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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Hanagumori – Digital Painting Tutorial
Hanagumori is a digital painting portrait created by Diane Özdamar. The word “Hanagumori” means “late spring with blossom haze”. This artwork represents a young Geisha, with a blue and a green eye. The author of the image makes a great study on the details, such as the make-up, the pearls, the skin pores and so-on.
This artworks has been created recording the whole painting process, from the very start to the final product. The video tutorial has been divided in eight parts.
With the video tutorial, Diane Özdamar wrote also a three-parts tutorial, where she explains how she worked on the details like eyes, pearls and skin.
In this article you will find the eight videos of the tutorial, the links to the written tutorial and a small animation of the work in progress.
Of course, all this work is copyrighted by Diane Özdamar.
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ImagineFX Issue 39
A year ago, I discovered a magazine called ImagineFX, published in the UK by Future Publishing. This editor publish Italian version of some of his magazines even in Italy, like Computer Arts or 3D World. Unluckily there isn’t an Italian Version of ImagineFX. So, past Christmas my boyfriend payed me a 13 issues subscription as a gift. Now I arrived to the 12th issue and I want to renew the subscription, I found this magazine really useful, full of great informations and tutorials for people like me, that have passion for fantasy and sci-fi art.
Now, I’ve renewed my subscription! And as a gift, I will receive a Gnomon Workshop DVD! Issue 39 was released in middle December, but I received it a bit late due to postal service problems. The subscription word-less cover is amazing, I really love the concept of the samurai.
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The Portrait Tutorials Series by Katarina Sokolova
This is another Tutorials Series published as ImagineFX Workshops in the magazine, but you can download a free pdf copy of them ath the magazine website.
In this series, the painter Katarina Sokolova teaches how to paint the different parts of a human face, in four step-by-step guides:
- Paint Fantasy Eyes – [link]
- Paint a Realistic Nose – [link]
- Paint Realistic Ears – [link]
- Paint Realistic Looking Lips – [link]
The result of the four tutorial is the image here, on the left! Personally, I found these tutorials really useful when I started to learn digital painting and human anatomy. I truly think these can be a valid tool for learning digital painting tricks and a bit of anatomy for everyone!
About the Author: Katarina Sokolova is an Ukrainian artist; she studied painting and graphics from when she was a child, and she’s famous for the wonderful women she represents.
She is also a great photographer and a graphic illustrator.
Katarina Sokolova: Website | DeviantArt | CGSociety
ImagineFX Magazine: [link]
