Buy and Download - Digital Tutors Taking Your Digital Paintings to the Next Level in Photoshop

2013
Digital Tutors
Lawrence Mann
7h 56m
English

In this tutorial we'll learn how to turn a good digital painting into a great digital painting using simple techniques you can use over and over again in Photoshop.
Throughout these lessons we will take a look at a variety of techniques to make any image into portfolio gold! We will take a decent digital painting and transform it into a more dynamic, story-packed image with little more than a few simple steps and some elbow grease.
From this tutorial, you’ll soon be able to apply the same essential tips to your own illustrations in no time at all.

1 Introduction and project overview 01:05
A more dynamic view 14:32
Adding a story to the image Demo 12:39
Continuing to add a story to the image 13:09
Finishing adding a story to the image 13:31
Selecting our story 13:35
Sketching soldiers 11:33
Beginning to build a background 16:16
Tweaking the composition 15:38
Adding a second light source 14:01
Adding the Queen’s minions 14:22
Blocking in details 12:50
Adding dead soldiers arm and hand 13:54
Finishing the soldiers hand 13:15
Remolding the skyline 13:14
Detailing the buildings 15:27
Creating a more dynamic sky 14:51
Detailing the soldier fighting the minion 13:15
Looking at the net-launcher 11:38
Working on the sergeant’s gun 10:31
Final level of detail to the buildings 10:06
Making metal on a shotgun look great 10:10
Filling in the skyline 11:57
Retouching lighting throughout the piece 09:26
Blending our characters into the background 07:27
Placing extreme foreground objects 13:31
Continuing extreme foreground objects 12:14
Lighting foreground objects 10:40
Creating black ash 13:41
More on black ash 11:30
Adding fire sparks 15:16
Making adjustments 14:03
Detailing the Queen 16:22
Painting an engraved texture 13:21
Finishing the engraved texture 12:22
Repainting the Queen's original hands 10:13
Finishing the Queen's new hands 10:36
Final touches on our image 14:24

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