Illustration is a hot subject, and professional designers, illustrators, and students are all looking for a well-researched, informative, and practical guide to this area of design. Continuing on from the best-selling Digital Illustration, Secrets of Digital Illustration develops themes and features work from countries with emerging graphic design industries, such as China, Singapore, and India. It uses the same format as the previous book, accommodating step-by-step tutorials, but this time it includes working sketches and thumbnails to provide a greater level of depth. Each chapter includes a brief introduction into the subject area, moving on to portfolios of leading image makers, and concluding with a step-by-step tutorial, making the book an informative, and highly enjoyable, exploration of this popular area.
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The definitive guide to the growing discipline of illustration
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Lawrence Zeegen is an illustrator, educator, and writer. His clients include major international newspapers and magazines, book publishers, design companies, and advertising agencies. He has also written two books on illustration: Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Creative Image-making (RotoVision), and The Fundamentals of Illustration (AVA).
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Secrets of Digital Illustration: a master class in commercial image-making (Paperback)
Anyone who's asking for a "how to draw..." books really isn't cut out for this book yet. This is a book for people who want to get into the industry and have skills. It provides very good insights into how a wide range of people work through creating designs and how they have achieved success and thier advice to others. It is entirely fascinating and brilliant, but don't expect it to hold your hand along the way and guide you from infancy.
This book is for people really on the cusp, if you're not there don't bother - get out of the kitchen. If you're a student, if you're wanting to work in the industry. GET THIS BOOK. (Especially if you've ever liked IdN or Computer Arts magazine).
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
great profiles but very little how-to,
This review is from: Secrets of Digital Illustration: a master class in commercial image-making (Paperback)
For anyone actually interested in a masterclass in digital image making this is NOT the book. This is a great book, with a well-rounded collection of profiles for some of today's up-and-coming illustrators and a solid overview of the current directions in contemporary illustration, most of which an illustration student won't learn about in school. So I do recommend this book to illustration students and illustrators but not for what the title says. There's only a couple of tutorials throughout the entire book. I was hoping to get a glimpse at the method of some illustrators, particularily Adrian Johnson and Chritian Montenegro within the book but no such luck.
Another book by the same author, which I recommend is the Fundamentals of Illustration. Again there is not a lot of actual how-to [make an image] but its a complete exposition on what a freelance illustrator does, can do and should do when starting out.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
no class,
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This review is from: Secrets of Digital Illustration: a master class in commercial image-making (Paperback)
I bought this book because of the reviews and the title. It's okay - hence the three stars but it is most certainly NOT a 'masterclass' on commercial image-making. It would best be used as a visual brainstorming aid as the 'secrets' it contains are more like: "if you have a tight deadline and you're stuck, look out the window and make the first thing you see, your solution" (my paraphrase). Hmmmm.... If you're looking for a masterclass book, this IS NOT IT!
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Section One, Black Convoy, Section Two, Craig Atkinson, Professional Practice, Studio Tonne, Ian Wright, Island Records, New York, Matt Wingfield Studio, Ian Stevenson, Jon Burgerman, Steve Wilson, Paul Blow, Adrian Johnson, Michael Gillette, Emily Alston, Holly Wales, Patrick Thomas, Anthony Burrill, Paul Burgess, Red Magic, Andy Rementer, Mickey Mouse, Richard Stow Browse Sample Pages:
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Section One, Black Convoy, Section Two, Craig Atkinson, Professional Practice, Studio Tonne, Ian Wright, Island Records, New York, Matt Wingfield Studio, Ian Stevenson, Jon Burgerman, Steve Wilson, Paul Blow, Adrian Johnson, Michael Gillette, Emily Alston, Holly Wales, Patrick Thomas, Anthony Burrill, Paul Burgess, Red Magic, Andy Rementer, Mickey Mouse, Richard Stow Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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