Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters Book

It's not one of those books, that teach you about human body proportions, how to draw proper perspective and other basic stuff. 95% of books on this subject that I've seen do just that, it gets annoying after a while.

This is a book for advanced artists who already have relevant skill and knowledge, and who want to switch from traditional to digital painting. Also for people who have some experience in digital painting, but want to know more tricks and how-tos.

Basically it's a compilation of advanced tutorials (mostly for Photoshop, but there are also some for Corel Painter and other graphic software) by many different authors, who teach you about certain techniques (painting a human body, a city, an illustration, a science fiction scene etc) step by step (with relevant illustrations). It begins with a very useful chapter about making your own custom brushes, which can imitate real life brushes, and then there are further 200+ pages of highly useful and awesome stuff. Having many different authors in one book is also good, it reminds you that there is no One True Way of doing something, but that in some cases there are different approaches and they're all equally valid.

Having read this book I'm already doing better at my digital painting, and I'm sure I'll be going back to most of these tutorials in the future. Highly recommended.