Beasts!: How to Draw Fantastic Predators, Creepy Crawlies, and Cryptids

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Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated, Apr 15, 2008 - Art - 144 pages
The only book devoted solely to drawing the scariest animals on the planet Things with big scary teeth: lions, tigers, alligators. Things with long slithery bodies: rattlesnakes, anacondas, pythons. Things that lurk under the water waiting to BITE your leg off: sharks, Portuguese man-o’-wars, piranhas. Things that look all mild-mannered but would kill you as soon as look at you: bears, hippos, killer whales. Things with way too many legs: scorpions, killer bees, spiders. Things with that crush you in a vise-like grip and then eat you sllllooooowwwllllyy: Komodo dragons, monitor lizards, giant hawks. Things that may or may not exist but you don’t want to be the one to find out: yetis, sasquatches, Loch Ness monsters. And many more . . . things. Hungry, angry things. Fortunately, these terrifying monsters are unlikely to turn up in most artists’ studios, so let’s just stay inside where it’s safe, shall we? With paper and pen and the help ofBeasts! How to Draw Fantastic Predators, Creepy Crawlies, and Cryptids, artists can create hundreds of their own scary creatures in the comfort of their own homes, with the shades drawn and the doors locked. • Great addition to Steve Miller’s top-selling series on drawing fantasy comics • Includes the work of Brett Booth and Bryan Baugh • Top-of-the-food-chain artists show exactly how to draw top-of-the-food-chain animals

About the author (2008)

Steve Miller was born July 31, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the grandson of poet and radio personality Dorothea Neale. Miller graduated from Reisterstown, Maryland's Franklin Senior High School in 1968 where he learned how to make chapbooks as editor of the school's literary magazine. He later attended University of Maryland, Baltimore County sporadically through the late 60s and 70s where he was news editor and managing editor of the campus newspaper. He is Founding Curator of the Albin O. Kuhn Library's science fiction research collection. Steve is an independent publisher with an extensive background in SF fandom. Since his first publication in 1968, Steve has accumulated credits in well over 100 newspapers, magazines, journals and short stories including his work in the Liaden universe. Steve is married and lives with his wife, Sharon Lee, in Maine.

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