CATEGORIES

DESIGN A HOME OFFICE WITH VECTORWORKS

Vectorworks, Inc. shares how to embrace 3D modelling for home office design

CAVEWOMAN

This charming cavewoman sculpt was created for CGMA’s ‘Stylized Characters in 3D’ course with mentor Hannah Kang, and is based on a concept by illustrator, animator and video game concept artist Philippe G. Ramsay. 3D artist Camilla Scala spent the eight-week duration of the course working on the character.

Branch out with Houdini

Mojtaba Oriuee, creator of the Houdini plant growth toolkit GrowInfinite, answers our questions about the tool development process and his inspirations

BLUE ZOO: #2 DEVELOPING SHOWS AND UNIQUE LOOKS

Part two of our series on Blue Zoo looks at the art of developing animated shows and creating unique visuals

UPGRADE YOUR KIT

Take a step up, and unlock new image possibilities with the perfect kit

THE NEW YONGNUO 455 IS A CAMERA/SMARTPHONE HYBRID

Mirrorless model has phone-like specs including a 8MP secondary camera

AUDUBON SOCIETY REVEALS ITS BEST BIRD IMAGES OF 2021

Photo of roadrunner taking a sunset dust bath takes top spot in prestigious contest

MOTION-BLUR BACKGROUNDS

Jason Parnell-Brookes shows you how to capture blurred scenery outside a moving vehicle using a suction-mounted camera rig

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2021

Enhance your photos with AI-based Guided Edits and more conventional tools

How To... Create A Long-Exposure Effect

Edit a landscape image to add a sense of movement by blurring clouds

ZHIYUN WEEBILL 2 IS A GIMBAL WITH A FLIP-OUT TOUCHSCREEN

New model offers smart shooting modes plus a variety of accessories

PRISM PORTRAITS

Mike Harris shows you how to use an inexpensive glass prism and budget lens to add creative flare to portraits

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HOW TO...FOCUS-STACK FAST IN PHOTOSHOP

Discover how to combine a series of frames to create a single image that’s tack-sharp from front to back

How To Shoot Seascapes Like A Pro!

Head to the coast and unleash your creative side this summer, with James Abbott’s expert guide to seascape photography

Exhibitions

AUGUST’S BEST ART SHOWS

The Working Artist

After a particularly isolated year, our columnist LAURA BOSWELL is ready to collaborate – but establishing ground rules are important

Lucille Clerc

From her communal London studio, this French illustrator is exploring the interaction between urbanisation and nature – and wants to take us along for the ride, as REBECCA BRADBURY discovers

Fresh Paint

Inspiring new artworks, straight off the easel

BEECH TREE in Pencil

Drawing a colourful subject in graphite shouldn’t be viewed as a challenge, says DENIS JOHN-NAYLOR, but rather a welcome opportunity to use a little artistic license

Claude Monet

Lockdown has made the Impressionist’s series paintings more relevant than ever, says STEVE PILL, who has enlisted leading artists to find out how they were done

Dame - Paula Rego

Ahead of a landmark retrospective of the Portuguese-British artist’s work, MARTHA ALEXANDER speaks to curator Elena Crippa to get an insight into seven decades of fairytale, fear and freedom

Busy COMPOSITIONS

Instead of tackling a standard wildlife portrait, HASHIM AKIB shows how a more complicated grouping of animals offers the chance for a more painterly approach

Added Value

SIÂN DUDLEY shares tips for creating stronger, richer dark tones in watercolour

12 Ways To Wondrous Wildlife Art

Four leading wildlife artists – Laura Hardie, Natalie Öberg, Maria Popma and Amber Tyldesley – share a dozen expert tricks for improving your work in minutes

GLOW-IN-THE-DARK FLOWERS

James Paterson shows you how to capture psychedelic images of fluorescent flowers and plants using ultraviolet light

SIGMA 85MM F/1.4 DG DN ART

A sharp portrait lens that’s made for mirrorless

STUNNING BIG CAT IMAGES WITH A SERIOUS MESSAGE

Exhibition highlights growing plight of captivating but endangered animals

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The Z FC Is A Mirrorless Blast From Nikon's Past

New retro-styled camera takes inspiration from Nikon’s classic FM2 SLR