Digital Painting From Sketch To Finished Product

A step by step guide to create amazing digital paintings using adobe photoshop.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.4

- Create amazing digital paintings with Adobe Photoshop!
- Break into an exciting and growing digital art marketplace.
- Focus their creativity into an easy-to-grasp process that leads to excellent results.

What you'll learn

Create amazing digital paintings with Adobe Photoshop!

Break into an exciting and growing digital art marketplace.

Focus their creativity into an easy-to-grasp process that leads to excellent results.

* Requirements

* Photoshop and a pen tablet (Wacom Intuos 3 recommended) along with a creative spirit are all that is needed.
* Fundamentals will be covered
* but a general understanding of art basics is recommended.

Description

Digital Painting from Blank Canvas to Completed Product

If you are a student with plans to enter the field of conceptual art and illustration or already work in the business but want to learn an exciting way to build a strong client base and improve workflow, this course is perfect. However, the course is also beneficial for virtually anyone interested in painting something unique and cool on the computer.

How to Transform the Ordinary into Something Extraordinary with Digital Painting

Master key elements of art and illustration

Understand how to stand apart from the competition

Benefit from basic and sidebar methodologies

Optimize existing or gain new knowledge

Content and Overview

By applying everything learned in this course, you have incredible opportunities to work within multiple industries, including entertainment, law enforcement, and medical. Digital painting is widely used in the creation of characters seen in blockbuster films, promotional materials for video games, costume and mask design, and detailed illustrations used by medical professionals, and this course paves the way.

Other courses tend to skip critical steps or gloss over information, but with this digital painting course, everything you need to get started is provided. This course will take you through the process of creating an amazing digital character illustration step-by-step using Adobe Photoshop.

Developing New Ideas – You will learn effective methods of developing ideas specific to character illustration.

Sketching – Hardy Fowler will cover all the basics of sketching, including the right way to get started

Blocking in Color – You will learn appropriate ways to apply color and define tones.

Painting and Polishing – As the final step of the course, your project will be given final touches and the painting completed.

When finished, you will have created a digital painting of a character face and will possess basic skills for creating pieces to share or even use in an upcoming project.

After completing this course using Adobe Photoshop, you will have the ability to create polished illustrations from scratch. Included in the course are rough sketching, inking, basic mark-making and rendering, using quick mask mode to block in, blocking and painting, skin tones, and polish and presentation.

Who this course is for:

This digital art class is perfect for beginners seeking to break into the digital art field.
Novices and even professionals will also benefit a great deal from this class. Refine your methods and increase the marketability of your work. Level up!

Course content

8 sections • 17 lectures

Introduction & Basic Mark Making 3 lectures

Introduction, Equipment Recommendations & Photoshop Basics Preview 02:42

Introduction, Equipment Requirements and Course Overview

Process Overview - Sketch, Ink, Final Preview 01:09

Basic Mark Making Preview 08:34

Sketching 2 lectures

Overview of Process Preview 00:54

High resolution images showing the sketch, ink, final process breakdown are available for download below.

Sketching Preview 02:43

Inking 1 lectures

Inking Preview 02:47

Blocking In & Form Modelling 3 lectures

Blocking In Preview 02:39

Optional Sidebar: Basics of Faces Preview 06:54

Form Modeling Preview 05:22

Skin Tones 1 lectures

Skin Tones Preview 03:02

Polish & Final Presentation 2 lectures

Optional Sidebar: Basics of Eyes Preview 04:51

Polish & Final Presentation Preview 06:03

Recap 2 lectures

New male character portrait Preview 16:54

It's always best to have more than one example to work from, so I've gone through the entire process again with a new character. I'll be adding new character videos like this one from time to time. Please let me know if there is anything in particular you would like to see for the next entry.

Female character portrait Preview 14:49

By popular demand, I've recorded a video of a female character portrait. We'll discuss a few special considerations when painting a female character and have a good refresher on the general steps of this process too.

Advanced Tutorial - Complete Character Rendering 3 lectures

Optional Sidebar: Basics of Cloth/Drapery Preview 05:02

Knowing how to realistically render cloth and drapery is a must when creating full figure character illustrations. Here, we will cover the basics of how to make marks that give a realistic sense of cloth. Three rough examples will be painted.

Optional Sidebar: Phototextures with Soft Light Layer Mode Preview 07:37

Here we will cover how to add photo textures to your character's clothing using the Soft Light layer blending mode. This is a great finishing tough to give the clothing some realistic punch.

Male Character Illustration Preview 32:36

This is a comprehensive video tutorial showing a male character rendered from scratch. We discuss everything from ideation to finishing touches. All techniques covered to this point will be used along with several new techniques. This is a more advanced challenge so it is recommended that you attempt this only after completing earlier sections.