Fantasy Workshop: A Practical Guide: The Painting Techniques of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell

Fantasy Workshop: A Practical Guide: The Painting Techniques of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell by Bell, Julie. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781560254867.

From initial concept through to finishing touches, for the first time, Boris and Julie give an in-depth description of how they paint their masterpieces, taking the reader through every stage of the creative process. As well as teaching the main techniques, the premiere fantasy-art team shows the reader how to use a wide variety of media to create a whole range of different types of painting, and explain how they create the effects for which they are so renowned, such as Julies legendary "metal flesh," with its mix of fluidity and hardness contrasting with the sensual softness of the skin. Illustrated throughout in full color, the Practical Guide to Fantasy Art includes step-by-step photographs that Boris and Julie have taken as theyve worked as well as a selection of their finished art appealing to art students and fantasy-art admirers alike.