Desktopography 2009 is here!
Desktopography is a stunning non-profit project where designers from all over the world create nature / topological themed wallpapers. As said on their site:
Designers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors.
Each year a new wallpaper exhibition is released, now it’s time for the 2009 one! Here below, you will find some previews of the wallpapers I’ve selected from the exhibition, the ones I truly like.
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Five Minutes with Hoang Minh Le
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.
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Video Tutorials I – Stéphanie Valentin
Since I started browsing tutorials and videos on the web, I discovered a great amount of video tutorials about Digital Painting. I find that video tutorials, if well done, can be more useful than normal written tutorials, because they show the real work in process of the author.
I think that in a good video tutorial the work in process shouldn’t be too fast, otherwise you cannot see many interesting and useful techinques. Also, I think that author comments about the steps would be really great!
I’ve decided that I’m going to start a new series of articles dedicated to Portrait Video Tutorials, where I will collect all the more interesting video tutorials about portraits that I find in the web. I’ve already posted an articles, the Hanagumori Digital Painting Tutorial, which contains video, but I prefer to took this out of this series, because it is a complete, video and written tutorial.
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2D Artist Mag. January ‘09 Issue is out!
2D Artist Magazine is a Low-Cost pdf downloadable Magazine about Concept Art, Digital & Matte Painting. It is full of interview, articles, galleries, tutorials and techinques from the most amazing and famous artists here around.
Finally Issue 37, January 2009 is out! With this new issue starts a brand new series of articles dedicated to vehicles renderind, created by Dwayne Vance and Hoi Mun Tham.
Sketchbook article is finally back this month: I truly think that sketchbook samples of famous artists are a great resources for inspiration and for a study of the working/mental process of an illustrator.
The authors of the magazine says that, maybe, in the future issues a new tutorial series will start, and it will be dedicated to character rendering!
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