Taking Your Digital Paintings to the Next Level in Photoshop

By Lawrence Mann
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. Software required: Photoshop CS5.
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Course info
Level
Advanced
Updated
Aug 5, 2013
Duration
7h 51m
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
Introduction and Project Overview 1m
Taking Your Digital Paintings to the Next Level in Photoshop
A More Dynamic View 14m Adding a Story to the Image 12m Continuing to Add a Story to the Image 13m Finishing Adding a Story to the Image 13m Selecting Our Story 13m Sketching Soldiers 11m Beginning to Build a Background 16m Tweaking the Composition 15m Adding a Second Light Source 13m Adding the Queen's Minions 14m Blocking in Details 12m Adding Dead Soldiers Arm and Hand 13m Finishing the Soldiers Hand 13m Remolding the Skyline 13m Detailing the Buildings 15m Creating a More Dynamic Sky 14m Detailing the Soldier Fighting the Minion 13m Looking at the Net-launcher 11m Working on the Sergeant's Gun 10m Final Level of Detail to the Buildings 9m Making Metal on a Shotgun Look Great 10m Filling in the Skyline 11m Retouching Lighting Throughout the Piece 9m Blending Our Characters into the Background 7m Placing Extreme Foreground Objects 13m Continuing Extreme Foreground Objects 12m Lighting Foreground Objects 10m Creating Black Ash 13m More on Black Ash 11m Adding Fire Sparks 15m Making Adjustments 13m Detailing the Queen 16m Painting an Engraved Texture 13m Finishing the Engraved Texture 12m Repainting the Queen's Original Hands 10m Finishing the Queen's New Hands 10m Final Touches on Our Image 14m
Description
Course info
Level
Advanced
Updated
Aug 5, 2013
Duration
7h 51m
Description

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. Software required: Photoshop CS5.

About the author
Lawrence Mann
About the author

UK based Illustrator Lawrence Mann has enjoyed a career spanning over 15 years.

Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Introduction and Project Overview
Hi everybody. My name's Lawrence Mann. I'm a freelance illustrator and digital artist. I spend a great deal of my time creating concept art and illustrating book covers for the publishing industry. Over the years, I've been fortunate enough to create work for the likes of Sony, Nokia, Mattel, as well as a few others. During the course of this tutorial, we're going to look at how to turn a good digital painting into an absolutely great one. We'll start by taking our basic image and enhancing its strongest elements. Next, we'll add a story, we'll look at lighting and atmosphere, as well as other visual tricks, such as adding extreme foreground and background objects. Next, we'll explore how a different approach can transform any image and take your skill set to the next level. The aim of these lessons is to help you quickly transform almost any good digital painting into portfolio gold. So sign in, or sign up, and let's get started.

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