Pictorial Techniques for Digital Painting

Keys to digital coloring

“We have reached the end of the course! Good! I hope you have enjoyed and, above all, you have lost the fear of painting, letting go and creating your works with more naturalness and freshness. Remember that consistency and practice are very important! We never stop learning and evolving. We are going to give a little review of the steps that I have followed to make my final project, so they can serve as a reference for yours: Prepare your project First of all, modify your brush and warm up brush strokes to learn how to make a painting style. Then decide what to paint and at what size and look for photographic references, both things you like to paint and examples of color tones. Create and order the different layers on which you are going to work in Photoshop and define your color palette with the help of the chromatic circle.

Make the sketch On the size format that you have decided, make a fresh and natural sketch. Don't get too complicated, then you will define everything using color. Add color to your drawing Color and apply a first coat of halftone color to the entire artwork. Then paint the dark areas to start creating volumes and paint light areas of color. Thus, you will further increase the three-dimensionality of what you are coloring. Work on the background and put overpainting into practice Make a background that makes the figure or figures in your work contrast and stand out. Then, as we have seen in Unit 4 of the course, paint on a top layer to make your sketch disappear and make the work work without contour lines. Define and detail the whole outfit with new shades, shadow details, highlights and add some decorative details. Textures and final adjustments Create a texture to add a traditional touch to your digital artwork and play with selective color corrections to create a final super colorful final result. Finally, prepare your digital work to be printed. Congratulations on your work! Thank you very much for purchasing this Domestika course! I love transmitting and sharing my knowledge, so I hope you enjoyed and had a lot of fun painting and coloring, remembering in some way that craziest and freest way of painting of young children, without fear of leaving the drawing line or to give a bad brushstroke. For me the most important thing is to enjoy while you draw, paint or whatever you like, that will make it be reflected in your works; That's why I encourage you to keep creating, exploring, practicing, because it never stops learning and discovering new things. I love seeing the works you paint! So I invite you to upload your creations to the final project, it will be a pleasure for me to see all the art that flies in your minds. And remember, see you in the forum, I will be happy to answer your questions and curiosities. Greetings!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We have reached the end of this Domestika course. Thanks for getting here. In my case, I have chosen as the final project color an illustration with the elements that represent me. Think about what project you want to develop and when you have decided, do some exercises to release your hand. Then select your color palette from a mood board with your references and prepare the layers in Photoshop to start working. Make a sketch of the figure and start applying the midtones. Then add volume to your work with dark tones and enhances the highlights with light tones. Color the back...”

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Course summary for: Pictorial Techniques for Digital Painting

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (52)
• 960 students
• 5 units
• 16 lessons (1h 59m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Color Theory, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration