CREATE YOUR OWN FANTASTIC CREATURES You hold in your hands a reference to help you learn specific creature techniques and anatomy. Don’t let these demonstrations limit your imagination, though. Drawing books will help you develop the skill, but the originality and the stories behind your characters must come from you. These stories may come before you draw your creature. Or you may find yourself working for months on a creature before forming any ideas for who this guy is and what he’s destined to do. Just remember that this is your fantastic world, so you make the decisions—as quickly or as slowly as you like. Let your imagination go wild!
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Create a History for Each Creature You Design Answer the following questions for each of your inventions: What is its personality? What does it eat? Does it eat at all or does it live off magic or the belief of people? How has your creature and others like it adapted to the environment? A desert serpent will probably look very different from a volcanic serpent, a glacial serpent or a sea serpent. Do the females have different markings than the males? What is its size relative to the other creatures in your world?