Gnomon

In this DVD, Stephen Platt covers how to create a fully penciled page from beginning to end. He begins with exploration in the thumbnail stage and enlarges the chosen rough thumbnail using a photocopier and lightbox. During the course of the demo, Stephen shows how he indicates change in form, graduated shadows, texture and mass, all while maintaining a dramatic graphic expression. In addition, he discusses industry conventions as well as advice on portfolios and earning a living in professional comics.

In this demonstration, legendary designer Syd Mead shares his techniques to create a finished illustration of a futuristic Airship. Image making requires the next step from mastering drawing skill and technique.

In this DVD, David Finch reveals his step-by-step process for drawing the human body. He starts with simple tube form shapes, and then covers the placement of muscle throughout both the male and female bodies. David demonstrates how to pose a simple tube form effectively, allowing you to block-in and draw a figure in perspective and in a variety of poses. He discusses balance, posture and presentation, emphasizing line weight and lighting.

In this DVD Keith Thompson reveals his process for taking a zombie creature concept from a thumbnail sketch to the finished drawing. Keith demonstrates each step, from idea development and creating the initial drawing using traditional media to scanning the drawing into the computer and then applying colored glazes in Adobe Photoshop®. Keith also explains how to maintain the essential gesture and feel of the thumbnail all the way through to the final concept art. The entire traditional media to digital process is also applied to a collection of extra views of the character. Keith explains how these alternate angles and a set of orthographic rotations are designed to help the 3D modeler.

In this DVD, David Finch reveals his step-by-step process for drawing the human head. He starts with a basic head shape and demonstrates the structural breakdown from multiple angles. He then focuses on the various features including eyes, noses, lips, ears, necks and hair. He discusses important landmarks, features and proportions. David brings it all together to draw a series of completed heads, from basic male and female heads to heroic examples.

A complete guide to creating production-ready digital clothing with Marvelous Designer
In the video, which lasts just under 10 hours, Liaw provides a complete guide to using Marvelous Designer in production, combining it with Maya and ZBrush to push the results to the next level.

In this DVD, Joe Benitez unveils the secrets of drawing alluring comic book style pin-up characters. Sex appeal and allure is conveyed through many methods including stylized proportions, foreshortening, twists and curves. The importance of facial expression is also discussed in the context of conveying the right mood or emotion, along how this ties the character together. Instructor for this title: Joe Benitez.

Lo «gnomone» di cui si parla in questo libro non è quello stilo, più o meno monumentale, la cui ombra indica l’ora solare, ma un semplice strumento matematico: una figura geometrica, piana o solida, che aggiunta a un’altra ne genera una simile. Questa tecnica, ampiamente diffusa nell’antichità, risponde all’esigenza di ingrandire o rimpicciolire una forma conservandone l’aspetto. E con ciò stesso pone una delle più alte e ardue questioni della matematica e del pensiero in genere: quella dell’invarianza nel mutamento. Tale principio risulta associato, in particolare nella tradizione vedica, a un patrimonio di norme rituali da cui potrebbe aver avuto origine la matematica stessa. Nei Greci, se scarseggiano i riferimenti rituali, non mancano legami con i problemi sollevati dall’etica, dalla cosmologia e dalla metafisica. Lo gnomone non aveva dunque importanza soltanto per la geometria..

With this DVD you will learn the step-by-step process of using Photoshop retouching techniques to transform and prepare images for production level commercial photography. Meghan Farrell will walk you through the steps of retouching a fashion shoot as a basis for learning the primary skill sets to make skin and hair look flawless without looking artificial.