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.





• Third title in series

• Provides a complete and in-depth analysis of the current state
of digital illustration technology

• Offers advice on choosing appropriate hardware and software

• Covers every area, from comic strips to 3-D rendering

• Includes a foreword by Nigel Holmes, former graphics director of Time magazine and highly renowned author, lecturer, and illustrator

Living and working in London, Steve Caplin is an award-winning digital artist and a specialist in the art of satirical photomontage. His work has appeared in periodicals throughout the UK. Former editor-in-chief of MacUser, Adam Banks has specialized in digital imaging since the early 1980s, and has contributed countless articles and tutorials to a wide range of computer publications. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.