The Ultimate Digital Painting Course - Beginner to Advanced

This lecture will provide you with links to free photoshop brushes that you can use in addition to the standard brushes that come with the software you're using.

In this lecture you will be painting your eye drawing. The first phase of painting in a drawing is called blocking out your colors. Blocking out your colors gives you a base to build the rest of your painting off of.

In this lecture students will learn about the 3 main basic brush settings. Opacity, flow, and size.

In this lecture students will learn about special brushes. We'll use a leaf brush to create some foliage for our trees.

The building block of all drawings and paintings is line. Everything you draw and every brush stroke you make is a line. In this lecture you will be learning the importance of line and the part it plays in digital painting.

Contouring lines are usually the edges or profile of a form. In some cases contouring lines can be thought of as the edge line of a shape, color, or value. In this lecture I will show you an exercise that will teach you to see contour lines even if they're invisible.

Now that you understand line you must understand how line makes up shapes. Every image that you see can be broken down into simple geometric shapes that make up its composition.  In this lecture I will be teaching you how to look at objects as just a simple group of shapes.

In this lecture we will be learning how to block out a drawing with shapes. When digital painting you always want to start out loose an simple and slowly refine your painting. One way we can start out lose is by starting our drawings out with simple geometric shapes that make up the objects in our composition. 

In this lecture students will learn about the value scale and how to recognize where a value falls along the value scale. We'll play game to help you test your skills.

There are two types of texture when it comes to drawing. The first is contour line textures and the second is value textures. In this lecture you will be learning how to draw contour line textures. This texture only rely on the contour lines of the surface and not highlights and shadows.

In this lecture we will do a quick overview of what perspective is and how it plays an important part of digital painting. We'll look at real world examples of different types of perspective.

In this lecture you will be learning about the different ways in which we can create space in our art. Space is referring to the distance and perspective between different objects. Such as the back and front legs of a dog or a mountain range and a foreground.  Space can be created by simply changing the size and placement of an object as well as its values.

In this lecture you will be learning how to draw 2 point perspective. In Two point perspective we will have two vanishing points to draw all our lines to.  2 Point perspective is what you will most often be drawing and most often see in real life.

In this lecture you will be learning how to draw 3 point perspective. In Three point perspective we will have Three vanishing points to draw all our lines to.  3 Point perspective would be used wen drawing something like looking up at a sky scraper.

One of the biggest mistakes many beginner artist make when it comes to drawing in perspective is not scaling objects properly. An example of this would be if you drew a person standing close to the viewer. If you wanted to draw another person the same height but further down the street you need to know how much smaller they must be drawn in order to draw them in correct perspective.

Many times when artist are sketching or drawing they do not have time to draw perspective guidelines or its not necessary to have perfect perspective. In this lecture you will learn how to quickly rough in perceptive while you draw. Many times the vanishing points are so far off the canvas your guidelines will all be angled the same.

In this lecture students will learn about atmospheric perspective and how to create it in their paintings. We'll try it out by painting a misty forest landscape.

In this lecture students will learn about highlights and shadows. We'll go step by step through the process of painting a sphere.

In this lecture students will learn how to think about their light source in order to help them choose the right colors for your lighting and shadows.

In this lecture students will learn about how to light an object from your mind. We'll use a generic shape and practice lighting it from 3 different angles.

Perspective applies to every aspect of your drawings and painting. Many times you can take shortcuts that make thing look like their in perspective but other times you will want to figure out the exact perspective of things. In this lecture I will teach you how to draw cast shadows in perfect perspective.   

In this lecture students will learn about the 3 components of any color hue, value, and saturation.

In this lecture students will learn about ambient occlusion.We'll look at some examples of ambient occlusion and discuss why it occurs.

In this lecture students will learn about how to add a second light source to an image. We'll paint an example image that you'll follow along with.

In this lecture students will learn about subsurface scattering. We'll talk about the science behind it and we'll use the same image from the previous lecture to try our hand at painting it.

In this lecture students will learn about how to paint a glowing object. We'll use the same image from the previous 2 lectures to create a glowing effect on the frogs eyes.

In this lecture we will paint a still life photo of a skull. We'll see some of the examples of topics we've been covering like ambient occlusion and subsurface scattering.

In this lecture we'll do another still life, this time of a stone ball and a red book. We'll talk about reflected light and highlights.

In this lecture you will be learning the basics of color theory.  Color theory refers to how colors work together in you painting and how they play off each other. In this lecture I will be laying the foundation of how to create beautiful color pallets.

Creating a color pallet before you beguine painting can be very useful. A color pallet will give you specific colors you are allowed to use in your painting so you don't have to spend time choosing from millions of colors. In this lecture you will learn how to create a color pallet from scratch as well as how to copy color pallets from photographs and other artwork.

In this lecture you will be looking at examples of how color controls mood. Mood plays a big part of digital painting and color choice influences your paintings heavily. Sometimes the lack of color or de-saturation can control the mood as well. 

In this lecture students will learn about the basics of layers. We'll cover the layer menu and go over how they work and what you would use them for.

In this lecture students will learn about how layer organization works. We'll go over the different features of layers and how to name and color them.

Composition is made up of many components. Its incredibly important to create good composition in your paintings other wise nothing else will matter. Luckily designing your composition is a simple process. 

In this lecture you will be learning the importance of contrast and how it should play into your paintings. Contrast applies to everything form color to texture to values. In this lecture you will be painting a character design while applying everything you've learned about contrast.

When designing your compositions you will want to paint on different layers. By painting each part of your composition on a different layer it allows you to adjust that layer without disturbing other parts of your painting. In this lecture we will be taking a black and whit composition painting and adjusting the size, placement, and values of the layers in order to achieve a better composition.

In this lecture students will learn how to create a depth of field effect in their painting utilizing layers.

In this lecture students will learn about layer masks. We'll learn how to use layer masks and how to create them.

In this lecture students will learn about the selection tool. We'll use it to create different faces using the downloadable resources.

In this lecture you will learn about the Blur tool. There are a handful of blur tools and blur tool options. By the end of this lecture you will know how to use all of them.

In this lecture you will learn about all the different filters you can use with digital painting. Some software's may not have all of these filters but they will have most of them. Filters allow you to filter your paintings through different effects such as blur or ripple. 

In this lecture you will learn about adjustment layers and how they work. Adjustment layers allow you to adjust different aspects of your image such as color and value.   

In this lecture students will learn about gradient mapping. We'll use an example to try creating a gradient map.

In this lecture students will learn about how to master brush control. We'll do an exercise to help you practice brush control.

In this lecture you will be learning about edge control and how it applies to your digital paintings. Edge control refers to the hardness of softness of your brush edge. Controlling your edges helps you control the focal point of your painting. 

In this lecture we will be painting a still life form start to finish. For this lecture you will not be provided with a sketch. We must start with a blank canvas and draw it ourself.