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As computer-based drawing and painting programs become more sophisticated, the audience for fantasy art keeps growing along with it. Produced in association with the renowned magazine ImagineFX, this visually striking guide helps readers learn how to produce top-quality digital fantasy images in styles ranging from manga to gothic. Focusing on a small number of popular creative painting programs, this workshop includes plenty of step-by-step screen grabs and simple, detailed instructions. Would-be fantasy artists will be able to progress from basic “pencil” roughs to line art and, ultimately, to finished color pieces. A gallery of FXpose images includes work by fantasy masters such as Alan Lee, Todd Lockwood, Jim Burns, Linda Begkvist, and others.
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ImagineFX is the only magazine for Fantasy and Sci-Fi artists. Each issue contains an eclectic mixture of in-depth workshops from the world's best artists, galleries and interviews, features, community news, software and hardware reviews, and the latest sci-fi and fantasy films and comics.
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Transferring a stunning, fantastical image from our mind through our hands and on to our canvas can be frustratingly hard to do. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Transferring a stunning, fantastical image from our mind through our hands and on to our canvas can be frustratingly hard to do. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lacking detailed instructions,
By Sky (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (Paperback)
I've explored a number of similar titles and most of them suffer from lack of detailed instructions, introducing you to concepts but not specific methods of realizing them digitally. If you haven't yet looked at any of the titles that promise to familiarize you with digital painting techniques this would be a good investment in comparison to other similar alternatives and it will be quite apt as you are mastering the digital medium, but so far, for me, the best title that offers good instructions on digital painting remains Creative Photoshop by Derek Lea. Second best being The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book by Threinen-Pendarvis.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great variety of tips and techniques well explained,
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This review is from: Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (Paperback)
Here's a great tutorial style book for those interested in digital painting. Fantasy Workshop is a compilation of tutorials that have been published in monthly ImagineFX issues. If you are already a regular subscriber, you'll see very similar tutorials in Fantasy Workshop. The tutorials are split into three categories, namely Characters, Scenes & Stories and Manga. At the end is a short FXpose section, which like the magazine, features illustrations from individual artists. The tutorials are presented in a step-by-step manner with plenty of screenshots and well explained captions. Each artist will talk about their workflow, tips, techniques and shortcuts to creating digital art. More specifically for example, they will talk about how they create realism through texture, and also why they created it that way. Since the book is about mastering digital painting, you'll see tons of examples on how to recreate paint effects using software. By examples I mean they will show the digital tools used, menus, and settings. The software used are Painter and Photoshop but the art techniques are usually easily achievable in either software. There are also a few pages where the artists answer fans' questions relating to creating art. This is a recommended book for anyone into digital painting. There's enough variety featured for everyone to learn a new trick or two. Here's the list of contents: - Mind's Eye to Digital Canvas - Jehan Choo - Modern Classical Painting - Marta Dahlig - Paint Realistic Ears - Katerina Sokolova - Paint Realistic Lips - Katerina Sokolova - Digital Hairstyling - John Kearney - Paint Realistic Hands - Marta Dahlig - Create a Heroic Valkryie - Lorland Chan - Drawing and Painting Dragons - James Strehle - Create 3D Illustrations - Loic Zimmerman - Painting a Mythical Beast - Joel Carlo - An Army Summoned - Mike Corriero - Create a LOTR-Inspired Orc - Jeff Murchie - Quick Character Design Concept - Francis Tsai - Painting Creepy Portraits - Mike Mitchell - Speed Painting a Zombie - Patrick Reilly - Painting a Nightmare - Cyril Van Der Haegen - Create a Great Background - Melanie Delon - 25 Custom Brush Tips - Patrick Reilly - Dramatic Concept Art - David Levy - Create a Dark Urban Nightmare - Lee Carter - Manga Character Illustration - Michael Chomicki - Create Fantasy Manga - Cris De Lara - Fiery Dragon Princess - Svetlin Velinov There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice way to catch up on new techniques.,
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This review is from: Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (Paperback)
Over the years, I've always tried to remain current with the latest tools and design techniques, regarding Digital art. ImagineFX's magazine has been a great help on this journey, and I found this particular item to be a great time saver. Having all the tutorials from the monthly magazine condensed into one huge magazine is just brilliant. It's a perfect resource for all the latest techniques and in my opinion is essential for any artist. Creating production quality artwork quickly is difficult. But with practice and this book by your side, any thing is possible.Pascal Chaumette [...]
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