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I found yesterday that hundreds of 2D Artist Magazine where uploaded to the Internet Archive, and I really enjoy browsing them for the quality tutorials, interviews and amazing artist portfolios. I thought some of you here might like it as well:
https://archive.org/details/2dartistmagazine

#archives #internetarchive #digitalpainting #MastoArt #computergraphics

A screenshot of the website Internet Archive with a sample of the covers of the magazine 2D Artists.
Nice find. Thanks for sharing.
Amaze!!! time for some inspiration!!
Thank you for sharing! 😁
Typing "Artbooks" also brought some amazing material.
@TamohaLeo 😮 Indeed! Thanks for the tip.

the first issue I clicked on has a capybara with a bandana. Say no more. 🙂‍↕️

Edit: it's the concept art issue

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we used to be able to buy these for between 50p and £2 at a market adjacent to my university, back in early 2000's; a few years before the earliest shown here.

Beautiful, but I never found the tutorials that instructive; I Checked the 2006 one they have for drawing rocks etc and found it to be accurate to memory.

Which editions tutorials was it you were referencing?

@lewiscowles1986 I probably browsed more than 20 in the last evenings: I can't really remember how to find the exact ones I have in memory back.
Sometime I find a sentence or a specific step surprising and fresh in the commented step by step of artworks (there is often 2 or 3). Like one where an artist use white gesso on black paper, scan it, to get his texture in 'screen' mode, later in his art. I made textures like that https://www.davidrevoy.com/article263/five-traditional-textures , but I never thought of gesso.
it might just be that I'm not the intended audience for it then. Which is fine.
What a wealth of information. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!!! Thats inspiring! I also liked Computer Arts when it used to be published on paper.
@darekpages Oh yes! Computer Art was great. I also remember the Blender Foundation had a subscription to 3D World while I we were working on the open movies Sintel. It was great to browse it during the breaks. It was also a blast to discover Sintel on the cover later https://durian.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/3dworldcover.png
I have the CA file tied with string to keep some semblance of order. They are valuable because they are inspiring, those were the times of paper newspapers. Even though Adobe was preferred. I wasnt that interested in 3D at the time. Only recently, I managed to learn the blender so much that I appreciated its properties and usefulness. Im even trying to make my own brushes for painting textures, just experimenting https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1xRd68