Combine real and digital brushes in this digital arts tutorial

Digital Arts, released a new tutorial on combining real and digital brushes to help improve an illustration. You can view it here. I personally like combining my techniques and it is a good read to see what Adi Gilbert's methods were.

Inspiration Cool Designs by Javier Gonzalez Pacheco

View some really cool designs by Javier Gonzalez Pacheco

A multilayered photoshop surreal portrait

Digital Arts Online has a tutorial from Rob Shields. Rob takes us through how he composited The Rose, his contribution to the Restoration phase, using a mixture of photographic and painted elements. He also explains how you can achieve more organic portraiture when you’re working digitally. The tutorial covers digital painting techniques and gives some advice on colour and composition, as well as different effects that will help to integrate your physical work into the digital world.

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InDesign Tutorial: Create an Interactive Magazine for the iPad

For this tutorial you’ll need InDesign CS5 or later, Photoshop, and the Mag+ plug-in. Publishing on a tablet device is in vogue now. This tutorial will get you up to speed with a workflow for creating iPad destined digital magazines. Learn how a popular fashion magazine is brought to fruition on the iPad and how you can do it with your own publication.

Read this tutorial here