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For practising artists in all media, this comprehensive guide aims to cut down on the frustrating trial and error element of colour mixing. It gives a basic palette for each medium, showing up to four-colour mixes. It also explains the properties of different paints and pigments.
This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques. It features over 50 specially selected colours that, when used together with a basic palette, afford the artist more than 1000 mixing options. Each is shown as a pure mixture straight from the palette as well as with added white to produce a vast number of tint variations. The special colours are also demonstrated as glazes over the 18 standard palette colours, giving another 1000 options. It provides up-to-date information on colour-fast and environmentally-friendly pigments. Inspirational examples show how to use a wide range of colour mixes to great effect.
This book helps artists understand how to mix colours in different mediums and how colour can help to develop their work. Artworks illustrate how to put theory into practice and it is suitable for beginners or professional artists.
The authors provide a visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects. This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques. Each is shown as a variegated mix straight from the palette as well as with wet-on-wet additions of the paper.
"The Colour Bible is one to return to again and again." - Elephant "This definitive guide...will no doubt inform many future colour choices." - House & Garden An essential source for graphic designers, artists, interior designers, fashion designers, illustrators and creatives of any kind who work with colour. Colour is intrinsic to the human experience; it guides us with subconscious visual cues throughout our lives. Get it right in your design or art and you can enhance mood and atmosphere, and create a desired psychological or even physiological effect. The Colour Bible is a contemporary handbook for navigating this fascinating world of colour. It dives into 100 profiles of significant colours and tracks them through their genesis, historical usage in art and design, and contemporary connotations and uses. - A potted history of each colour - Key colour associations from around the world - Contemporary connotations and brand design - Practical advice on how to use and combine colours in your work
Composition for the 21st 1⁄2 century: Image-Making for Animation focuses on composition and its technical and artistic application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers all aspects of design and discusses in detail their artistic applicability and impact on image and narrative. Emphasis is placed on the ability of each aspect to support and affect the narrative. Additional case studies explain the successful use of these concepts in films and animation. This book is geared toward students; however, it is also reader-friendly for professionals. Composition for the 21st 1⁄2 century: Image-Making for Animation’s goal is to comprehend composition as an artistic tool and as a significant part of the professional image-making process. Key Features: Teaches the complexity of composition in image-making. Closes the gap between praxis and theory in animation. Explains how to produce images that support the narrative in their visuals. Discusses the need for artistic reasoning in image-making. Presents case studies that assist the reader in understanding the process as they progress through this book. Author Bio: For more than twenty years, Thomas Paul Thesen’s career has been about learning and understanding the complexities of art, animation, and image-making, both in still illustration, drawing, and photography, and in the moving image. He has worked in the industry as a character animator and visual development artist for companies such as Pixar, DreamWorks, and Sprite Animation Studios. He has also taught for many years at universities across Asia, the USA, and the UK.
The bestselling, comprehensive reference on Photoshop, fully updated to CS5. Photoshop is the gold standard for image-editing programs and is used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as hobbyists. More than 300,000 copies of this comprehensive reference have been sold in previous editions; this edition is fully updated to cover Photoshop CS5’s newest features and includes a 16-page full-color insert. Photoshop is the industry standard for image-editing software used in both print and digital media, with more than four million users worldwide This comprehensive guide covers beginning to advanced techniques, from learning your way around the windows and tools to working with Camera Raw images Covers retouching, color correcting, manipulating, and combining images; working with the File Browser, histogram palette, Lens Blur, and the color replacement tool; customizable keyboard shortcuts; how to create cutting-edge special effects for digital or film-based images, and much more This revised edition of Photoshop Bible is the reference tool that graphic designers, photographers, and Web designers will refer to many times over.
