Overview
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Learn all about digital painting: mixing paint, working with layers and brushes, using color creatively, sketching, and painting with photographs.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Advantages of painting digitally
- Customizing mouse behaviors
- Introducing the concept of axes of motion
- Using the pen tablet and stylus
- Understanding the Intuos and Cintiq options
- A world of options
- Emulating analog media with Painter
- Going beyond traditional image editing with Photoshop
- Painting with the iPad app Procreate 2
- 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
- Introduction to abstract painting
- A great way to explore brush qualities
- Using color to express emotion
- Layers as a compositional tool
- Introduction to sketching as creative self-expression
- Preliminary sketching
- Paint to your skill level
- Going back in time: Undo
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Next steps
