How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions – Guide to Drawing Clothing, Armor, Swords, and Dragons for Role-Playing Elves,

Description

Video game artist Chrissa Barton’s How to Draw Your RPG
Character taught you how to draw your fantasy role; now learn to customize your
character with story-building details like armor, weapons, accessories, and
more!

Special features:

The step-by-step method makes it all so easy! With over 500
step-by-step illustrations and a layflat binding, it’s simple to follow along.

A great gift for the gamer! Full color throughout, with
beautiful renderings of suits of armor, a full range of weaponry, creature
companions, and more in a premium package with decorative spot varnish and foil
stamping on the cover

Learn from an expert author: Artist and popular Instagrammer
(@chrissbug) Chrissa Barton has AAA credentials in video game illustration and
animation.

Chrissa Barton’s inaugural book How to Draw Your RPG
Character covers the basics of drawing the faces and figures of all the
different character types and classes of Dungeons & Dragons and other
role-playing games. In Armor, Weaponry & Creature Companions you can level
up even further by learning ways to customize your character to make it
uniquely your own, whether you are a human, half-orc, elf, gnome, dwarf,
tiefling, or halfing. Chrissa covers in step-by-step detail how to draw:

All weights of armor, from light protection for a rogue or
druid to full heavy armor suitable for a fighter or paladin

• Robes, cloaks, and other clothing

• Accessories like boots, a wizard’s hat, different styles of
  helmets, and gloves

• All manner and styles of swords, as well as hammers, bows
  and arrows, and magic staffs

• Symbology to include in the design of clothing, weapons, and
  armor to communicate lineage or allegiance

There is also a chapter devoted to creature companions that
includes how to draw a:

Wyvern

• Owlbear

• Wolf

• Horse and unicorn

• Raven

The final chapter shows how to put it all together, with
tutorials for fully drawn characters customized with details that pull from all
the tutorials included in the book.

With its layflat binding and more than 500 step-by-step
illustrations, How to Draw Your RPG Character: Armor, Weaponry, & Creature
Companions makes customizing your fantasy character fun and easy!

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Chrissa Barton
Published: 08/05/2025
Publisher: Get Creative 6
ISBN: 9781684620883
Pages: 168
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 9.80″ L x 8.40″ W

About the Author
Barton, Chrissa: –

Chrissa Barton is an illustrator, animator, and popular
Instagrammer (@chrissabug, with over 228,000 followers) whose experience ranges
from AAA game development to independent
character-driven illustration. Chrissa also creates online drawing
tutorials and resources to help others to pick up a pencil and tap into their
own creative potential. She is the author of How to Draw Your RPG Character
(MMR, 5/14/2024). She lives in Utah.