How could I learn to draw like the official dnd art?

The same way you learn how to draw anything else now fuck off.

>>7589691
Yeah, god forbid someone ask a fucking ART QUESTION on the ART FORUM.

>>7589693
Never been here before have you?

>>7589691
you are scaring away the tourist
>>7589693
1)Work on what you are weak
2)Work on fundamentals
3)Work on what you are weak
4)Work on Composition
5)Work on what you are weak
6)If you been working on what you are weak but failed
7)Lean hard on what you are weak
8)Work on Style
9)???????
10) PROFIT!!!!

>>7589681 (OP)
based retard

>>7589693
Maybe you mean well, but it's kind of a naive question. You're asking about imaginative painting with a realistic style. That's pretty much the hardest thing to do and it requires you to know pretty much everything you can. So you asked us to tell you how to go through a 10 year journey. James Gurney would be a good place to start because he's published a number of books on the subject, but he's advanced for a beginner. If you're serious find a beginner drawing class and then move on to painting course. If you can find cheap in-person lessons near you that's always better than online resources

>>7589681 (OP)
assuming you are a complete beginner with no experience:
-draw a lot
-draw A LOT
-go through Keys to Drawing, at least the first half to learn how to observe
-grab a book on figure drawing (your choice of the usual recommendations on /ic/) and work through it
-mix this in with 30-60m daily of gesture drawing
-spend half your time drawing from imagination, so your day might look like: 30 mins gesture, 30 mins studying figure/anatomy, 1h working on personal projects
-do studies of the art you want to be able to make, that is, try to copy it as closely as possible (this is where Keys helps), and once you learn enough figure construction, apply that to your copies
-after every copy/personal piece, go back to analyze it, where did you do worst? do your hands suck? guess what, that's your figure/anatomy focus for the next week.
-rinse and repeat for at least 5 years and you'll get on that level

>>7589681 (OP)
First of all, you should look at actual Official D&D art, not whatever slop you posted.

>>7589861
let's get you to bed grandpa

>>7589861
>>7589862
Both of these posts are true

>>7589861
i used to want to make art like this. once i realized im old and mortal i switched to anime.

>>7589681 (OP)
I would start with the black & white / grayscale stuff from the early D&D books. Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley did a whole pile of illustrations to illustrate spell lists, tutorials, etc. Look up Aleena the Cleric or D&D redbox art. Copy a few.

The same artists painted many D&D scenes in color but in a very similar style; it makes it easier to see how that artwork grows from the simpler black and white drawings.

>>7589681 (OP)
Basically it just boils down to git gud

>>7589681 (OP)
practice copying photos

>>7590011
How

>>7590011
Photos of a witch or a dragon? _.._

>>7590791
Yes

>>7589681 (OP)
by following Imaginefx tutorials from 2011
https://www.youtube.com/@imaginefx

>>7589681 (OP)
I think if you've ever picked up a crayon in elementary school you are qualified to draw official dnd art, anon

>>7589681 (OP)
its just a basic painting with dynamic lighting.
find some reference, figure out where lights coming from
then spend 20 hours on the painting.

>>7591335
> just a basic painting
pee yee wee

>>7589681 (OP)
My family is friends with an artist who i won't name as I think his son is probably autistic enough to be on this website. When i stayed at their house, I asked a lot about his art. He had a massive painting right in the door way he was working on, a studio in the basement, a media center with computers, etc. He created art for Wizards of the Coast and Magic the Gathering, so he's the real deal. His advice for me at the time as a beginner was to study and copy the Brague plates. Here's the link to the plates: https://archive.org/details/C.BargueDrawingCourse/

Now, will this work for everyone? No, but the most important thing for creating such realistic art in his opinion was observation and academic study to develop your fundies. He used a lot of reference when doing his paintings for cards and wasn't shamed about it.

The take away from all this is, every artist has what works for them, what works for (You) won't work for the next guy. If your goal is get that good, begin emulating the masters you admire, it sets a goal for you to aspire to, be honest and critical of your work, acknowledge the good and the bad, and most importantly, get that mileage in. The road you're walking is one paved in tears and ridiculously hard work. If it was easy to get to that level, everybody and their mom would be shitting out high quality art works.

>>7589693
>>>how do pet dog
>>what is wrong with you
>WOOOOOOOW THIS PET SHOP SUCKS

>>7596598
seconding.

>>7590791
this witch is literally just a woman in realistic clothign that exists in our world and a book with flames that exists in our world with light beams emanating from it that exists in our world plus dragons and fantasy creatures take inspiration from animals that exist in our world

>>7589681 (OP)
do a 1:1 mastercopy of a card you like, even if it takes you 100 hours.
then do an original piece heavily aping of off the card you just studied and push it to the same level of finish.
repeat until satisfied.

>>7589681 (OP)
Start learning from painters instead of from digital artists, your medium can still be digital for the sake of saving money on paint, but the skills you'll want to draw like that are painting skills.

>>7589693
Dumb questions deserve dumb answers.

>>7596578
>still no art
pred/ic/table

>>7589681 (OP)
Dude, what's your problem with studying the basic fundamentals and focusing on anatomy...?
Like, the DnD style isn’t even hard — it’s basically just about having a solid foundation.

>>7589693
>ART FORUM
Fuck off newfag.

>>7589681 (OP)
Learning to render would honestly be a decent start.