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Digital Painting Tutorials for Concept Artists & Illustrators

Digital Painting Tutorials for Concept Artists & Illustrators
Email Most digital painting tutorials are all about the “digital” and not at all about the “painting.” They tell you which button to click and demonstrate cool, digital tricks but they don’t help you create believable worlds and characters. “Digital” is just a synonym for “convenience.” The power is in the painting. Concept artists and illustrators want to create worlds and characters, tell stories with pictures, find meaning in ideas, and make emotional connections with an audience. To be fair, this page could really benefit from a little more “step-by-step.” …so I’m working on that. But for now, if you’re looking for something deeper, more personal and challenging, then you’ve come to the right place. The Hudson River Painters Vs. This is the most unique (and the most epic) tutorial I’ve ever recorded. With an in-depth look at the work of The Hudson River Painters, we discover some ancient techniques that can really enhance the emotional impact when applied to our digital paintings.

How to Color Inked Line Art in Photoshop In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going give you a general overview of how I digitally color an illustration. We’ll go over scanning, cleaning, flatting, coloring, rendering, and texturing techniques. There’s just as many ways to coloring a drawing digitally as there is to painting a picture. This tutorial won’t focus on any specific way to blend or choose colors; we’ll assume you have knowledge of the basics. Preview Click the image below to see it in full size. Step 1: Scanning Your Inks In this tutorial, I’m going to use my own illustration. Make sure you are scanning in black and white. Step 2: Isolating the Line Art Now that we have our image scanned, open it in Adobe Photoshop. Press Ctrl/Cmd + Alt/Option + 2 (for Photoshop CS4 and up) or Ctrl/Cmd + Alt/Option + ~ (for Photoshop CS3 and below). Tip: I encourage you to know and use Photoshop shortcut keys; it saves a lot of time. Then press Delete to remove the selected white areas, leaving us with just the line art on this layer.

The Value of a Color Study April 1st, 2008 Color studies. Are they really all that important? Yes! Because of laziness, hectic schedules, or overconfidence in my painting skills, I don’t always make a color study for an illustration. Solving Problems Art takes a lot of brainwork, and the better you organize your thinking, the easier it will be to paint. Productivity Completing a good, solid color study gets me excited about the final painting and I’m motivated to finish it. Completing a color study also means spending less time fixing mistakes. My Process Keep It Small When painting, I keep the study no larger than a thumbnail sketch. Keep It Simple Some of my studies get really detailed, but that is only because I had big issues I was trying to work out. Focus on the specific problems at hand. Experiment I always try to make at least two or three different color studies for a project. In fact, I’ve learned that my first instincts are usually NOT correct. First impression: After experimenting: Make the Commitment!

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