To digitally paint your sketches or illustrations lots of different tools are used. Photoshop and tablets are most important tools to make digital paintings. But tools are nothing if you don’t have talent, in this post i have collected the digital paintings done by very talented digital artists.

So here are the 46 astonishing examples of digital paintings:

If you are interested in learning digital painting these 24 captivating digital painting tutorial will definitely help you but if you have no interest in it i assure you some of them can build your interest in digital painting too.

1. Red Assassin Digital Painting Tutorial

Author of this tutorial says, “Here’s how I do my painting. This is a work in progress so you’ll see the steps I do in creating a piece. Below is a quick sketch over a black background.”

2. Spider Harp

Author says, “Firstly I wanted to draw a girl with a big dragon head up on her shoulder. In drawing the tiles skin of the dragon head from side, I wanted to dispose them in a particular way.”

3. The Abstract Dragon

Illustrator JS Rossbach shows you how a popular fantasy theme can be viewed in an abstract way

4. Painting a faerie scene

Melanie Delon shows you how to create enchantingly beautiful cover image.

5. Digital painting from photography

This is just one way you can work it and requires a lot of background knowledge about painting and Photoshop. It is also strongly recommended to use some sort of stylus pen because painting with a mouse is like painting with a brick.

6. Digital Painting Tutorial

How to paint a realistic (yet illustrative) portrait without reference.

7. Spacecraft prototyping

This is brief demonstration of transport design and how to rapidly prototype a space vessel.

8. Speedpainting tutorial

Just a quick step by step for normal sketching process on photoshop. This image is by no means a finished piece because only spend about 30- 60 minutes on a sketch like this.

9. Draw face and paint portrait

Learn how to draw face and paint portrait girl woman or female facial figure front view Video tutorial part 1. Learn how to from sketching, simple shape, face construction drawing to finish painted color illustration a character.

10. Digital Painting Tutorial

In this tutorial, Alexius show us the whole process that he uses to create his digital paintings.

11. How to Draw a Digital Portrait

Tutorial’s Author says, “Believe it or not the hardest part of drawing isn’t the details. It’s blocking out the shape. I can’t stress how important this step is, as it sets the foundation for your entire image.”

12. The Making of Fresh Meat

This is another excellent tutorial on digital painting.

13. Making of Transformer – Death Blow

It is very crucial for a creator to foresee the image in his own mind, and knowing if it would make a good artwork or not.

14. Making of Spanish Girl

Very well written tutorial by David Munoz Velazquez.

15. Making of Lida

Authoer says, “In this work, I want to interpret a new feeling of an old Chinese poem, and try to make it more fantastical, sci-fi and surreal.”

16. Tutorial on Digital Painting

Author says, “I am sharing here a walkthrough of my painting procedure. An important note here, is, that though I am writing down all the steps, there is a whole process of thinking behind each stroke and there is no rule, nor any formula for that,”

17. Painting an Advanced Cutaway

With all of the line art complete, it was time to move on to the color phase. The line art was exported from Adobe Illustrator CS into Adobe Photoshop CS.

18. Transformer 2 Meagan Fox portrait painting [video]

Video of how to draw and shade or render face, female sketch tutorial: drawing woman, female feature, girl character.

19. How to draw Batman [video]

Learn how to draw Batman or the Dark Knight character demo lesson tutorial for manga, cartoon and comics.

20. Mech Robotech Concept Environmental Scene [video]

How to draw and paint Robotech quick environmental illustration concept digital painting video demo.

21. Drawing and Painting Ballerina [video]

Learn digital painting sketch and how to conceptual speedpainting technique for illustration, comics, concept design, manga, and anime or speedpainting, painting ballerina.

22. Demon Hunter [video]

Learn how to draw and paint a fantasy manga & anime character step by step Video lesson. Anime manga concept Character Demon Hunter girl.

23. Draw and paint landscape water [video]

Art tutorial, Draw and paint landscape water and mountains landscape environmental concept scene digital painting technique video demo using Photoshop.

24. Photoshop Painting Tutorial

Detailed tutorial of digital painting in Photoshop.

Kerem Beyit is from Turkey and currently working as a freelancer. He has been in digital area for four years and has been awarded on many CG related sites. He is really successful at Illustration, concept design and working in Photoshop. To know more about him you can read his interview on Psdtuts and visit his personal site, but here i have collected his stunning work for your inspiration.

I hope you will enjoy these tutorials and don’t forget to mention the tutorial which was an add on in your experience.

1. How To Create a Post Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial designer will show you how to create a post apocalyptic manipulation using adjustment layers, vector masks, and some special effects. Let’s get started!

2. Colorization Tutorial

This tutorial uses a different method than either of CMYK curves adjustment layers.

3. Add Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph

In this tutorial designer will show you how to spice up a fairly dull and flat photograph. It’s very easy and fast! Go from flat photo to a uniquely lit style.

4. How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fantasy landscape using some simple and easy techniques.

5. Coloring a black and white image

Heres a quick and easy way to color black and white images in Photoshop.

6. De-Aging in Photoshop [Video]

In this video designer demonstrates how to make someone look younger.

7. Removing Objects From Photos

The Healing Brush and Clone tools are fine for fixing blemishes or removing certain things in an open area, but get near a hard edge and these tools become less useful.

8. Hot Chick on a Muscle Car

In this tutorial designer fuse an image of a Muscle Car and an image of a Hot Chick into one cool retro postcard design.

9. Photo Retouching – Change Hair Color Photoshop Tutorial

Excellent Photoshop tutorial to change hair color of a blonde model.

10. Nesting Smart Objects for Multimask Effects in Photoshop

One of the biggest drawbacks to smart filters is that all filters applied to a single layer must share a common filter mask.

11. Comic Book Photo Effect

In this Photoshop tutorial designer show you how to add a comic book effect to an ordinary photo using a few layers, the Cutout and Poster Edges filters and a few different layer blend modes.

12. Quick Fix for Cluttered Backgrounds

Take the picture you want and then work on the background in Photoshop or another image editing program.

13. Infra Red – The Invisible Light

Take a good look around you and you’ll see and endless diversity of hues in all the colors of the rainbow: The grass is green, the sky is blue, the roses are red and the future is bright.

14. Exposure blending tutorial

A little background: HDR is a type of image manipulation. The goal is to blend multiple exposures of the same scene into a single image in order to get a result that has more dynamic range than your camera is capable of recording.

15. Realistic Spotlight Effect in Photoshop

This technique will add depth to your lighting and emphisis to your subject. a pro touch to your montages and collages.

16. Repairing Old Photos

Very simple tutorial to repair old pictures.

17. Photo Makeover

The general ‘makeover’ process is quite simple, and can be done in a matter of minutes

18. How to Fix a Botched Tourist Photo in Photoshop

This works best if both photos were taken from roughly the same distance, same perspective, same time of day, and same settings.

19. Gradient Mapping effect in Adobe Photoshop

Learn how to use the gradient mapping tool to transform a standard photograph for use with a specific colour scheme or brand image.

20. Five Steps to Intense Colors

Here’s a very simple way to make colors come alive in almost any photograph using Photoshop.

21. Turn a daylight photo into a night shot

This tutorial will show you how to take a low quality, lifeless and dull shot and turn it into a vivid night shot, with street lamp lightening.

22. How To Straighten Crooked Photos

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn a quick and easy way to straighten crooked photos.

23. How to Create Professional HDR Images

Here’s an excellent tutorial on creating high dynamic range (HDR) images.

24. How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography

In this tutorial designer shows you how to apply the “lomography” effect to your digital photos.

25. Noise Reduction by Image Averaging

Image noise can compromise the level of detail in your digital or film photos, and so reducing this noise can greatly enhance your final image or print.

26. Photo Sharpening Techniques

The basic concept of sharpening is to send the Unsharp Mask filter or Smart Sharpen filter on a “seek and manipulate” mission.

27. How to Stitch Photos in Photoshop

This is a tutorial on stitching two images together using Photoshop Elements 5 (or the full version of Photoshop).