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THE ARTIST'S GUIDES - ON SALE NOW!

IDG's The Artist's Guides series of booka each contain over 100 tutorials, tips and tricks from the world's best illustrators, designers, animators and creatives. Created by the team behind Digital Arts magazine, these invaluable reference guides provide step-by-step walkthroughs for the latest and best techniques across software and craft tools from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects and Flash to pens, pencils and paints.

All Artist's Guides are available in print, and as digital editions for the iPad and desktop.

The Artist's Guide to Illustration

The Artist's Guide to Illustration is our brand-new special edition – enabling you to get creative with a wealth of incredible tutorials for illustration.

Learn digital techniques for Photoshop and Illustrator, hand-crafted approaches using pens and pencils, and how you can combine both practices for amazing results. Follow step-by-step as the world’s best artists reveal the secrets of their best work – so you can produce yours.

Brought to you by the team behind magazine, this special edition gives you exciting tips and tricks across a huge range of styles including hand-drawn, mixed-media and vectors, portraits and character art, pattern design and typography. The tutorials are accompanied by a wealth of project files from our Download Zone, so you can access them wherever you are and whenever you want.

The Artist’s Guide to Illustrator is available in print from WH Smith other good newsagents -- and will online ordering of the print edition will be available soon. Digital editions can be purchased from Zinio.

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Both print and digital editions provide you with access to the Download Zone.

Inside The Artist’s Guide to Illustration

Get creative with a wealth of incredible tutorials across these seven chapters:

Hand-drawn illustration
Mixed-media projects
Perfect portraits
Vector art techniques
Character art revealed
Seamless pattern design
Typographic art

Check out below just some of the artworks you'll discover how to create in this amazing book.

The Artist's Guide to Photoshop

The Artist's Guide to Photoshop is the first in our brand-new series of special editions – unlocking the powerful tools of the creative suites you use and helping you to produce your best art ever. In this 160-page edition, you’ll discover techniques for Adobe’s fantastic Photoshop application that will allow you to develop your skills into new areas – and learn tricks that will enable you to get creative faster and with better results.

Brought to you by the same superb creative team as Digital Arts magazine, our selection of the best digital artists from around the world reveals how they have created the incredible artworks you see throughout this edition. Follow step-by-step as they detail their favourite ways for producing art and illustrations with a wealth of different looks.

Alongside these tutorials, you’ll also find inspiring guides to the latest hot styles in areas such as digital painting and photomanipulation – plus a wealth of tips as artists across a wide range of traditions disclose the secrets of how they come up with their best ideas.

To help you complete these tutorials, we’ve compiled their project files into a handy resource – plus given you over £750 of amazing stock images and Photoshop video training. There’s far more than could possibly fit on a CD, so we’ve created a Download Zone just for readers of this edition to gain access to these files.

The Artist’s Guide to Photoshop is your handbook to becoming a better digital artist. Get ready to be inspired!

Print editions of The Artist’s Guide to Photoshop can be bought online. Digital editions can be purchased from Zinio.

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Buy a digital edition for the iPad, Mac or PC
UK | US | Worldwide

Both print and digital editions provide you with access to the Download Zone.