How many of us have heard someone say to them: "Why are you drawing fantasy while the real life is so much more intriguing?"

As always, hard to explain them, why. I often don't even think I draw fantasy - I draw things just as real to me as shopping for coffee. That doesn't mean I expect to see the dragon flying by any second, but that when I draw, I think hard how and when and why, giving the drawing life. They are reality to me. Doesn't mean I think real life is boring, I just add another layer to it.

Also, how can you draw fantasy without knowing your reality? The branches of our fantasy are rooted in reality. How can you draw a mad man if you have little knowledge in anatomy? Or dragon if you haven't even encountered a lizard or an image of a dinosaur. Even drawing a nude from a living figure is a way of fantasy - we can think what we draw is real, yet the person standing next to me doesn't see the light or colors the same way I do. The better we know how, the better the unreal things happen - the more we learn about how things are and work, the more complicated the pieces can get and the better we can express ourselves and our ideas.

Drawing fantasy has at least one upside against reality: with reality you draw what you see. With fantasy, you can't always draw from real, you need to combine, create and think; you have to solve problems how to draw something or which ways it looks better or worse.

Here are some wonderful examples of what knowing little reality has added to the fantasy: