The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book

With this book, the artist and author Cher Threinen-Pendarvis "offers real-life projects and artwork-in-progress to show readers how to use Photoshop and Painter with pressure-senstive tablets for beautiful results. Walking readers step-by-step through a variety of projects exploring different uses of digital tools, she demonstrates important drawing, composition, and conceptual processes. Among many valuable concepts and techniques, you'll learn how to: create tonal, gestural, and contour drawings with a pressure-senstivie tablet and stylus ; translate traditional color theory into digital color tools ; simulate canvas and paper , create mixed media, and much more ; set up your ideal studio environment, work with a tablet and stylus, use brushes and paint in Painter and Photoshop, and combine all of these tools to create and enhance the reader's own artistic expression ; companion web site includes sketches and brushes for the exercises, plus additional materials to keep the book up-to-date." - back cover.