Art Fundamentals - A book that actually teaches

3DTotal Publishing has always been known for publishing high-quality, sometimes high-price, books for learning different things about digital painting, drawing and art in general, and they have been very successful at what they are doing.

The book's cover, showcasing many different paintings or drawings.

"Art Fundamentals" is one of their books for beginners that want to learn to draw and paint. It covers fundamental topics such as colors, light, composition, perspective and depth, anatomy and displaying emotions on a painting.  It's cover consists of a compilation of paintings and drawings that showcase what one could do when he or she masters the fundamentals of art.

Every page has at least two paintings or drawings as examples of the techniques that are covered and the pictures have a very high quality due to the paper being very thick and good to print on, also making it very hard to be ripped. Of course, the articles being written by game and film artists, the pictures also consist of mainly Fantasy and Sci-Fi pictures.

The many articles in these 272 pages are written by experienced artists from the game and music inudstries such as Gilles Beloeil or Andrei Riabovitchev. The authors all have a very informative writing style and they write their articles in a way that even those with no knowledge at all about art understand everything they explain. The language they all write in is English, because the book is aimed at an international audience and not one country in particular.

Being written only by experienced artists, the credibility of every article in this book is very high and the reader can trust in what they read and also apply it to paintings or drawings of their own, even while still reading it, because the techniques explained are not only easy to understand and apply to the things that are used as examples but also to every other painting or drawing.

All in all, the book is a good example of how to teach someone something they have not tried before without talking to them in person. Chronologically, it is put together very well, starting with a topic that connects to the next one almost seamlessly.  It is suited for everyone, from total beginners to experienced artists that want to find inspiration and refresh their knowledge about art in general.

You can buy it for 49.00$ or your regional equivalent here.