How To Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias Book Review

Creating Your Own Worlds And Cultures

♦Tripwire’s editor-in-chief JOEL MEADOWS reviews Prentis Rollins’ How To Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias, published by Monacelli Press…

How To Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias
Writer/Artist: Prentis Rollins
Monacelli Press

The market for how-to books has grown significantly over the past few years especially with careers in illustration and comics seen as more credible ways to earn a crust than they used to be. However How To Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias is no tawdry cash-in. Its writer and artist Prentis Rollins is an illustrator with a career of over two decades working in comics mainly as an inker and in recent years he has been developing his skills as a full artist in his own right. This book offers indepth guidance on how to create your own sci fi images, whether that’s ships, aliens or just outlandish humans.

Rollins is a very accomplished artist who knows exactly what he talking about. He understands science, human anatomy and image composition and he is able to share his knowledge with the reader in a clear, concise and accessible fashion. It is evident too that he has a deep love of science fiction, whether that’s on film, TV or on the page. He shares a series of demonstration images, going through them stage by stage from their genesis to their completion, sharing tips on drawing them. He is a very good artist and displaying his drawings at various stages of execution really helps to understand the processes he discusses here. He also displays a very deep understanding of Photoshop, an essential tool in every modern artist’s toolkit.

For artists who are looking for guidance to help them create better science fiction images, How To Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias is an invaluable addition to your bookshelves.

How To Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias is available now published by Monacelli Press

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