Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters

by 3DTotal.com

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.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Drawing, Reference

286 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Eli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yep, whole book in one sitting but it had a lot of pictures :D But honestly not a lot of helpful things in my opinion...

[Ula · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's not one of those books, that teach you about human body proportions, how to draw proper perspective and other basic stuff. 95% of books on this subject that I've seen do just that, it gets annoying after a while.

This is a book for advanced artists who already have relevant skill and knowledge, and who want to switch from traditional to digital painting. Also for people who have some experience in digital painting, but want to know more tricks and how-tos.

Basically it's a compilation of advanced tutorials (mostly for Photoshop, but there are also some for Corel Painter and other graphic software) by many different authors, who teach you about certain techniques (painting a human body, a city, an illustration, a science fiction scene etc) step by step (with relevant illustrations). It begins with a very useful chapter about making your own custom brushes, which can imitate real life brushes, and then there are further 200+ pages of highly useful and awesome stuff. Having many different authors in one book is also good, it reminds you that there is no One True Way of doing something, but that in some cases there are different approaches and they're all equally valid.

Having read this book I'm already doing better at my digital painting, and I'm sure I'll be going back to most of these tutorials in the future. Highly recommended.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remember when I was starting doing digital art, the coloring techniques I learned from this really helped me a lot.

[Debra Lowman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is not for beginners. It assumes you have fairly proficient drawing skills and a working knowledge of graphics software programs. Various artists give tutorials on advanced techniques that will take your digital art to the next level. Highly recommend for the serious digital artist. There's lots to be learned in this book; I'll be looking for the next volume.

[Ksenija · Rating 3 out of 5]

Specific techniques, for advanced digital artists, but quite useful

[Hesper · Rating 3 out of 5]

The print equivalent of a detailed YouTube tutorial, with the added benefit of not having to spend the time searching for the information. Not a beginner resource; it assumes knowledge of PS and drawing basics, at minimum. A solid reference for intermediate to advanced tips and tricks.

[Carter · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was very interesting to me; most of the artwrok, relies on photoshop, for processing.

[Sanjay Pasari · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would surely recommend you to read this book, if you are a digital painter.

[Jeanette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tips on digital painting by different practioners - interesting but not particularly helpful as an overview.

[Nicolajones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Firstly, the images in this book are stunning! Such great artists are featured in here.
I love all the tutorials in here, especially the human section and speed painting. You need some knowledge of photoshop to find this fully useful, it's a great book, and I'm looking forward to getting the others!

[LODIS · Rating 5 out of 5]

How professionals in digital art work. Their processes may look simple at the beginning but their end results are of amazing quality and detail. This is really not for beginners, talk about custom brushes! Will read again for reference in the future.

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative. Comprehensive. Good detail.

[Anzû · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good resource. Helped me a lot.

[Radwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

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كتاب كل ما تقرأ فيه
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[blueva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helped me a lot

[Maarten Lemmens · Rating 5 out of 5]

<3 love it

[Tim Decker]

Great tips on digital painting approaches