Art Tutorials

Socar Myles demonstrates an easy way to convincingly integrate foreground figures with background elements.

Learn how blending modes work in Photoshop. This isn’t a step-by-step tutorial on how to replicate a particular effect, but rather an item-by-item description in plain English of each mode and how it works.

This time out, I would like to talk about a much underused PhotoShop filter – the Motion Blur. Along the way, we’ll find out how filters such as this one work so much better when used creatively in conjunction with other filters.

When it comes to rendering people, few things are as important as hair. Nothing stands out as much to the viewer as badly painted hair. On the other hand, if you do it spectacularly well, it may legitimately be the centerpiece of your painting. Usually, however, you just want the hair to fit in with the mood and composition of your rendering – an integrated part of the whole.

This in-depth, step-by-step tutorial by Joel Hoekstra shows how he created his piece “Lost City of the Amazons”. This tutorial is aimed at traditional artists who use Photoshop and other software packages to mimic traditional painting techniques.

Erich Schreiner takes us through the digital painting process he used to create “Mea Culpa”, a dark, sensual work inspired by the fantasy art master Luis Royo.

Learn the steps to create a dramatic, yet believable alien creature in this digital art tutorial by Emrah Elmasli.

This tutorial will teach you how to paint a simple landscape– a cloud-filled sky and grassy field. You will learn a quick and easy way to lay out your clouds, a new way of blending, and how to use perspective to make it look real.

A digital art technique in which a female head is painted from a dark background, building up the forms slowly with lighter tones.

Learn one artist’s process for painting a stylish female bust in digital art using Photoshop. Brushes, smoothing techniques, and coloring are discussed.