40+ Fascinating Digital Painting Tutorials
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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wow amazing collections…really enjoy it..
Bookmarked! great collection! I’ll check them all
Been waiting for this for a long time.
this website is an insipration
Really awesome tutorials
thanks
Ehi! The title is “40 fascinating …” but in the end they are 50 ;)
I believe it’s 40+ fascinating…
;)
Outstanding! Thank you so much.
iuiuIUIUIuiui nice list… hope to get this done some day also…
v nice styles…
wow, great collection
I’ll check them all. Thanks a lot
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.
I agree !
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.
Here it is, if anyones interested.
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/drawing/digitally-paint-a-fantasy-tree-scene/
superb! Absolutely amazing. This will be a starting point for many people I guess :)
wow, really nice collection. but it need a natural talent to follow these tutorials. :)
Lies, anyone can draw. All it takes is patience, practice, and time. Anyone could learn to draw if they set their mind towards it.
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.
Not totally true. It takes a change of perception to ‘truly’ draw. However, most anyone can ‘photoshop’ something, but that’s a different story.
Yes I think true.
Insane!
wow…
Looking great, definately gonna take a closer look at them later ;) thanks!
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! ^_^
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!
a very useful substantial collection, thanks
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una importante colección muy útil, gracias
Wow, nice collection
Very nice inspirational post!! some of these are incredible!! :oo
Really a great collection. I want to know more about this.
wow! I’m gonna try with my own image!
Thinking how much time it will take to check them all!
These are amazing.
Group Photoshop Cs4 Tutorials on ( DVD 6 ) Photoshop Top Secret
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When i see something like that i regret that I didn’t bought myself a tablet yet :/
awesome
nice thanks ::)
lovely
You don’t know how long I’ve been searching for something like this….
A BIG THANK YOU :)
Oh my!
This is a great roundup, hopefully will help me learn how to paint!
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/web-picks-24/
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!..
this is awesome collection! thank you for compiling this
Wow these are amazing!
Paulie Bleeker, you are the cheese to my macaroni!
What a great collection of tutorials! These will most definitely come in handy! Thx much!
Really useful thanks for sharing
wow! – amazing
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).
great! work How can make ?
Wow.. most of em are pretty decent!!
Awesome Collection helped me a lot.
hiiiii
superb this is really very good,,,
did u send me some best design with open file
good job tutorial..
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hi sir. very nice. god bless you lot… take care..
all above are time consuming.
but worthing doning.
WOW!!!!
Oh this is a great collections, goin2 try!!!
I was wondering if anyone knew where i can find a good tutorial about how to begin painting in photoshop. i currently am running cs4 and dont even know where to start. all the videos i watch seem good but they simply jump right in and say grab your brush and follow along. i dont know half of where everything is in photoshop or how to make the simple effects such as painting where layering colors will change or darken them. It took me about 30 minutes to figure out how to actually make the brush paint in color rather than just a black line. mad props to whoever can point me in the right direction!
what i am saying is i am looking for a video that will help to get me accustomed to photoshop and where things are and what they do, but with a concept painter’s mindset.