Corel Painter has long been one of the most popular applications for creating digital art. Now in version X3, Corel Painter offers more artistic fun and capability than ever. DIGITAL PAINTING FUNDAMENTALS WITH COREL PAINTER X3 offers step-by-step, full-color instruction for getting started with the digital art software and hardware that are the industry standard: Corel Painter and a Wacom graphics tablet. With these computer tools, you can experiment with things like color theory, composition and brush strokes�but without the toxins, mess, and expenses associated with traditional art. The powerful Corel Painter X3/Wacom combination offers a level of texture and detail that no other digital painting tools can match. The book's many exercises and projects will teach you to control Painter's tools and techniques, and along the way you'll learn traditional art concepts such as composition, line quality, contrast and focal point. Even if you've never painted before, you will be astounded by the creative freedom and expressive possibilities of Corel Painter X3. Pick up your copy of DIGITAL PAINTING FUNDAMENTALS WITH COREL PAINTER X3 and start creating today.

Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X covers the fundamental skills you need to know to get started with pixel-based drawing and painting. It provides step-by-step instructions for using the basic hardware and software that are the industry standard: Corel Painter and a Wacom graphics tablet. Filled with exercises and hands-on projects, it covers techniques designed to give you increasing control of the tools of Corel Painter. It introduces traditional art concepts such as composition, line quality, contrast and focal point. This easy-to-follow guide will help you acquire and sharpen essential skills such as eye-hand coordination and drawing what you see. Benefits: * Covers the fundamental features of Painter using step-by-step instructions and eye-catching illustrations * Maintains an informal tone that makes it easy to follow discussion of each topic * Full of hands-on projects that encourage readers to practice each new skill

Presents instructions for using Corel Painter 12 for pixel-based drawing and painting, covering such topics as basic tools, composition, line quality, contrast, focal point, mixing media, and animation.

Learn the foundational concepts of vector graphics and raster imaging, including what new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java and JavaFX, iOS, Kindle and HTML5, as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important. Digital Painting Techniques covers concepts central to digital painting using the Inkscape 0.91 open source software package as well as the Corel Painter 2016 professional digital painting software package. You'll learn: The terminology of digital painting What comprises a digital painting 2D modeling and rendering pipeline Concepts and principles behind digital painting content production How to install and utilize 64-bit Inkscape 0.91 and Corel Painter 2016 Concepts behind curves, strokes, fills, patterns, rendering and physics Digital painting data formats and data footprint optimization Who This Book is For: Digital Artists, Illustrators, Painters, User Interface Designers, Digital Signage Content Developers, e-Learning Content Creators, eBook Cover Artists, Album Cover Artists Secondary: Android Developers, iOS Developers, Website Developers, Flash Developers, Multimedia Producers, Rich Internet Application (RIA) Programmers, Game Designers, Teachers, Educators.

Provides instructions for blending traditional drawing and painting skills with technological advances to create digital art.

This fun, concise, full color book introduces the fundamentals of digital illustration, and covers how to develop and optimize these types of scalable vector graphics (SVG) using Inkscape 0.91 or later. It also covers concepts central to digital painting using the Corel Painter 2016 professional digital painting and illustration paid software package, which also has a free trial version, and a discount for purchasers of this book. The book builds upon the foundational concepts of vector graphics and the SVG format, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what vector new media formats, and SVG commands and SVG filters, are best for use with Android Studio, Java 8, JavaFX, iOS, Kindle Fire and HTML5. The book covers key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important, and covers programming languages used for digital illustration, and publishing platforms which support digital illustration, and how to assimilate these into your digital illustration and digital painting content production pipelines and workflow. You will learn: The terminology of vector imaging and digital illustration What comprises a digital illustration 2D modeling and rendering pipeline Concepts and principles behind digital illustration content production How to install and utilize 64-bit Inkscape 0.91 for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux Concepts behind spline curves, strokes, fills, patterns and rendering Digital illustration data formats and data footprint optimization Audience Primary: Artists, Illustrators, Website Developers, Flash Developers, User Interface Designers, Digital Signage Content Developers, e-Learning Content Creators, eBook Authors. Secondary: Android Developers, iOS Developers, Multimedia Producers, Rich Internet Application (RIA) Programmers, Game Designers, Teachers, Educators. div

Jeremy Sutton is one of the world's premier Painter artists (www.JeremySutton.com and www.PaintboxJ.com), and in this brand new edition of his best-selling Painter Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, he shows you the methods and techniques he's developed over the years to perfect his art and earn him the title of Corel Painter Master. This edition has been completely revamped to cover all of the new features in Corel Painter 11 and the Wacom Intuos4 pen-tablet, including: *The new Hard Media brushes *Complete visual summary of all brushes, new and old, in Painter 11 *Revised and updated command shortcuts *New way of creating and controlling Reference Layers (formerly Free Transform) *Programming suggestions for new Intuos4 Express Keys and Touch Ring *And much more! Inside, you'll find comprehensive coverage of the way that Jeremy uses the Painter 11 brushes and the Wacom Intuos4 pen-tablet for drawing and painting. You'll learn how to paint from scratch as well as a loose expressionistic approach to painting from photographs as you follow the clear step-by-step instructions throughout the book. Focused, in-depth case studies provide you with the expertise and guidance you'll need to become your own master of this wonderful world of digital painting. Jeremy balances technical instruction with artistic advice, including a whole chapter on going for it with color. In addition to Jeremy's own works of art, you'll find a gallery of images created by painters who have studied his methods, showing you examples of how you can apply his teaching to your own style and subject matter. Finally, be sure to check out the downloadable resources for valuable supplemental content such as four QuickTime movies as well as custom brushes, art materials and a new Painter workspace.