Learn to Master Digital Painting: 3 Steps to Paint Anything

Name: Learn to Master Digital Painting: 3 Steps to Paint Anything
Rating: 4.6 (73 reviews)

Get Better at Understanding Forms Rendering and Colors Painting in Photoshop

Created byKari Young

Last updated 2/2020

English

What you'll learn

Advance digital still life painting to draw any form!
All the essential tools you need to start your digital painting journey, including free brushes, selective colors palette for photoshop.
Easy to learn 3 steps analyzing any subject to help you building confidence in color painting.
The course starts with learning how to use photoshop and tablet to draw and paint.
How to get ready with a simplified grayscale to learn shading any form in photoshop.
Extremely helpful breaking down form analysis to understand the key to draw anything!
Essential Color theory to understand color painting.
How to choose a color palette before you start to paint in photoshop.
Learn to paint different subject with different shapes and texture.
Learn how to shade and paint reflective subject.

Course content

5 sections • 21 lectures • 3h 7m total length

Course Oerview2:15
“Learn Digital Painting from Beginner to Master” is designed to teach anyone interested in digital painting, and also anyone who has experiences with digital art but wants to improve their skills to reach an expert level.
This program offers all the essential skills of painting and digital painting, and all the instructions and demonstrations are clear and easy to learn. After purchasing this course, you will get a beginner’s kit for digital drawing, which includes customizing brushes, color choices, and step by step demonstrations both with shading and color painting. And all these tools and knowledge will take you from the fundamental concept of rendering form and color painting, to obtain strong solid digital painting skills to support your future career as an artist.

Start today if you want to get the start and get serious with digital painting.
Get ready with photoshop and tablet, and the hotkeys you will need.5:20
Introduction of customized brushes and blending tool5:41
You can download the customized brushes zip file in the resources, and unzip it in your folder. And you are gonna learn how to Import the brushes.abr file in photoshop. And how to use these three brushes in photoshop.
Understanding the color palette in photoshop4:01
Master digital painting by using a limited, cohesive color palette built from swatches in Photoshop to create unity, focusing on selected swatches over the color wheel for beginner painters.
Learn to prepare a greyscale4:20
Learn to render a form using grayscale in photoshop by building a seven-step value scale from cool gray swatches to a sphere, avoiding pure white and black.
Draw a 3d sphere using default brush4:08
Render a 3d sphere with the default brush, use the elliptical marquee tool to form the circle, and build a grayscale gradient from terminator line to highlight and cast shadow.
Rendering the sphere with customized brushes3:45
Master rendering a sphere with customized brushes, layering from light foundation to core shadow, adding reflected light, cast shadow, and highlights while blending for a painterly look.
Section 1 review Quiz
The shortcut sheet to help you remember

Understand the form of an apple3:03
Learn how to render an apple ( drawing demonstration)10:58
Learn to render an apple by building a light-to-dark value scale, using watercolor and pencil brushes, applying the smudge tool to blend strokes, and casting shadows.
Learn the basic of color theory5:33
Explore the three color attributes: hue, saturation, and value, and learn to mix on the wheel with swatches and complementary colors to add depth in digital painting.
Learn about color palette2:44
Paint the apple in Colors14:22
Render an Onion in Values

Understand the form and render a soft drink box16:18
Master cube form value studies and color painting by starting with a quick sketch, rendering light from the upper right, then building shadows, edges, and details on a drink carton.
Paint the carton in colors15:51
Learn to paint a carton in cool tones by building the form with blues and greens, aligning a single light source, and applying shading, reflections, and warm cast shadows.
Paint the Onion in Colors

Understand the form and learn to render a garlic15:54
Learn to render garlic and pyramid forms by shading the dark side, casting shadows, and defining terminator lines with grayscale values, laying a foundation for form rendering in digital painting.
Garlic painting demonstration15:11
Learn to render a white garlic in color using a limited palette, building form through value shading and warm-cool color shifts against a light background.

Learn about the cylinder form7:19
Render a cylinder form in a still life by sketching the outline, applying tone on a new layer, and using the terminator line to shape cast shadow.
How to render a reflective bottle part 116:06
Learn to render a glass jar with a lid by decomposing it into five cylinders, then study highlights, shadows, and glass textures on an old newspaper beneath the bottle.
How to render a reflective bottle part 214:06
Learn to render a reflective bottle by constructing its form with lighter values first, capturing concave and convex surfaces, cast shadows, highlights, and gradual value transitions.
Paint the reflective container in color20:25
Learn to paint a reflective cylinder in Photoshop using a designed color palette, background tone, and careful light and shadows to achieve convincing reflections.

Requirements

A basic understanding of drawing and painting but not necessary
A photoshop software
A digital tablet to draw and paint in photoshop

Description

“Learn to Master Digital Painting: 3 Steps to Paint Anything” is designed to teach anyone interested in digital painting, and also anyone who has experiences with digital art but wants to improve their skills to reach an expert level. In this course, I will teach you how to render basic forms, and apply the basic form structure to paint anything. And I will teach you how to break down complex forms into basic forms. Further, I will explain how to choose your color to paint in photoshop, And finally, I will offer you 10 drawing and painting demonstrations of high quality for over 5 different subjects base on basic forms, to make sure you can pick up my technique as one of your own skill. I will analyze each basic form for you.

This program offers all the essential skills, knowledge and tools of painting and digital painting, and all the instructions and demonstrations are clear and easy to learn. After purchasing this course, you will get a beginner’s kit for digital drawing, which includes free brushes, color palette, and step by step demonstrations both with shading and color painting. And all these tools and knowledge will take you from the fundamental concept of rendering form and color painting, to obtain strong solid digital painting skills to support you to draw like a pro.

Start today if you want to get the start and get serious with painting.

Who this course is for:

students who are interested in learning digital painting
students who has experiences with digital art but wants to improve their skills to reach an expert levels
students who has struggles with color choices in painting
students who needs a solid foundation to build up digital painting skill

Learn to Master Digital Painting: 3 Steps to Paint Anything

What you'll learn

Explore related topics

Course content

Introduction8 lectures • 30min

Learn to paint an apple base on a sphere form5 lectures • 37min

Learn to paint a paper texture soft drink carton2 lectures • 32min

Learn how to paint a garlic2 lectures • 31min

Learn a to paint a reflective container4 lectures • 58min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: