with detailed tutorials on how to draw the character types and classes you’ll find in role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. You’ll learn how to draw elves and half-elves, gnomes, humans, halfings, half-orcs, dragonborns, and tieflings as fighters, wizards, barbarians, druids, warlocks, monks, and more.

So kick up your next campaign a notch by bringing your character to life!

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684620746
Publisher:	Mixed Media Resources LLC
Publication date:	05/14/2024
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Chrissa Barton is an American 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.

Table of Contents

TOC:

Part I: Drawing Basics

What You Need

Drawing Techniques

Character Drawing Step by Step

Part II: Drawing the Details

Character Body Types

How to Use Proportion Charts

Gnome Proportions

Dwarf Proportions

Halfling Proportions

Slim Female Proportions

Heavyset Female Proportions

Slim Male Proportions

Heavyset Male Proportions

Facial Features and Hairstyles

Face Shape

Eyes

Noses

Lips

Ears

Hairstyles

Character Heads and Faces

Drawing a Face Step by Step

Female Human Face

Male Human Face

Female Half-Elf Face

Male High Elf Face

Female Dark Elf Face

Male Tiefling Face

Male Half-Orc Face

Female Gnome Face

Male Dwarf Face

Female Halfling Face

Part III: Drawing Characters

Female Human Fighter

Human Monk

Half-Elf Bard

Tiefling Druid

Male Human Fighter

Elf Ranger

Dark Elf Artificer

Elf Wizard

Tiefling Warlock

Halfing Rogue

Dragonborn Palladin

Dwarf Cleric

Gnome Wizard

Half-Orc Barbarian