I’ve always loved browsing the insanely detailed and realistic artwork created by digitally painting in Photoshop, so this year I’m planning on setting aside some time to learn the basics myself. I’ve read through numerous online tutorials and have hand picked the best to share with you today. All the tutorials showcased in this post describe the step by step process and offer useful tips to help you get started with the art of digital painting.
Despite being an extremely popular subject it’s pretty difficult finding guides or tutorials that actually explain the process in detail. There’s stacks of ‘speed painting’ videos you can watch in awe, but they don’t really offer any tips or advice. There’s also plenty of design process explanations, but most seem to be aimed at advanced artists and often resemble the image above, where the design goes from a rough sketch to the completed piece in just a couple of steps! Thankfully there’s a small bunch of tutorials that explain the basics and provide useful information such as brush settings and sensitivity levels. The best of which are featured below:
Dianae Digital Painting Tutorial
Zombie Portrait in Photoshop
Colouring in Photoshop
Wonder Woman Pin Up Digital Painting Tutorial
Complete Digital Painting Tutorial
How to Draw a Portrait in Photoshop
Kikisaurus Digital Painting Tutorial
Hannsaki Digital Painting Tutorial
The Making of Rest
Basic Photoshop Painting Tutorial
Seiorai Digital Painting Tutorial
Making of Equilibrium
Digital Painting 101 Video Tutorial
How To Paint a Wolf
Making of New Species
The Process of Painting Natalie
Advanced Portrait Tutorial
Basic Digital Painting
Freehand Painting with Photoshop
Making of The Confrontation
Skepsisfox Digital Painting Tutorial
The Digital Painting 101 Video is great.
The little monster is cool and the tut is so detailed!
Thanks for sharing this awesome tutorial collection of digital painting techniques.
Yeah, is very hard to find complete digital painting tutorials, best ones are on devianART, Tuts+ and books. Some looks very complex as superwoman but the basics are the same for every tutorial: choosing the right color palette and pressure sensitive in your tablet (usually an Intuos)
Diana.
A few months ago, while looking for tutorials on digital painting, I never even thought about looking on deviantArt. A friend and I figured out what to do by reading one very long and complicated tutorial and the work we’ve done so far has turned out really well, but I think these tutorials can offer some other techniques we can try before we’re finished with our project.
Great timing! Exactly what I need now that I have a wacom.
Very nice selection of tutorials. I’m gonna have to try out a few of these, I’ve always wanted to learn digital painting.
This site very interesting for me and also useful information to the end user.
Great collection of such tutorials. these are beautiful designs. it will be awesome to having this. thanks for Posting :)
great tuts thanks!
Great Site! Nice to see it all available in one; keep it u
Have a look on youtube at Stephanie Valentin’s channel. There are a few Photoshop how-to-paint step-by-step tutorials, and Stephanie is sharing the tool settings she uses.
It is nice article and also it is a amazing article
I always look for sites related to Digital Painting…and this has loads of stuff that to different style of Digital Painting.
Thanks for the post.!
Loved it
Muy bien post, es uno de los mejores que he vizto de todos los blogs que estoy suscrito… saludos y gracias a gente como ellos, que se dan la tarea publicar sus tecnicas de ilustración.
I find Adhonis on deviant art to be a constant source of inspiration for what I consider ‘high end’ digital art tutorials. Check him out over at http://adonihs.deviantart.com/ seriously, some of the best tutorials available!
Thanks Chris! Recently got a Wacom intuos4 so these will come in very handy!
Nice and detailed tutorials, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing these great examples.Really enjoyed these!
these are very nic…
thnx !