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Digital Character Design and Painting: The Photoshop CS Edition (Graphics Series) BK&CD-ROM Edition

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Provides a unique combination of ideas and techniques that teach both the fundamentals of character design and the skills of digital painting by exploring the key principles of design and teaching conventional artists how to enhance their traditional skills and transfer them to the Web through a variety of tutorials and exercises, found on the accompanying CD-ROM. Original. (Intermediate)
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    1584503408
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    978-1584503408
  3. Edition
    BK&CD-ROM
  4. Publisher
    Charles River Media
  5. Publication date
    August 1, 2004
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  8. Print length
    377 pages
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Don Seegmiller is the author of the Painter edition of Digital Character Design and Painting (2003)He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and teaches senior-level illustration,traditional head painting,figure drawing,and digital painting courses at a variety of schools.He worked for six years as art director for Saffire Corporation,is a regular speaker at the Game Developers Conference,and was the keynote speaker atthe American Association of Medical Illustrators convention in 2003. His work is featured in the The Painter 6 Wow Book, The Painter 7 Wow Book, Electronic Step by Step Design, Spectrum 7, Spectrum 8 and it has also been on display at Wadle Galleries of Santa Fe since 1981.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Charles River Media; BK&CD-ROM edition (August 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 377 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1584503408
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1584503408
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.13 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 17

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Mellory Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I have been looking for
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2011
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For a while all I ever wanted out of a book when it comes to explaining to me about digital painting is how to actually approach it. From the first chapter all the way through it's incredibly descriptive and the way everything is explained is enough for me to take on board the vast amount of skills within each step. I am incredibly happy with this book and I know the skill sets within it are things that I will implement throughout the rest of my lifetime. I just want to point out that when it comes to digital painting I am a novice so this is the best introductory book I have come along for someone in my position who has no clue and in saying that I would recommend it for anyone else who interested in what it has to offer.
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Owen B. Albertson
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for digital painting
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2006
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Ive done just about everything else with photoshop and wanted a good book on digital painting so I could use my traditional art skills in that way. Its a good amount of content for the price and it has some really nice tips on creating your own brushes. The tutorials are pretty much step by step, although a little more info would have been nice. A lot of the process depends on your own ability and experience with the pen and tablet. So, overall I'd say its a good resource.
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Eternal10k
5.0 out of 5 stars Good starting material
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2009
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If you are thinking of getting started on the digital art world, this book is really good for you, it covers everything, since the process it takes BEFORE start working on the canvas to quick tips and tricks on the software interface, up until the actual tutorials wich come on a relatively easy learning curve from a small Eye to complex human form composition work, the only thing you find falling short is the accompanying CD-ROM, wich in my opinion lacks the most crucial files for an easy understanding, but even with this small problem, the tutorials stand so well on their own that you don't really miss the CD content at all.
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Mr. Gone
2.0 out of 5 stars Not That Good
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2006
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Do not buy this book unless you have a solid background in painting fine art. Do not buy this book if your are expecting to learn the mechanics of how to paint in Photoshop. I have been working on one of the tutorials for about four weeks and have only come somewhat close to the results that the author demonstrates in the book. I must have done the tutorial about 20 times over so far. I can attribute this to two things: my lack of technical knowledge of how to paint fine art and the lack of information from the author about how to achieve the results that he is demonstrating. It's particularly frustrating when the author says, "continue to refine the painting" or "begin to clean up the contours" without explaining how exactly that is done using Photoshop. This whole book is supposed to be about painting with Photoshop but the whole process is never really dissected and explained. There is one short chapter on blending in Photoshop but it doesn't really help you all that much when you are going through a tutorial on how to paint something as complex as a a portrait of a face. I found the tutorials to be just brief overviews on how the author painted a particular piece. I would rather have one tutorial about how to really paint in Photoshop instead of 10 that just give you an overview of the process. The rest of the book is only mildly interesting. Why not have tutorials that delve into specific techniques like blending (briefly covered in book), shading and highlighting. How about getting into what brushes you would use to achieve certain effects. Or, how to use the opacity settings in combination with different types of brushes to achieve certain effects. I could go on and on. These are the kinds of things that I thought this book would cover; unfortunately it did not.
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chris
5.0 out of 5 stars crazy good
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2014
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This book is amazing old but useful. Ship in a great amount of time. Satisfied! I cannot tell you how much this book has helped me out. Life saver.
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David M. Allen
3.0 out of 5 stars Book is more for Beginners
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2006
This book was somewhat of a let down for me since I thought it would focus more on intermediate/advanced digital character design techniques using Photoshop CS. Most of the book is aimed for the beginner (or pre-beginner). However there are a few usefully chapters near the end for more advance graphic professionals.
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J. A. B.
4.0 out of 5 stars great instruction
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2007
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This is probably the best digital illustration book that I have come across. Like all instruction books, the author skips steps and leaves you wondering sometimes about how he got from one step to the next. However, art is a personal activity that no one can really tell you how to do, so info like there is in this book is valuable.
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erik turchin
5.0 out of 5 stars hardcore painting
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2004
Powerful Photoshop brushes on display here. Brushes may very well be the #1 feature of photoshop, and at the same time, the least known and used by many. I got this book because basically brushes were the final "unexplored frontier" for me in photoshop. I also got it because I thought it would tie in well with 3D art, which I guess in the end it really doesn't all that much. Everything in this book is geared toward mag cover art, game box art, ect.. Regardless, the techniques learned in this book can be applied to other artforms as well. The book alone is worth it for simply learning brushes and all their options. If you are a good painter, then it will make you a great painter, if you are not a painter, it will make one out of you in some form or another. First 1/2 of book discusses some theory and steps you through the brush engine and all of its vast options. Then you are exposed to numerous hardcore tutorials that if you do them all and take your time, will in turn boost your quality significantly. The tutorials are not step-by-step, but rather overviews of processes, which if you know photoshop well, you will have no problem. If you are a good painter, but know little of photoshop, then read a basic photoshop book first. Chances are, unless your a master painter, your versions of the tutorials will pail in comparison to Don S's, but like he says in the book, you will have learned a wealth of information along the way that you can use from there forward. All in all, a very worthwhile manual. Also of note is that working this book with only a mouse is tedious and uninspiring, but if you get a stylus after or during your reading of the book, you'll see the true nature of the painting power Don has given you.
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Conuett
5.0 out of 5 stars This book by Don Seagmiller is a gem. If ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2016
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This book by Don Seagmiller is a gem. If you have an interest in using Photoshop for digital painting try and get hold of a copy. The book is about character design, but its use goes way beyond.
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Dan
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book for the basics
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2015
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Very good book for the basics, for advance character design and painting I would look elsewhere, but taking nothing away from the book it's very good if you are just starting out, it's explains how to use photoshop with some very good tutorials.
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