Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters (Masters Collection) [Paperback] Author: 3dtotal.Com | Language: English | ISBN:
0240521749 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Discover the tips, tricks and techniques that really work for concept artists, matte painters and animators. Compiled by the team at 3dtotal.com, Digital Painting Techniques, Volume 1 offers digital inspiration with hands-on insight and techniques from professional digital artists. More than just a gallery book - within Digital Painting Techniques each artist has written a breakdown overview, with supporting imagery of how they made their piece of work. Beginner and intermediate digital artists will be inspired by the gallery style collection of the finest examples of digital painting from world renowned digital artists. Start your mentorship into the world of digital painting today with some of the greatest digital artists in the world and delve into professional digital painting techiques, such as speed painting, custom brush creation and matte painting. Develop your digital painting skills beyond the variety of free online digital painting tutorials and apply the most up to date techniques to your digital canvas with Digital Painting Techniques for Animators.
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- Series: Masters Collection (Book 1)
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (September 16, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240521749
- ISBN-13: 978-0240521749
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Digital Painting Techniques is a compilation of tutorials written by various talented digital artists. It is broken up into eight chapters with roughly five to seven tutorials apiece, and a gallery at the end. The physical book itself is well bound so that when open it lies flat for easy reference while you work.
The chapters are: Custom Brushes, Speed Painting, Matte Painting, Creatures, Humans, Environments, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and Complete Projects.
The tutorials, with the exception of a few, use Photoshop; the noted exceptions also use Painter. (In the final chapter, one artist also uses Artweaver and Gimp, while another uses Cinema 4D. But for sake of argument, assume this is a Photoshop digital painting book.) And some of the tutorials also come with assets available to download from the book's website.
As for the content, let's say that some tutorials were more thorough and useful than others. While the visuals that went alongside them were stunning, a few of the brush tutorials amounted to little more than how to save a new brush in Photoshop. But the remaining brush tutorials delved into the why and how of creating a custom brush for useful application and saving time, then illustrated its use.
Some of the subsequent tutorials were vague; one example step stating "use a textured brush"--with no indication or example of the texture, only a screenshot of the elapsed painting. Luckily that didn't happen too often.
Most of the tutorials provided screenshots of software settings, brushes used, and picture progress with clear explanations. Creature Concept 101 by Mike Corriero, Paint Luscious Lips by Anne Pogoda, The Human Face by Nykolai Aleksander, and The Environmental Series by Carlos Cabrera immediately spring to mind.
This book assumes you have experience in the programs it refers to (which is mostly Photoshop) and doesn't give step by step approaches, but rather a summary of each featured artist's thought process in each section. The paper quality of the book is good, light glossy pages and is softcover so it may be easier to lug around despite the size. The book also offers downloads (through links) such as brushes presented in this book.
This book starts off with a very good chapter on brush creation and building. It gave me some tips on how to create my own brushes, rather than just a thorough step by step. I prefer the former since it leads to more individual thought process on creation of my own brushes.
Some sections like the Speedpainting section I found a bit weaker due to the fact that the constraints with how many pages each person was given didn't allow for as much information as I'd like. I'm getting something of a "step by step" in speedpainting, but not much on what makes the process so different from any other step by step of any other painting (Speedpainting is just a digital form of Ala Prima. Many people think it has to do with a time constraint, but that's just dependent on how each artist decides to set up his/her personal challenge). However, saying that I did like some of the inspirational art advice given by artists in this section. That advice doesn't leave you empty handed.
I also liked the creature design, human and environmental sections.
If you are familiar with 2d Artist PDF magazine (which is from the same company), the tutorials are mostly of the same setup. Another good comparison would be Imagine FX.
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