Sources of Inspiration for Digital Artists and Creativity
50Sources of inspiration for digital artists and traditional canvas artists are easy to find these days. Great sources of inspiration are harder to come by. One such expert source is Exotique and Expose published by Ballistic Publishing.
The most beautiful and finely crafted digital illustrations are created and archived within the pages of Exotique and Expose. The book is an exquiste source of inspiration for digital artists and creativity. The beautiful digital illustrations in each page tells a story on its own. The latest additons to the Exotique and Expose series are Exotique 5 and Expose 7. Expose 8 is accepting digital artists submissions.
Exotique and Expose Series by Ballistic Publishing
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Other sources of inspiration for the science fiction digital artist or medieval fantasy artist include magazines, and notably the ImagineFX magazine. Each issue of ImagineFX is a compliation of the finest digital illustrations of some of the masters of Planet Earth. In one of the issues -- January 2010 the robots issue, that issue showcased 25 steps to building better robots by Christian Alzmann, whose work has been featured in scence of Star Wars: Attack of the clones, Van Helsing and Men in Black II. Questions and Answers session in each issue address various problems of beginner and amateur digital illustrators. Reviews on various software programs for digital illustration are placed near the end of each issue. Missed your favourite issue, well, back issues are readily availble. Imagine FX has also published a book for teaching readers to paint digital fantasy characters. A valuable resource and inspirational tool indeed.
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Other sources of inspiration include digital art, fantasy art, science ficition art social networking and other sites. ImagineFX's site allows artists to display their galleries. Other sites to browse occasionally include art gallery sites and miscellanous blogs like www.digitalpaintingcanvasart.com. Youtube videos are especially helpful too in providing inspiration and teaching on digital illustrations.
