Some of the professional artists share with us their techniques on how they created some of their digital paintings, but as said, they require advanced level of understanding and skill in using a number of graphic software so, the procedure is likely to be very complex for those who have not yet mastered the fundamentals of graphic designing. However, even if you are not a pro, you can still have a cursory look at these tutorials and be inspired to elevate your craft and reach the level of skill of these artists. Meanwhile, for practice, you can follow some of the cartoon illustration tutorials using Adobe Illustrator. Such tutorials are more detailed and they are really intended to help young and budding artists grow.
For those who are on their way to becoming pros, obviously these tutorials are for you. This article, will lead you to the important instructions and methodology done by professional artists in making digital paintings. A number of these artworks are done using 3Ds Max, a digital sculpting tool ZBrush, Photoshop or a combination with other tools. Also, you will find a graphic tablet to be useful as some of the authors use them for convenience. Check these advanced digital painting tutorials and enjoy!
Making of Three lines
The author, Henning Ludvigsen, a Norwegian digital artist will give you the techniques he used to create this beautiful painting of a woman from a reference photo.
Photoshop Tutorial: Bioshock Videogame Digital Painting
This walkthrough explains how the author uses Photoshop and a Wacom Tablet to paint a character from the new videogame Bioshock for GamePro Magazine. This walkthrough gives you an overview on how to use textures in a digital painting.
Making of the Challenger
Learn how to make a fire-breathing dragon in this tutorial by Japanese digital artist Youichi Shimazaki.
Making of ‘Jealous Bodyguard’
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a fierce and overly protective animal for its owner.
Making of ‘Spanish Girl’
The author deliberately wanted to create neither a photo-realistic or a cartoon-like image artwork instead he made something in between. This Spanish beauty was created for the dining room wall of the author’s grandmother David Munoz Velazquez.
Making of Beauty on the Bed
Make a beautiful illustration of a woman in this tutorial. It started with modeling a low poly female character in 3ds Max. After that, is the tweaking, and changing of proportions and generally fine-tuning of the model.
Making of “My Prince”
The girl in the picture is a young witch with mysterious magic, the baby dragon is her pet. The baby dragon looks up to the sky naively, strains the leash, and wants to fly into an adventure. This is what you will be making in this Photoshop tutorial.
Do you want to Play with me
This artwork was created in Photoshop CS2 and with a Wacom Intuos 3. The author will explain to you how to create the artwork from the initial sketch to the detailing process in the graphic software.
Umbrella Sky
The author of this wonderful artwork Marta Dahlig will take us for a walkthrough about the process she had taken to create what she dubbed as “Umbrella Sky.”
Making of the Pandora
Explore the the authors steps in creating the beautiful painting of the mythological figure Pandora in this tutorial. Everything was painted from scratch, no references used, made in Painter and Photoshop.
The Making of Bihan
This tutorial will teach you how to make beautiful heroine.
Spider Harp
David Revoy, the author will take you through the procedure on how to make a fantasy musician able to play harp on a spider web. He sketched it first on paper and later enhanced it, applying colors in Photoshop CS2.
Old style pin-up art… the new way
See the creation process of a modernized pin-up artwork from the start and get the know-how to do it yourself, with the help of Henning Ludvigsen.
Making of Bronze Dragon
Learn how to create dragon monster in this tutorial.
Creating ‘Broken Link’
This tutorial is not for the beginners. It’s for people who know their way around Photoshop and are looking to further their design knowledge/skills. Here, you will learn how to create “Link” the hero in the game “The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask,” who gets a spell put on him that mutates him into a Deku scrub (a strange tree like creature).
Making Of ‘Call of Cthulhu’
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This illustration is inspired by the short story Call of Cthulhu by Lovecraft. There is plenty of amazing Cthulhu art around and the author has always been fascinated by the subject so he decided to do his own version of it. It’s based on the part of the story that describes how the sailors accidentally manage to free Cthulhu in the nightmare city of R’lyeh.
Making Of ‘Boudicca 3060 A.D.’
For this painting, it is was originally inspired by Queen Boudicca of ancient Britain. Queen Boudicca is said to have had flaming red hair, and famously led a revolt against the Romans in approximately 60 A.D.
Making of ‘The Taming of Naas’
Christopher Vacher describes how he created a fictional scene from creation of the preliminary sketch to detailing in Photoshop.
Hanagumori Tutorial
This is a video tutorial detailing the process done by the artist Diane Ozdamar, on how to create a nice digital portrait of a noble Japanese lady in traditional garb. You will be amazed at the entire eight-part video covering the whole process from start to finish. All of them done using Photoshop.
Making of ‘Funfair’
Here’s is one funny or lighthearted digital illustration of a girl holding an ice cream in one hand but choose to lick the frog she is holding in the other. Gross as it may but the artist says that he came upon the idea of ‘Funfair’ when a friend and she were eating ice-cream during which a small insect ‘landed on hers. “Her face instantly turned into a funny grimace and I just had to hold on to that facial expression by drawing it.” the author said. All of the procedures are done in Photoshop.
Painting Perfect Skin
Painting skin is one of the hardest tasks faced by every photorealistic painter, due
to the number of factors that make up a final effect – color choices, blending techniques, special brush usage and custom texturing are all equally important to achieve a truly realistic effect. It’s also crucial to remember that different types of skin require a different approach and therefore a different combination of these elements. A delicate porcelain skin tone will require a similar technique to the transparent skin typical for babies, but will drastically differ to darker skin rendition methods. Learn the proper way of making skin tones here in this downloadable PDF tutorial.
Face the Wrath of Medusa
This tutorial will teach you how to make a digital painting of Medusa, a Greek mythological figure who is an embodiment of many archetypes representing our darkest fears.
How to Make a Melting Camera Scene
In this this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Layer Mask Tool and Liquify filter to “melt” the camera. It is recommended that you work with a tablet for this one (it makes your work easier), but if you don’t have one it is also possible to go through this tutorial.
Making Of ‘Cold Sky’
This tutorial will show you how to make a ‘Cold Sky’ artwork using 10 color palettes and standard Painter brushes only.
Painting a Heroic Male
This workshop describes how to go about painting a heroic male – a counterpart to the female on the cover. The author will take you through the entire process from initial sketch and concept to the final painting – and everything in between.
Children’s Book Illustration
The goal of this tutorial is to create an illustrative piece of fantasy art designed to appeal to children. The author of this resource says that illustrating for children doesn’t just mean boosting the colors and adding fluffy bunnies, even for the younger age ranges. That is why, one has to think more in terms of creating imagery for adults who may need more clarity. You can download this tutorial for free in PDF format.
Painting realistic hands
Learn the basic anatomy rules and discover techniques that will make painting hands easier than ever, with Marta Dahlig.
Making of Mech Dragon Battle
This tutorial will take you through the techniques involved in making a fantastic dragon monster.
Painting Really Old People
You probably do not give attention to old people at all when you see them on the internet as you are more interested with smooth silky skin found on young people.Well, all people age. That’s the reality. And the author in this tutorial will take you through the steps on how to effectively paint showing clearly the distinguishing characteristics of old age like wrinkles and all.
Making of ‘Female Rogue’
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Looking around you can find some photo realistic artworks that will leave you amazed as to how they are created.
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