Books
Top 20 books for digital creators
Books 1-5: Digital Color
Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results
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Are you curious about how comic books are colored? Want to learn how to color comic artwork yourself? Ready to get hands-on with some cool comic book artwork to practice coloring? With Hi-Fi Color for Comics you now have the chance. Hi-Fi Color for Comics covers: SCANNING, TOOLS & TECHNIQUES, EASY to use 1-2-3 AUTOMATION™ scripts & actions, FLATS, RENDERING, COLOR HOLDS , SPECIAL EFFECTS, COLOR SEPARATIONS , BREAKING INTO THE COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY.
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Master Digital Color: Styles Tools Techniques
Apply the tips, tricks, and techniques from Hi-Fi Color for Comics to become a master of Color Styles & FX. Master Digital Color takes you on a journey through coloring styles including Animation, Superhero, Pin-Up, Sci-Fi, Manga, & Alternative. Complete 18 new tutorials featuring art from the comic industries top creators including William Tucci, Brian Pulido, Terry Moore, David Bryant, Joe Corroney and many more. Each tutorial features special Focus on Detail segments to show you a new technique, tool tip, or special effect. Take your digital color to the next level with yourself with 12 additional homework challenges and supplement everything you learn with content from the Bonus DVD including videos, photoshop add-ons, practice art, and much more.
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DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics
America’s leading comic book publisher brings its superstar creators and classic characters to the fourth in an authoritative series of books on how to create comics. Acclaimed comic book illustrator Mark Chiarello and award-winning letterer Todd Klein demonstrate dozens of surefire strategies, practical techniques, and professional secrets for dynamic comic book coloring and lettering. They use DC’s world-famous characters to demonstrate an array of techniques, covering such topics as the pros and cons of lettering by hand or by computer, creating balloons and fonts, logo designs, working with color, and creating special effects.
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Digital Colors For Comics Ver 1.0
See the process of digitally coloring an illustration with extensive commentary for each step. Learn how one illustration may be colored different ways with alternative pathways to the same goal. NOTE: Amazon.com list this book as CANCELLED. Blue Line Pro currently offers copies for sale with or without a CD-Rom.
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How To Color For Comics
This guide will take you through all the steps necessary to take your work from line art to full, raging color. You also get step-by step instructions in coloring special effects, creating works in the cel-anime style, digital painting, and many, many other techniques. NOTE: This book is currently out of print. Amazon links you to resellers offering new and used copies at a variety of prices.
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Books 6-11: Digital Paint & illustration
Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques
As computer-based drawing and painting programs become more sophisticated, the audience for fantasy art keeps growing along with it. Produced in association with the renowned magazine ImagineFX, this visually striking guide helps readers learn how to produce top-quality digital fantasy images in styles ranging from manga to gothic. Focusing on a small number of popular creative painting programs, this workshop includes plenty of step-by-step screen grabs and simple, detailed instructions.
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100 Ways to Create Fantasy Figures
Presents 100 exciting and ingenious ways to design and draw better fantasy figures–from developing characters to adding costumes, props and backdrops. Hollywood concept designer Francis Tsai shares tips and tricks for creating imaginative figures, giving readers a unique opportunity to gain guidance from a real pro. Highly accessible and featuring a wealth of ideas, this sourcebook includes an inspirational mix of styles and approaches, with influences ranging from Celtic, Greek, Roman, Oriental and Medieval to 19th Century Gothic–something for every fantasy artist!
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Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters (Masters Collection)
More than just a gallery book – within Digital Painting Techniques each artist has written a breakdown overview, with supporting imagery of how they made their piece of work. Beginner and intermediate digital artists will be inspired by the gallery style collection of the finest examples of digital painting from world renowned digital artists. Start your mentorship into the world of digital painting today with some of the greatest digital artists in the world and delve into professional digital painting techiques, such as speed painting, custom brush creation and matte painting.
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Bold Visions: A Digital Painting Bible
This comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the rapidly expanding area of digital painting features beautifully displayed finished works of art alongside practical demonstrations. Artists will learn to create a wide range of subject matter from futuristic spacescapes and revolutionary vehicles to medieval landscapes and beautiful maidens. An in-depth materials section introduces all the equipment you are likely to need, from computer hardware and software to more traditional art media. A detailed basic techniques section caters to both newcomers to the digital medium and those who wish to brush up on their skills.
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Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist
Beginning with a survey of imaginative paintings from the Renaissance to the golden Age of American illustration, the book then goes on to explain not just techniques like sketching and composition, but also the fundamentals of believable world building including archaeology, architecture, anatomy for creatures and aliens, and fantastic engineering. It concludes with details and valuable advice on careers in fantasy illustration, including video game and film concept art and toy design.
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Dragonart Evolution: How to Draw Everything Dragon
DRAGONART shows you how to create awesome, delightful and frightening beasts, armed only with a pencil and ink pen. You’ll begin your quest by conquering a super-easy dragon that even the most foolish of ogres could draw. You’ll forge onward to discover simple secrets and spiffy tricks for making creatures friendly or fierce, sorrowful or cynical… drawing them from all different perspectives, in flight or at rest (so vain, those dragons – they love to strike a pose!). You’ll also learn how to incorporate various details to make each beast original.
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Books 12-18: Comic Creation (includes digital coloring content)
The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics
The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics shows how to give up pencil, pen, and paper and start drawing dynamic, exciting comics art entirely on the computer. Author Freddie E Williams II is one of DC Comics’ hottest artists and a leader in digital penciling and inking—and here, in clear, step-by-step directions, he guides readers through every part of the digital process, from turning on the computer to finishing a digital file of fully inked comic art, ready for print.
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Ink Bloom: Draw and Paint a Fantasy Adventure
The first ever how-to book that features its own self-contained sci-fi epic, a story in which 17-year-old Hachi encounters new friends and terrible foes that push her newfound powers to their limits. So, too, will you explore your innate abilities and discover drawing skills as you bring these curious creatures and bizarre landscapes to life with pencil and paint
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Digital Manga Workshop: An Artist’s Guide to Creating Manga Illustrations on Your Computer
This complete guide presents a wealth of information by exploring the digital possibilities of creating manga-style artwork. It details the entire process, from initial rough sketches, to the finished color image, with in-depth instructions and illustrations that demonstrate the intricacies of each technique. It also deals with a variety of inking and coloring styles.revealing the secrets of how to achieve smooth, highly detailed line art directly on screen, how to recreate the appearance of traditional animation with cel-art techniques, and how to achieve a soft, dreamy, or traditional look with airbrush, watercolor, and painting tools.
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Working Methods: Comic Creators Detail Their Storytelling And Artistic Processes
Professional comic artists interpret scripts every day as they successfully transform the written word into the visual form. However, rarely do we get to examine the process that is unique to each artist. Unlike any other “how-to” book, Working Methods puts the minds of comic artists under the microscope, highlighting the intricacies of the creative process step by step. For this book, three short scripts are each interpreted in different ways by professional comic artists to illustrate the varied ways in which they “see” and “solve” the problem of making a script succeed in comic form.
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How to Make Webcomics
For years young, creative men and women have dreamed about making a living from their comic strips. But until recently their only avenue of success was through a syndicate or publisher. Now more and more cartoonists are doing it on their own and self-publishing their comic strips on the web. With the right amount of work, knowledge, and luck, so, too, can you.
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Comic Artist’s Photo Reference Women And Girls
Drawing heroines and femme fatales has never been more fun. The second installment of the Comic Artist’s Photo Reference gives comic artists the same high-quality reference photos they found in Comic Artist’s Photo Reference: People and Poses, this time focusing on women and girls of varying ages, ethnicities and body types. Readers will find 1000+ photos of attractive models to draw from along with 4 step-by-step lessons from professional comic artists using photos from the book.
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Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up
Master perspective like the pros! Vanishing Point shows you how to conquer the fundamentals of perspective drawing and then equips you with technical tricks and tools that make dynamic and complex scenes a snap. This complete guide helps you build your understanding of perspective to an intuitive level so you can draw anything you can imagine.
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Books 19-20: Color Theory
Color by Betty Edwards: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors
Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive color workshops, Edwards provides a basic understanding of how to see color, how to use it, and-for those involved in art, painting, or design-how to mix and combine hues. Includes more than 125 color images and exercises that move from simple to challenging.
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Color Management: A Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designers
Learn color management via creative illustrations and demonstrations featuring real world examples. Book includes information on color theory, management, and color associations.
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