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Sunday, July 7th-Book Cover / Comic Book cover design by Drew Spence!

Our latest webinar on Book Cover / Comic Book cover design by Drew Spence! 3PM EST (New York) 8PM BST (London)
https://digitalartlive.com/…/how-to-create-compelling-book…/
Have you wondered…
•How to use book cover artwork for additional income?
•How do you instantly grab the attention of your readers?
•Which fonts work on a cover with your story genre?
•How different visual elements convey an instant story?
Drew Spence takes you through specific steps to create a compelling book cover. He’ll lead you through the process of crafting a story-telling cover image for your visual narratives. Drew professionally creates and publishes comic books every month so he has huge experience in capturing potential readers for their attention. As well as covering sci-fi, fantasy and action genres – he’ll also include a special mention on romance books and magazines!
In this webinar Drew will use DAZ Studio and Photoshop to craft the covers.
Webinar entry details to How to Create Compelling Book Covers | $45.00 | Webinar entry details to How to Create Compelling Book Covers. Registration includes HD webinar recording and any class materials offered by the presenter. |
FREE 2D Planets and Spacescapes
This is Drew Spence from the Dynamic Universe and I am presenting a free package of 2D planets and space scenes for your post work use. The resolution for the full scenes is 3840 X 2160. A much larger set is available in the post work series I presented for Digital Art Live magazine. It can be found in the Daz store under Digital Art Live.
https://www.daz3d.com/digital-kit-bashing–space-and-spaceships
This file and product is designed to enhance and be added to your own work. This package is for your use only. You may not include the original Products (or source files) in any distributed end products. You may not host these files or offer them as any direct distribution.
Postwork Podcast Demon Division The Energy Door

Postwork Podcast Demon Division The Energy Door
Drew Spence from The Dynamic Universe post works an image from the Demon Division comic series.
You can find the comic here
http://demondivision.thecomicseries.com/comics/first/
And find other webinars in the Daz store
https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-postwork-clinic
And live sessions from Digital Art Live events
https://digitalartlive.com/events/
and social media
https://www.facebook.com/TheDynamicUniverse/
Prime Postwork Solutions Workshop (17 MAR 2019 Sunday)

As a digital artist are you stuck on:-
- Arranging a scene?
- Getting good composition?
- Postwork challenges?
- Special effects with Photoshop?
- Portraying your visual story?
- Which filters to apply?
- Repairing a render?
This workshop is a scene, composition and postwork “clinic”. If you’re having trouble with any scene where you’re aiming to produce a polished book cover illustration, a product cover, a graphic novel panel, a character or a landscape based scene, we’ll provide expert advice on composition improvements, offer postwork tips and power up your story-telling artwork.
- Learn from Drew’s own case studies of actions, filters, lighting, composition techniques learned over the years
- Showcase your scenes/renders and gain professional feedback from Griffin (Drew Spence)
- Advice on virtual camera set ups, composition, framing, lighting and postwork.
- Solve your current challenges that you may have with postwork when using Photoshop
- Repairs and fixing flaws in the rendered image.
Join us in this workshop, led by Griffin Avid, a professional comic book artist who is a graduate of Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art and holds various certificates – from graphic arts to web design.
We’ll be using DAZ Studio and Photoshop to help you take your basic scene and render to a more professional and effective image. This workshop is about assisting you, so please bring along your renders (up to a maximum of 4 renders) ready to show from your desktop. You can also forward your renders to us ready for the webinar, by using our Hightail dropbox
Duration: About 1.5 hours.
– Fixes for repair and the many ways to save a “bad” render.
Learn options to save and salvage your work – without the time-consuming re-render option.
– Re-frame
Advice on re-positioning the camera and re-framing your work to capture the right mood and actions in a scene.
– Special Effects
Enhance the magic, sci-fi or action elements of your render. Learn some ways to create special effects in your Daz Studio interface and take the look to the next level in post. Includes mention of must-have products that will enable your renders to contain all the energy and power they deserve.
– Lighting Effects and Helpers
Step-up your renders with adjusting the lighting. Push your dramatic lighting to max in Daz and in post. We’ll break a few rules and create a set of options to push the boundaries of the iray engine. Includes some cheating to get around long rendering times.
DETAILS
Date:Sunday March 17Time:8:00 pm – 9:30 pmCost:$29Event Categories:Community Masterclass, Composition, DAZ Studio, Photoshop, PostworkEvent Tags:Challenge, Clinic, comic, graphic novel, Illustration, Postwork, Solution, Workshop
You can find other series that Drew Spence has created with Digital Art Live for purchase in the Daz Store. https://www.daz3d.com/digital-art-live You can take classes, watch tutorials and attend webinars and much more https://digitalartlive.com/events/