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by Steve A. Miller (Author) "Have you ever wished that you had the strength of a bear? ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0823016625
  • ISBN-13: 978-0823016624
  • Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.1 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 306,391 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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For as long as there has been recorded art, there have been drawings of fantastic half-human/half-animal creatures. Anthropomorphic characters are also found throughout popular literature, from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to C.S. Lewis's Narnia Chronicles to A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh. Movies have often made use of half-animal people in films like Creature from the Black Lagoon and the numerous Planet of the Apes movies. Today animal characters have become the mainstay of comic books, animation, toys, and video games. Devoted to the serious depiction of anthropomorphic characters, Freaks! covers the entire range of animal people and explores all its possibilities. Hundreds of illustrations depict subjects that include basic human and animal anatomies, cat people, dog people, wolf people, feathered freaks, predators of the deep and much, much more. This drawing guide demonstrates the wide range of this popular genre of illustrative art and the techniques needed to create these fantastic fantasy creatures.

About the Author
Steve Miller has worked as a toy designer for Resauras Toys, and has designed toy and video game characters for Sony, Microsoft, Image Comics, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox. He is a contributing author and artist to Sketch! Magazine.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Some good ideas poorly executed, 19 Jan 2006
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When I found this book I was overjoyed at its subject matter and I was soon whisked away by the beautiful pencil and colour renderings of the wonderful anthropomorphic folk. However I was soon placed right back down where I had started and I soon realised that this book hadn’t in fact taught me anything as a skilled artist.

This book has huge potential, the subject has massive scope, but this book doesn’t. Its woeful attempt at what should be the biggest part of this book, the anatomy (human AND animal), left me feeling like the author had missed the point. I was expecting to be shown some detailed examples of how to build up the shapes of animal faces (a tricky subject), I was expecting to learn how to easily construct paws, claws, fur and scales but they too were all given minimal coverage. Maybe I was expecting too much? Although books like “Drawing & Painting Fantasy Figures” by Cowan manages to meet high expectations and is brimming with ideas.

When you get past the comparable pictures in this book you will find the writing poor and uninformative towards the artwork, and its ability to teach you how and why to draw the characters this way, particularly slack. I would suggest that any amateur artist should fill their head first with knowledge from Hogarth’s Anatomy books, and to study and learn how to draw animals as well (which this book remarkably neglects to suggest you do!!) Other than the excellent artwork, which I must compliment, this book was very disappointing.

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