How to Digitally Paint in Photoshop with a Drawing Tablet: Showcase
Friday, January 30, 2009
This is part 3 in my series on beginner digital painting. Catch up by reading part 1 on Photoshop settings and part 2 on technique. This segment shows you, through progress shots, how I’ve used the discussed methods to create paintings.
Preview
Here are the two paintings for which I’ll be showing you progress shots, Underworld and Self-Portrait (Red):
Underworld
I laid down the base color, then begin refining details:
More detail:
Began adding finishing touches, like lighting and flecks of stubble:
The final work:
Self-Portrait (Red)
Laid down base colors, then began refining (I had the lips on another layer; I’m afraid they were misplaced in this shot!):
More detail in the upper half of the face:
Making my way down:
Finished off detail in the face:
Added hair (use of the Size Jitter is very obvious here):
Detail in the hair:
After clean up and processing, my final image:
Next Time
I hope these works inspire you and show how one can go from a blank canvas to a finished work! In my next post, I’ll revisit technique by taking a special focus on precise brush movement and pressure.
This post is part of a series on digital painting:
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12:21 PM
These are the first tutorials I have ever seen on using a pen tablet. I purchased one about 5 years ago but gave up on it after acouple of months because I found it enormously difficult to cordinate my hand movements with what was going on on the screen. I needed two pairs of eyes! All that aside, in these tutorials the first two were headed in the right direction,but the last one was a quantum leap past the first two! There is too much left out to really follow what’s going on. I’d really REALLY like to see more basic lessons on this subject.
5:46 PM
There will be! I am getting all kinds of requests to cover a wide variety of topics, but I’ll continue coming back to digital painting as often as I can.
This post was intended as more of an overview of where tablet use can be taken rather than a precise tutorial. I’m writing a tutorial for psd.tuts+ (http://psd.tutsplus.com/) on the self-portrait from scratch to finish that I think will clarify the steps… I’ll let everyone know when it’s up! :)
4:20 AM
Many Thanks for the great tutorial. I got a wacom intuos 4 for about half a year now. I started to work with it after RSI complaints. And it realy helpt me. I’m currently active in an echabition and interieur world where we work with 3D max. Wel and eversince thats a CAD program the talet doesn’t add any features instead of a mouse.
But when i got some spare time i’m almast always in progress with art, ecspecialy character design. So a lot of anatomie en design.
Currently i’m at the point that the structre and design are correct so colloring it taking a larger part now.
I had some techniques developed myself but it was realy conceptual. Now i’ve had a clear tutorial it wil help me a lot with detailing the collors in my painting.
Again many thanks!
Would love to see some more work of you!
7:42 PM
I’m really glad to have helped, Rik! Good luck!
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