Unleash the Beasts! For millennia historians artists & scientists have chronicled their ideas & discoveries of mythological & magical monsters in encyclopedias known as bestiaries. From Asia to America Japan to the jungles of South Africa the vast menagerie of exotic & legendary creatures has populated the imaginations of all cultures for centuries. Beautifully illustrated & fantastically detailed Dracopedia: The Bestiary is a modern but no less unsettling reimagining of the ancient version. It is an A-to-Z artist's guide to animals of the legendary world. Some like the griffin & yeti may be familiar to you. Others--like the enigmatic questing beast & ferocious manticore--may seem new & strange. Some may even haunt your dreams. Inside the bestiary you will find: Secrets of each animal's evolution--origins habitat anatomy diet & more. Fantastic illustrations created using pencil sketches & digital coloring. Four-stage demonstrations taking you from concept & design to under-painting & finishing details. By drawing on the forms & features of more pedestrian animals you'll learn how to give shape to the bizarre creatures that roam the depths of your imagination adding to the bestiary of the ages.