Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists: Creative Techniques and Insights for Photoshop, Painter and More

by Daryl Wise and Jeremy Sutton

* This book is both instructional and inspirational. * It features 50 full-color reproductions of the award-winning digital art from worldwide competitions, including Macworld, Seybold, and others, featuring some of the best artists in the international digital art community. * The book's artwork was selected from thousands of entries by contest judges who are highly regarded in the digital art and computer graphics industry * Each section includes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764536915
• ISBN13: 9780764536915
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Eye opener

This book gives you a wide variety of artists, styles & insight. There is information about each person & what they did to created their piece. Artworks range from crazy to beautiful to uncomfortable. Some of these things are amazing. It doesn't document every tiny detail of how it was done, but much of the information is there. You can spend hours exploring & learning from this one.

Good Book!

This book gave me exactly what I needed, ideas for art and the methods used to create truly artistic pictures. While I am learning the basics of Paint Shop Pro XI, how to put color on paper, so to speak, doesn't help a lot with the creative process without much time consuming experimentation. This book helps shortcut the process for me.

excellent

It is a excellent book to get some digital imaging ideal. Getting the ideal behind the image. Also a good starting point for digital imaging beginner(like me).Although the book cost much for me.

What an awesome book!

I remember when I first saw this book at the bookstore and turning the pages, read a little about how artists have gone digital and showing the kind of art they have created digitally and also how they did it. I was really amazed by it.But I guess if anything, I was more or less inspired by buying the book because of Peter Max's foreword on digital art. I really enjoyed learning about the digital artists and why they went digital, that was awesome. The bonus is a certain artwork shown and then how they created and what type of hardware/software they used and I'm just very passionate about this book because no other book at this time on digital art comes close to this one.Price may be a little steep for some but for those who dreamed or have a passion for digital art, think of it as a worthy of investment because this book is indeed a rare gem.Highly recommended!

A collection of examples and wonderful insight

This book has a unique way (as far as design books go) of illustrating concepts. Instead of the usual and typically boring style of writing out information and then giving the reader a few tutorials and examples to illustrate, this book works only with examples. And the examples aren't just any examples, there is an entire collection of beautiful examples written and explained by top designers and artist of our time. I've always been one to learn best by a visual example and if you feel that way too, then this book will kick off your study of digital design in a fresh unique way that is unparalleled in today's publishing world.