This tutorial is actually a making of where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. I use a Wacom Intuos' A4 board, if you don't have any g...
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Making of Marsh Dweller
I read a book about marsh dwellers recently. It described their lives so well, that new ideas for illustrations appeared by themselves. With this picture I w...
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...