Learning Digital Painting

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Free Online Course: Learning Digital Painting provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Learning Digital Painting is taught by John Derry.

Overview
  • Learn all about digital painting: mixing paint, working with layers and brushes, using color creatively, sketching, and painting with photographs.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Advantages of painting digitally
    1. Expressive Input Devices
    • Customizing mouse behaviors
    • Introducing the concept of axes of motion
    • Using the pen tablet and stylus
    • Understanding the Intuos and Cintiq options
    2. Expressive Painting Applications
    • A world of options
    • Emulating analog media with Painter
    • Going beyond traditional image editing with Photoshop
    • Painting with the iPad app Procreate 2
    3. Digital Paintbrush Mechanics
    • Introduction to brush mechanics
    • Brush tips: Variations on a theme
    • Brush color behavior
    • Brush and surface interaction
    • Emulating media via physical modeling
    • Through the looking glass
    4. Painting Abstractly
    • Introduction to abstract painting
    • A great way to explore brush qualities
    • Using color to express emotion
    • Layers as a compositional tool
    5. Painting What's in Your Mind's Eye
    • Introduction to sketching as creative self-expression
    • Preliminary sketching
    • Paint to your skill level
    • Going back in time: Undo
    6. Painting from Life
    • Interpreting reality with digital painting
    • Working from a still life in a home or studio
    • Using a photo to capture and edit a still life
    • Exploring some tips for working on a portable tablet en plein air
    7. The Photograph as Wet Paint
    • Dipping a paintbrush into a photograph
    • Separating brush work from color and composition
    • Use a dry brush to smear a wet photograph
    • Work nondestructively using layers
    8. Clone Painting
    • Funnel a photo through your brush
    • Using the funnel method to act as a paint reservoir
    • Sit back and let the app do the heavy lifting
    Conclusion
    • Next steps