Painting with Pixels: How to Draw with Your Computer

By Alistair Dabbs

Book Overview

Put away the paintbrush...and make paintings with state-of-the-art techniques! No matter which software you use, you can build a digital studio, become knowledgeable about a range of tools, and recreate almost any traditional medium. Find out exactly what digital art is, how pixels work, the importance of image resolution, and what professional artists have accomplished with the technology. Select components and peripheral devices, including essential removable media, programs, and plug-ins, and get shopping tips. Import and prepare scanned images with different backgrounds and textures, including equivalents of watercolor paper, canvas, or wood. Imitate pen, ink and markers, pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, pastels, oil pastels, watercolors, oil plants, acrylics, and airbrushes. Add plug-ins to achieve frottage, stippling, sgraffito, and other effects. Hands-on tutorials for six projects cover a good selection of media and subjects. Plus: technical facts on graphics files and advice on getting artwork printed out professionally. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806968249
• ISBN13: 9780806968247
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

An invaluable tool for digital image-making

I am a high school graphic arts teacher, and am always looking for resources to help bring the most accurate and up-to-date information to my students. This book was an incredible find!! It contains very basic yet crucial foundational information regarding the creation of digital artwork. It features a chapter on building a studio, which includes everything you need to know about your computer and peripherals. It also includes several chapters of ideas on everything from preparing scanned images to understanding computer color theory to creating interesting effects in your images to explaining all the different file formats available. This book is a gem - I would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a user-friendly resource that explains the process of creating digital images in terms that just about anyone can understand.

Practical amd Informative

Painting With Pixels serves not only as an excellent resource for computer graphic design but, provides a practical and user friendly layout as well. The book helps the reader create stunning imagery in a variety of contemporary styles by following very simple straight forward steps. Glen Wilkins utilizes today's most cutting edge technology in the industry including, illustrator, corel draw and photoshop to name a few.If you find yourself addicted to the manipulation of visual imagery, Painting With Pixels is a great source for new ideas and techniques as well as hours of fun!Graphic Artist- Kensington, MD

A great book for beginers and intermediate digital painters

I picked Glen's book at the public library and simply loved it. It is a great book that showcases different techniques. I also liked the fact it does not restrict itself to the high end software, but also shows examples using Dabbler (the best value for the money). It is a good book both as a first time reading and a reference book. :-)