Bring characters to life on your iPad® with creativity and ease, using ProcreateTM to conceptualize, sketch, and paint directly onto the screen. Master the basics, from setting up your first canvas to using a selection of tools such as Brushes, Layers, and Adjustments to add depth and energy to your creations. To achieve details such as hair, skin, and garments, you are guided through tools and techniques for character-specific results. Whether you draw characters from reality, or dream up new, fantastical beings, this book unlocks your design potential with Procreate for next level-results.
While Photoshop and Procreate, which have always been trendy art mediums, are continuing to grow in popularity, undertaking digital art can be intimidating for many: fortunately, beloved artist Sara Tepes has used her self-taught knowledge and understanding of common struggles artists face to create the ultimate beginners’ handbook for Photoshop and Procreate. With step-by-step images that are easy for readers to follow, and through various in-depth projects covering the full spectrum from composition and lighting, painting hair and eyes, to skin tone and fabrics, readers—be they art novices or simply new to digital forms—will soon be amazed at how quickly their skills flourish. What is more, total beginners and artists looking to transition from traditional mediums will be given a comprehensive overview on brush types, sketching on the digital canvas and working with layers. Sara also includes a downloadable digital package of brushes and color palettes created specially for this book, so readers can easily follow along with her tutorials. With The Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting readers will demystify the digital creation process, and gain the fundamental skills to take their art to dizzying heights.
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 encourages you to use the tools at hand to paint your own works of art. Each chapter showcases one great painter - the selection includes Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Sargent, Gustav Klimt, Matisse, and Picasso - and analyses the techniques that set each one apart. These techniques are then emulated in step-by-step tutorials, allowing today's digital artist to achieve amazing results in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop.
Contains over 70 Illustrations and sketches by the Author.It is a desperate time in the land of Speria. Rumors of villages destroyed by Dark Creatures echo across the land. The downtrodden surivors turn to the remnants of Moonken warriors at Crescent Isle, but their pacifist ways do not allow them to intervene. Raziel Tenza and Rin Torra are likely the worst Moonken to ever train at the monastery on the mystical shores of Crescent Isle. But when an insurgent gang of miscreants (The Red Cobras) threaten to run them out of town, they decide to team up and stand their ground. The only problem is... they stink at kung fu!With no fighting ability whatsoever, (but a whole lot of gusto!) they embark on an epic martial arts adventure in search of a shortcut to the ultimate badass Kung Fulio power of their ancestors. In their desperate struggle, they accidentally unleash raging Darksprites, get wrapped up in a legendary mystical heist, and discover secret powerful artifacts that will shape their destiny, and determine the fate of the Monks of Twilight.This book is part 1 of a series of Kung Fu action-adventure fantasy novels.