Welcome to the 19th issue of 2DArtist Magazine. This month we have some special treats for you… We caught up with our old friends, Imaginary Friends Studios (originally featured in Issue 001), who have kindly given us 3 copies of their fantastic new book, “Imaginary: Prime: The Art of Imaginary Friends Studios” - for 3 lucky readers!!! These books arrived in our studio this very morning, and greatly impressed us all, so much so in fact that we don’t really want to give them away, now (boo!). The 3 winners of this book will receive 246 pages of full-colour “Imaginary Goodness”! Enter the competition on page 129 for your chance to win a copy, and don’t miss the interview with them on page 46 to discover just how IFS has grown in the last 19 months (just check out their studios and all those toys! Wow!!). We are also pleased to welcome Melanie Delon back this month, who teaches us all how to create the custom brushes that she uses to paint the skin in her beautiful masterpieces – you really won’t want to miss that one! After learning a few tricks of the trade from Melanie on how to paint skin, then why not move on to Anne Pogoda’s tutorial on how to paint hair?! You won’t have any excuses not to paint after these two great tutorials help you with everything you need to know to get started – so get painting! You never know, we might even be contacting you soon to create a tutorial/making of for us, or to feature your work in our Galleries ;). We also welcome this month the start of a new series of tutorials on Using 3D as a Starting Point for a Digital Painting, by Richard Tilbury. So turn to page 99 to get cracking with that one, and make sure you follow the rest of the series in our future issues to get the most out of Rich and his talents. Our Speed Paintings this month are simply great, and show two very different approaches and end results to the same theme: Destroyed City. As always, our speed painting artists talk you through their painting processes, so why not try one for yourself? You should be able to achieve some pretty impressive results after learning from our artists, this month! I would also like to quickly thank those of you who wrote in after last month’s ‘plea for help’. We really do appreciate your support and hope that the message will continue to spread far and wide that, in order to keep 2DArtist magazine very much alive, the illegal copying and redistribution of our magazines (whether from friends, co-workers, or dodgy websites) has to stop!! We can’t stress this enough, and we hope that you will spread the word for us and help us to keep 2DArtist going for as long as possible. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I hope you enjoy this issue! Lynette, Zoo Publishing
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