Utherworlds is the latest stunning large-format artbook released by Ballistic Publishing.

Utherworlds is a fantasy graphic novel based on the universe created by Philip Straub. This great probject lasts six years of hard work, and tells the story of Lucas Sellers and his journey into The Realms, where the forces of hope are pitted against the forces of evil.

Exposè 7 is finally out! The seventh book of this famous series published by Ballistic Publishing is now avaiable for preorder! The book is published in three different editions: Soft Cover, Hard Cover (my favourite) and Limited Edition.

This time, Exposè 7 shows 391 digital art masterpieces by 288 artists in 51 countries! The Soft/Hard Cover Editions show 224 pages, while the Limited Edition has 240 pages and a black leather cover!

This time, the front cover is “Touch of Gold” an image by Bente Schlick, and, in my opinion, this is one of the most amazing covers ever published on this series. If you are ont of the first 300 lucky people who preorder a copy of this book (or either if you preorder or purchase a Limited Edition copy) you can download a 30 minutes video walkthrough on the making of this cover! Also, if you buy a Limited Edition, you will receive 8 amazing high quality prints!

I must admit, I’ve preordered my copy as a selfmade “gift” for my last exam result on 30rd April (that’s why I haven’t updated in a while) and I can’t wait to see it! Expect a review from me!

The book shipping will start Mid-June!

With this article we’ll start a series of Interviews with inspirational and amazing artists of the digital and traditional world. The first interview of this series is with the Asian Digital Artist and Photographer Hoang Minh Le, known also as Aurory. He rocks the world with his amazing and truly realistic digital paintings, and his fashion photos. He give also a lot of help to the artists community with his really interesting tutorials.

He used to represents beautiful and amazing girls in a great realistic way. He’s really talented, and is a referring inspirational point for many young artists.

In this article we will discover more of his world, his life, his working process and his art.

Again, another cool Work In Progress tutorial of a piece from the book Exotique 4 by Ballistic Publishing. This time, the artowork is titled “The Gods of Harvest” and it is by Chester Ocampo, one of the group Imaginary Friends.

The tutorial is published at CGSociety as a featured article. Here you will find a step-by-step description of the author work, with correlated images. It is really interesting because it explains one way to approach a painting where more different characters appears. It is really intersting to see how he works on the different characters one by one, and how he achieves this amazing lightinh effect.

At the page article, you can find an animated flash of the work in progress.

Chester Ocampo: [homepage]

The Gods of Harvest: [full image]

The Tutorial page: [CGSociety]

So, another article for the Video Tutorials Series (as you may have seen, I changed the Portrait Video Tutorials series to simple Video Tutorials, to collect more tutorials in the same category).

This time, I featured a simple but really interesting video about Basic Blending in digital painting. When I start learning digital painting, I see that one of my major problems was to blend colours togethere to create a smooth but textured surface. Also, I got the problem of selecting the colours for lights and shadow, to enrich the palette, avoiding plain lights/shadows.