Books for digital painting

gilesruscoe

Teaching myself how to paint/draw better... i have a lot of old books covering traditional methods which are very useful, but are there any books which aim themselves towards digital painting while still covering anatomy and perspective too?

Any suggestions/recommendations would be fantastic

Esprite

The digital painting books by Don Seegmiller are pretty neat.

Talbot

http://www.ctrlpaint.com/

Avanthera

tons of good stuff in here:

http://www.focalpress.com/digitalartmasters/books.html

A lot more directed towards how to achieve certain effects in photoshop, and general skin rendering and such. But still an excellent buy.

Mechanika:

http://www.amazon.com/Mechanika-Creating-Science-Fiction-Chiang/dp/1600610234
good techniques, covers composition and perspective as well.

Jeff Parrott

Bold Visions:

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and yeah the Digital Masters/3DTotal ones too.

Bibendum

http://www.2dartistmag.com/

Great magazine. Monthly tutorials, painting process breakdowns and free custom brushes. It's basically all photoshop though, so if you don't use photoshop you probably won't get much use out of it.

I'd also recommend Dylan Cole and Dusso's Gnomon DVDs as they're excellent

dregoloth

ImagineFX. It's a more design focused magazine, but it's got quite a few painting gems, and a lot of the greats have done articles for it.

gilesruscoe

Wow, ty all. Tons of great books here, but which to choose xD i'll have a look through samples etc

Eric Chadwick

More online resources here. Added the books recommended here, thanks for the links!
http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryConceptFundamentals