Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Digital Illustration - A Masterclass in Creative Image-making instructs the reader, through detailed, step-by-step tutorials, in the skills and techniques used by the masters of digital image-making.With the growth of computer arts, designers are now using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash as much as QuarkXPress. These designers are combining handcrafting skills with modern techniques to produce a fresh creative aesthetic. Digital Illustration reveals the secrets of the industry's most successful creatives who transfer traditional illustrative skills into digital dimensions, producing the highest quality, most commercially successful animation, three-dimensional and vector-based illustration. This book offers a master class for students and professional designers and illustrators who want to take their work beyond the constraints of two-dimensions and to gain greater commercial success.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 6)
• Section 1 Working Process (p. 15)
• 1 Underground Influences (p. 16)
• Profile: Ian Wright (p. 27)
• Profile: Michael Gillette (p. 30)
• Profile: Jasper Goodall (p. 33)
• Tutorial 1 New (p. 36)
• 2 Mixing Media & Techniques (p. 40)
• Profile: Paul Davis (p. 51)
• Profile: Marion Deuchars (p. 54)
• Profile: Shonagh Rae (p. 57)
• Tutorial 2 Steve Wilson (p. 60)
• 3 Revival, Appropriation, and Reuse (p. 64)
• Profile: Anthony Burrill (p. 75)
• Profile: Brett Ryder (p. 78)
• Profile: Seijiro Kubo (p. 81)
• Tutorial 3 Paul Burgess (p. 84)
• 4 The Power of the Drawn Mark (p. 88)
• Profile: Kam Tang (p. 99)
• Profile: Spencer Wilson (p. 102)
• Profile: Laurie Rosenwald (p. 105)
• Tutorial 4 ilovedust (p. 108)
• 5 Photo Graphic Image-Making (p. 112)
• Profile: Joe Magee (p. 123)
• Profile: McFaul (p. 126)
• Profile: Josh Gosfield (p. 129)
• Tutorial 5 McFaul (p. 132)
• Section 2 Professional Practice (p. 137)
• 1 A Killer Portfolio (p. 138)
• 2 The Art of Self-Promotion (p. 139)
• 3 Identifying Clients, Making Contacts (and keeping them) (p. 140)
• 4 The Commission: The Low-Down (p. 141)
• 5 Studio and Office Tips (p. 142)
• 6 Perspiration vs Inspiration (p. 143)
• 7 Agents-To Have or to Have Not (p. 144)
• 8 Getting that Full-Time Job (p. 144)
• 9 Good Habits (p. 145)
• Studio Profile: Vault49 (p. 146)
• Studio Profile: Peepshow (p. 150)
• Studio Profile: NEW (p. 154)
• Studio Profile: Faile (p. 158)
• Studio Profile: laVista (p. 162)
• Studio Profile: ilovedust (p. 166)
• Contact Details (p. 170)
• Index (p. 172)
• Acknowledgments (p. 176)