24 Captivating Digital Painting Tutorials

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Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Ferman in Tutorials

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All designers know the power of photoshop and the fantastic stuff they can create using it. There is always more to learn in photoshop, if you want your sketches to get painted photoshop is best tool. Digital painting is a beautiful art that requires too much experience and talent. I came across many great online digital painting tutorials out of which i collected the best ones and compiled a list for you.

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.

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23. Oct, 2009

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23. Oct, 2009

Man such great tutorials I wish I had the time to create some digital paintings like this. I imagine they take very many hours of work.

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24. Oct, 2009

WOW very creative & inspiring art

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24. Oct, 2009

Nice creative digital painting tutorials. Well explained each tutorial really great. Very Creative and smart art with painting . Thanks for sharing this awesome collection of tutorials.

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25. Oct, 2009

Wow…!

Superb tutorials… Thanks for posting the tutorials…!!!

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26. Oct, 2009

amazing tuts.

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Oliver

26. Oct, 2009

Great collection of tutorials here. Definitely very inspiring and I could use these to improve my drawing skills when I have some spare time. Will be bookmarking this for the future. Thanks.

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28. Oct, 2009

Some very creative, very clever art

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kravon

29. Oct, 2009

where is Linda Bergkvist?
she is the queen…

half of this “tutorials” didn’t even get proportion right…

everybody uses references… but lets draw a celeb from a picture is not an art… this is why digital painters are not respected as they (at least some of them) should be….

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14. Jan, 2010

The painting from photograph does not look very well done… but I love the red assassin

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17. Jan, 2010

This is more then beautiful. Thank you.

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