Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (ImagineFX)

Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (ImagineFX)
by ImagineFX

Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (ImagineFX)
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Author: ImagineFX
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-02-03
ISBN: 1843404729
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Collins & Brown

Book Reviews of Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (ImagineFX)

Book Review: Great Resource...For Those with Experience
Summary: 3 Stars

As a hobby artist who is teaching myself both drawing and computer art, I'm always in the market for good books that will help me in my quest to develop as an artist. Thus, ImagineFX's Fantasy Workshop understandably caught my attention. It is indeed a useful resource for the aspiring artist - but really only useful to those with some experience.

Fantasy Workshop offers more than 23 step-by-step instructions from the very specific (how to paint realistic ears, for instance) to the highly complex ("Create a LOTR-Inspired Orc") that are designed to give you an insight into how digital artists operate, as well as teach some techniques to the reader. Reader beware, however - these are, by and large, not highly detailed tutorials (except for the highly helpful "Create a Dark Urban Nightmare" tutorial, which will teach you how to get that "gritty" look in your art). While there are a few tutorials that do take you in-depth to a degree that would be totally usable, for the most part the tutorials are a little vague and 1) assume that you have a lot of experience with computer art and 2) assume that you already know what you're doing. This is not a rudimentary type of book for the beginner. However, those at an intermediate and advanced level will no doubt get a lot out of this book - it certainly has opened my eyes as to how artists work and what techniques might be used. It will also teach that, despite working in a computerized medium, there is still a lot of room for customization and developing your own processes: there's no one "right" way to do things.

The book overall is very nicely laid out - all in full color on good, glossy paper stock. Each of the three sections has a little artist Q&A section, and the book itself closes with a gallery. Photoshop is the program in the book favored by most of the artists featured in this book, but Painter and ArtRage are also represented.

Summary of Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques (ImagineFX)

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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