{"product_id":"fantasy-world-building-mark-nelson-9780486828657","title":"Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures","description":"When artists and designers explore or create a fictional setting, the milieu must be completely fleshed out, explained, and designed. In this book, comic and gaming art veteran Mark A. Nelson explores and demonstrates his methods for fashioning visually stunning, believable environments for fantasy creatures and characters. Scores of images and step-by-step examples illustrate how variation and experimentation lead to fresh, original designs for otherworldly beings, their environments, and their stories. \u003cbr\u003e Nelson discusses how to find ideas and borrow from history to add the strength of realism to a fantasy world. In describing the best ways to establish a habitat, he offers specifics about climate, terrain, flora, and wildlife. He shares insights into founding societies in terms of their means of survival, manner of warfare, spiritual practices, style of dress, and levels of technology. All visual creatives who work with imaginative material -- illustrators, comic artists, and writers -- will take a lively interest in this source of inspiration and practical knowledge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In sixteen breezy-yet-surprisingly-concise chapters he covers everything from visual problem solving to spirituality to warfare to transportation, not with the idea of giving the reader lessons to copy by rote but rather as prompts to develop their own original concepts. If I were suggesting three books every budding artist should have at their fingertips they would be \u003ci\u003eFigure Drawing for All It's Worth\u003c\/i\u003e by Andrew Loomis, \u003ci\u003eImaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist\u003c\/i\u003e by James Gurney, and, most definitely, Mark's \u003ci\u003eFantasy World-Building\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- Muddy Colors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0486828654\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486828657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.80h x 8.30w x 0.40d","brand":"Mark Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051552076031,"sku":"9780486828657","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f31c7da-6c20-4984-8d40-4126c3e17854.jpg?v=1685013774","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fantasy-world-building-mark-nelson-9780486828657","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}