The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration

Today's professional illustrator is light years beyond ink wells and drafting boards: the present and foreseeable future of the art of illustration is digital, and there is no more complete resource on the tools and techniques of this thoroughly modern practice than The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration. Written by veteran art professionals Steve Caplin and Adam Banks, this guide will take any digital artist to the next level. It examines all the key areas where digital illustration is utilized--covering the traditional arenas such as print, corporate identity, and advertising as well as multimedia presentations and the new media of the Internet. It demonstrates the vast array of incredible effects open to today's digital artists, along with how they can be achieved. It also offers indispensable advice on the type of software and hardware the beginning digital illustrator may need for his own studio. Packed with more than 400 stunning full-color illustrations and profiles of the newsmakers and groundbreakers within the industry, The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration is a virtual encyclopedia on the art of digital illustration and a fast-track tutorial no serious illustrator should be without.