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My first study: Digital painting
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My first study: Digital painting

Learn brushwork, tone, and color temperature — and create your first digital painting
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Created bySkills Up School
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Build a confident composition and place objects on the canvas with intention
  • Understand tonal relationships and apply them in a painted study
  • Work with loose, expressive brushstrokes — without overblending
  • Control warm and cool color temperatures to make your painting feel alive
  • Model form and volume using brushwork alone
  • Complete a finished digital study of a fruit from start to finish
  • Apply painterly techniques in any brush-based app — Procreate, Photoshop, and others

Course content

2 sections • 6 lectures • 2h 43m total length

  • Materials and tone5:54

    A beginner's course for digital painters who want to better understand color and learn to model form with brushstrokes — so that within just a few first hours of work, you can create your very first digital painting.

    The course is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. In the theory section, we cover composition, layout, tone, color masses, edges, and examples of works in various techniques. In the practical part, we go straight to the canvas: we paint a pear and an apple, model their volume with brushstrokes, and pay close attention to the warm-cool balance of the picture.

    This course is perfect for anyone who wants to try their hand at digital painting without committing to lengthy courses — from theory to a finished study.

    Assignment: Paint a study of an apple — build the composition, develop the volume with brushstrokes, and convey the warm-cool balance. Additionally, reinforce the technique with a second practical work.

  • Brushstrokes and touches8:06
  • Shape, silhouette, color, technique examples12:58
  • Graphic technique and composition11:48

Requirements

  • A graphics tablet or iPad with a stylus
  • Any brush-based app with pressure sensitivity — Procreate, Photoshop, or similar
  • No prior painting experience required — the course is designed for complete beginners

Description

You've probably seen those digital paintings that seem alive — loose brushstrokes, rich colors, a sense of texture you can almost touch. Have you ever wondered how that's done?

This mini-course is the fastest path to your first real digital painting. Not a polished illustration. Not clean vector art. A living, breathing painterly study — with expressive mark-making, confident values, and warm and cool colors that glow.

Here's the truth most beginners never hear:

Digital painting isn't about finding the right app or the perfect brush. It's about learning to see — shape, value, temperature — and deliberately putting that on the canvas. That's exactly what this course teaches.

You'll go from theory to a finished painterly study.

We start with the fundamentals: composition, value, color masses, brushwork, edges, and warm-cool color relationships. Then we go straight to the canvas — no gap between theory and practice. You'll paint a fruit study step by step, building volume through brushstrokes and chasing that elusive sense of life in every mark.

By the end of the course, you'll have:

  • A solid understanding of composition, value, and color temperature.

  • A confident, expressive brushstroke — loose and alive, without over-blending.

  • A finished digital study you'll be proud of and excited to share.

This course is for you if:

  • You want to try digital painting but don't know where to start.

  • Your work looks neat and tidy but feels flat and lifeless.

  • You don't want to spend months studying before seeing a real result.

  • You look at painterly work and wonder: how do they make it feel that way?

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner digital artists who want to understand color and learn to paint with expressive brushstrokes
  • Anyone who wants to try digital painting without committing to a long course
  • Artists from other disciplines — graphic design, illustration — who want to explore a painterly approach
  • Anyone who wants a fast, clear, and tangible first result in digital painting

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