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Comments The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book, by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis,
is a wonderful book for anyone interested in drawing, painting,
or illustrating using a computer. Cher’s extensive knowledge
of traditional and digital painting and illustrating is evident
as she guides the reader through the tools and options of Adobe
Photoshop and Corel Painter. She teaches the reader simple techniques
for customizing the brushes and pens to achieve beautiful results.
With an easy-to-follow style and detailed step-by-step instruction,
Cher provides valuable tips for improving the expressive quality
of hand-drawn art on the computer. With the never-ending advancement of technology, it is easy to forget just how nascent expressive painting on a computer actually is. As of this writing, desktop painting tools have been available less than 25 years; Photoshop and Painter are both now less than 16 years old. By necessity, instructional books for these applications have had to focus largely on the tools themselves, leaving little room for actual discussion of expressive technique. Thanks to Cher Pendarvis, this has changed. The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book is written with the assumption that Photoshop and Painter, coupled with a pressure-sensitive stylus and tablet, are expressive tools. From this proposition, Cher proceeds to offer the user tried-and-true exercises to coax our expressive self out of the shadows and into the bright light of the monitor. By applying traditional art techniques to digital tools, the resulting imagery is capable of expressing greater subtlety, as well as a more personal statement by the artist. Kudos to Cher for bringing time-honored expressive techniques to aspiring digital artists. In a world full of empty visual calories, The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book is a gourmet cookbook capable of propelling us to a greater personal expression." --John Derry, one of the original developers of Painter "Cher demystifies the process of seeing your subject and translating its form and color into line and brushwork--so that's how you do it! --Linnea Dayton, author of The Photoshop Wow! Book
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