Wolves Digital Painting Screencast by Jonathan Woodward

Apr 22nd in Illustration by Jonathan Woodward

Jonathan walks us through an illustration he did of wolves, sharing some solid-gold tips on the digital illustration process along the way. Jonathan also talks about his journey to becoming a professional illustrator.

This video is a speed painting with commentary. You'll see some great digital painting in this screencast by Jonathan Woodward, created exclusively for Psdtuts+.

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Author: Jonathan Woodward

Jonathan Woodward is a nomadic Graphic Designer, originally from the UK. He's currently making the transition to become a full time illustrator - you can follow his progress on his blog zero2Illo.com.


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    Meng To April 22nd

    Typo with “Paiting”. Should be Painting. Awesome work.

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    lionel April 22nd

    Very nice

    so I’d like to know what brush are u used to paint this painting?

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    Collis April 22nd

    Thanks Meng, that’s fixed!

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      lawrence77 April 23rd

      wow! Collis is back!
      With an ‘I’ correction ;)

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    Max Stanworth April 22nd

    Great narrative and tips, the wolf in the middle is awesome!

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    Ricardo Chiappe April 22nd

    Great Tutorial and tips. When I was in college had a teacher that kind of teach us that style of digital painting (few layers, start drawing with quickly and nothing defined). It was really good and refreshing to see this video. Thanks for doing it.

    Saludos! :)

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    Free CSS Tutorials April 22nd

    Great result and I really appreciate the commentary. Helps a lot.

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    namer April 22nd

    Mmm… :-( goodluck

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    Skellie April 23rd

    Speed painting rawks :)

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    animal69 April 23rd

    Realy love comments in the video a gold worth!

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    Jonathan Woodward April 23rd

    Thanks for the comments everyone – glad the commentary is useful :)

    Lionel – the main brushes used for the wolves in the tutorial were the basic hard edged round brush and a brush called ‘texture comb’ for the scratchy fur effect, both used at various levels of opacity. Hope that helps.

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      lionel April 26th

      thank’s

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    CgBaran Tuts April 23rd

    Great work thanks

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    lionheart April 23rd

    fantastic!

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    Yatrik April 23rd

    wow. good work

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    darryl April 23rd

    Seeing the initial sketches taken all the way through to the finished article a true inspiration we be looking out for more of these from you.

    cheers

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    Gyrel Dagooc April 23rd

    Very good work! This reminds me the monalisa artwork made using MS Paint.

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    Frank Spencer April 23rd

    What a lovely tutorial. i really enjoy watching the actual process of drawing, not concentrated on the photoshop and the effects around it..

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    JaeTea April 23rd

    Really great commentary!

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    Tom H April 23rd

    Amazing, but it’s not really a tutorial, is it.

    Anyway, this was very enjoyable to watch, thanks!

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      jake walker April 23rd

      yh, its more of a series of tips to make the painting better. because you cant realy teach someone to paint from scratch in like 45 mins

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    jake walker April 23rd

    Fantastic, when its zoomed in it looks real messy but when it its zoomed out it looks realy detailed! hope there are more tutorials from you!

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    Franky April 23rd

    Way cool. Great!!!!

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    jem April 23rd

    Very cool tutorial, I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen any tutorials highlighting photoshop’s illustrative qualities.

    Wish you luck in your pursuit in the illustration world!

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    Tyler April 23rd

    Great walk-through on your process. It makes it look a lot more manageable than just watching a regular speed painting.

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    jim bim April 23rd

    really cool video , it’s amazing how some people have the tallent/patience to do a painting like this :)

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    Greg Ponchak April 23rd

    This was the most useful thing I’ve ever seen on the site. My style differs from this a lot, but I think I may try to get into this type of design/illustration.

    Also, I loved the fact that it was not really a tutorial, but more of advice that can be taken beyond this piece of art.

    I would love to see more videos by him.

    Amazing.

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    Jonathan Woodward April 24th

    Hey everyone – thanks so much for all the kind comments.

    I’m glad you found the screencast and the commentary useful.

    Cheers,
    Jonathan

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    Barbara April 24th

    Excellent – very informative! You should do more.

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    dragan April 25th

    So, here is what he is talking about. And you turned it down a few months ago. Why is that, Or You Don’t like Cheguevara and have problems with komunist or with good work.

    so everybody who wants complete tutorial without any layers done before the compete piece vote here.

    And the time lapse video is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqXkajpoKA

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    huwaw69 April 27th

    nice work man… its good technique…

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    Jorbin April 27th

    Fantastic!

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    David April 28th

    Great work, Jonathan. I really like the relaxed style. For me, I’d like a few more comments when you change brushes or opacity as it happens just to let me know what’s going on. Overall impression is that it’s very professional; good luck with it and I’ve love to see some more of these

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    photo retouching April 29th

    I like the appropriate description if the author of this great tut. Nomadic designer…………..really fits

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    super unknown May 4th

    good luck bro

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    jas May 4th

    That was verryyyyy goood….but, if it possible may i got .pdf file or may be upload on internet about this tutorial.

    Thanks

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    Silentman June 3rd

    Very inspiring, i don’t draw but sure as heck want too now, i hope you do another one of these video guides, i like watching you paint :)

    Even if you had of said nothing at all, your technique spoke volumes, the narration was an added gift…

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    MattBrox August 21st

    dude great video! CONGRATS ON THE BABY =D

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