Create a Lava Monster Concept Painting
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Create a Lava Monster Concept Painting

on Jan 11th 2012 with 23 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 19 of 25 in the Digital Art for Beginners Session
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Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.

Today’s tutorial Part 19: Create a Lava Monster Concept Painting will demonstrate how to start a concept painting using rough lines and then how to add details using color and shading. Let’s get started!

 
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Martin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor (Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blog or on Twitter.  

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  • Trevor

    A sticking mess this one but the usual high standard, thanks for another great Tut.

  • Sarspazam

    Great tutorial Martin,

    I hate to fill the comments thread with a random question, but that colour selecting tool. What’s the plugin, would save so much time.

    Thanks.

    • Nico

      Its not a plugin, its a feature of CS5

    • BrianC

      The color wheel is a Photoshop CS5 feature.

  • http://thoppp.com/ thoppp

    Absolutely stunning! I love this tutorial. i am gonna have a go at this myself

  • http://www.worldofkaos.com kaos

    I love that accent.. It’s like listening to Bela Lugosi reading a Photoshop tutorial… Great stuff! ;)

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      That remark is so funny but spot on as I am from the same county as Lugosi. We are both from Hungary :) I hope I don’t sound like Dracula though :)

      • http://www.worldofkaos.com kaos

        You don’t sound Dracula at all. See the brilliant “Ed Wood” movie (by Tim Burton) and you’ll get where I’m going.
        Glad you took the comment in good spirit, as that’s how it’s meant.

        Oh, and excellent tutorial, by the way – keep those coming.. :)

  • http://www.parasuniversal.com Parasuniversal.com

    Excellent as always. You were missed Martin

  • Fillfall

    Could you post the settings of your mixer brush, and what brush you use?

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      My settings for the Mixer Brush:
      Softness: 0%
      Load the brush after each stroke turned off
      Very wet
      Sample all layers usually turned on (depends on what am I doing)
      I’m usually using it with a default brush tip (circular) but you can use it with any custom brushes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/janeislan Janeislan

    You make the work with mouse? Very Hard and Amazing! Thanks!

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      I’m using Wacom tablets. I have a range of different products:
      Bamboo
      Intuos 4
      Cintiq 21

      I’m using the Bamboo when I’m travelling, the Intuos when I’m presenting and the Cintiq at home.

  • Sean

    I am also very curious about how you were choosing colors. The wheel like interface is only familiar to me from Corel Painter. I would love to use something similar in Photoshop. Thanks you

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Sean,

      The colour wheel is a CS5 feature, it is called HUD colour picker. The keyboard shortcut is:
      Mac – Ctrl+Option+Cmd+click
      PC – Shift+Alt+Right click

      You can find options for it under the Preferences/General/HUD Color picker.

      Hope that helps!

  • TheHugo

    This will be really popular search on Google.
    Because this is the only one lava tut which is actually good

  • http://www.chimeswebdesign.com/ Alec

    Well it looks great piece of art. This was an amazing tutorial. I highly appreciate your professional approach. Keep sharing such more fascinating blogs

  • Leaf3D

    Hi Martin,

    thank you so much for all of your tutorials. They’ve really helped me and I’ll definitely recommend them to people. I was just wondering what image resolution you used to draw this e.g. ppi and width/height. I can’t get it right so I get the right amount of detail.

    By the way, you don’t sound like Dracula, but you do make me laugh because every now and again a British accent seems to pop up in odd words. Don’t know if anyone else has noticed. Hope you don’t take offence, I was raised in South Africa and have lived in England most my life so I have picked up a mixed accent myself.

  • http://jeman3rd.deviantart.com Jeman

    Sir,
    anyhow I can download your videos?? so that I still can refer it when I am offline…

    anyway, you’re a great teacher!!!

  • serge paulus

    Thanks Martin, great job.
    I wonder why no one never talked before about the HUD color picker! I surely miss something before but I won’t forget now…

  • adam pominski

    this video makes me wanna quit becoming a graphic designer since i cant draw or shade like that. oh well, back to crappy 9-5 i suppose

  • atifuqreshi

    sir you are going some where hold on

  • http://duniayudhis.com Yudhis

    Thanks for the tutorial. Really Great Tutorial. I made it in http://duniayudhis.com/photoshop/melting-lava-monster/