Painting / Drawing

How to create a Hair Texture

Low poly hair is the bane of most game artists existence. Rarely is it done well, and the majority of the time, a bald head, or a slicked back look is taken ...

Digital Painting from an Illustration

For starters this is a tutorial on how to complete a digital painting from a illustration very quickly. My example is a background design layout. I chose to ...

How to paint Dirt Textures

Here is a very simple, generic tutorial I wrote up for a dirty metal texture. I tried to keep it pretty easy. This is just a starting point... I'm building o...

Making of Digital Painting

I will paint in an impressionistic manner, with no definite shape, I will suggest things, make impressions of shapes and light. For me, a painting must look ...

Creating a Feather

A step by step walk-through of how I made the feather shown below. I had some problems with Photoshop crashing so I had to redo several steps. That resulted ...

Making of Lilith

I did all of the work in Photoshop 7, as far as the face is concerned, Painter 8 was used in the last step for textures only.

Step by Step creation of Jealousy

The idea to this painting came when I sat down with my notebook in my sofa one evening, and tried to come up with something that was both up-close and person...

Making of Happiness is a Blue Bird

Happiness is a Blue Bird that one afternoon settled on our warm palm and left us something like a trace of a lost paradise that never was reached by anyone a...

How to Paint a Hair

Some basic facts about painting hair which I have been gathering from my own observations or from studying theory.

Making of The Castle

Welcome to a new matte painting tutorial. This tutorial is Photoshop based. I'll try to describe the main steps in creating a matte painting. Before you star...

Thoughts and tips on Digital Painting

This tutorial is actually more a collection of useful tips about digital painting which, I believe, all people starting out in this area should know.

Making of Dawn

Hello and welcome to my first little walkthrough! Recently, a lot of people asked me to write a tutorial - and why not as I have some spare time now and it's...

Making of The Macaw

Hi there, I have chosen one of my own digital paintings, Macaw, for this step-by-step demonstration. Here I'm working in Artrage, to have a painterly look. W...

How to paint Rocks

In this tutorial, we will exercise on drawing rocks, stones, cliffs or anything made of stone. There are many ways to achieve this... I will just show you my...

Making of The turning Point

Sometimes when I sit down to do a painting I'll have been thinking about it for some time in my head about what I want the subject of the painting to be, wha...


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