How to Make Digital Paintings Look Traditional
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Digital painting is really versatile. You can make anything and work in any style, but what if you want your digital paintings to look like traditional paintings? In this video, Court will teach you about how to apply concepts of painting traditionally to your digital art with a focus on making it appear like a real oil painting. Huge thanks for Wacom for sponsoring this video.
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lol literally got a 16 inch the other day, but I don't live in america anyway. Its so much better to use than my intuos.
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@@jovontowns591 yee i keep my keyboard to the side for some hotkey stuff. I feel like i need to hunch over the cintiq too much right now though, i need the stand lol
can I paint with mouse ?
@@ssdd7704 there are certainly artists that do and can create beautiful work with one. But you have to find creative ways to workaround problems that using a stylus solves. Maybe there are some other UA-cam tutorials that show those techniques. I am not familiar with them.
When I just heard ”try not to use undo command” I almost had a heart attack.
The only place where people should be allowed to use ctr z is when doing lineartstuff like comics or other stuff because you cant just paint over it
it was one of the best things i've done to improve my painting skills
Me too 😂
mood
I used to use undo so much that I found myself tapping people with two fingers (procreate's undo gesture) everytime I said something awkward and wanted to redo.
It made things only more awkward :\
I feel like this guy could draw a perfect circle using the sponge bob technique
Andrej this is the funniest comment I have ever read.
LMAO
Proko*
@Nate Jones ua-cam.com/video/2s7MIlwtKXo/v-deo.html
lol
The whole video in one sentence:
*To make your digital paintings look traditional, do not use any tool, that has no traditional equivalent.*
Also use textured brushes/patterns! Preferably ones made and edited from actual brushstrokes.
Well, I think the video is about how to use digital tools to achieve traditional paintbrush feel. Any digital tool you use will have no traditional equivalent. All digital brushes are approximations. Some are less realistic than others...
@Ethan agreed, all the tips are spot-on, lots of useful info here! Presently, I use layers heavily. But as I’m getting better I will try to use them less, because right now if I look at my drawings, I can tell that some objects/characters were painted on different layers. When you paint on layers, things tend to stand out. You can go back at the end and try to smooth out the edges/transitions, and that’s pretty much what I do for now, but the result is just not the same. I think for relative beginners such as myself, it’s more important to get things right at any cost. We need to get confidence of completing a painting in a very short time. Layers and smudge tools give my paintings a degree of realism that I keep getting amazed at. I think absolute beginners should not follow this video (unless they know they can...). I would suggest taking notes of what’s suggested in the video “for later”.
Before digital age, there were a lot less artists. Learning via traditional path is hard. Learning with unlimited eraser and layers is a much better way. First step is becoming confident that you can depict something that was just inside your mind. Once you have the type of confidence that if you think of something, you know right away that you can do a rough sketch of it in about an hour, then bring on the next level of challenge. Before getting an iPad + Pencil, if you asked me how long it would take me to draw a somewhat realistic fire, I would have absolutely no clue. Now I can pull it off in a few minutes.
Don’t worry about picking up bad habits etc. You can’t acquire perfect skills before you even start. And if you make a goal to do this from the start you will not have any fun along the way. Having fun while painting, and acknowledging your own levels of success is what pushes me forward all the time. I keep doing things I couldn’t do previously. And that’s really exciting. Before going digital, my “art” was extremely primitive and boring, and the goal of becoming better seemed unattainable.
So get good first, and then apply *all* the techniques in this video, it’ll make the ride much more smoother!
@Ethan, I know, I gotta work on trying to be concise ;)
Speaking of being concise, on the off chance that you haven’t already, check out Marco Bucci, especially his 10 min videos. That level of ability to pack and convey so much useful info... I learned so much hands-on info from his chan, and brilliantly presented too.
Hi i tried to emulate some brushes like the ones used in the candle example, for Paint Tool Sai :)
1st brush used in the example:
*Min. Size: 50%
*Density: 81
*Bristle: 50
* Fabric 01: 10
*Blending: 59
*Dilution: 8
*Persistence: 80
Every other advanced setting remains untouched from the default brush.
2nd brush, the square kinda paper-y one:
* Min Size: 50
*Density: 82
*Middle_Flat: 100
*Paper 02: 48
*Blending: 47
*Dilution: 0
*Persistence: 80
3rd brush, the one that looks kind of like watercolor:
*Min Size: 50
*Density: 62
*Aquarelle: 22
*No texture
*Blending: 50
*Dilution: 0
*Persistence: 80
4th Brush, the very very very soft and stroke-y one (good for blending!)
*Min Size: 31%
*Density: 58
*Bristle: 100
*No texture
*Blending: 83
*Dilution: 55
*Persistence: 44
*Keep opacity ✅
Advanced settings:
*Quality: 4 (smoothest)
5th brush, the last one that has the most noticeable texture:
*Min size: 50
*Density: 100
*Middle_Flat: 58
*Fabric 01: 68
*Blending: 50
*Dilution: 0
*Persistence: 80
Everything else remains untouched.
Hope this can be useful for somebody :) have fun!! ✨
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thank youudusidhdj
@Karmacoma It's understandable! But there are some people that prefer using it over other programs such as myself and i did it for them :)
@@milanesaconpure5926 Thank youuu! :'D
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This helped a ton and the brushes look really pretty!
"Your digital work will be the reflection of you and your skill, rather than the software"
That's the problem, my skill is mediocre at most..
hey bro, we can always get better
chicken nuggets thank you, chicken nuggets
so do i
Loved seeing the comparison on the candle painting.
i never realized what a difference it could make.
14 minutes of pure knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing this!
being a microbiologist, the word “cross contamination” gave me a heart attack.....
1:50 - Tip 1: Follow a Traditional Process
3:03 - Tip 2: Textures!
5:47 - Tip 3: Limit your layers
7:07 - Tip 4: Avoid special effects
8:59 - Tip 5: Use a controlled color palette
10:43 - Tip 6: Stay back!
11:43 - Tip 7: Forget the lines. It's all about the edges.
13:14 - Conclusion
Bless you
Tysvm
PREACH! Understand traditional painting, make your own brushes, use fewer layers, reduce special effects, don't use erasers, use a palette, keep your painting small/stay zoomed out... This video is like all the stuff I love about painting. Great video. :)
read the title and never clicked a video so fast, glad to know such valuable tips
Bro I was literally looking for THIS video the other day, is like they granted my wish. 😄
Ditto.
Great tips! Embellishing with acrylic gel medium can also give your printed work that "Thick Paint" feel, if you don't like how flat digital art is.
2:49 the most majestic goodboi to ever be painted.
this is EXACTLY the advice I've been looking for!
SAAAAAAAME!
Me too, I like the painterly style and was actually trying to emulate it digitally so this is really helpful
This is actually a really helpful video for someone who doesn't like their digital style and loves the style of traditional art! 10/10 dude
same i like more traditional
I'm an acrylic/oil painter and some of your works look super realistic and undigital. That really impressive
This was honestly one of the best videos i've seen about trying to replicate a traditional painting. Thanks Proko team.
tbh overlay effects can do wonders if you have a solid painting under them! you definitely need good ol' painting skills first but do make use of the tools you have
Ágnes Kéner Did you forget what the whole video was about? It’s about creating a traditional look with digital and traditional pairing does not have overlay. I am a digital artist who likes my work to look very traditional because I can’t afford the traditional things. Staying away from the cheat tools is what you need to do. No matter how you try it, it doesn’t look good when you use the tools made for digital. Overlay has a very artificial effect when it’s used and
If you are going for a traditional look, you don’t want to use it. Not once did they say that overlay is bad. They said to stay away from it if you are trying to do a traditional look and they are right.
@@klausd.6285 it really doesn't have to look artificial if you know how to use it. you're welcome to stick to whatever you want, but you Can make something that looks traditional with digital effects. my comment was intended for those who do use overlay and the like but feel after watching this that it's the "easy way out"
I think most digital painters would benefit from going on a blend mode detox and learn how to paint with handpicked values and hue shifts instead of abusing effects like color dodge that does it for you.
hard agree
@@klausd.6285 I know it's three years later, but I have to say that traditional painting *can* have an overlay! Variegated glazing over a dry painting with one or two colours can really make things pop, and help unify the whole piece. Ágnes does make the important point though: whether traditional or digital, you have to have a solid painting to start with. A fancy glaze or overlay won't rescue a complete turkey. Enjoy your painting, Klaus, whatever your techniques!
If using only one layer, but still want to make use of the digital strengths of deleting things done that you didn't like, simply CTRL-J the layer (make a copy) and attempt the new idea on THAT one, instead of the first. That way you have a second chance to mess everything up you had going already, when testing out the new approach.
Really great advice, thanks!
THIS VIDEO IS EVERYTHING!!!! No one understands HOW USEFUL this really was
11:30 why does Arnold Schwarzenegger look like donkey Kong. Lmao
An exaggerated nose would resemble him better than the chin
Amazing, thank you. Especially for the mini-tutorial on creating your own brushes and textures. I had no idea you could scan materials and turn them into digital textures.
I can't seem to stop watching this video. It has taught me so much in only a few minutes. Thank you guys so much for sharing your knowledge with us!
I was looking for a video that explains this exact thing the other day, I'm so glad this video finally exists.
😄🙏👍✊😭
I love this so much. I am a traditional artist who tried digital art a few years ago and I absolutely hated it at the time. I want to try it again, and now that I know I can use a tool that feels similar to what I already know, things start looking a bit easier for me. And as someone who has a "messy" art style, the excessively "polished" look present in most digital art I see never really appealed to me. Thanks for making this video!
I'm so excited to grab my wacom and get started with a new piece after watching this! Really liked the video.
Every Artist in this channel is extremely skilled and awesome teachers. Man !! I love you guys.
Love the humor, content, and everything ! Great work
It's amazing to me that this video only has 240K views right now. 240K is nothing to sneeze at, but honestly, this should have millions of views. This is hella good and useful.
THANK. YOU. THANK YOU. JUST... THANK YOU. Could not have come at a better time for me.
I love the second candle painting
The most helpful video about digital art I've seen! Thank you so so so so so much😭❤❤
This is the best advice i ever watched. I also read about most of the advices before but i forgot it as the time goes. Thanks for reminding me!
Digital art is so great! You can create basically anything with it!
Proko, if it is a digital paint looking traditional
Try doing Bob Ross painting using digital.
Love your videos!
not a bad idea
How would one do this? Ive been trying to find tutorials on doing bob ross' wet on wet in Photoshop with no luck.
Bob Ross used a set of formulas and cheats that can get you something that looks good to the untrained eye without actual knowledge or understanding. It's nice party trick if you want to impress people without putting thousands of hours into learning how to paint properly, and it's also great as a relaxation exercise. But that's just all it is.
Now, make no mistake, Bob was doing lot of good by getting people interested in painting and sending out the - true - message that anyone can learn art, he deserves all the praise for that. He was a great guy.
But if you want to get good at painting forget all the "techniques" he used and learn the fundamentals. Be warned though, if you want to be able to paint like Court Jones or Proko or any of the artists showcased in this video, there won't be happy little trees - there will be lots of struggle, stress, hard work, failures, roadblocks, sweat and blood instead.
Storm Engineer Bob Ross drew, not to be harsh on him, almost nothing else than happy little trees. What he had however, he was a great entertainer and personality .
I aspire to have a lot of styles under my belt and painting convincingly this way is one of my goals! Thank you for this video!
If you don't want to use layers, a better option to save progress is taking a snapshot of your document, under the history window. It'll save an instance of your document that you can contrast & compare or go back too.
Great concepts! Thank you, this has gotten me very excited
Ok, some of this stuff was undoubtedly helpful, but I feel like some things would just make the process much more longer and tedious than it needs to be. I do agree that for achieving a more traditional look you should stay away from certain digital features, such as perfect gradients. But there's a difference between abstaining from features that would look very artificial and not utilizing the features that digital art has to offer. Sure, you could just change the color of your piece by painting all over it, but it would simply be much more efficient to just use the hue modifying tools. Also, about layer modes, I think using them or not mostly depends on what you're drawing and your style. Traditional doesn't mean realistic, although layer modes would look artificial on a realistic painting, a mindful use of them can fit more colorful artstyles really well, without it looking too artificial and achieving the desired look much faster. Overall, I feel like how you take the techniques shown in this video depends a lot on the time you are willing to spend on your painting and your style. (Sorry for the long ass parragraph)
couldn't agree more, most of the tips were incredible and opened my eyes to different tools and techniques but some of them just didn't land right with me
I'm kind of wondering why, if someone follows all the tips in this video, would they use digital tools instead of physical paint at all. It takes way more work to try to replicate digitally and you lose lots of the conveniences of the software.
@@swiftfated I think the point is to pick and choose the tips that fit you best and apply them
Abby Z because you still get a lot of the advantages of digital. Paint and canvases get expensive, while you can get a decent tablet for a one time purchase of $100 or less. You don’t need to wait for paint to dry; oil paintings can take months due to needing to wait for paint layers to dry. If you do make a major mistake that would be too much work to fix, you can still undo it. And having your art saved as a digital image is useful for making prints or incorporating the image in books, videos, or games.
Because some of this is about learning and understanding. Using the hue modifying tools and layers isn't "cheating", but you're also not expanding your understanding of color and value if you rely on these tools too much. Painting traditionally forces you to make these changes yourself and learn from mistakes.
It's not so much about efficiency as much as education. Practicing these techniques will make you a better artist all around.
Just what I've been looking for, thank you!
What an amazing teacher, thank you for sharing your knowledge, Court.
One of the best digital art vids I've seen
TIP 6 is definitely the hardest one for me... so easy to get lost in doing really really tiny details too early in the painting.
OMG! this has helped me so much! Just what I've been looking for. Thank you
proko and schoolism save my life!!! THANKYOU!
Best brush tutorial out there is a quick tip in this video..
Thank you so much!!!
That was so overdue. I'm a colored pencil artist but from years of doing so my wrist is pretty worn out. So my hubby got me a Wacom for Christmas but it's so different. While I could create nice pieces they all seemed 'flat' and 'uniform' and so not traditional looking. It was just too digital. This video is to the point and makes total sense of course but if one hasn't done digital then one doesn't think of it. Thanks for making this video. This will help me loads.
The last four tips were especially helpful
All such good tips! Thanks Team Proko!
Awesome. Thank you. I've been trying to get into digital for a while, and I've always assumed my approach had to be different from traditional. It's refreshing to learn that I don't have to do that. I just need to get more brushes.
Incredibly helpful, thank you!
Oh my god I've been watching so much old Proko videos, everything is so new.
Hi there! I am also a Traditional painter before i also do portraits of different people on canvas but now i shift to Digital Painting and Portraits and i relate and learned on this video.
ok this has to be the one of the best video ive watched, thank you so much!!
Tried and aproved !!! Thanks it's amazing !
OMG!! TY!! this is what I been looking for!!
every Proko's video works for me! thx a looooot
This is the most useful art tutorial video I have watched in my entire life
Absolutely fantastic video. Thank you for sharing these tips, the caricature examples were pretty cool too!
You practically presented the exact same approach I arrived to in my attempt to get a trad feel in digital. The only difference is that nowadays I don't make palettes, just figure things as I go. But want to experiment with palettes again in the future - especially with extremely limited ones. Some artists I love achieved great results using only two very small color ranges, or just one, and using grays for the rest. Eg. Sargent has some great examples of this.
This was a really nice one, i’m trying to perfect my style and this one was really helpful! Thank you for the tips!
Court man! very helpful all content in this video! Thanks a lot!
This is what I need today. Thank you so much for uploading this and share your knowledge!
This is exactly how i do my digital art. lol but that's because i was a painter first before getting into Digital! glad they're using it
I've been really frustrated with an illustration lately, and I needed to hear every second of this. I love my lines, but often fret too much over coloring and make all the mistakes described in the video. I'm scrapping all my (too many!) color layers and starting from scratch with these techniques.
This has such great advice and a lot of it isn't super common! Thank you!
omg this is one of the most helpful art videos ive ever watched. ive been trying to go for a painty style for some of my art but it never works out. i never knew it was so easy to make a brush lol.
Not only will this help a lot but it also is very motivating to watch!
Omg thanks! This was exactly the tutorial I needed!
Thanks Proko team! You are the best. 💛💙
excellent video! im a oil painter trying digital but i cant do it well. This advices help me a lot! thanks!
I really liked this guy and his tips, hopefully there will be more digital tutorials in the future ❤
"Try and keep your image zoomed out to achieve this effect"
Or just use the navigator window... The one that literally shows your whole image from a distance. I look at this more than what I am painting. You can see everything needed in terms of shapes and contrast. No one mentions it...
Honestly, I unknowingly apply most of these tips before even watching this video. Now that I watch it I know why I suddenly get much better. So I can’t wait to use all of them to improve myself.
Didn’t expect to see Banner Saga Art in the first few seconds. Made my day!
This video was very helpful thanks a lot ! The style change so much and it's much better in my opinion :)
This video is so helpful, thank you so much!!
This is the video humanity needed
Thank you so much, it was a huge help!
Not using the color pick from the reference and limiting my Ctrl + Z's I've definitely learned a lot!!
this video was so helpful thank you !
Thank you so much! I've been wondering about this. I actually started doing some of these tips already, using one layer and doing the process like a real painting, staying zoomed out. I'm glad I figured out so many tips on my own haha. One thing that helped me figure out how I wanted to digitally paint was actually using MS paint lol. They have really textured brushes that dont blend at all and my favorite digital painting was done on MS paint. The restrictions on blending and the textures forced me to focus really close on specific color. The color tips are really helpful!
Incredibly useful tips!!
This was an insanely useful video (at least to me)! Thanks!
wow that guy is so talented! a true master of his art!!
Absolutely amazing and helpful video! Thank you.
thanx very much , very compelling and exactly what i needed
Thank you soooo much for the incredibly helpful video!!
thank you for this lovely video i'll be returning here to this and your other videos to get in touch with parts of my art i don't explore as i should.
you guys are doing a wonderful job have an awesome day guys
what an amazing class! Thank you very much.
The best tutorial ever.
Thank you! Great tips.
I really learned a lot from this. Thank you so much!
These are really good advice!!!
It has been a while that I have seen a video that was soooooooo usefull and just what I needed! Since a year I own a IPad, but prefer or Photoshop (because of brushes) or simple paper/canvas etc. Great video ♥️🙌
Man you hit the nail on the head! This is just what I was looking for... I started this yesterday, and tried to limit myself to work with only the colors you can find at a local Store... didn't sample anything from reference photos. However I haven't thought of "washing the canvas" with paint like you would on an actual Canvas surface... and I didn't know the efects of paint brush are created from brushes that imitate those realistic marks... This will advance my studies a lot!!! Thanks !!!
Omg the dog painting is SO cute!
Very useful - more from this guy please