In this making of, I will share with you how I painted my Beast concept. There are many ways to achieve this; however, I will be showing you my favorite meth...
Photoshop
Painting a Landscape
In our first image, we want to start on the landscape with our basic color palette. Ideally, I like to start off with my background layer first which would b...
Making of Blue
The idea behind this image was fairly simple ' the profile of a young woman. I had a reasonably clear picture in my head before I started, the girl's express...
Basic Cloud Formation
This tutorial goes through the process of creating cloud formation in Photoshop.
Comic Colouring Tutorial
This is a coloring tutorial on how I colored this image, sketched by Zurdom and inked by Bill Meiggs. This tutorial is just one of the ways I use to color.
Photoshop Optimization Tips
Today, we'll talk about performance optimization and configuration basics of one of the most popular image editors - Adobe Photoshop (or PS for short). That ...
Vanishing Point Filter
This movie looks at the Vanishing Point Filter and shows how it can quickly establish an accurate perspective grid that matches an image. It also shows the c...
Portrait of a Dragon
In this tutorial we are going to color a dragon portrait. Like I always say, it's impossible to make a good painting without a good sketch, that's why if you...
Layer effects
This tutorial focuses on Layer Effects, specifically Bevel and Emboss and shows how it can be combined with brushes to add cracks and weathering to a scene.
Bump and Specular map creation
This short tutorial looks at how to go about creating bump and secular maps from a single color map and how these can be combined to enhance a texture.
Layer Masks
This tutorial focuses on the use of Layer Masks to create a non-destructive way of editing and shows how it can enable a full reversal of any changes made to...
Making of Pardon Me
The first step, which is the most important step, is composing the concept and making the best sketch to start painting. The concept was about two creatures ...
Custom Brushes
This tutorial looks at how a custom brush can be created from a random image and then refined using the brush settings. It also deals with how the brush can ...
Photo Realistic Face Texturing
This tutorial will teach you how to create a photo realistic texture. First of all, you will need a set of images from the different angles that you want to ...
Rendering Clouds
I just saw the amazing film UP! and the beautiful short film Partly Cloudy and almost burst into tears when I first saw the cloud characters of the second on...