
Examine essential hardware and software for digital art, from computers and drawing tablets to Photoshop, Corel Painter, Clip Studio Paint, and Autodesk SketchBook.
Explore layers palette, color palette, swatches, and navigator in photoshop to manage layers, colors, and document navigation efficiently.
Explore how layers of transparency stack to give flexible control in digital art, including renaming, toggling visibility, grouping, duplicating, and organizing layers and folders.
Explore brush hardness and size in Photoshop, learning how edge sharpness and brush sizing affect painting; resize with keyboard shortcuts or the brush panel, noting some presets lack these options.
Explore the eraser tool in Photoshop, using system brushes for dynamic erasing with opacity and flow. Erasing affects only the active layer, preserving the background and brush settings including pressure.
Explore how the color picker uses hue, value, and saturation. Adjust the hue slider, and the main box controls value and saturation for bright or pale blues.
Review core digital painting concepts in Photoshop, including tools, layers, layer modes like multiply and overlay, brushes and brush settings, color picker, and canvas setup.
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Before you can even start to understand digital art, you need to know the tools. Understanding Adobe Photoshop will help you understand how to use a plethora of digital art apps, including: Affinity Photo, Krita, Paint Tool Sai, Clip Studio Paint, Autodesk Sketchbook, GIMP, ProCreate, Medibang Paint and more - this course helps you understand the fundamentals of using digital art tools.
Character Art School: Complete Photoshop Fundamentals Course covers the core knowledge and practical theory you need to know in order to utilize digital art software and hardware to create artwork digitally. Most digital art software share a number of core features, and using Adobe Photoshop as a base, this course will get you up to speed on the tools and the techniques of digital art creation, modfication, enhancement and adjustment, whether drawing and creating from scratch, or building from references. If you're new to digital art, and want to learn how to create astonishing digital work, this course is for you!
Master The Essentials Needed to Draw and Paint in Digital Art Apps
Understand both the hardware and software required to create digital art
Learn the core features of digital art software, and how to use them
Get to grips with the digital canvas, navigation, color panels, tools, editing, adjustments and more
Gain insight into brushes, layers, layer modes, and selections
Learn How To Use Photoshop to Create Astonishing Digital Work
If you've never Photoshop before and you'd love to learn, I'd love to teach you. Getting to grips with Photoshop for art creation and the digital art process is easier than you think, and when you're done, you should be able to approach most modern digital art packages with confidence.
In this easy to follow course, I go step-by-step into the digital process - from what hardware tools you'll need, to creating a digital canvas, resolutions and paper sizes, using and adjusting brushes, layers and layer features and much more to create effectively.
What's more, I'll have you up to speed in no time - lessons that are to the point will have you learning the fundamental tools and techniques.
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