In this second of three DVDs, J.P. takes you through the crucial middle-step of creating a black and white tonal underpainting. He discusses his techniques in detail while emphasizing composition, value and lighting. You will learn how J.P. uses Adobe Photoshop's painting and transformation tools to quickly detail his backgrounds with texture and pre-made original imagery. J.P. also shows how visually embellishing the characters and scene will help with the final color painting. Through this lecture you will get an insight into J.P.'s thought process as he journeys further into the world of the "Dark Riders" and continues to develop the characters, creatures and story in the illustration.

• Final drawing layout
  
• Importance of Tonal Paintings
  
• Value and Lighting
  
• Character and Creature Detailing and Storytelling
  
• Using Pre-Made Original Imagery
  
• Texture and Detail

1. Underdrawing Setup
2. The Central Rider
3. The Main Mount
4. Rider Two
5. Rider Two's Mount
6. Rider Three
7. Middle-Ground Humans
8. Humans Continued
9. Texturing
10. Background/Castle Painting
11. Finishing

• Product Code: JTA02
• ISBN: 1-59762-906-5
• UPC: 805366016586
• Duration: 189 minutes
• Formats: DVD-ROM

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J.P. Targete

Concept Artist/Illustrator

J.P. is an accomplished digital and traditional illustrator, concept artist and art director for books and video games. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and started working professionally at age twenty, illustrating book covers for Avon Books. Soon after, he got his big break and began illustrating sci-fi and fantasy book covers for Berkeley/Ace Books, Bantam Books and Warner Books. He continued to do work for Wizards of the Coast, The Science Fiction Book Club and many role playing game companies. With over 300 book covers, J.P.'s work has also been published in Spectrum and on collectable plates from the Bradford Exchange. In 2000 J.P. won the A.S.F.A. Chesley Award for best paperback book cover. After many years of illustrating he decided to try his hand at concept art and landed a job with NCsoft. That same year he became Art Director at NCsoft Santa Monica, where he worked on creatures and environments for games such as Tabula Rasa and Aion. He is currently freelancing for publishers and video game companies and is working on a full color graphic novel.