Digital Painting

Here’s a look at the finished image that you’ll have at the end of this lesson on realistic portrait painting. Realistic Portrait Painting: Adding the Light Values Are you ready to learn more about realistic portrait painting in Photoshop? Now that the major dark shapes have been defined you are going to want to start …

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Here is the final painting for this painting portraits tutorial. Flip the Canvas to Start Your Painting Portraits Tutorial Start off this painting portraits tutorial by flipping your canvas horizontally. This helps your brain to readjust to the image, almost like you are seeing it again for the first time. This is important to do, especially …

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When you finish this digital art portrait tutorial, you’ll have the values nicely defined and most of the details added into your painting. Types of Shadows There are two different types of shadows you’ll be learning about in this digital art portrait tutorial: Form Shadows: These occur when a form is turning away from the light. …

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Here’s a look at the detail in the eyes that you will have at the end of this lesson on painting a realistic portrait. Painting a Realistic Portrait: Checking your Values For the next part of this tutorial on painting a realistic portrait, we’re going to look at color values. First, create a Black and …

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Here’s the final image for this lesson on how to paint realistically. Notice how the background and face coloring is all starting to come together now. How to Paint Realistically: Defining the Background Ready to learn more about how to paint realistically? Up until now, the background has been left fairly rough, but you’re going to …

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Here’s a look at the finished image for this lesson on skin color values in Photoshop. Using North Light in Your Portrait Work If you are familiar with traditional painting you have heard of the concept of using North Light in your works. To explain this term, classically trained painters use a high, north facing …

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Here is the final image for this lesson series on digital portrait painting techniques. Digital Portrait Painting Techniques: Squinting to see Value Ready for some more professional digital portrait painting techniques? In order to see the larger values in your works more clearly, you can squint your eyes. This is going to allow less light …

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How to Paint a Pin up Girl in Photoshop: Detailing the Head Ready to learn more about how to paint a pin up girl in Photoshop? It’s time to start adding in more of the finer details to this coloring job. Start off by adding a little shadow between the hair and the skin with …

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Start Painting the Lighter Skin Tone Ready to learn more about how to paint skin in Photoshop? In the original sketch, there was some lighting information, and if you are coloring someone else’s line work you should take note of where the original artist was thinking to put the light source so that you can …

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