Digital Painting Tutorial Free from Schoolism.com. Part 1 of 9

Here's a free digital painting tutorial from Schoolism.com online art classes. Bobby Chiu teaches Creature Design with digital painting. For more classes visit Schoolism.com.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• digital
• painting
• creature
• design

[landuo]

Man, the double window method you always use is quite useful! but, just one question, I see you are painting in the big window, while the small one keeps flying over it without going behind the big one... how do you do that? (I'm using mac btw)

[digitalbobert]

@landuo I'm using CS4 and I can snap the window on to the back by dragging it up to the top

[Fjnoxluvscomixhaa]

@arturopotter In case you haven't figured it out yet, you can get a separate window by going to Window--->Arrange---> New window for (your file name here) in Photoshop. You can resize the window to be smaller and hence can see a smaller version of your painting in the other window. Hope this helps. :D

[scotchy91]

What are the pen pressure settings at? I know you are more focused on flow and opacity manually, but it seems you have a size jitter or a faster diameter change!

[Pednuno]

Heey, this tutorial is very helpfull as I'm still a beginner and this way I can see all the steps. I have one question though, what are your brush settings?

I mean, I know your opacity and flow but do you enable pen pressure for those settings?

Thanks

[1officialist]

Do you have any Idea how hard it is to find a good digital painting tutorial?!! This is what I have been looking for!! Thank you and I may consider taking the courses.

[kuaikukia]

@TrifkeBD88

wow, tq for that. This 2 window really comes in handy :)l

[Naalderiis]

@Galaxieretter not sure if this is his reason but using a middle tone as the background makes it easier to pull out highlights and push back shadows to give depth.

pure white and black are unnatural backgrounds that you won't find in real life and skew your perception of lights/darks in an image.

also the base color tends to show through a bit making the painted thing not look as if it's floating in nothing. reflected light carries colors of what it bounces off of so it seems more natural.

[akaCARPET2112]

how do you get the little window? Bobby is using photoshop isn't he?

[Galaxieretter]

I know this will not receive a response, but why on earth do you, and other artists, use a base color for the background. That wasn't explained and I don't understand it.

[ginddle]

@landuo Hey, did you ever figure it out?? I'm also using a mac, and I can't figure it out for the life of me. Bobby help us out!

[kaminarigaston]

LIVE action? Really? And who's going to be the ugly mofo to play that character?

[iiZGriZzly]

AWESOME THANKYOU +1, and im gonna buy something from ur site haha

[brandonrobinson5150]

Very helpful.

[hziegel]

Thank you so much for the videos Bobby! Really helpful and inspirational! n_n

[shawslayer]

are your opacity and shape dynamics both on?

[arturopotter]

@TrifkeBD88 thank you :D

[arturopotter]

@VillainousGaming hey thanks for that ^^

[SL33PYJ0E]

@kakaroto1986

He uses a 21 inch cintiq

[kakaroto1986]

hey there what kind of tablet are u using is it a cintique or something else

[TrifkeBD88]

@arturopotter In photoshop go to Window > Arrange > New Window for ... ( the last one )

That's it :)

[VillainousGaming]

@arturopotter You simply reopen up the same document in a new window, by going to window -> new window for this document.

[arturopotter]

great tutorial

Just one question: how do you get that little window to see your painting smaller?

thanks

[Sythiis]

Thanks for the uploads Bobby!