Books & DVD's
Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook
by Jeremy Sutton
Painter
Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook is a comprehensive creative, full
color guide to Corel's Painter software, which allows artists to "paint"
digitally using a mouse or an electronic stylus and tablet. It explains
the basics of setting up, understanding, customizing, and applying Painter
to create original works, paintings, generating painterly animations,
manipulating and transforming photographic images, and constructing evocative
photo-collage. The projects include advanced techniques and creative strategies
for all levels.
Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook gives visual artists, digital designers, multimedia artists, photographers, illustrators, animators, and graphic artists, the explanations they need in order to maximize the sophisticated, creative Painter tool.
The book teaches the artist how to transfer traditional art skills and techniques to the computer. It teaches the animator how to add painterly effects to their work, whether for video, TV, or the web. It explains how photographers can transform and collage their images with natural-media tools. For Adobe Photoshop users this book explains the expanded creative potential Painter lends to their work.
Sutton takes a knowledgeable and straightforward approach to this step-by-step project-based book, explaining how each tool is used, every effect achieved, and every topic thoroughly described. The book allows readers to build upon their knowledge so that beginners have the chance to become advanced users, and advanced users have an opportunity to hone their skills and adopt new techniques.
Key Features:
- A creative handbook for visual artists working in the digital media industry
- The only Painter workbook that addresses both creativity and technical proficiency
- Teaches creative techniques to be adapted by all visual artists -especially photographers, designers, and illustrators
Table of Contents
- Painter Basics: Getting Started
- Painter Empowerment: The Four Guiding Principles
- Painting Portraits I: Generating Form
- Painting Portraits II: Unleashing the Power of Color
- Painting Portraits III: Expressing Personality
- Animating Paint: Generating Artistic Transitions
- Transforming Photographs I: Achieving a Hand-Painted Look
- Transforming Photographs II: Walking On the Wild Side
- Creating Collage: Evocative Storytelling
What to Buy?
I recommend starting off with my book, Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, and introductory DVD, Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton. The book is a great complement to all my other materials and also serves as the required text book for all my classes. The book goes deeper and broader than any DVD. It also provides covenient step lists for many of the techniques shared on the DVDs. The Learning Corel Painter X DVD gives you a good overview of the software.
Once you are familiar with the basics then I recommend the more advanced DVD sets, How to Paint from Photographs Using Corel Painter X - Creative Techniques with Jeremy Sutton
and Expanding Your Creativity with Jeremy Sutton - The Art of Collage Portraiture. Both these more advanced DVD sets take you through real-life case studies from beginning to end, sharing along the way my work-flow, organizational systems, creative process, decision-making strategies, techniques and tools, plus including extensive extra brushes, art materials, tutorial images and more. In these two DVD sets I share cross-media techniques that show how I work with different programs and apply traditional media onto my prints.
If you are keen to dive in deeply and work through all my materials then I recommend my Ultimate Collection 2007 which includes all the items mentioned above at a discounted price (roughly equivalent to having the Learning Corel Painter X DVD thrown in for free).