Inspired By Nature - A Guide to Designing Botanical Characters

Inspired By Nature - A Guide to Designing Botanical Characters

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By Eliza Ivanova, Feefal and 15 others. Character designers take inspiration from nature, plants, trees, and flowers. Each creates a brand-new character based on nature, with step-by-step tutorials allowing readers to follow along. From mushroom fairies to swamp-dwelling beasts, and Mother Nature herself, characters inspired by the delicacy and harshness of the natural world. The projects include notes on the research, design, and creation of the characters, leading to a stunning final image, plus a gallery from each artist showing more of their nature-themed works. A big, thick, handsome hardcover in jacket. 3dtotal Publishing, 2023.

Character designers take inspiration from nature, plants, trees, and flowers. Each creates a brand-new character based on nature, with step-by-step tutorials allowing readers to follow along. From mushroom fairies to swamp-dwelling beasts, and Mother Nature herself, characters inspired by the delicacy and harshness of the natural world. The projects include notes on the research, design, and creation of the characters, leading to a stunning final image, plus a gallery from each artist showing more of their nature-themed works. A big, thick, handsome hardcover in jacket.

Creators: Kacey Lynn Brown, Nora Potwora, Simone Grunewald, Kiri Leonard, Chris Hon, Corah Louise, Ognjen Sporin, Iris Campiet, Sibylline Meynet, Ester Conceicao, Feefal, Lara Georgia Carson, Roma Gewska, David Navarro, Dominique Vassie, Eliza Ivanova and Audra Auclair.

Budding artists will love learning how to create these much-loved botanical characters, while more experienced creators will enjoy seeing how experts design something original. Even non-artists will want to own this book packed with beautiful imagery and intriguing, enchanting characters.

The illustrative artwork is created both digitally and traditionally, with styles ranging from anime-inspired to watercolor, all with a fantastical, magical aura.