Complete Digital Illustration

Complete Digital Illustration is an informative and practical guide to this in-demand area of design. Alongside step-by step tutorials, top image-makers from around the world provide real and practical advice on setting up a studio, creating a killer portfolio, and winning commissions. The work featured in the book reflects the wide and exciting range of image-making practice that thrives today, from music and fashion to character and toy design. The book reveals the secrets of the industry’s most successful creatives who transfer traditional illustrative skills into digital dimensions, producing the highest quality, most commercially successful animation, three-dimensional, and vector-based illustration. This book offers a master class for students and professional designers and illustrators who want to take their work beyond the constraints of two-dimensions and gain greater commercial success. An inspirational, must-have guide, Complete Digital Illustration is also of real value for professional image-makers.

Explains the principles of digital illustration and shows how to use the most common digital art software programs to create digital images.

Following the success of "Digital Illustration", "Secrets of Digital Illustration" continues Zeegen's exploration of digital image-making. It features exemplary portfolios and tips from luminaries around the world alongside step-by-step tutorials and working sketches. Most alluringly, "Secrets of Digital Illustration" also reveals, through example, that Holy Grail of creativity: how to balance commercial and self-authored projects, integrity with commercial success. Detailed tutorials from top illustrators in contemporary design explore different areas, from fashion to politics, ethical to promotional illustration, dissecting inspirational sources, methodologies, and professional best working practices.

Today’s professional illustrator is light years beyond ink wells and drafting boards: the present and foreseeable future of the art of illustration is digital, and there is no more complete resource on the tools and techniques of this thoroughly modern practice thanThe Complete Guide to Digital Illustration. Written by veteran art professionals Steve Caplin and Adam Banks, this guide will take any digital artist to the next level. It examines all the key areas where digital illustration is utilized—covering the traditional arenas such as print, corporate identity, and advertising as well as multimedia presentations and the new media of the Internet. It demonstrates the vast array of incredible effects open to today’s digital artists, along with how they can be achieved. It also offers indispensable advice on the type of software and hardware the beginning digital illustrator may need for his own studio. Packed with more than 400 stunning full-color illustrations and profiles of the newsmakers and groundbreakers within the industry,The Complete Guide to Digital Illustrationis a virtual encyclopedia on the art of digital illustration and a fast-track tutorial no serious illustrator should be without. • Third title in series • Provides a complete and in-depth analysis of the current state of digital illustration technology • Offers advice on choosing appropriate hardware and software • Covers every area, from comic strips to 3-D rendering • Includes a foreword by Nigel Holmes, former graphics director ofTimemagazine and highly renowned author, lecturer, and illustrator

An essential book for the fashion world: the techniques for creating outstanding fashion illustration with the most popular software, Adobe Photoshop. It is used by a range of professionals, from graphic designers and 3-D animators to video editors and product and fashion illustrators. The book shows you how to create the stunning images that grace the fashion magazines, department stores and newspaper supplements. Master the techniques provided here to unleash true creativity. Kevin Tallon teaches his techniques at the world-famous Central St Martins College in London and has created a step-by-step technique book specifically for those interested in creating fashion illustrations: including mood boards, placement and repeat prints, fashion illustrations, garment sketches, logos and graphics, visualisation, presentation board and collection ranges. It follows on from his successful Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator but covers the world of creative fashion illustration rather than fashion design. The book provides instruction on the basics, but also plenty of material for those who are already familiar with the software but want to make more of it. With tips and tricks, specific fashion tasks and meaningful application, the book covers photocomposition; advanced layers; scanning, colouring and photo retouching; colouring flat drawings; advanced photocomposition; image adjustment; montages; filters and brush tools, and much more.

The ultimate guide to the NFT revolution: How non-fungible tokens are poised to transform the digital world. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are the most important digital innovation since the creation of blockchain and cryptocurrency. NFTs share the best elements of both of these, while also representing an entirely new step forward for technology. But how did NFTs arise, how will they impact art and business in the decades to come, and—perhaps most importantly—how can savvy entrepreneurs position themselves today for success in the NFT-driven world of tomorrow? This guide by industry leader and entrepreneur Marc Beckman delves into the underpinnings of NFT technology in a way that makes the subject clear and comprehensible to the layman, while drawing on Marc’s branding experience to explore exactly how NFTs are poised to change fashion, sport, fine art, and even social justice. In this book he explores how NFTs will create entirely new asset classes and investment possibilities, such as fractional ownership in dynamic works of art. And in doing so, he also tells the story of how he personally discovered and became entranced by this powerful new tool, and where he believes NFTs will take business and branding throughout the 21st century.

In this beautiful addition to the 1,000 series, 1,000 Portrait Illustrations showcases the best work from renowned artists from across the globe. With detailed profiles, extensive interviews, and gorgeous imagery, this book is a feast of creativity. Featured artists include: - Randy Glass: http://www.randyglassstudio.com - David Fullarton: http://www.davidfullarton.com - Ward Schumaker: http://www.warddraw.com - Sam Wolfe: http://www.samwolfeconnelly.com - Daniel Zender: http://www.danielzender.com - Bryce Wymer: http://www.brycewymer.com - Daniel Krall: http://www.danielkrall.com - Sam Weber: http://www.sampaints.com - Daniel Fishel: http://www.o-fishel.com - Kyungduk Kim: http://www.dukillustration.com - Sharmila Banerjee: http://www.sharmilabanerjee.de - Jenny Morgan: http://www.jennymorganart.com - Kelly Thompson: http://www.kellythompson.co.nz - And many others Explore a diverse range of artistic talent in portraiture and become truly inspired by this stunning collection!

'Digital Illustration' is a comprehensive practical tool for designers, offering detailed, step-by-step tutorials on the skills and techniques used by the masters of digital image-making.