Digital Painting Foundations

On June 27, 2021

Release date:2021

Author:David Belliveau

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

If you are a pure beginner, you might think that digital painting seems complicated. But if you ever held a paint brush once in your life, then painting digitally is simply another medium like oil or watercolor. This guide will give you all the tools, techniques and basic work flow to start painting with your tablet while creating your first digital painting.

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Module 1 Getting Started
1 Protecting Your Wrist and Stylus Nibs
2 Speeding Up Your Workflow With Shortcuts
3 Making Marks in Photoshop The Brush Tool
4 Using Strokes & Selections
5 Understanding the Pen Tool
6 Putting it all Together

Module 2 Sketching Your Portrait
1 What to Look For in a Good Reference Image
2 How to Measure When Sketching
3 The Geometric Sketch
4 The Rough Sketch
5 The Final Sketch
6 Sketching Quickly and Effectively

Module 3 Lighting & Values
1 What Are Values
2 Creating Well Balanced Values
3 Installing Brushes & Tool Presets in Photoshop
4 Understanding Shadows & Highlights
5 Painting Different Light Sources

Module 4 Blending & Rendering
1 Basic Rendering
2 Tools for Blending
3 Blending a Face
4 Painting a Black & White Portrait

Module 5 Correcting Your Mistakes
1 How to Save Hours with Liquify
2 Fine Tune Your Corrections with Transform and Warp

Module 6 Color Theory
1 Understanding Harmonies
2 Analyzing Color in Paintings
3 How to Add Color with Different Blending Modes
4 Painting Color Harmonies

Module 7 Painting Skin Tones
1 Using Gradient Maps to Color Skin Tones
2 Advanced Techniques for Painting Skin Tones
3 the Complete Coloring Process

Module 8 Hair Skin & Eye
1 How to Paint Hair The Fundementals
2 Attaching Hair to the Head Painting Roots
3 Painting Different Hairstyles
4 Painting Hair
5 Painting Skin & Eye Details
6 Painting Skin & Portrait Details

Module 9 Adding Style & Texture
1 How to Set up Your Brushes
2 Stylize Your Paintings with Texture Brushes
3 My Texturing Workflow
4 Easy Ways to Stylise Your Paintings
5 Post Production Make Your Painting POP
6 Saving For Web vs Print

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