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A DC Comics illustrator shows readers how to conceptualize, draw, and digitally enhance their own science fictional worlds - whether for graphic novels, comics, movies, or video games. Sci-fi imagery commands today's popular culture, from Star Wars to The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead. For clear-eyed artists, ages 12 and up, who see that science fiction is becoming science fact at an astounding rate, How to Draw Sci-Fi Utopias and Dystopias gives an in-depth look at the process of completing sci-fi illustrations - from the thought behind them (brainstorming and conceptualization) to constructing basic forms and objects on paper, converting roughs into finished pencil drawings, inking them in, and coloring them in Photoshop. The book is organized around the perennial distinction between two ways of representing the future in sci-fi: the pessimistic and the hopeful, or dystopian and utopian.



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Prentis Rollins

Prentis Rollins was born in North Carolina, grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C., and studied philosophy at the University of Southern California and Rutgers in New Jersey. Since 1993 he has worked for: DC Comics (on such titles as 'Green Lantern: Rebirth', 'DC: One Million', 'Impulse', and 'Batman: The Ultimate Evil') , Marvel Comics ('New X-men') , Milestone Media ('Hardware', 'Static') , Disney Television Animation ('PB and J Otter', 'Doug's First Movie', '101 Dalmations') , and many others. His debut graphic novel 'The Furnace' will be published by Tor Books in July of 2018. His lifelong obsessions are philosophy, science-fiction, and the strange territory in which these two things meet. He lives in London with his wife and three children. See his work at www.prentisrollinsart.com/



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