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Digital painting tutorial illustration step by step. Digital painting tutorial illustration step by step.

Digital painting tutorial illustration step by step

This latest illustration painting is basically base on my previous life drawing from a model in live session. *see , gesture figure study from life drawing session.* It was a 10-15 minutes sketches, then I scan it into my computer and do a quick paint over in Photoshop. Since it has basic lighting and decent pose, the paint over turn out to be better looking than I actually expected.

After taking a couple more look at it, I thought since some the master illustrators back in the day use sketch as their base for their finish painting sometimes. And in this one, I already have a decent enough paint over of the female figure with interesting enough lighting. Here is a Huntress of the Amazon. tribute to frank frazetta by xia taptara Below is a similar Premium tutorial Below are step by step digital painting of the Huntress of Amazon. Digital illustration tutorial. Draw realistic liquids in vector art - Tutorials. Making of Yuka. Introduction After receiving some positive feedback to my last work “yuka” I decided to write a detailed tutorial about creating process.

Making of Yuka

My main goal was to create a painting which was really detailed. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to do it without a real photograph so I started to look for something that would interest me and make me want to spent a lot of hours painting it in photoshop. And I found a perfect picture on . I received a lot of e-mails saying that it's not a big deal to just paint something like this using a real photograph. Tools For this work I used Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Wacom Intuos 3 tablet. Preparation I had to decide with what resolution I want to work. Sketch I start with creating a sketch in order to define the shapes, which will be later filled in with colours . I like keeping everything simple so I will use these brush settings through the whole creating process. A Roundup of 20 Great Photo Manipulative Tutorials with Curious Effect. Digital Painting Steps - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial. Let's take a walkthrough of one of my digital paintings done in adobe photoshop.

Digital Painting Steps - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

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.

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. I like to block in color areas, getting a rough idea of the hues I want to use. 4. 5. Making of the Rest. This is a picture made only for fun and without references, using only my imagination, except in the flag on the jacket.

Making of the Rest

I have a classical training and my way of working with digital tools is very simple, because I always try to paint with Photoshop as I did with pencils or brushes on paper or canvas. Maybe my skills are not the much orthodox, even when I paint in traditional way, because I´m very instinctive and fast, with not spectacular technical resources, but for me it works.

Usually, I draw a first draft in a paper with a pencil, in traditional way. Then, I scan the sketch and I end the painting in Photoshop. In this case, the first sketch was made directly in a new white Photoshop document, of course, in a layer over the main surface. For to determine the different surfaces of the composition, first I create layers with those parts painted only with plain colours. Colouring in Photoshop by =Gold-Seven on deviantART.