Digital Character Design and Painting: The PhotoShop CS Edition FROM THE PUBLISHER
This brilliantly illustrated book blends two unique subjects: character
design and painting. It details how to put thoughts and ideas together to create
characters that elicit specific emotions (joy, fear, anger, sadness, etc.), and
it teaches how to beautifully render these characters by applying traditional
painting skills with digital tools. This edition has been completely updated to
use Photoshop CS as the primary tool, and includes many new characters and
tutorials.Written for artists interested in learning how to use
Photoshop CS as a real painting tool, the book is divided into three primary
sections. The first section deals with character design and provides strategies
for developing worthwhile ideas. In the next section, you'll find fundamentals
artistic principles that are often overlooked in the digital world, and learn
how to incorporate them into your efforts. And in the final section, you'll work
through practical tutorials that teach insightful techniques and tips for
solving common visual problems that emerge when painting. The tutorials start
off simple covering the basics of value, edges, color, and light. From there
they evolve into in-depth techniques for blending, eyes, faces, cloth, hair,
Photoshop brushes, and portraits.Whether you are a seasoned professional
or aspiring artist, you'll find a plethora of useful ideas and techniques that
will improve your skills and help you create and paint masterful digital
art!On the CD!Tutorial Files: Includes the sketches,
texture images, brushes, and gradients, needed to complete the tutorials in
Chapters 12-23Brushes Folder: Provides all of the custom brushes, in their
rough state, as used in the painting tutorials for each chapterTextures
Folder: Contains 137 different textures to experiment with when making your own
patterns and brush filesPhotoshop CS: Contains both the Mac and PC tryout
versionsSystem Requirements:Both systems require Photoshop
CS. WINDOWS: Intel Pentium III or 4 processor; Microsoft Windows 2000 with
Service Pack 3 or Windows XP, 192 MB of RAM; 280 MB of available hard-disk
space; Color monitor with 16-bit color or greater video card; 1,024x768 or
greater resolution; CD-ROM drive; Internet or phone connection required for
product activation. MACINTOSH: PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor; Mac OS X
v.10.2.4 though v.10.3 with Java Runtime Environment 1.4; 192 MB of RAM; 320 MB
of available hard-disk space; 1,024x768 or greater resolution; CD-ROM
drive.About the Author:Don Seegmiller is
the author of the Painter edition of Digital Character Design and Painting
(2003). He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and teaches senior-level
illustration, traditional head painting, figure drawing, and digital painting
courses at a variety of schools. He worked for six years as art director for
Saffire Corporation, is a regular speaker at the game Developers Conference, and
was the keynote speaker at the American Association of Medical Illustrators
convention in 2003. His work is featured in The Painter 6 Wow Book, The Painter
7 Wow Book, Electronic Step by Step Design, Spectrum 7, Spectrum 8, and it has
also been on display at Wadle Galleries of Santa Fe since
1981.
SYNOPSIS
Written for artists interested in learning to use Photoshop CS, this illustrated guide outlines strategies for character design and identifies fundamental principles that often get lost in computerized work. It then offers tutorials illustrating techniques for solving common visual problems, beginning with basic issues of value, color and light, and progressing toward more complex topics like blending, and the representation of essays, cloth, and hair. Seegmiller teaches illustration, painting, figure drawing, and digital painting. A companion CD contains files for the tutorials, custom brushes, 137 textures, and trial versions of Photoshop CS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Home
