Scanning Pencil Drawings: Where to Start Want to learn about scanning pencil drawings and how to clean up a scanned drawing? Start off your drawing from a scan that you have created beforehand. In this step you just want to try and follow the major landmarks for the piece, because you will be painting over …
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Digital Painting Techniques: The Starting Point Here’s the line work that you were left with in our previous lesson on digital painting techniques. You may want to lock the transparency of these lines for the moment so that you will always have them and not be able to accidentally modify them if you select this layer …
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Looking for a Photoshop digital painting tutorial that really works? To start off this lesson, you’ll use a levels adjustment layer to really bring up the whites in the drawing, even blowing out the whites a little bit. If you are not familiar with what ‘blowing out’ a color means, it’s when there is no …
Establishing the Pattern In this lesson on digital art for beginners, you’re going to start adding some pattern to the king’s clothing. Start off by drawing a radial grid on its own layer. Digital art for Beginners: Coloring Using two different layers so you can adjust the color later if needed, color in the …
Separating the Head In our next instalment of digital painting tips, you’ll be breaking the head apart from the background and setting a nice edge along the head for future work. While you are cutting the head away from the background keep in mind the silhouette of your character and take time to make it as interesting …
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Setting up the Background Want to learn digital painting? Welcome to the next part in our series! At his drawing has progressed, Mark is going to spend a bit more time on the background to get it working a little better with the character. While he’s working, he’s playing close attention to the contrast that …
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How to Paint Hair in Photoshop: Start with Texture Want to learn how to paint hair in Photoshop? Start off by grabbing another swatch of color to use as a base layer for the hair. If you’re using a brush stroke texture like shown here, try and line the direction of the brush strokes …
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Painting Skin in Photoshop: Adding Highlights Ready to learn more about painting skin in Photoshop? After all of the previous set-up work, it’s time to go into the face and start adding in more detail to get it close to a finished piece. Start off by adding in some lighter areas to the face where …
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Painting Hair in Photoshop: Fixing the Hair Ready to learn more about painting hair in Photoshop? Here, the hair on the side of the king’s head was growing right up into the eyebrow and was looking a little bit odd. By taking the hair back it’s given the desired amount of separation between it and …
Photoshop Digital Art: Evaluate your Composition Ready to learn more about Photoshop digital art? Once you reach the end of each step in this series, it’s a good idea to stop and evaluate the overall composition of your drawing. This way, you’ll be able to see if there are any major problem areas which need to be addressed. …