digital art

"The Digital Renaissance teaches you how to translate the methods and skills found in traditional art to the digital medium. By covering fundamental painting principles and the basics of digital software, before moving into tutorials that break down key techniques, professional artist Carlyn Beccia teaches you how to use the tools at hand to paint your own works of art. Each chapter showcases one great painter and analyzes the techniques that set each one apart. These techniques are then imitated in step-by-step tutorials, allowing you to achieve amazingly convincing results and bring your own work to new creative heights."--back cover.

Presents a survey of digital art from its origins in the 1980s into the twenty-first century, discussing it as both a tool and a medium, introducing key artists and works, and exploring themes in digital art.

Offers manga artists expert advice and step-by-step instructions on how to use various digital tools and editing programs to enhance their artwork.

A guide to create visually dramatic digital imagery for fantasy and science-fiction artists, and provides information on materials, basic techniques, color, lighting, concept and design, textures, special effects, structures and vehicles, portfolios, and more.

A step-by-step guide to digital painting in Photoshop that covers the fundamental aspects in an accessible and comprehensive fashion.

Presents techniques for combining inkjet printing with traditional art materials and provides information on preparing watercolor paper and canvas and transferring images to absorbent, non-absorbent, and three-dimensional surfaces.