A few of the major art media publishers have new announcements and releases this week:

• Ballistic Publishing has announced the upcoming release of d’artiste Digital Painting 2, and is calling for artists to submit new entries for publication. The entry deadline is March 24th.
• The Gnomon Workshop has several new videos available of interest to the 2d illustrator: Speedpainting to Matte Painting by Sebastien Larroude, and Character Design Pipeline by Thierry Doizon (aka BARONTiERi).