#digital paint tutorial

[nikoco11]

my recipe for drawing hands!

(small note that this is a shortcut that is more abt style and ease than anatomical accuracy. it helps to take time to really properly study hands, makes it easier to bend the rules a bit like this and have it still look good!!)

(learn rules b4 u break them or whatevah)

[bugmeyer]

Kokabiel painting process

www.patreon.com/angelarium

[terrichienyiart]

this is not a tutorial this is just me rambling

[yuumei-art]

One of my long time patrons requested a space painting tutorial with a focus on how to make the stars shine and the colors vibrant. So I recorded a speed paint I made under 10 minutes of how to paint the Milky Way. I hope it helps!

You can find free downloads of the brushes I used right here YuumeiArt.com/space-tutorial It contains a brush set for Photoshop and another set for Clip Studio (converted by Arcane Halo)

Music is Tree Soul by Kentdow

[zipper-neck]

Excellent painting tutorial. In case you don't know the terms in the last description, "edge variation" means having "hard" or "soft" edges, where hard edges are crisp and good for high-detail, and soft edges are more blurry/smudged and are good for giving objects the appearance of receding in distance. In the painting above, the snake's eye uses hard edges, and its teeth and underside of the jaw use softer edges. "Occlusion shadows" are the absolute darkest parts because they are the areas where no light reaches, not even reflected or ambient light. They tend to be small and are used sparingly. Above, there's an occlusion shadow around the snake's eye. However, the shading of the eye was probably exaggerated to make it stand out more, since it's the focal point.

[laboratoryrats]

“Pearl painting process by Camilla Cuesta applies to hand-painted gameart texture painting too!”

Source: Twitter at artofjeffp

[gomigo-dog]

Getting better at drawing Kabru. This guy is def not easy to draw (especially if you want to draw him in your own style).

I’ve compiled some observations:

🍅 Hair: By far the most challenging part. He actually has a middle part as observed from numerous manga panels but it can be hard to notice because his hair is so short.

I also broke his hair down into approximately 5 different areas (because his hair is layered) so I can see the flow of the hair better:

🍅 Face: His face is like a cat’s face 🐱. Thinking about a cat’s face helped me a lot.

His face generally wide and round but also has a sharp, narrow chin. I’m more used to drawing older characters so this was a struggle to me.

🍅 Brows: I never noticed this until I bought the Daydream book but his brows are actually thicker at the ends and angled downwards.

Also sharing my lineart (lowkey like this a lot):

[slushy-sash]

a short/mini digital painting tutorial by yours truly 🫡

a lot of people really like how i painted kaveh in that short hkvh comic so i thought i'd share a quick painting tutorial! I hope this can be helpful to yall ^_^

[starlightsylph]

90% of the reason I loved Neopets so much as a child was the faeries, and in retrospect my utter fascination with whatever was going on between Illusen and Jhudora was probably just another sign of how terminally gay I am <3

[natedhernandez]

Painted a Bagel

[em-iliart]

hi!!! I have literally no idea if you do tutorials or advice, but I was wondering what your process for rendering skin is?? you have such a lovely and realistic (but unique) way of coloring skin :)

I’m not very good at explaining my process so I hope this makes sense :)

For skin I start by picking a base colour (a mid-tone) then I can add darker and lighter shading depending on where my light source is.

I work in patches of colour (I hate blending haha) following the shape of the face/body part. I picture each part like a 3d object.

I adjust brightness and saturation as I go and add complimentary colours where I think the skins undertones would be (this part is just trial and error there’s no real skill to it it’s purely what I think looks nice)

This is just how I do it and I’m sure there’s artists who can explain colour theory and lighting for skin a lot better :) but I hope this helps! <3

[olliemnjones]

Hey there! Your actually one of my inspiration for art! I really like how realistically shaded the backgrounds are and everything! Do you have any tips for shading in digital art?

Hey, I appreciate it, thank you! There are lots of things that go in to making a good background but this is the main idea that made backgrounds click for me:

Hopefully you'll agree that of these two shapes, the one on the right feels more 'real', despite the fact neither of these shapes are meant to represent anything. The shape on the right just has a noise filter and a faint light-to-dark gradient from top to bottom. Those two things create movement on a small scale (the noise) and on a large scale (the gradient). The presence of that sort of movement is what gets your brain to register something as real.

Here I've taken the shape and given it a new environment, a colour and then a gradient. The shape with the movement feels a little more natural in its environment, I think.

Then directly on top of that, I can start creating small scale movement, like the noise, through brush strokes. At first (on the left) the brushstrokes look quite out of place and unnatural. But as you work in to the surface more, creating more and more overlapping brushstrokes of various sizes and directions - all while trying to maintain the sense of that gradient - the strokes will start to more naturally integrate in to each other, creating a bed on to which other elements will lay naturally.

Here I give this abstract shape some context by painting some cracks and decay on it. These new elements create movement by giving our eyes more shapes to latch on to and jump between. I then added a pattern to it. This pattern adds more movement and reinforces the light effect by adhering to the gradient (getting darker at the same rate the wall does).

You can see I use this idea all through this picture. I make sure in any section there is always some kind of movement of light, whether its left-to-right, or top-to-bottom, corner-to-corner etc. Patterns like the woodgrain on the drawer or the textile of the curtain create additional movement and reinforce the dimensions of their respective forms by adhering to them. Bit rambly but I hope there's something useful in there!

[bugmeyer]

Leliel, Angel of Night 🌙

[sullivanwuzhere]

Ganon

[art-tnt]

Iridescent Skin Tutorial by Fruitegg

[bluebird-ascended]

your honor he did that shit. however he bought his bird a mini of his coat so they could matchhhhh