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20 Great Tutorials for Digital Painting. Digital painting is a beautiful art that requires too much ability and discipline. I’m always amazed by the incredible talents we see on this area, so we have selected 20 tutorials for beginners and advanced painters. Enjoy and practice! Art tutorial Advertisemt Painting Hair Making of Seheiah Making of Leg So You Think Im Fat Do You? Red Assassin Nemo Concept Digital Painting in Photoshop Digital Painting Tutorial Wonder Woman Pin Up How to Draw a Portrait in Photoshop Making of Lida Making of Pandora Portrait Painting Tutorial Skin Painting Tutorial Digital Painting Tutorial Lip Painting Tutorial Painting Eye Painting Hair Painting Really Old People. Create a Painted Look Unicorn from Stock in Adobe Illustrator. In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to illustrate a unicorn using a stock reference of a horse as a base.

The final illustration has a painted style to aim to break away from the cell shaded look. Introduction If you’re active in any vector community which welcomes fan art, you may have been plagued with the uprise of My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic fan art. It’s not a bad thing, anything that introduces others into creating vector art can only be a good thing. I’m going to be using a stock image from Photodune, which you can get for as little as $1 USD. So let’s get cracking! Step 1 I’m going to start my New document how I usually do, by File > Placing my stock image on the canvas. Step 2 For sketching on top of the stock image, I’m going to be using the Blob Brush Tool (Shift + B). I’ve then sketched the concept in mind of having a unicorn in motion, with hair bursting out from the frame.

Step 3 Step 4 ...and that's the end of the preview! - StudioQube Painting Tutorial - Introduction The following painting tutorial was completed using Photoshop, and a Wacom Intuos 2 (6x8) tablet. This tutorial outlines one process that works well for me. It is certainly not the only method, nor is it one that will always work (some are more mechanical/technical in their approach, while others may be much more open and loose). Most importantly, the process is not meant to be followed step by step; instead, it can simply be used as a guideline. Roughs/Concept When working on the preliminary drawings (as well as the final) for my illustration, I use a Pilot Color Eno mechanical pencil (0.7 Soft Blue led). Once I finish sketching my thumbnails and roughs, I draw a series of small gestures to use as a base for the final image. Lineart 01 / Scanning I usually scan between 300 dpi - 600 dpi. 300 is generally sufficient, and used as a standard. 02 / Levels Go to: Image > Adjustments > Levels Dark arrow - controls darks Grey arrow - controls mids White arrow - controls lights Brushes.

Digital Painting Steps - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial. Let's take a walkthrough of one of my digital paintings done in adobe photoshop. The brushes and exact methods used throughout were not recorded but I will make general comments on each step if applicable. The original reference for this painting was a photo taken by Epoxy5. This tutorial assumes a comfortable level of proficiency with adobe photoshop and the brush settings, and a minimum Photoshop version of 7 or higher. I will try to include the keyboard shortcuts whenever possible but, GraphicJunkies has a great free download for all the common photoshop keyboard shortcuts. 1. Selecting your brush. Adobe Photoshop is a wonderful program with great advances in its brush engine. Open the Brushes Palette (F5) Opacity jitter should be set to pressure (only effective if you have a pressure sensitive tablet). 2. Using your reference photo, sketch the outline and important areas of your image with a small sized brush (B). 3. 4. 5. 6.

In this step I start to build the highlights. 7. 8. 9. 10.