background preloader

Step by step

Facebook Twitter

Tutorials. One day, on my way to work I decided to make a small detour on my way to the subway and took a walk through one of Lisbon's most charismatic parks. It was a cold February morning, no one was in sight and the sound of morning traffic was subdued by the trees. I was immersed into a natural environment and it almost seemed magical. Suddenly, I passed by some trees that really caught my attention ( image 1 ). They somehow resembled groping hands and with their scale, they looked threatening. I believe it is my love for fantasy that made me see the tree like that and not as mere tree.

Several days later I went back and took some photos of these trees and so started the painting "Fresh Meat". Fig. 01 At the time I still wasn't sure what I wanted to portray. My initial sketches were done on plain A4 photocopy paper and they were quite small. Fig. 02 Fig. 03 Fig. 04 next page > Untitled Document. How I See Color - A Tutorial by =purplekecleon on deviantART. Comictutorial.jpg (JPEG Image, 1200x7600 pixels) A Beginner's Guide to Painting with Photoshop | Digital Image Magazine. 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. 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. 6. Painting a Landscape. Here a small tutorial which will enable you to paint in Photoshop a basic landscape which could be thereafter detailed. The tools essential with its realization will be the brushes and their settings. In a new document, whose size is 1900 X 900 pixels we will first paint the sky. If you have difficulty in choosing your color of sky or your range, then you can take the help of a photograph. If in spite of a photograph you do not get the desired result, it should be said that during morning and evening sky changes the colors very quickly because of sun. Sky - On two separate layers, paints with a hard brush - a blue color and a yellow color with orange tint on other.

Then apply a Gaussian blur for blending both the colors and also remove the between line. It should be known everything on distant is contrasted much less than what is in the foreground. Whitenoise » Blog Archive » Digital Painting tutorial – Jean Grey Phoenix. This is probably the longest post that I have ever posted, and by probably I mean it is. Anyway this tutorial was originally supposed to be published in SKETCH! Magazine. I was contacted to do a tutorial so I put this together but for some reason it was left on the shelf at SKETCH! And never published. But hey that doesn’t mean I can’t share it now so here it is! Hey if anything you may learn what not to do. Programs such as Photoshop and Painter offer a whole new world of tools for artists to explore. I find too often that people are afraid to simply commit when painting digitally. Before we begin, I should mention that this tutorial was created using Photoshop CS2 and assumes you have an intermediate understanding of the program.

Ok enough of the tech talk and introduction let’s get to work. Step 1 the line art and preparation First things first, I suggest always starting off with a tight drawing. The initial wash done with a multiply layer A blank white canvas can be a scary thing. Making of Yuka. Introduction After receiving some positive feedback to my last work “yuka” I decided to write a detailed tutorial about creating process.

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. Painting Jake Sully Avatar. When I saw the James Cameron 'Avatar' movie for the first time I was very surprised. I've seen it 2 more times. The visual effects are amazing. So I decide to pay a small tribute and began to make a fan art of its protagonist, Jake Sully. Step 1 - This time I started doing two pencil drawings on paper. Step 2 - To have a complete understanding of the color, I filled with flat colors on a Photoshop layer in multiply mode on the top of the drawing. Step 3 - Once I was clear about the color palette, I began to paint the background in a fairly 'traditional' way. Digital Painting Tutorial by `Dianae on deviantART. Min Hyo Rin step by step by *zamboze on deviantART. 3D Cartoon Painting Tutorial.