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"[O]ffers a range of digital inspirations and techniques from some 25 professional artists. More than just a gallery of images, this features step-by-step techniques that beginners through intermediate users can easily follow, inspired by world computer graphics artists. Photography, computer and arts collections alike will relish this."---BookWatch
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- Series: Masters Collection (Book 1)
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press (September 16, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0240521749
- ISBN-13: 978-0240521749
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.2 x 10.8 inches
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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.
When looking through this book I knew I had already seen those tutorials, not just one, many were familiar.
I went looking through my old 2D artist magazines, sure enough, I found them, dating back to 2006, three years before this book came out.
I already noticed the author came in to defend himself when another person critiqued the book for this same issue and said it was a rare occurrence, no it really isn't, I am able to find pages upon pages of content that was released years before the book was released, that person was right.
And just to show that this content is old reused magazine content, word for word, picture for picture, the only thing this book did is change the titles, the rest is exactly the same.