Introduction

Goals

Welcome to the wonderful world of digital painting! This book is designed to empower you creatively and to help you stretch your artistic muscles. The goals of the instruction I share within these pages are two-fold:

1    to provide you with a sound and thorough technical foundation and deep understanding of the powerful tools of digital painting, such that the computer becomes invisible as you paint; and

2    to share with you an expressive, open and improvisational approach to making art that balances structure with spontaneity.

The mastery of media and tools involves getting to know, becoming familiar with, and understanding the behaviors, mechanics and capabilities of those tools, whether in the computer or not. I want ...

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