Digital Painting Fundamentals
Digital Painting Fundamentals(63 Lessons )
Intro to Digital Painting
The Greyscale Painting Process
Layers
Blending Modes
Adjustment Layers
Painting in Color
Real Time Demos
Intro to Light
Materials
Color
Composition
Digital Illustration and Advanced Techniques(19 Lessons )
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In this demo, I will be using showing you how I use a clothed figure as a reference in grayscale painting, and demonstrating the different approach to painting that entails.
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Laura Taylor
17d
2h 15min later, i realized my resolution is making all my brush strokes look like crap. don't make this same mistake of just rolling with the default settings. couldn't even finish this one, it was so dissatisfying.
Laura Taylor
17d
actually, i posted this too soon--not sure why the soft round brush seems to have "scatter" when there is no scatter setting applied. even when the stamps are set to 10% and the resolution is increased to 300 dpi, its still scatter-y/muddy.
Siddharth Gupta
25d
did it as accurately as possible to increase my observation skills. Use different texture brushes for cloth and skin. Any critics are welcomed
Šimon Lánský
27d
Another one!
Martin Defensor
3mo
Difficult but I am starting to get the hang of it. I am doing my best to make the hair and face look like a real portrait. Switching to the painting layout that provided a lot of swatches helped so much.
Attila
4mo
Sokolowski Clément
4mo
Third assignement. Painting the folds was a very interesting challenge!
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4mo
Lovely work! This depends more on the style you want to go for, but for something more painterly, I would recommend lowering the opacity for the linework and using the values you already laid down to describe the form instead. Especially with the silhouette outline, the contrast between the dark background and lighter skin tones alone will allow the form to read on its own, and pushing the background to be a bit darker can help make it even clearer. Using shadows to define edges can also be of great help. It's already looking very good, so this depends on the final style you want to achieve -- keep up the great work :)
Jason Hald
7mo
very difficult. i was sticking to the refference too much.
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4mo
You've got a great lay-in already, I think it's just a matter of pushing your value range further. Using more of the darker side of the value range can help further clarify the shadow and form of the subject. Especially for key areas, such as the face, using dark details can help bring more focus and create a hierarchy to organize the drawing. Keep it up, you got this!
Vincent Yu
9mo
Kassjan (Kass) Smyczek
9mo
Here is my painting. Epiphany's I ran into: I thought that I have to split every material into ints own value range and avoid the values of one material from going into the value range of the other. This gets harder, the more materials are in the painting. But in reality you have to split it into "bright materials" and "dark materials" and keep these values seperated. Another epiphany: I split the value ranges evenly. But my area of interest should have the strongest contrast and therefore the biggest value range. The less detailed areas can have smaller ranges. Also: I had to adjust the double edged brush for me, because in my settings the soft edge was dependant on the direction of the stroke - not on pen rotation. I welcome any critique to become better :) Next one: The dude's face.
@arthurln
9mo
Didn't used a soft brush at first but it was a great challenge to limit myself to this brush afterward. And I saw that I didn't replicate well the pattern too late in the process, so I sticked with what I had.
Please do not look at hands.
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9mo
Hey, that's a great approach! Limiting yourself to a harder brush at first forces you to make key choices early on that help set the foundation of your painting, plus it makes you conscious of hard vs soft edges once you do introduce a softer brush. It came out great, you should be proud! :)
Petar Hristov
10mo
Did my best
Anska
10mo
Putting all the finicky details on an extra layer is a really good suggestion to keep things organised.
Nick Dahlquist
1yr
I tried this one in color too.
@lesgantsnoirs
1yr
It took me seven hours to finish the exercise, I took a little liberty on the face, but I’m sure no one will notice.
Carla Ayers
9mo
lol
Nick Dahlquist
1yr
That's hilarious
@hollybernard05
2yr
This was very challenging. It took me a lot longer than the first greyscale assignment, but I’m glad that I didn’t give up. I really like this course so far. I'm learning a lot.
@jasonj33
2yr
I got a lot closer on this attempt, still a tough one.
Albert Vargas
2yr
Alessio Amato
2yr
I tried a figure painting with some drapery, i'm using photoshop with a wacom intuos...some critiques?
@hyki
2yr
Had a lot of fun on this one. Painting fabric became really interesting and even relaxing when I realized I didn't need to stress about getting every detail correct. Still couldn't nail her left eye to a degree that I was satisfied with, so I hastily put an eye patch on her and called it a day. I felt like I got what I needed out of this assignment anyway.
@jasonj33
2yr
I think I'm going to try this again, I got the jist of it from my 1st attempt but I can see that I need to practice drawing some figures via PS b4 I give it another go. You're just using the hard round brush for sketching in PS correct?
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