Observing the world around you through an artist’s perspective begins with practice. Rediscover your surroundings by delving into volume, depth, and color to create harmonious digital paintings.
Create an original digital painting in Photoshop with a step-by-step process and expert insights. See how to sharpen your perception of tonal values, understand lighting, and learn to apply different techniques to create a digital painting filled with realism.
Hear about my professional achievements. I share my journey to becoming a better artist over time and how it relates to mindset. Explore my favorite artists and learn why they are an important source of inspiration for me.
Understand what digital painting is used for, and how it differs from drawing. Learn how to represent volume by applying values to 3 basic shapes and seeing how to use contrast for visual depth. Go over some drawing basics with me before discovering my method for sharpening value perception. Get familiar with the basic principles of light and how it affects our perception.
Explore the different kinds of brushes available in Photoshop and paint a gradient to see them in use. Then, create your own brushes and paint a sphere with them. See how to paint volume by exploring lighting position and value distribution before creating your own lighting scheme. Learn how to analyze your work with a simplified black and white version of your image and start painting the values of each zone
