Steve Beaumont

Learn how to draw the creatures and scenes of your wildest fantasies with this easy-to-follow manual. Built around a 20-page core of the basics--materials, the figure, perspective, light, and color--this book presents step-by-step instructions and illustrations that explain techniques and approaches for creating eight supernatural creatures of the night, including a dragon, a sea monster, a werewolf, a vampire, and other beastly beings. This exciting full-color guide is geared toward fans of fantasy who enjoy drawing and are looking for tips and ideas that will help them further develop their illustrations. The author, professional illustrator Steve Beaumont, produces concept art for video games and storyboards for film, animation, and advertising. He teaches fantasy art classes and is himself completely self-taught, proving that anyone, with practice, is capable of producing remarkable artwork. The book concludes with a few pages from one of his sketchbooks that share some elements of his artistic process.

Over 30 recipes to automate your mission-critical tasks using the new and powerful Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator About This Book • Create powerful runbooks for the entire System Center 2016 product line • Explore System Center 2016 Orchestrator to manage and automate your datacenter • A recipe-based guide to using SCO efficiently Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator and want to simplify the process of automating system administration tasks using System Center Orchestrator 2016 then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of SCO is expected What You Will Learn • Create Runbooks for IT Service Management processes • Design and create Runbooks for System Center Confguration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager • Set up System Center Orchestrator, making it highly available • Create branching, looping, and child Runbooks to completely master System Center 2016 Orchestrator • Implement a security model for your System Center Orchestrator deployment and to execute Runbooks • Manage and automate your Datacenter with powerful Runbooks • Automate your System Center environment In Detail With Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook, you will start by learning how to efficiently install and secure System Center Orchestrator. You will then learn how you can create configuration files for SCO 2016. After initial installation and configuration, you will soon be planning and creating functional and fault-tolerant System Center runbooks to automate daily tasks and routine operations. Next you will delve into runbooks; you will learn how to create powerful and advanced runbooks such as Building your Runbook without a Dead End. You will also learn to create simple and advanced runbooks for your daily tasks. Towards the end of the book, you will learn to use SCO for other interesting tasks and also learn to maintain and perform SCO health checks. By the end of the book, you will be able to automate your administrative tasks successfully with SCO. Style and approach This book is written in a practical, cookbook style with numerous chapters and recipes focusing on creating runbooks to automate mission-critical and everyday administration tasks.

Epic fantasy art is all the rage now, and what better way to engage fans than by enabling them to draw their favorite characters on their own? This book offers readers of all skill levels detailed instructions on how to draw their favorite epic worlds. Readers learn specific techniques such as shading, coloring, and storyboarding while developing interesting characters along the way. With expert tips from professional fantasy artist Steve Beaumont and illustrations as guidance, artists of all stripes can feel like professionals.

Every young person seems like a professional doodler. This book takes that seemingly time-wasting activity and channels it into beautiful works of art. Acting as a personal art instructor, it offers readers step-by-step instructions, insider tips used by professionals and advice on character development, draftsmanship, and coloring. Serious artists and hobbyists alike can indulge their interest in weird fantasy art and create characters and settings that rival those found in today's comics and graphic novels. This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in weird and wacky art.

This engaging book will appeal to any art lover, or for that matter, any young person who's interested in drawing. It offers a step-by-step process for creating some of the most gory and villainous gothic characters around, in line with those found in the most popular graphic novels today. It covers techniques such as drawing the right angle of lighting, shading, body language, and more. You don't have to be an amazing artist to draw some of the most compelling characters. This book teaches readers just how to do that.

With the blockbuster success of the Twilight books and films, werewolves are right up there with vampires at the forefront of children's imaginations. This book offers a brief history of werewolves, as well as easy-to-follow instructions for drawing and coloring these powerful gothic creatures.

Clear, supportive how-to-draw instructions give kids the skills to render magical kings and queens in the fantasy worlds they see in their beloved digital games, movies, and comics. Tips for drawing faces, features, and figures, as well as simple concepts useful in drawing, ensure that young artists have the direction to actualize finished drawings.

Clear, supportive how-to-draw instructions give kids the skills to render orcs, elves, and dwarves in the fantasy worlds they see in their beloved digital games, movies, and comics. Tips for drawing faces, features, and figures, as well as simple concepts useful in drawing, ensure that young artists have the direction to actualize finished drawings.

Clear, supportive how-to-draw instructions give kids the skills to render witches and wizards in the fantasy worlds they see in their beloved digital games, movies, and comics. Tips for drawing faces, features, and figures, as well as simple concepts useful in drawing, ensure that young artists have the direction to actualize finished drawings.