40+ Fascinating Digital Painting Tutorials

on Jul 26th 2011 with 79 comments

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.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Psdtuts in June of 2009.

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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  • Joel

    I agree with you, I’m having a hard time starting out as well as you. I also have a hunch that the ones that actually tell you how to get started are the kinds you have to pay for. All I can say is practice, fool around with photoshop. Take some tutorials for just editing a photo, you’ll probably find out how to use something from a tutorial in digital painting. Also, I’ve been watching a site called http://www.idrawgirls.com and despite the questionable name, it’s safe for work, and funnily enough, not much girls are drawn on there. This guy is very good, and he actually works on concept art for a game called Guild Wars, so I’d say that would probably be the best place to start learning even if you don’t want to be a game designer!

  • http://www.cgbaran.com Cgbaran

    Great collection i should check most of them thanks

  • http://www.coroflot.com/9aananda anand

    I am a Digital Painter… so I just want to know how can i send my digital Paintings.. can i get a buyer ?? or something..

  • http://www.ck-studio.de Christian

    Thanks for this list of tutorials! Its time to use my Bamboo ;)

  • http://www.ioandecean.info Nelutu

    Thanks for this great tutorials :)

  • Open Your Mind

    Another repost.

    You might want to up the price you’re offering to attract more people, if you want to remain a player.

  • http://www.computercollisioninvestigations.com/ MD.Khairul Alam

    Look like a real human face.

    pocket zone:http://www.computercollisioninvestigations.com/

  • http://newtripod.com/ New Tripod

    Great collection. I will check out all of them Thanks for sharing

  • gourav

    its verry hard works, but result is too good

  • perumal

    thanks to tutorial

  • http://themescompany.com Themescompany

    we find this post really creative for this reason we tweet it..keep going.!!

  • http://www.moretoart.com/ Moretoart

    Some great tutorials!

  • http://www.amitsadik.com Amit Sadik

    #34 is an awesome digital painting… so lovely and cute

  • Demi

    These are great, that color vibrancy one was excellent! just what I’ve been wanting to know. -D

  • adithya

    adithya saysssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss dis is verry verry nice……………………………………..

  • Erwin0265

    The Making of Hecate link is dead.
    I found the tutorial here:
    http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/hecate/

  • http://ghank.com Malik Nasir Awan

    I see the tutorial is from very old date but is still that effective for newbies. All of them are fine but Portrait Speedpainting and abstract dragon are very cool. Did enjoyed them

  • fatematr

    The first two tutorials, skin tones 1 and skin tones 2 are just dead!
    does anyone know where else I could find them?
    thanks!

  • http://styledip.com umair

    extravagant example of creativity and Artwork.Great post.Keep it Dude.

  • http://slowbuddy.com Slow Buddy

    Wonderful list but in my view the best one is “The Making of Spanish Girl”…

  • http://picsmaterial.com kaka

    like all but especially no 34 is my favourite one.Thanks for sharing great post.

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