How to Draw Fallen Angels: Discover the secrets to drawing, painting, and illustrating beings of the otherworld (Fantasy Underground)

This book is aimed at the intermediate digital or traditional artist who already knows how to draw but who just needs some inspiration and a little guidance. It briefly covers the basic history, facts, and accessories for fallen angels before diving into how to portray them. Almost all of the art is in a dramatic realistic style that evokes an immediate emotional response from the viewer. None are over the top, even the one toonish work. These depictions have a dreadful realism to them. You could actually run into one of these characters on a particularly dark street one dry stormy night.The art in this book is freaking beautiful! While tradional angel art books usually focus on countless etheric females unfettered by the cares of the world, the majority of fallen angels in this book are undeniably male with a worldly pureness of purpose. The ladies that are present range from plagued damsel to coldly efficient warrior to demonic future ex-girlfriend. The men are modelled on fiendishly rugged bad boy types and are visually stunning examples of masculinity. There are a few purely demonic angels and the Death skeleton also makes a couple of requisite appearances.If you are a beginning artitst, this book is not going to teach you how to draw them. Instead it shows step by step the design choices made to create each artwork. If you are just looking for a coffee table book of hawwt girlz or guyz with wings, this book is ideal for inspiration as it really puts a new seductive spin on fallen angels. Fans of Supernatural will love this book!

This book is everything I hoped it would be, when I purchased it. It has an ideal amount of step by step instructions that walk you through the artist technique, in a way that still leaves the person using this as a guide to experiment with their own character concepts. That combined with the giving a good amount of history and lore from a variety of cultural backgrounds, and how angels and fallen angels are depicted in these cultures. This aspect of the book alone is just a valuable for someone who is looking to find the right balance of inspiration to create their own fallen characters.A major thing that I personally am grateful for is, this book isn’t overloaded with the typical Google image search results of fallen angels; which can be overflowing with typical glowing female characters who really lack connection with any type of background, and are there just to look pretty. A majority of the illustrations are male and they all have that masculine fallen angel look that is often hard to find. At the same time all of the illustrations are beautiful, and still have an edge to them, that makes you want to know more about the character, which is important when anyone is creating a character or just working on an illustration.

Just...Oh MY GOD...This book is gorgeous. Everything about it I absolutely loved and was vey sad when I finished. The only thing I wish this book had were devils. Why? Well, because devils are also fallen angels. I absolutely ADORE that the writers put in the back story of fallen angels in this book. As someone like me, interested in angelology and demononlogy would very much appreciate. The art is beautiful and so very detailed from the fallen angels' facial expressions to their feathers. Speaking of detailed expressions, these are very chilling. So sinister. Especially the handsome man on the cover. He's very seductive and terrifying! What made me get this book was a reviewer who said that the majority of fallen angels was male. At first, I was apprehensive of getting it until I read that review which prompted me to finally just get it. I was afraid that the majority of angels would just be scantily clad women as one who thinks of angels we think of females, right? So is not the case for this book. There are some females in it rendered very beautifully, but the males are more rampant in this book. Glad I bought it. It's awesome and inspiring!

As an experienced artist myself:This is a great book for anyone who has developed their skills, or is just starting to learn and is anxiously trying to find new methods by which to create artwork. Aspiring or Professional - it's great for either one, and both will find this book inspiring!This book covers a very wide range of media from pencils and colored pencils, all the way through Photoshop. It also covers how to use much of the media together to create a successful piece. This, in my opinion, is a *very* important aspect - covering step by step how to use the different media and what to use it for.Keep in mind though, that the artists techniques are one means of exploring - so you can directly go with what the artist does to create work, or alter the process and use the step by step projects as a guideline. Hence, good for aspiring or professional artists looking to expand their skills.I really can't wait to dig in to this book in depth!

This will be a very biased review. I saw this book years ago at a craft store and it was much too expensive (for my taste anyway). I see it here and I just had to have it. The instructions are very clear and pictures are also very vivid. Love the artist's style and, though biased, I would recommend to anyone who finds the supernatural intriguing (and is interested in learning the process in creating the works of art depicted)Note: 1) The book explains how to do the works starting from line art and ending with the finished product being scanned and painted through photoshop.2) This book, along with lots of other how-to-draw books, will not make you Picasso. It's simply an insight into digital art that starts from drawing your idea, scanning it and painting it in Photoshop. (or whichever program you use)Hope this helps.

More for the advanced artists and not to many in pencil

It’s a beautiful book to look through. The pictures will inspire you to want to draw some fallen angels of your own.

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