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QuantumSuz — Digital Painting Tutorial 1
Published: 2006-05-18 18:02:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 36741; Favourites: 537; Downloads: 5174
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Just a tutorial for photoshop and digital painting in general (I mainly concentrated on painting techniques rather than photoshop technical details so I assume some working knowledge of the program here!). The piece is a portrait of a rather pretty woman with her cup of tea
I use a WACOM Intuos 3 A6 in case anyone is interested
The final image can be found here:
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Comments: 131
OMG its beautiful!!!!!!
I wish i could draw like that! maybe in another few hundred years.. haha... Thank you for posting this! it's amazing.
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Thank you so much for sharing. I've experimented with digital painting, but without a slightly more formal set of ideas to work from, I've been unhappy with my results. I'm really looking forward to trying this technique!
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thank you for this great tutorial..it helped me a lot
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This tutorial helped me a LOT with getting started. I just finished my first digital painting [HERE ]. My method ended up being a little different from yours, but I just have to give you the credit for teaching me my first lessons. Thank you so much!
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I'm glad that you found the tutorial useful! Your picture turned out really well
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I just got a new tablet and I was thinking digital painting was some godly skill way out of my league! but thankyou, this was definitely helpful. ^^
Great piece I might add,
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I'm glad that you found it useful
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This is an amazingly useful painting tutorial, in fact one of the most useful ones I've found for a beginner like myself. I've wanted desperately to PS paint for a long time, but have been having so much trouble figuring out where and how to start. This gives me some really great insight into how a painting takes shape.
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Thank you, I'm glad you found it useful.
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Thanks for making this. I've been planning o try this
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I've got a question, do you use Pen pressure on all your brushes? Or just sometimes? If so, when? ^^ Just got a tablet and I suck at drawing so this tutorial really helped!
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Yes, I usually use pen pressure to adjust the opacity, and also the size (so it gets lighter and thinner at the beginning and end of the strokes). Although sometimes I set pen pressure to adjust foreground->background colour as that also produces nice painting effects
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What about when you sketch? You use pen pressure then too? Because my sketches always become very light if I dont like press insanely hard with the pen, therefor my tips gets flat real quick lol
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Ah - I tend to do the sketches traditionally and then scan them in rather than using the tablet.
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This looks like a great tutorial- fantastic for learning new skills. Good work and thankyou
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What a great tutorial! It's so neat to see a piece from sketch to finish.
Can I ask a question though?
I wanted to know what size uhm, canvas this was all done on? The uh...*thinks*
Pixel dimensions! I think. >.>;
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Sorry for the slow reply! I usually use around 3000px-5000px
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Wow... How you can go from a rough sketch to that is beyond me, even if the answer's right in front of me. 
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Thank you. A big pile of paper is the best thing. I do most of my sketches on paper and then scan them in before I start on Photoshop. I love my sketchbook, I take it everywhere
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I used to have sketchbooks but then I could never fit the ringbinder in the scanner.
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Very helpful! Thanks for making this tutorial..
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when you're colouring, what kind of layer do you use..???? like multiply or color...
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...time to show my newbie digital artness...you use a what?
other than that great tutorial.
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I assume you mean the tablet? It's a Wacom Intuos 3 graphics tablet - you use it with a digital pen instead of a mouse
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yes thank you, I didn't know it was called a tablet, now I can start looking for one
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Very sweet, even though I use GIMP, I can still do all of his. <33 I'm excited, once I learn how to shade properly my coloring may turn out to be much better using this method. 
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You are amazing. Maybe one day I will try to do this although I don't think I would be very good. I can barely photoshop as it is
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Thank you - keep trying, it just takes practice
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and patience which I seriously lack 
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yey - so again thnx - 
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I was just wondering what size and resolution do you tend to paint at? And do you scale the image down after?
I'm just starting to learn painting in adobe so I was just wondering what gives a better image with detail.
Awsome and very helpful tutorial. Thanks.
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I work at a low resolution to begin with, maybe 600px by 800px, in order to get the initial sketch looking correct. To do the details I then scale the image up to about 3000px by 4000px. The trick is not to use too many layers, or it gets very resource-hungry on your computer (I don't have a particularly fast machine). Anyway, layers are overrated, I prefer to paint in as few layers as possible 
Hope that is helpful!
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yes, very! Thankyou so much. I have been working at 1000x1500ish for my first try but I think I need to scale it up.
Thankyou for the help!
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Good luck with your painting
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