Part 2: Digital Environment Painting with Noah Bradley

This is the second part of four segments on digital environment painting.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG3hPBMv_Sk
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztdus3hJHwM
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNLkv5azjPc
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOVSlQs3t0

View the final painting here: http://noahbradley.deviantart.com/#/d2vuoib

View my complete portfolio here: http://www.noahbradley.com/

I hope you enjoy watching this video, and if you've got any questions feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer them. Also, if you do any environment pieces after watching this I'd love to take a look at them. Thanks!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• painting
• digital
• environment
• enviro
• landscape
• art
• drawing
• photoshop
• learn
• tutorial
• fantasy
• sci-fi

[ValderVSIzel]

I really like this video!

I always have trouble with loose backgrounds, I tend to want to blend too much.

However, after seeing your technique, I feel that it is what I need to improve.

If you don't mind, would it be possible for you to give me some suggestion on my paintings? I just recently graduated, and is looking to become better and hopefully get into the industry. I looked through many different tutorial and try to get the best out of them! And this video helped me a lot!

Thank You!

[noahbradley]

@ValderVSIzel Thanks! If you go ahead and email me I'll try to find some time to respond: noahbradley@gmail.com

No guarantees how soon it'll be (I'm swamped right now), but I'll try. :)

[vincelau635]

Excellent tutorial overall! Just a note about the sliders, I like using RGB sliders once I found out the theory behind them. I'm not sure if you've seen this already, but If you look up linran color tutorial, the conceptart thread has a nice lesson on it.

[noahbradley]

@vincelau635 Yeah, I have seen that tutorial. Made sense, but still didn't seem worth all the trouble to me. :) But hey, go for what works. Thanks for watching!

[pugoworkz]

very inspirational thank you for sharing you make me grab my tablet and start speed painting

[noahbradley]

@pugoworkz Thanks, glad you liked it!

[MrLemonyFresh]

@ 7:30 i cheered when you did something about that funny cliff face :D

[CarlosArthurr]

best tipes ever *-* thanks 4 that Noah

[ffles]

Hey there, love the vid.

Your speech about photoshop's shortcuts for flipping was an "aha!" moment for me. I have a naga razer mouse (it's a mouse with a numpad on the side) and I'm left handed, what this means is I have the tablet in the left and the mouse in my right.

I used the naga's profiling to change all the buttons to correspond to photoshop's keys and wow, my workflow has improved and sped up quite a bit, and that was less than an hour ago.

Now everything is just a thumb press away.

[jeanm09]

what school did you go to? and what major di you go for? i

[Aimy58]

"With a rock or something, you just paint a nice-looking rock and try to get it to look like a rock." Nice technical talk right there. lol.

[vincelau635]

@noahbradley Haha yeah, I'll be sure to send you some progress on my environments soon. (to get more excellent advice :D)