Fantasy Genesis Characters
A creativity game for drawing original people and creatures
by Chuck Lukacs
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Pub Date 20 Mar 2018 | Archive Date 8 Mar 2018
F+W Media | IMPACT Books
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Description
Conjure creatures and characters from your imagination!
To generate fantasy characters and inhabitants that populate an imaginary world, sometimes you need a little creative fuel...and a 20-sided die.
Fantasy Genesis Characters is a choose-your-own-adventure game where a roll of the dice decides what type of creature you create. Each chapter expands on mimicking the observable world to engineer original populations by mashing up unrelated quirks and concepts--think "vegetarian zombie," "Byzantine goth" or "gangster sheep." Roll the dice to combine traits from word lists. Mix random emotions, behaviors, costumes, cultures and anthropomorphic attributes to create infinite and unexpected characters. Short lessons supply the building blocks to develop character components--expressions, gestures, posture, etc.--while mini demos, creative challenges and RPG-like activities help you bring them to life.
30+ challenges and demonstrations illustrate how to conceptualize and create fully developed fantasy charactersUse free-association word games to jump-start your brain into forming original ideas, crazy-cool mash-ups and visual solutionsIncludes a crash course in anatomy, plus tips for drawing from life and reference photosLearn to sketch facial expressions and modify classic archetypes
To generate fantasy characters and inhabitants that populate an imaginary world, sometimes you need a little creative fuel...and a 20-sided die.
Fantasy Genesis Characters is a choose-your-own-adventure game where a roll of the dice decides what type of creature you create. Each chapter expands on mimicking the observable world to engineer original populations by mashing up unrelated quirks and concepts--think "vegetarian zombie," "Byzantine goth" or "gangster sheep." Roll the dice to combine traits from word lists. Mix random emotions, behaviors, costumes, cultures and anthropomorphic attributes to create infinite and unexpected characters. Short lessons supply the building blocks to develop character components--expressions, gestures, posture, etc.--while mini demos, creative challenges and RPG-like activities help you bring them to life.
30+ challenges and demonstrations illustrate how to conceptualize and create fully developed fantasy charactersUse free-association word games to jump-start your brain into forming original ideas, crazy-cool mash-ups and visual solutionsIncludes a crash course in anatomy, plus tips for drawing from life and reference photosLearn to sketch facial expressions and modify classic archetypes
A Note From the Publisher
Chuck Lukas is currently an art instructor at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. He has been illustrating for the science fiction and fantasy gaming markets for over 18 years. Lukacs's paintings and prints have won awards and appeared in conventions, galleries and museums internationally.
