Digital Painting Tricks and Techniques

This title provides all the advice artists need to transform their digital painting, from brush, lighting and colour basics through to special effects, working with layers and speed and matte painting. It includes content that is divided into core elements of digital art so fully comprehensive in scope; and, provides beginner through to advanced tricks and techniques to ensure progression. All techniques are chosen for their vital relevance to today's artists; demonstrated through diagrams, step demonstrations, annotated art and breathtaking finished paintings. It concludes with four in-depth step demonstrations of fantasy characters to put all the theory taught into practise; and, accompanied throughout by the author's fantastic images.

Gary Tonge is one of the UK's foremost concept designers. He is Art Director at Swordfish Studios and recent projects he has managed include 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand and Operation Flashpoint 2 and 3. He also runs his own freelance business VisionAfar whose clients include the BBC, Vivendi, Sims and National Geographic. He lives in Coventry, UK. www.visionafar.com