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
Websites:
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?
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
Figure Drawing
Publishers
Composition
Magazines
Reference sites
Environments
- Royality Free Reference Photos
- Terra Galleria
- Matte Paint Reference – Flickr
- Environment Reference – Flickr
Vehicles
Figure Drawing
Brushes
Learning and Inspirational
- Bobby Chiu motivational video
- Feng Zhu YouTube Channel
- Learn Squared
- Digital Arts and Entertainment
- Level Up!
Blogs
Plugins Photoshop
Drawing / Painting Software
3d Software:
Patterns
- My custom patterns (.RAR file download)
This section is always under construction. The last update was on 7 August 2020.
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.