Taking Your Digital Paintings to the Next Level in Photoshop
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.
What you'll learn
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.
Table of contents
- A More Dynamic View 14m
- Adding a Story to the Image 13m
- 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 14m
- Adding the Queen's Minions 14m
- Blocking in Details 13m
- Adding Dead Soldiers Arm and Hand 14m
- Finishing the Soldiers Hand 13m
- Remolding the Skyline 13m
- Detailing the Buildings 15m
- Creating a More Dynamic Sky 15m
- 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 10m
- Making Metal on a Shotgun Look Great 10m
- Filling in the Skyline 12m
- 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 11m
- Creating Black Ash 14m
- More on Black Ash 11m
- Adding Fire Sparks 15m
- Making Adjustments 14m
- 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
About the author
UK based Illustrator Lawrence Mann has enjoyed a career spanning over 15 years. He has been fortunate enough to have created work for the likes of Sony, Nokia, Mattel, the BBC, Channel 4, Yamaha, Marvel, as well as creating covers for many great novels and young-adult books. Most recently, he was very honored to be asked to create the cover image for Corel Painter Essential 5. Lawrence is a firm believer that all illustrations should tell a good story. Especially when those illustrations adorn b... more