Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop: Characters

Awesome book. I'm a digital artist and this book is really helpful to me. This is the best book I can recommend for beginner's.

Very useful to quickly boost a beginner digital artist's output.

Terrible book for beginners. Lots of unnecessary fluff that are completely irrelevant for beginners. Like why would I need to know villain design when you don't even detail how to color the face properly? For example, step 1: draw the face using simplified forms and do basic lineart. step 2: render out the lights and shadows with full blending and everything. like what? how do I do the in between steps?? I bought this book to learn how to paint my faces properly. But when it actually came to the important part, they just glossed over it. I have included the step 1 and step 2 parts of the face drawing so you can judge for yourself. They are definitely good artists but bad teachers. This is just a pretty book with some good art in it.....but not a good textbook for art. There is just lots of wasted chapters that are pretty useless for beginners.....like I don't need inspiration for moods or creativity, just teach me how to paint!

This book is beautiful and a great help to me. There is a lot of content and I would recommend this book!

Le livre a légèrement pris des coups pendant le voyage mais rien de grave, dans mon cas la tranche d'un bouquin, c'est pas ce qui m'intéresse. Le contenu est très très très bien accompagné, c'est excellent si l'on veut se familiariser avec Photoshop et qu'on est assez mauvais en dessin sur ordinateur. Le contenu est en anglais, mais ça se comprend super facilement.

This book is absolutely incredible. I am new to art but not rubbish at it. No expert either but I am told I’m good. This book was bought to advance my skills. Somebody commented here about it not being very helpful as it doesn’t show you how to actually draw. Well....actually it does teach you a lot. It shows you all the essentials you need to know about in order to complete drawings using photoshop (or Procreate in my case which is similar and for iPad). It doesn’t teach you how to be a world class artist because that’s not something you can teach. It’ll come in time if you dedicate time every day to developing your skills. This book helps. It has tutorials and some great examples of other people’s work. It’s not written by one (self indulgent) author/artist as somebody else said. It is written with input from several artists with similar styles but different experiences. There’s nothing egotistical at all. They are showing off their great work in order to help you and I !! It helps you understand how body’s are formed and skin tones along with character “design” in the written sense (like thinking about it’s characteristics etc). I recommend this book a lot. It’s a good mix of words to photo ratio. Perfect. Get it! Oh. The book cover is great. And the layout makes it a good easy-on-the-eye-read. Quality of paper is great too. It just looks, reads and feels amazing.

Excelente libro, fundamentos basicos que todo dibujante deberia conocer, sin importar si es un experto o principiante, ademas que no hay mejor precio que aqui.

OMG I love this book! It is an absolute favorite. What I really like are the several character design examples throughout the book. It takes you from beginning steps to techniques that are still a little beyond me - but that is OK - because I am growing as an artist with this book. If you are looking into character design - this is my #1 pick and suggestion.