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Art Fundamentals 2nd edition

Art Fundamentals 2nd edition

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Even more expert advice, key techniques, and illuminating artwork upgrades 3dtotal’s bestselling Art Fundamentals, the cornerstone of every artist’s bookshelf.

Whether you work in a traditional or digital medium, understanding the foundations of art itself is essential for engaging and confident results. Real-world rules make concept art so much more believable, while a clear comprehension of time-honored principles can elevate a classic subject to new levels of accomplishment.

This must-have, updated edition of Art Fundamentals is written and illustrated by experts from a range of creative backgrounds. It demystifies the crucial elements of art, while specially selected artwork details how the fundamentals have been cleverly applied to the canvas by incredible professional artists.

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Art Fundamentals 2nd Edition is a fully revised and updated back-to-basics title, packed with the fundamental concepts, conventions, and theory you need to create successful work.

This essential book is written by industry experts who thoroughly address key basics including color and light, composition, anatomy, perspective, and depth, in a series of insightful and visually demonstrative chapters. As well as being the perfect introduction for newcomers, Art Fundamentals 2nd Edition also offers experienced artists the chance to brush up on theory and discover new tricks and techniques to advance even further.

Richly illustrated throughout for optimal learning, each section of the book is specifically designed to guide you through the essential yet often challenging elements that make up the foundations of art, no matter which medium or technique you use. As fascinating and illuminating as it is practical and essential, Art Fundamentals 2nd Edition contains the foundations of art, presented, taught, and completely demystified for today’s artist.

- Keep this high-quality resource by your side, whether you are a beginner looking for a one-stop shop, or an experienced artist brushing up on your theory and techniques
- Learn from some of the most talented professional artists working in the art and entertainment industries, who share advice, insights, and methods from their areas of expertise
- See the principles in action, with works in progress, specially commissioned diagrams, and insightful “Fundamentals Applied...” case studies

Product details
Softback 288 pages
Dimensions: 297mm x 210mm
Paper quality: Full colour premium paper pages
ISBN:978-1-912843-07-7

Contents and contributors

INTRODUCTION

LIGHT & SHAPE

By Sean Layh & Gilles Beloeil

• Art history: light in time

• The language of light

• Lighting shape


COLOR

By Sean Layh & Gilles Beloeil

• Art history: a color primer

• Hue, saturation & value

• Color harmony

• Combining color & light


COMPOSITION

By Andrei Riabovitchev & Dave Santillanes

• Compositional tools

• Compositional devices

• Enhancing compositions

• Planning compositions

• Your subjective opinion


PERSPECTIVE & DEPTH

By Roberto F. Castro & Dave Santillanes

• Art history: the past in perspective

• Perspective

• Depth


ANATOMY

By Matt Smith, Mario Anger, Sylwia Bomba & Rita Foster

• The head

• Expressions

• The torso

• The arm

• The hand

• The leg

• The foot


GLOSSARY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

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Svava

3D Total Publishing truly has an impressive book collection. I didn't know one could get love bombed by books but it really happened to me, cross my heart and hope to die!

Their collections have outstanding quality, not only in reference to content, layout and design but also in the physical quality of the books themselves.

I find their content to be spot on and relevant to art today, as a multi layered medium that ties together hands on craftsmanship with the complexity of high level digital artistry. The books are rich in the “know how” and give a pallet of styles from a collection of professional artists.

I was surprised by the level of detail around their products, many books included a complimentary high quality print of the artist work, and some books were autographed by the artist themselves. What a treat!

Their customer service is impeccable and personal. I was really aware that there is a human on the other side, funny how the absence of AI can make a human feel valued.

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Dilara

Great book, also a great guide to sharpen fundamental skills. Definitely recommend it.

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Richard
Bulk teaching

Each chapter shows in great detail how easy it is to learn art, what is missing is the passion, the desire to learn and practice more, there are many ways to develop in art.

Excellent!

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Clarissa
Never go to Art school!

Instead just buy this book!
It is sectioned in "color" "light" "composition" "anatomy" and after you have read it, you will never need any other artbook again! Okay maybe for anatomy and faces, although that part is very detailed and well explained.

In the book you will first learn about the subject and then there are paintings where it's shown, how to use the knowledge and how it is applied on those pictures! Which is VERY HELPFUL and I have never seen that done in any other artbooks!

Anyway, definetly a recomendation!

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Julie
Extremely Useful

As someone who struggled quite a lot in art before to finally accept that I needed to know the fundamentals to be good at drawing, this book saved my career.It is well explained, and with training on the side, is a really wonderful way to understand the core of drawing and painting !I recommand this book to everyone I know who wants to learn the fundamentals all the time.(In general, I recommand highly every book on 3DTotal, this site is one of the best thing I encounter in my art journey)The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because, as english isn't my mother tong, some part needed quite an amount of translation because of the advanced vocabulary - but appart from that it's really great!

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