Tutorial help

[trancor]

Well, I don't use tutorials, but I can tell you what this guy might have done besides simply using the brush tool and dodge and burn with a tablet. Play around with pen paths, making vector masks and painting inside the masks with the brush tool and using dodge and burn.


For a start, build your base drawing with a 5-15% opacity brush, then make another layer on top, putting down base colors. From there start making some pen paths to form hard edges around the object you are working on.

Alot of what looks like could have been done if it wasn't brush blending modes are layer blending modes, with your pen path masked layers set them to sceen, overlay, add, and pin light for some nice mixing between layers.

Also, play around with bringing out background colors by opening up your layer properties for layer styles and the "Blend If:" box at the bottom of your "Blending Options:Default" in layer styles, hit alt and click on the white or black arrows under the scales, the top slider bar takes out the colors on the layer you are working on, white for lights, black for darks, the bottom slider brings out lights and darks from the layer below. This way you can bring out your base colors while still keeping blending modes on the current layer.

I don't think you'll find many tutorials for good basic painting or matte painting in photoshop due to alot of the program not being used by every single person. There is soooo much you can do, with so many different ways, just explore your options.


edit - hahaha, damn smily face haha - "Blending Options: Default"

[kraal]

just pick up the latest copy of imagineFX or 2Dartist .... or anything by sparth, vyle, or viag and you will start to understand

[Ransom]

If you want to learn that, then your going to have to start digital painting. There is no one "tutorial" that you can use to get your art to look like that.

First step would be getting a wacom tablet and start painting.
And joing the Daily Sketch group !

[suztv]

A tutorial in regard to that type of artwork - I have seen several tutorials that have similar styles but nothing exactly like that image. I imagine that you could start on one and then just play around to get the look you want.

Here's a list:
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials

http://tutorials.epilogue.net/

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/25660523/

http://www.mangarevolution.com/tutorials.php

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/

I found several others - but there is a magazine or two that might give more instruction on how to create those works of art - http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/

Also a few art classes couldn't hurt. CG Society also has online classes all of the time in regard to that stuff. You could also google poser artwork and 3d art tutorials. Just surf around...

**With google it isn't what you ask for it is how you ask for it. I typed in "Digital Art Tutorials" and "Digital Fantasy Art Tutorials" and found what I listed above and tons more...

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