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Tutorial - Common Digital Painting Mistakes
Published: 2012-06-07 04:07:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 230666; Favourites: 12219; Downloads: 4631
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A guide to common digital painting mistakes that I've either seen or done myself...hopefully it helps
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This is one of the best and honest tutorials I've seen, thanks!
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Thanks for the laugh, haha! I feel like I'm in some uncomfortable zone between overblender and under-contraster, oops.
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This helps soooooo much thankyou I just started digital art and I've been trying to figure out blending and a bunch of other sruff. Again thankyou.
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you've answered so many questions for me. Thank you sooo much.
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You summed it up pretty well.
I challenged myself to draw small detail studies on paper with pencil, starting with eyes and planning to move on to other parts of the face like noses and mouths, drawing as much detail as I could. I noticed something different on the pair of eyes I drew every time even though I only drew like 6 or 7, and then I had an idea for a portrait so I started to work digitally, drawing my first digital work of that scale. The eyes were no problem at all but I had difficulties with the nose and the mouth since I didn't get to that part of my studies yet. I never thought it would be that much of a problem because I am a photographer too, I see and work on a lot of faces and I have had my fair share of traditional art with pencils but I never took the trouble of making studies before like two months ago. So besides agreeing with you that practicing traditionally can really help I'd like to give this one last advice to whoever is still reading: always have time to go back to the basics and do studies. It helps A LOT. If the great painters of the renessaince were not shy to do studies before their biggest creations, I think we can safely do the same
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This definitely needed to be done. For every artist, beginner or not.
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Kind of cynical and derogatory at times, but very helpful and informative. If you want to publish this, be sure to remove the comments in parenthesis, they seem a bit unprofessional and immature. That aside, this is a good guide for beginners.
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Definitely stopped me from making some mistakes before I even made them! Wonderful tutorial ^-^
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Ive ben trying to digitally paint, and its so hard and time consuming, I think this turoial helps
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thank you so much for this guide! It's very helpful and I can't wait to try everything!
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I love this tutorial! 
One common mistake i see sometimes is soft shading with black color or with just a simply darker shad of the original color, which makes the piece look dirty.
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That is a wonderful list of things to avoid! I wish I had found this 5 years ago 
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Thumbs up, this one will help me a lot, as I just started with digital painting and don't want to stay with flat colors/looks
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This is helpful for people like me who can't seem to paint worth squat. Thank you for doing this for us and for people like me, we appreciate it.
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Yay... the most useful "tutorial" I've come across so far.
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Guilty of most, stopped using dodge/burn almost altogether now.
Being color blind I didn't realize how it changed color until someone told me.
Thank you for posting this
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very helpful.
i made all the fatal mistake you listed in here, time to fix from top to toe
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Very helpful! I've made several of these mistakes!
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very helpful ! it's like a check list of what not to do while doing a digital painting
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Though the comment about smudging is completely right with the default settings on an average digital art style, it's a very important tool in digital watercolor if you edit it to become a blender tool rather than smudge. Gives very nice watery looks and some texture, so long as you use the right settings and brush.
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Smudge tool with default presets gives horrifying results, that's true. But I use a custom brush shape with a custom setting and it creates lovely gradients with a grainy texture! Sometimes it's too smooth though.
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hmm see it remember most of these when i do traditional. for some reason when its digital it goes out the window. i think i need some practice from still life's and some real life photos for more practice. hmm thanks for the reminder. hopefully it will stick next time i go to paint digitally
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