Fairies Art Studio: Everything You Need to Create Your Own Magical Fairy World

by David Riché, Yishan Li (Illustrator), Myrea Pettit (Illustrator)

Enter an enchanted fairy world of your very own creation   Fairies are beloved figures in folklore and literature€”and in the imaginations of millions of artists and dreamers. With the help of this indispensable guide to creating your own fairies and fairy stories, even novices can get started thanks to the accompanying CD that contains  hundreds of art fairy characters, poses, accessories, backgrounds, and props€”and step-by-step instructions for how to manipulate them using Photoshop.  The high-resolution artwork and the tutorials in Fairies Art Studio will teach you how • Create your fairy (be it a pixie, a wood fairy, a gothic fairy, a flower fairy, and more) using airbrushing and painterly techniques• Color your fairy and accessorize her with wands, wings, hair decorations, and spell books• Place your fairy in a background, adding trees and shrubs, flowers and toadstools, and more

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

David Riché worked in marketing fashion, cosmetics, and consumer electronics. Upon retirement, he became interested in fairies and launched the website Fairies World. He collaborated with various illustrators to produce books of fairy art, including "The Art of Faery" with Brian Froud and "The World of Faery" with Alan Lee.

Reviews

[Conan Tigard · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Fairies Art Studio instructional book and CD is a wonderful tool for someone to use if they want to learn how to use Photoshop to color an object, like a fairy. The CD is packed with great layered images that lets the user vary the fairy they are working greatly. A user can change a fairy so much that a friend would not even be able to tell that it came from the same template. The book is packed with different examples of the same fairy to show some of the variances.

The only issue I had was that when I opened any of the images on the CD in Photoshop, the default Mode was set to Grayscale. I had to manually configure the image to be RGB so I could use colors. I would have thought that should have been set automatically since the user is supposed to be learning how to use colors on the images.

Let me say this, though . . . I had a blast coloring my fairy. I bet I would have even had more fun playing with the shadings and making my fairy really pop. Any computer art enthusiast will love the images on the CD and I highly recommend picking up a copy of Fairies Art Studio so you can learn how to make some really awesome looking fairies.

All I know is that my 14-year old daughter, who absolutely loves to draw, will take this book and CD and run with it. I bet that her room will soon be plastered with professionally-colored fairies that she created using Fairies Art Studio. I highly recommended this book and CD.