Digital painting techniques / [compiled by the 3DTotal.com team ; Tom Greenway, managing director]

Includes index.

Custom brushes : Organic custom brushes from ink, water and salt experiments / Brian Recktenwald ; How to create brushes from animal textures / Carlos Cabrera ; Custom brushes / Daarken ; Creating custom brushes to save time / Marc Brunet ; Custom brushes for skin / Mélanie Delon ; Creating a brush from scratch in Photoshop / Mike Corriero -- Speed painting : Tornado moving towards farmhouse / Carlos Cabrera ; Steam-powered mechanical destroyer / Daniel Ljunggren ; Alien hot air balloons / Emrah Elmasli ; Forest fire; Ship hit by torpedo / Levente Peterffy ; Alien hot air balloons / Nathaniel West ; Once a thriving city, now deserted and taken over by vegetation / Serg Souleiman -- Matte painting : The making of "Renaissance" / Marco Bauriedel ; The making of "Finding unknown Kadath" / Sergey Musin ; Season change: a winter scene matte painting; Pyrotechnics: fire and smoke; Matte painting tips and tricks / Tiberius Viris -- Creatures : The making of "Bird catcher" / Matt Dixon ; Creature concept design 101 / Mike Corriero ; Creature design for low atmospheric conditions / Pascal Raimbault ; Painting fur / Richard Tilbury ; Painting animal eyes / Stephanie R. Loftis -- Humans : How to paint blonde and red hair; How to paint luscious lips / Anne Pogoda ; Male portrait / Daarken ; Painting realistic skin / Emrah Elmasli ; The human face / Nykolai Aleksander ; Painting the human eye / Richard Tilbury -- Environments : Sandstorm; Twister; Rainstorm; Snowstorm; Heat waves / Carlos Cabrera ; "Another rainy day": painting a cityscape / Daarken ; Painting a water surface/waves / Richard Tilbury -- Sci-Fi & fantasy : Painting armor: European knights / Daarken ; Planets and starfields / Chee Ming Wong ; The making of "Pier duty" / Graven Tung -- Complete projects : The making of "Funfair" / Daniela Uhlig ; Creating a 2D image from scratch / David Revoy ; The making of "Keep a sharp eye" / Ron Crabb -- The gallery.