It's been a great month at Cubebrush albeit busy! We announced the WORLDS competition, improved product description capabilities and released licenses. Among the updates and announcements there have been some awesome tutorials making waves within our community. Here are the top tutorials in May!

1. Creating 3D Objects from Images

This free e-book by Travis Davids aims at teaching you general theory, tips and tricks, troubleshooting and hopefully get you ready to start playing around with photogrammetry - the art of creating 3D assets out of photos.

Travis includes tons of images of real world examples of objects to help guide you with the process. If you've always wondered what photogrammetry is about and how you can start creating awesome 3D assets to sell using the camera on your smartphone, this is the introduction tutorial you've been looking for.

2. Complete Guide to a Concept Art Career

The Complete Guide to a Concept Art Career by Marc Brunet is one of those resources everybody who considers a career as a concept artist should own.

The course aims at covering everything from what the job is, how it's done and how to actually get hired. The artist takes his 10 years in the art/entertainment industry and summarizes it for the viewer, giving away an incredible amount of knowledge in this 8 hour course. Here's an overview of all the content covered in the $54 Complete Guide to a Concept Art Career:

• Chapter 1 - What is a Concept Artist? / Day in the Life
• Chapter 2 - Starting the project / Art Industry
• Chapter 3 - Designing a new race / Typical AAA studio pipeline
• Chapter 4 - Designing armor sets / My career path Part 1
• Chapter 5 - Color & Armor set variants / My career path Part 2
• Chapter 6 - Upgraded version of the armor set / How to get noticed
• Chapter 7 - Creating portfolio pieces / Growing your online presence / Job interview

If there was one tutorial to make art school for concept art irrelevant, that's what I wanted this one to be!

3. Making Nissa

Clint Cearley is likely mostly known for the work he's done on numerous occasions for the legendary trading card game Magic: The Gathering. His new tutorial covers the process of creating the actual art for the card Nissa, Vital Force.

Starting from the project brief sent by his client Wizard of the Coast, he goes over every step from sketches to coloring and all the way to the finished product along with required revisions. This gives us a fascinating insider's look into the process freelancers go through wen they create the gorgeous art the cards are known for. The entire pack consisting of all the chapters and extras costs $14.

4. Workflow

There are very few artists that are universally admired for their very distinct style; Nurzhan Bekkaliyev is definitely one of them. The master of stylized figures and ambient occlusion shading has been painting eye-candy for years, and now we finally get to see him at work!

In his first ever video tutorial pack, you get to watch him create 3 different characters from start to finish. He also includes his PSDs and brushes, giving you access to the exact same tools he uses to create his masterpieces. What's best, you can grab the pack for $5 - cheaper than a fast food meal!

5. Figure Drawing Foundations | Proportions

"Figure Drawing Foundations | Proportions" is a laser focused volume of Comic Art training created specifically to give you the ability to draw your Comic Book Characters in Proportion.

The ideas, techniques and tools you get to learn in this training package have been carefully developed and refined over years of learning, testing and experience. Your instructor, professional comic artist Clayton Barton, uses these techniques every day he sits down to draft out a new Comic Book Character. The $19.97 pack contains hours upon hours of content and should give you all the knowledge needed to achieve similar results.

My goal was to deliver 'the' guide to drawing your Comic Book Characters in Proportion. And I really do believe that I've created that for you here.