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calvintsang · junior member Member # Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 1

Hi! Everyone. Me myself as an traditional artist for a while. However, I am very interest in studying digital painting, which I never try it before.

The link below was one of the drawing I took from conceptart.org.

I just want to ask all the experts here, how they do it?

http://www.conceptart.org/artist/feng-zhu/images/feng-zhu-4b.jpg

thanks!

Ian Jones · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 11:01 pm

Brush tools... as you would expect. Just experiement to start with. I'm not sure I can answer your question as it is very vague.

Harmony Steel · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 12:42 am

I would suggest:

1) Buy/Trial the graphics program you are interested in.. the two main paint programs on the market these days are Photoshop (www.adobe.com) and Painter (www.corel.com).
2) Experiment with them, read the help files, study tutorials on how other artists create their digital work (there are heaps on this and other forums, or do a google search for what you're after).
3) Just keep working at it until you begin to get a feel for the way digital paint works. Try and be patient with it because digital paint does work and feel a lot different to traditional paint, it could take you anywhere from a week to six months to paint as well digitally as you have been traditionally.

Hope that helps Smile

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neff · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 11:21 am

ANd dont forget to try Paintshop Pro [b]8[/] Wink

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cheney · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 7:10 pm

Coloring something is different depending on your stylistic goal. Color for comics or cartoons is call cell painting, and its just coloring in the lines of a given illustration. Matte painting is a precise attempt to recreate reality so that it does not look like a painting. Then there is generic digital painting where you want to do something that looks artistic like a more traditional painting with minor evidence of brush strokes.

The biggest problem many nonprofessional digital painters seem to have is that they fail to distinguish the goals of matte painting apart from digital painting for the purpose of painting.
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