Good books for fantasy art backgrounds?

[FlashGameMaker]

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!

[steve.ledger]

Welcome to TG Forums,

Have you tried here?

► http://tinyurl.com/yfx3jt4

[FlashGameMaker]

Welcome to TG Forums,

Have you tried here?

► http://tinyurl.com/yfx3jt4

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.

[handrawn]

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...

[Magnatude]

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.

[handrawn]

yep agree

deviantart.com might be worth a look too..

[igornevsky]

Better look for an artist... Example fantasy art gallery of fantasy artist.

[pauland]

Maybe this kind of thing..

http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/b...atte_painting/

and

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/sto...Matte-Painting

[Big Frank]

Look at some of Boris Vallejo's work