The Beginner’s Guide to Digital Illustration in Photoshop

In this lesson you will learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop, so you can follow along and create your own 2D illustrations.

In this lesson we will create the character’s structure using a variety of basic shapes, such as circles, ovals, rectangles and triangles.

In this lesson we will use the character’s structure as a guide to create the basic sketch of our character.

In this lesson we will refine and add details to the sketch we created in the previous lesson.

In this lesson we will clean up our sketch, so it’s ready for the line art process.

In this lesson we will use a brush tool to create the line art, which will be the base for our final illustration.

In this lesson we will finish up the line art.

In this lesson you’ll learn how to create clipping masks in Adobe Photoshop. Clipping masks are very important because they will help us save time and effort.

In this lesson we will use a variety of techniques to apply the base color to our illustration.

In this lesson we will start adding volume to the illustration with a very simple, yet effective method.

In this lesson we will add shadows to our illustration, always taking into account where our light is coming from.

In this lesson we will add highlights to our illustration, always keeping in mind where our main source of light comes from.

In this lesson we will create additional details to make our illustration even better.

In this lesson we will add a simple neon effect to make our illustration more interesting and more eye-catching.

In this lesson we will create a simple background to finish up our illustration.