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The Complete Photoshop for Drawing and Painting Course
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4,645 students

The Complete Photoshop for Drawing and Painting Course

Easily Learn how to use Photoshop and Digital Art Apps for Drawing and Painting to a Professional Level
Last updated 4/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Draw and Paint in Digital Art Software
  • Understand the Digital Canvas and Workspace
  • Utilise Brushes, Selections, Colour Pickers and more
  • Understand and Use layers to your advantage
  • Gain Insight into Core Features of Digital Art Software
  • Learn Quickly and Efficiently
  • How to use Photoshop fundamentals
  • Apply the fundamentals in Clip Studio Paint
  • Apply the fundamentals in Krita
  • Apply the fundamentals in Paint Tool Sai
  • Apply the fundamentals in Corel Painter
  • Apply the fundamentals in Procreate
  • Apply the fundamentals in Gimp

Course content

6 sections25 lectures1h 20m total length
  • Introduction to Digital Art Tools Essentials0:52
  • A Brief Overview of Hardware & Software6:55

    Examine essential hardware and software for digital art, from computers and drawing tablets to Photoshop, Corel Painter, Clip Studio Paint, and Autodesk SketchBook.

  • Updates, Community and Resources0:04

Requirements

  • Students should ideally have an existing digital art application to practice with
  • Art applications include Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Clip Studio Paint, and more
  • Students should also have a Drawing Tablet, such as a Wacom Intuos

Description

The No.1 Best-selling Photoshop course, focused ont eaching you how digital art applications fundamentally work, so you can start creating digital art today.

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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Who this course is for:

  • This Digital Art Tools course is for those new to digital art software, who have never used it before, or have only used it very little
  • This course offers those new to digital art the opportunity to quickly get to grips with Digital Art Tools
  • If you're interested in getting into digital art, but have no idea or experience in how the software or hardware tools work, this course is for you