Digital paintings are one art and design trend that isn't going away any time soon. Digital paintings (examples) are vibrant, display well on screen and take advantage of new technologies like the graphics tablet to make the digital look traditional. If you're interested in learning to create art through this medium, here are over 40 tutorials to help you begin (or continue) the adventure.
1. Skin Tones Part 1
2. Skin Tones Part 2
3. Gunman by Craig Mullins
4. Revising Golongrias Picture
5. Happy Like a Broken Doll
6. Human Skin
7. Painting an Old Man
8. Painting Human Lips
9. How to Make a Planet
10. Space Craft Prototyping
11. Sci-Fi Environment Concept tutorial
12. Digital Illustration Workflow
13. Scene Rendering
14. Abstract Dragon
15. Liberate Your Colors
16. Painting a faerie scene
17. Paint a Sexy Siren
18. Portrait Speedpainting
19. Making of Hecate
20. A Traditional Approach to Creating Digital Art
21. Spider Harp
22. Create the Assault Chick
23. Creating the virtual Character AYU
24. Making of Transformers Death Blow
25. The Taming of Naas
26. Create Cool Comic Book Covers
27. How to Paint Feathers and Wings
28. New School Pinup Art
29. Children Book Illustration
30. Painting Realistic Looking Lips
31. Creating a Robot Concept
32. Making of Howling
33. Making of Superbad
34. Making of Funfair
35. Making of Cold Sky
36. Painting Clouds
37. Paint a Dragon
38. The Making of Spanish Girl
39. The Making of Fresh Meat
40. Bio Shock Digital Painting
41. Digital Painting Tutorial
42. Making of Under the Root
43. Drawn of the Dead
44. Using Brushes for Fabric and Costumes
45. Paint Realistic Ears
46. Paint Realistic Hands
47. Making of Equilibrium
48. Advanced Digital Painting
49. Making of Fire Energy
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( ADD YOURS )jophin June 5th
wow amazing collections…really enjoy it..
( )Alvaro June 5th
Bookmarked! great collection! I’ll check them all
( )Ijoek June 5th
Been waiting for this for a long time.
this website is an insipration
( )mateo85 June 5th
Really awesome tutorials
( )thanks
Sauro Pasquini June 5th
Ehi! The title is “40 fascinating …” but in the end they are 50
( )Christian August 6th
I believe it’s 40+ fascinating…
( )Matty B June 5th
Outstanding! Thank you so much.
( )massafakka June 5th
iuiuIUIUIuiui nice list… hope to get this done some day also…
( )v nice styles…
pica-ae June 5th
wow, great collection
( )Danh ba web 2.0 June 5th
I’ll check them all. Thanks a lot
( )Victoria Web June 5th
Great collection, i love the modern illustrated versions, more than the painted brush effect ones. “Making of superbad” is a really good example, a contemporary replacement for the oil painted portraits.
( )LordBug June 5th
Kinda surprised the Fantasy Tree scene that was on here a year or so ago wasn’t linked to. I thought that was an extremely easy to follow tut, a really good place to start on digital painting.
( )Dullface June 5th
Here it is, if anyones interested.
( )http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/drawing/digitally-paint-a-fantasy-tree-scene/
J. Revuelta June 5th
superb! Absolutely amazing. This will be a starting point for many people I guess
( )insic June 5th
wow, really nice collection. but it need a natural talent to follow these tutorials.
( )Dullface June 5th
Lies, anyone can draw. All it takes is patience, practice, and time. Anyone could learn to draw if they set their mind towards it.
( )Wojciech Pijecki June 5th
Indeed, but not everyone has some kind of graphic taste. That’s why there are good and poor drawings ; )
Anyone can, but not everyone should.
David June 12th
Not totally true. It takes a change of perception to ‘truly’ draw. However, most anyone can ‘photoshop’ something, but that’s a different story.
Tushar June 17th
Yes I think true.
Gareth Hardy June 5th
Insane!
( )Grafiko June 5th
wow…
( )Tebe June 5th
Looking great, definately gonna take a closer look at them later
thanks!
( )Digital13 June 5th
THANK YOU! Finally some real “digital painting” tutorials not photo manips!
I already have most of these, but there’s one or two that I don’t. Its good to see some favs making the list. Great post guys!
NOW GO AND PAINT! ^_^
( )sinoun June 5th
I love Michael Cera!! Never thought I’d see him on psdtuts, lol. This is a great post… not much of a digital painter but this makes me want to give it a try. Awesomeness. Thanks!
( )rariox June 5th
a very useful substantial collection, thanks
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una importante colección muy útil, gracias
gsurge June 5th
Wow, nice collection
( )loswl June 5th
Very nice inspirational post!! some of these are incredible!!
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( )Sasanka Sekhar Debnath June 5th
Really a great collection. I want to know more about this.
( )adnan June 5th
wow! I’m gonna try with my own image!
( )Web design Bangladesh June 6th
Thinking how much time it will take to check them all!
( )Chris June 6th
These are amazing.
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( )Michael June 7th
When i see something like that i regret that I didn’t bought myself a tablet yet :/
awesome
( )Oktigh June 7th
nice thanks ::)
( )lau June 8th
lovely
( )M.Medhat June 8th
You don’t know how long I’ve been searching for something like this….
A BIG THANK YOU
( )Diego SA June 8th
Oh my!
( )Eric Shafer June 8th
This is a great roundup, hopefully will help me learn how to paint!
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/web-picks-24/
( )Melody June 8th
I just recently got into digital painting and I find these pieces so inspiring, hope to be a part of one of these collections one day!..
( )sonnydesign June 10th
this is awesome collection! thank you for compiling this
( )Jan June 10th
Wow these are amazing!
Paulie Bleeker, you are the cheese to my macaroni!
( )Graphic Design Orange County June 11th
What a great collection of tutorials! These will most definitely come in handy! Thx much!
( )dreamer June 12th
Really useful thanks for sharing
( )francis June 12th
wow! – amazing
( )Margaret June 15th
I would love to see a tut on how to create realistic hair. This is the area that I have the most problems with when doing digital paintings, (although when I draw and paint using traditional mediums I have no problems).
( )aji June 17th
great! work How can make ?
( )Joe June 28th
Wow.. most of em are pretty decent!!
( )Chirag Vadgama August 7th
Awesome Collection helped me a lot.
( )pankaj- September 14th
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( )ryan November 4th
good job tutorial..
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