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QuantumSuz — Digital Painting Tutorial 1
Published: 2006-05-18 18:02:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 36744; 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:
[link]
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Thank you, I'm glad you found it useful!
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This deviation has been chosen as a feature of the week
on *Word-worth-1000-pics which is a community project
promoting visual art deviants
It has been found from the word : "TEA "
you can see it featured here: [link]
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Thank you very much, I shall certainly have a look
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This was very helpful... i always wanted to know how to do this cause i totally suck at how i do it now... even though i dont have photoshop ( i have some windows brand photo impresions (not regular paint)) im deffiently going to try this!
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thats awesome i never knew how to use layers and hope to go into the digital painting ill have to definately absorb this
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This was extremely helpful. I used it as a reference here if you're interested, [link] Thanks for such a great tutorial!
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Also, which tool did you use for the lineart?
I hope it wasn't the pencil, because with wacom tablets, if you move the pencil tool too fast, you lose sight of it. At the best of times.
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I usually do the lineart in my sketchbook or on paper and then scan in the drawing
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Great tutorial. Most in-depth one I've seen yet.
Also the girl in the piece looks like a friend of mine.
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I GOT to try this. My sketches are fine, but my digital painting sux. They are truly pitiful. I hate to work on a sketch and end up leaving it in pencil because I'm too inept to try my colors. Thank you for all of the instructions. I shall take them to heart and to canvas! Byrd
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For me it's not really an angry face...it is directed at myself!
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Yeah. I know! They shoul get a "determined" or "inspired" face. Even an "lol" face would be nice.
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Excellent! I will have to try some of these techniques..even though I'm quite the n00b lol
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Thank you, I'm glad you found it useful
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this is so detailed and a really great tut. I am just starting to try digital painting and this is so helpful thank you. now onto tut #2....
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great tutorial! thanks for sharing your technique!
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Thanks! Thats ok, I'm glad it was helpful
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how do i have to open this??
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I think you have to click on 'download', which downloads it to your computer, then you can open it as normal. But sometimes just clicking on the thumbnail will open it up in fullview. I'm not sure, sometimes DA seems to change its mind
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ok i will try because when i click on it it doesnt shows anything
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Wacom tablets really are amazing.. Hrm, you have th same as me *smile*
Its unfair that you cando such awesome stuff with it.. and well.. Im so amateur *laugh* Well done! Great tutoriall.. Now.. must buy photoshop...
although im sure I could adapt this for paint shop pro.
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I'm glad you found it useful
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Thank you for your effort to make this tutorial! It's awesome!
I want to try it out, but I guess I need to wait for my tablet...it would make things a bit easier I guess.
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Thanks for the comments! I'm hoping to make another tutorial soon, perhaps on my new piece 'And so it was' as it is quite background-heavy and I haven't done a tutorial about blending in backgrounds with the main subject yet
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your paintings are insanely beautiful & I can't even imagine having half your talent. I've wanted to learn digital painting for quite some time..this is such a helpful tutorial, thank you! however I need to get better at sketching first hehe.
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I wish you luck! I'm hoping to do a couple more tutorials soon. They take quite a long time to make but I am glad they are useful!
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I can imagine they do take a long time, takes a lot of effort & time! but it's appreciated
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I have a question, do you use a mouse or sketchpad thing 
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Ah, I use a tablet. I used to use a mouse though, it is ok you just need a different style of colouring (more like cel-style) than with a tablet, which is more like real painting
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Thank you. I only have a mouse at the moment which was why I was wondering. Thanks.
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Thank you very much indeed - I hope that you found it most helpful
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Can you please other tutorial on her hair?I tried alot but I cant get the effect.
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I might do some more soon....
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Thanks! I hope to do some more of them in the near future
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great!!i will be the first to download
sorry for the bad english
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I'm glad that you like it!
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Something I always wonder when I see people who are so good at "Painting" directly in photoshop. Do you use a tablet? I mean, I have been practicing lately with "painting" over my own pencil sketches that I have scanned, but I could never sketch in photoshop directly. And even if I had a tablet, I don't know if I could sketch on the tablet and look at the screen at the same time. Or does the tablet have its own display?
I really hope that UC accepts me into the art program so I can see how others do this stuff. I'm 35 years old and never went to a "normal" college because I couldn't afford it, ended up going to tech school for electronics. I want to go back to school now for what I wanted to do in the first place (Art), but have no transfer credits and need to start from scratch. And with no money to boot.
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Yes, I do use a tablet. I used to use a mouse, for a couple of years, but it is very hard to 'paint' directly with a mouse. Instead I used a lineart and cell shading technique back then.
Sketching on the tablet and looking at the screen is easy, after a while it just becomes natural. The tablet doesn't have a display, just a drawing area. (Although you can lift up the transparent protective sheet to put small drawings underneath and trace over them, I have never tried this though) I use a WACOM Intuos 3 A6 tablet. I find it easier to work on a smaller tablet - at first I thought the bigger the better surely, but you have to move the pen less distance on a smaller tablet to achieve the same brushstrokes. Getting the pen/brush settings in photoshop right I think ius the key, it makes the painting a lot easier. (I think I explained some of these in the second tutorial, can't quite remember though!)
Hope this helps.
I wish you luck with your application for the college!
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WOW *speechless* The detail and look of this is so beautiful, how long did the image take? It makes me wish I had even basic ideas of how to use PaintShop Pro or photoshop.
I think you did an amazing job!
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