Book Review: Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 7

Digital Painting Techniques returns for the seventh volume!

It's still a thick 288-page book packed with detailed tutorials. The book is for intermediate to advanced artists so if you're just starting out, it might be slightly difficult to follow especially if you're not familiar at the fundamentals of digital painting.

For this volume, the first half of the book focuses on three main subject matter, namely vehicles, stylized female characters and pin-up girls. The second half looks at concepts and techniques on speed painting, matte painting and creating environments. About the section on the vehicles, I can definitely see the Mad Max influence or where they get their ideas from.

Below's the complete list of contents

Vehicles
- Design a dynamic desert vehicle
- Craft a post-apocalyptic car
- Create a dune car
- Create a hovering spaceship
- Craft a colossal floating vehicle
- Develop a vehicle for land and water
- Illustrate a powerful deforestation vehicle

Stylized Female Characters
- Research and develop to a unique brief
- Create a stunning ballerina
- Craft a period drama female
- Paint Helen of Troy

Pin-up Girls
- Paint a racing-car driver
- Craft an army girl
- Render a steampunk character
- Illustrate a vintage-style girl
- Render a WW2 girl
- Paint a stylized scientist

Speed Painting Techniques
- Establish effective atmospheres
- Create a narrative illustration
- Improve your creativity
- Mythological Creatures
- Paint a Slavic spirit
- Create a Filipino witch
- Master the Greek Charybdis
- Craft a Chinese monster

Matte Painting Techniques
- Create a simple set extension
- Integrate a 3D element
- Alter the atmosphere

Environments
- Create a tsunami scene
- Create a post-earthquake city
- Craft a swampy settlement
- Paint a fantasy forest

It's another great book for honing your digital painting skills, just like all the earlier volumes.

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