Good books for fantasy art backgrounds?
Hi,
I'm a game designer, and I'm about to start a project that will require a lot of background scenes of countryside, cities etc (modern day), I will need to create these in photoshop (from scratch, not photographic) and I was wondering if there are any good books that cover creating scenes/backgrounds in photoshop?
thanks for any advice!
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Re: Good books for fantasy art backgrounds?
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Originally Posted by
sledger
Thanks, but I've done google searches and it mostly gives you photo re-touching tutorials, what I need is creating scenes from scratch, with no begining photographic image....I wondered if there were any books that covered that, there's plenty on creating characters but I can't find any on scenes/backgrounds.
Re: Good books for fantasy art backgrounds?
what do you mean 'from scratch' ?
take a look here:
http://speckyboy.com/2009/09/02/50-i...for-photoshop/
now this is probably as good as it gets - but photographic references are used nevertheless
if you don't want to use any kind of photographic reference, then you surely need to be able to draw from purely from imagination - can you do this? - this is quite seperate from what software you choose to use to implement it...
Re: Good books for fantasy art backgrounds?
If I were you....
best resource is youtube... you get a lot of artists delving into digital painting and showing their use with photoshop.
Massive Black videos are good to watch on there, a lot of their concept artists give a few secrets to their works.
Re: Good books for fantasy art backgrounds?
yep agree
deviantart.com might be worth a look too..
Re: Good books for fantasy art backgrounds?
Better look for an artist... Example fantasy art gallery of fantasy artist.
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Re: Good books for fantasy art backgrounds?
Look at some of Boris Vallejo's work