Digital Painting 101

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In our first proper video tutorial/demonstration, we go over the very basics of digital painting. From a loose digital sketch to finishing touches, this hour and ten minute lesson should get you ready to just dive in and paint your own Monster Cuties. Oh, and please excuse the farting. I must have had some beans with dinner.

This was captured in real time in HD so it looks great fullscreen.  Enjoy.

PS – Oh, I totally forgot his little hair tuft! Ah well. Next time I’ll do a hairy monster or something.

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  • gogo

    whenI am done with the gray body and I want to start coloring some colors don’t appear in the coloring layer ! I think it’s because the layer mode is color . what should I set the layer to ?

  • http://ypcomic.com Jamie Noguchi

    Give multiply a try.

  • http://www.facebook.com/wennary Wennary Khuon

    my pen/tablet isn’t working anything like yours!! though my pen is set up just like yours and the calibrations and pen settings are ok, it’s not sketching like yours. the size is the same, and opacity, and flow, but mines is painting bigger and bolder lines. yours gets lighter and darker and thinner and thicker with the pressure, and mines doesn’t. it is “SLIGHTLY” a little thin at the beginning but nothing barely happens. i feel like its the same as if im using a mouse. its really getting me frustrated, what am i doing wrong??

  • http://ypcomic.com Jamie Noguchi

    I’m not sure. Check the Wacom site to see if you have the most recent drivers for your tablet. Sometimes, I have to restart my computer. There should also be a program that lets you calibrate the tablet. On a mac, it’s in the System Preferences. Not sure on a PC. Also, make sure pressure sensitivity is set in the brushes that you are using. Sometimes it’s on, sometimes it’s off. Give those a try. Other than that, I’m not entirely certain what you can do.

  • The Avatar

    Amazing tut, mate. Very helpful. I’ll try it some time and I’ll show my results to you! You didn’t bore me. You’re a great speaker. Keep it up xx

  • http://www.relativecreativity.com/ Narendra Keshkar

    I can not see the tutorial video. Anything wrong with it?

  • http://ypcomic.com Jamie Noguchi

    seems to be working okay. may take a while to buffer since it’s so long.

  • ulfa

    okay this is like 5 years ago but i just found this aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I love you!

  • Jake

    What brush would you use in place of, the brush you use for value in the beginning, in sketchbook pro?

  • http://www.facebook.com/brian.hunsel Brian van Hunsel

    Thanks for this great tutorial. I’ve looking for something to get me started for ages.
    It’s been great fun to do, and the end result is better than I dared hope for (even though, now I’ve uploaded it to DA, I can see all sorts of things that bother me).

    Kudos!

    Here a link to my Cutie:
    http://fav.me/d64nbfa

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