(back cover) 50 FANTASY VEHICLES TO DRAW PAINT Discover how to draw and paint spectacular fantasy vehicles--from futuristic dream cars to magical floating ships and alien spacecraft--in a wide range of traditional and digital media. The book's main directory is a great mechanical workshop of fantastic designs to copy and adapt to your own unique specifications. Each concept features basic constructional shapes, sketched outline drawings, and a fully rendered finished artwork. Thirteen super-simple starter models allow you to start drawing right away. A core techniques section advises on getting inspired and instructs in storytelling, working in varied media, adding context, creating metallic and textured effects, implying scale, and depicting motion as you create dynamic fantasy crafts. The Author Keith Thompson is a renowned illustrator and conceptual designer who specializes in fantasy and science fiction art. His surreal and innovative work has been featured in numerous books and magazines around the world, and is also available as fine-art prints on his Web site www. keiththompson. com. He is the author of 50 Robots to Draw and Paint, also published by Barron's. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.