Resources

If you’re just starting out with drawing and digital painting and want to pursue a career in concept art or illustration, have a look at the following compact list of must-have books and must-visit websites. A more extended list can be viewed further down.

Books:

• Art Fundamentals: Color, Light, Composition, Anatomy, Perspective and Depth – 3dTotal Publishing
• Colour and Light – James Gurney
• Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist- James Gurney
• How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination – Scott Robertson
• Perspective Made Easy – Ernest R. Norling
• Figure drawing for all it’s worth – Andrew Loomis
• VISION: Colour and Composition for film – Hans P Bacher

• Ctrl+Paint – Digital Painting Simplified
• Feng Zhu Design videos on Youtube

Articles I posted on my blog:

• Design Principles in Concept Art and Design
• Visual Library: Why you can’t live without it
• Composition 101: What is composition?

• Improve your digital painting skills with photo-studies

 

Books

Art Fundamentals

• Art Fundamentals: Color, Light, Composition, Anatomy, Perspective and Depth – 3dTotal Publishing
• Colour and Light – James Gurney
• Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist- James Gurney
• How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination – Scott Robertson
• Perspective Made Easy – Ernest R. Norling
• Framed Perspective vol.1 – by Marcos Mateu-Mestre
• Framed Perspective vol.2 – by Marcos Mateu-Mestre

Environments

• Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes – Jack Hamm
• Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting – John F. Carlson
• Landscape Painting – Mitchell Albala

• The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting: Techniques for Rendering Sky, Terrain, Trees, and Water – Suzanne Brooker
  

Figure Drawing

• Figure drawing for all it’s worth – Andrew Loomis

Publishers

• Design Studio Press
• Ballistic Publishing

Composition

• Framed Ink – Marcos Mateu-Mestre

 

Magazines

• ImagineFx

 

Reference sites

Environments

• Royality Free Reference Photos
• Terra Galleria
• Matte Paint Reference – Flickr
• Environment Reference – Flickr

Vehicles

• Beautiful Warbirds

Figure Drawing

• Kevin Chen Demos
• Figure Drawing Practice
• How to Draw the Head and Face – YouTube

Brushes

• Digital Brushes

Learning and Inspirational

• Bobby Chiu motivational video
• Feng Zhu YouTube Channel
• Learn Squared
• Digital Arts and Entertainment
• Level Up!

Blogs

• Lines and Colors
• James Gurney Blog

 

Plugins Photoshop

• Color wheel

 

Drawing / Painting Software

• Procreate (Ipad App)
• Corel Painter
• ArtRage
• Rebelle

3d Software:

• Blender 2.8

Patterns

• My custom patterns (.RAR file download)
  

This section is updated regularly. The last update was on 23 March 2019.
Do you have any resources that you would like to share and add to this list? Please let me know and I’ll add them to the list.