The top choice in painting software by artists worldwide. Achieve painting perfection with the most realistic and professional digital art studio. Painter® 2019 offers Natural-Media® and unlimited art materials to delight any illustrator, photographer or fine artist. The first acrylic paintings didn’t appear until the 1940s. These days, however, acrylic painting is accepted as a medium suitable for producing works of fine art. A new medium has appeared in recent years, yet its acceptance into the world of “fine art” has been somewhat sluggish. The medium I’m referring to is digital painting.
If you're interested in learning to make concept art—or simply taking your recreational painting into the digital sphere—concept artist Matt Kohr spent a week teaching us the basics. Here's the complete 101 course for your edification.
Lesson 1: Get Started Painting on Your Computer
Painting digitally is significantly different from painting with brushes. This kick-off lesson in digital painting provides you with a broad overview of those differences, suggestions for the software and hardware you'll need in your digital painting toolbox, and some tips for getting around with your tools of choice.
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Lesson 2: Brushes and Erasers
The heavy lifting of digital painting happens with Photoshop's brush and eraser tools. This lesson familiarizes you with each—including how the brush tool alone encapsulates other traditional painter tools like airbrushes, pencils, pens, and more—then teaches you a few tricks for using them better.
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Lesson 3: Mixing Paint
As one color approaches another there's always a blended transition. Even if your subject is painted a single color it will have lighter and darker areas. Digital or not, painting involves a lot of mixing to find the right shades and blends of colors. This lesson details how to mix paint on your screen like a pro.
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Lesson 4: Layers
Layers are one of the features that most dramatically separate traditional from digital painting. Knowing how to use layers to your advantage can give you great freedom as a digital painter. In this lesson I'll introduce the fundamentals of the layer palette, as well as my thoughts on layer economy.
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Lesson 5: Putting It All Together
For the final less, Matt showcases each of the previously explained techniques in an illustration demo.
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Matt Kohr is a freelance concept artist / Illustrator. For more information, check out www.mattkohr.com or ctrlpaint.com.