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lithriel — Digital Painting Tutorial Pt 2
Published: 2010-11-18 05:32:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 155459; Favourites: 3129; Downloads: 6073
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Part II of my digital painting tutorialThis tutorial is to help you get a good idea of how I do things. This tutorial is NOT intended to be copied exactly and it is NOT a stock image. Any over painting or using my images pasted in any way in YOUR work is prohibited. Please learn from it but don't post exact copies of this in your gallery.
And remember, the number one way to get better is to keep creating art!
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Thanks for this, it really helped me get to grips with the concept of layering colour and tone.
This is my first attempt with actually 'painting' on the layers.
rinaashe.deviantart.com/art/Pu…
Cheers, keep up the good work!
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Thank you! I'm a beginner, but this is easy to understand!
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i am pretty new to digital art so i guess this is a little advanced but thank you anyways
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You're way too advanced for me, but reading this tutorial was really interesting! Thanks for listing all the settings too.
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One short Q, what program do you use and do you use stylus or anything else? Thanks your gallery is amazing very amazing am still learning to paint realistic
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Awesome descriptions on the brush settings you used. This always gets missed in tutorials. I'm looking for more in depth techniques for painting. For example I still have problems with getting different textures for characters or clothing. And color values don't always turn out the way I want.
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how long did it take you to do this i cant seem to get the skin right in my digital painting
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Eyes on point tho <3
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i don't know but it sure isn't a rude comment
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Thank you for your short, but substantial tutorial, it helps a lot. There is my try> fav.me/d76zreq
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Thank you for ideas! I wanted to learn how to paint digitally and started a couple of days ago but didn't know the type of brush mode and stuff to use~
Great tutorial~
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there are not many tutorials short and useful but this one is that, ty
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thank you very much. as a beginner in digital stuff this will help a lot
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Hey! I followed this tutorial step by step and here are my results! x) [link] I'm not QUITE there yet... actually, not at all. But it was very useful to see how you draw a proper piece. Thanks very much!
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Now I can blend without the use of the smudge tool! Thanks for making this tutorial!!!!
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This has helped me A LOT!
I generally know how to paint digitally with my layers and what skin tones to do but I never know what brushes to use or about having the first all important brush setting so thank you!
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Thank you for the recommendations of when to use soft brushes and the blur tool. I think this tutorial will be a great help as I move ahead. I appreciate you sharing it!
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I did a painting using this: [link]
I know you're really busy, but if you have the time, I'd really love it if you could take a look/comment.
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thanks so much, i really need to work on my brush settings , thanks again
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you are amazing, I can't stop staring at the picture at how real it is? if I saw it just even a little bit further from my computer I would think its just a photo?
this tutorial is very helpful, but I know I won't be able to follow it with ease 
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Thanks so much for your comment. I wish I had time to redo this picture as it's not my favorite and I see all kinds of things I want to do change but it's still a good way for people to see how I work.
If you have any questions about the brushes let me know. I don't know about other programs but I know photoshop fairly well.
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I -love-...I cannot even begin to tell you, how much I loved reading this thing. You do what nobody else really seems to do, and that's actually explain what you're doing. Everyone else keeps their tutorials generalized, which doesn't help when you're trying to actually learn their style of painting. You are instead very specific. And I mean specific. I love that. I like tutorials that are specific and go step-by-step-by-step on how the process is done.
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i love your tutorial. but i have a question when you start coloring is each individual color on a seperate layer?
ive been trying to find a way to make my picture come out like this. im a real noob with photoshop and im using photoshop elements 5.0 ive been doing each and every single color on a seperate layer but the more tutorials i find the more im questioning how people are doing this
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No no no! The only thing on a separate layer is the background color. I draw directly on my line art actually. Sometimes I start on the layer above but shortly after merge them. I use photoshop like traditional medium by painting on my drawing. I don't know how anyone else does it, but that's my way.
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ok that makes more sense. i wasnt understanding how people were doing these amazing things but now i see. i was running into a hitch when i started using tools like liquify and blur sometimes because i was using a ton of seperate layers for everything. so ill try out on just one layer
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Getting the colors to blend and following the lines and stuff is so hard for me
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A tablet with the drivers properly installed is a big help. Developing a steady hand can take some time though. Just keep doing it and you will get better!
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Yeah I just got an Intuos 4 for Christmas, I wanna get insanely good like a lot of the people I see on dA, my mind just can't wrap around the fact that people actually paint these with like perfect color blending and realism xD. Seem's so challenging! I suppose practice does make perfect haha.
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Fun fun. I had to upgrade when my old tablet died a month and a half ago. If you are just seriously getting into art I suggest finding some local classes in traditional medium. It's taken me a lifetime of constant drawing with an "I want to be an artist when I grow up" mentality, a 4 year degree in art, and a couple of years of digital painting experience to get where I am today. Don't expect it to happen overnight. I started when I was 3. I'm 26 right now and I haven't stopped drawing since. I have years more to learn. Had I tried to learn in digital medium to start with I wouldn't be the artist I am today.
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That's insane. Yeah I figure it'll take a long time, so I'm gonna keep working on it and trying to improve. I'm not really in a great position to be able to take classes, but I'll definitely start reading up on some books about drawing anatomy and proportions and things of the sort. Hopefully that'll expand my artistic knowledge and help me slowly improve.
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