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QuantumSuz — Digital Painting Tutorial 1
Published: 2006-05-18 18:02:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 36743; 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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The images usually take about 15-20 hours, I have been getting a bit quicker lately, but I think that is to do with me paying less attention to detail. I will have to sort this out for the prints, as you can see some of the mistakes when you look closely at the images. To get them perfect and remove all the little mistakes takes more like 50-60 hours of work 
I have been using photoshop for about 4 years now, it is quite easy to learn, and there are lots of tutorials here on DA. I wish you luck!
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Wow thats a lot of time, but its understandable with the amount of detail you put in. Your artwork is stunning. Thank you for your support, did you learn Photoshop in a sort of trial and error way or did you use tutorials straight from the get go?
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I learnt to use photoshop mainly in a trial and error way. I started with a cell-style shading method but soon realised that I didn't like the resulting outlines... however it is definately an easier method using a mouse. When I got my tablet I started using it just like a paintbrush and trying to keep the number of layers to a minimum, so it is like real oil painting - almost
I still have much to learn, but I guess the trick is to spend a lot of time on each piece, that seems to be the best strategy...
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*nods* thanks for the information, its definitely worked wonders as your art is so stunning!
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absolutely fantastic! I my tablet arrived earlier today and now i'm gonna try what you've showed
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Thank you! I'm really glad that you found it useful!
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Nice and easy to follow. I use a different method but I really want to try what you do on my next digital piece. There is something that I don't do or know exactly how to achieve. On step #8 you added a "ring and border" in one of your lowest layers. How did you do that?
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Ah, yes you are right I didn't really go into detail about that. I think I explained how to make the border properly in tutorial #2. You can make borders within borders just by increasing the canvas size and filling in the area which appears with the relevant colour. The ring was just a little detail that I added to her hand just using the regular paintbrushes. Hope that helps
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this is good, really good
but one question, it doesn't really work for people who cant do smooth lines T_T
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Yeah I know, it is a bit of a problem. I guess its just the way I work. Its quite hard to make it useful for several different programs. What software do you use to paint? Perhaps there is a way of overlaying several solid lines to produce a smooth effect. I'm not sure really! :S
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well, you've obviously been doing it for a mite longer than i have XD
I use a CyberTablet 8600, from Adesso. And PS6.
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woooooooooow niiiiiice tut
thank you
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This is a pretty awesome tutorial. I personally love seeing tutorials. You give images a different outlook, specially seeing how easily you did this. It's terrifc. I'm in awe at the hair, and you had some very helpful tips, such as time management. Brilliant piece of work.
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Thank you, I'm glad you like the tutorial - I might do some more in the tutorial series as people have given nice feedback on this one
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Great tutorial.
A very interesting method of doing things.
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this is a great tutorial but it really reqires that you have a tablet which I don't have axess to right now.
If i ever get to use one though I will be sure to keep in mind what you have said here!
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Yes, I agree. I saved up for my tablet for quite a while, I used to do everything with the mouse in photoshop and it took a lot longer. Most of my earlier pieces (I think up to and including Gothic Fall: Cathedral) are done with a mouse, but they would have been done a lot quicker on a tablet. The mouse isn't too bad if you are doing a cell-style shading but for the fine shading style which I use nowadays the tablet is very useful. Its definately worth thinking about saving for one. Good luck and thanks for comments
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iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! I love it... Good work!
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Nice tutorial - gave agood insight into how you work. Wacom tablets rock supremely - I'm on my second - I have one at work and one at home - both intuous. Mouse? What's that? ;D
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Thanks! Yes I must say I've been doing a lot more artwork since I got my tablet, it makes so many things much easier
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totally awesome! this is very helpful X3
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WoW!!! Thanks for posting such a great tutorial!!! I need to buy a wacom tablet...I've been holding off, but I think I should!
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It's a pity my english is poor ...
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Well written, and informative. It's interesting to see how other people go about their painting, and how it differs from everyone else. Hmm...one of these days, I'll have to get a tutorial up. Again, well written, and the piece itself is lovely.
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Ooh, I'd like to see one of your tutorials, sounds like a plan
Thanks for comment
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Deal.
I'm sure you'll catch it whenever I manage to get one up. Might be a bit, with me moving and all, but I'll get one up.
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