About this ebook
A complete guide to making computer artworks, from dynamic action scenes to fantasy landscapes.
Today, digital art appears everywhere - in print, on television, and in the movies. With the rapid advancement of digital art tools, illustration using these methods of is often faster and more effective.
This illustrated guide shows you how to create digital artworks using Photoshop and other popular software platforms. Award-winning illustrator David Cousens guides you through various creative tools and effects, suitable for both beginners and experienced artists. These include:
• RGB, CMYK and DPI
• Pen, brush and custom shape tools
• Blurs, filters, layer masks and blending modes
• Perspective, proportions and the rule of thirds
• Retouching and effects, such as retro pixel art, silkscreen and charcoal effects.
• And much more!
Including useful screengrabs to guide you through these instructions, Digital Art will have you creating brilliant artwork in no time.
Today, digital art appears everywhere - in print, on television, and in the movies. With the rapid advancement of digital art tools, illustration using these methods of is often faster and more effective.
This illustrated guide shows you how to create digital artworks using Photoshop and other popular software platforms. Award-winning illustrator David Cousens guides you through various creative tools and effects, suitable for both beginners and experienced artists. These include:
• RGB, CMYK and DPI
• Pen, brush and custom shape tools
• Blurs, filters, layer masks and blending modes
• Perspective, proportions and the rule of thirds
• Retouching and effects, such as retro pixel art, silkscreen and charcoal effects.
• And much more!
Including useful screengrabs to guide you through these instructions, Digital Art will have you creating brilliant artwork in no time.
About the author
Award-winning illustrator David Cousens brings his cheeky sense of fun to a colourful world of heroic robots, surreal monsters, sexy women and adorable animals. David works in advertising, professional education, publishing and television and his clients include the BBC, Macmillan, Adidas, Letraset, Kingfisher, Hachette, Citadel and Village Voice Media. He contributes to numerous digital arts magazines including Advanced Photoshop, Photoshop Creative, Computer Arts, Imagine FX, Digital Arts, SciFiNow, Apps Magazine, and How it Works.David runs his website Cool Surface from the South West of England.
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