Shading with Light and Form in Your Digital Painting
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2014
- If your paintings are feeling flat and boring, you might be missing a strong light source. Light helps make paintings come to life, and this Photoshop tutorial explains some of the fundamentals.
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This man was way ahead of his time with these tutorials
Hi Matt Just coming to digital art and after many years as a musician and I recognise your comment about 'pencil miles'. Same thing as practising scales and arpeggios - the more you do, the better you become!
this may not look fun, but this is what peak performance looks like
"it's how you gonna paint Space Marines"
got a good chuckle out of me. Liked.
One of my absolute favourite tutorials from you Matt! I can really feel your passion for the practice in what you're saying :) Good job, please dont stop making videos!
i dont find it boring,the shading was always my favorite part and make me excited so much....this tutorial showed me how much detailed have to be and make me want to draw so hard again ^^
Another great tutorial! Thank you so much for talking about the importance of light as it has to do with making "something come alive"! Your video's a quick and to the point. AWESOME!!!!!
thank you, I just had an illumination thanks to your tutorials, my grayscale is improving ...
I love your videos man! I don't think I have ever left one of your videos and not have learned something new. Thanks!
Awesome lesson, you make a lot of good points!
these classes are goldd
I definitely need to practice more, I'm gonna try doing what you did here for the shading.
your tutorials getting better and better... I am using Krita most of the time beside of photoshop, but the principles can be transferred to almost every good application for painting
I would also add, just practice and mileage are great, they will get you there, but "just practice" is not the most efficient. Learning gesture and learning how light interacts with color are two completely different goals, and to get better at them specifically, you'll have to come up with specific exercises that train this exact thing. Sure, you will be getting better at both when painting a series of finished paintings, but much slower, as you will be dealing with everything at once. What I did is find a roadmap, read a lot of theory, come up with specific practice exercises for all the fundamentals, and do a lot of small studies.
For example, to learn perspective I read "How to draw" and "Framed Perspective", watched a lot of videos and found an exercise: take a photo of a simple real life object and try to draw the basic forms on top. Your goal is to understand how the theory you learned applies here: figure out the horizon line, how the object is rotated relative to the camera, where does the foreshortening occur and how does it relate to vanishing points. When you get better at it, try to draw them aside of the photo while looking at it. Then try to just take a look at the object and replicate the form without constantly looking at the reference. I did not try to render or color these, and I started with things like a tissue box and my cup, and now I can draw human mannequins in the poses I want, briefly looking up some reference. It only took a couple of months of studies.
Right now I am learning how to create blending, texture and nuance in reflected light and halftone. Your videos are an immense help with the techniques of doing this with Photoshop, despite being almost a decade old. Thank you so much.
great points. this is absolutely right!
Great Tutorial, Thank you!
great and simple tutorial
Great video! It's all about the fundamentals.
Awesome stuff, thank you for your tutorials/guides:-)
God bless
Absolutely amazing! ^^
Your tutorials are great to us
Really cool to watch. You have a great narration voice too!
u are amazing man, really thanks!
helpful digital painting techniques .... thanks!
very useful.....really appreciated
finally something worth watching :) thank you for sharing
yeah, i feel the same :))
thanks mate
thanks dude
Awesome
this even applies to motion design, and creating style frames
Hey Matt I don't really like to use layers or selection tools that much, there's a bunch of good artists who use neither so it's certainly possible but I'm wondering if you know any methods for rendering cleanly without the heavy reliance on layers/selections/alpha locks that you could share?
Would mean a lot.
-Huggs- Thank you :<
I know how to draw well, but i got stuck in the stage in-sketch to color, tearing my hair out, only to realize what i'm trying to color is now what i know to sketch, no form.
May I ask what are you exact setting for the brush? This is my biggest problem, I can't really move forward because I have no idea how to properly set my brushes so that I can get the more traditional effect. Thank you!
Thankyouu ✨✨
i have some questions
1. when do you use the eraser and the white brush?
2. do you adjust the opacity?
awesome video man
very easy to understand, specially for someone dull like me
i am thinking for getting all your basic rendering lessons.
do they all have projects that you give so we can work on, like the first course?
is it possible to get a bundle price?
thank you
Any chance we could get that reference image? It has really nice darks and lights. Or does anyone know where to find it?
Hey, you make some great points in this video man. Cheers!
Do you use a seamless texture for photoshop? I never know what to use.. I'd really like something charcoal like.
Ctrl+Paint Yes pencil mileage, or as I call it the school.
There is no better time to practice your art skills than when you are bored at school. :D
I'm trying to adapt these lessons to iPad Pro and Procreate
You are the best you know that
You said you were using a hard round brush but the edges are not very hard. Could it be a soft round? Thanks for all the great PS info.
Hehe I think it is a hard round brush lol it's just that the opacity is lowered that made is look soft if that makes sense....
I'm having real trouble trying to replicate this kind of rendering (or any type for that matter). My brush strokes do not come out smokey and well toned like he is showing, each individual brush stroke is easily noticeable. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
stop using photoshop, but use krita for painting.
photoshop is not good at painting.
photoshop is multi function image manipulate software, not specialist in specific area.
When it comes to only drawing, there are more software do better job than photoshop.
But Krita is open source that's why I nominate here.
Wrong, photoshop is very good for painting. It's the industry standard used by concept artists like Feng Zhu.
I had the same problem and then I realized that I've been using hard round brush instead of a soft round brush. Try soft round brush with shape dynamics and transfer with pen pressure on.
Actually, Photoshop is the industry standard for concept art and all other drawing needs e.g. creating textures for 3D models. Being a Game Art student, we get the industry standard programs out of the way in the first term of the course.
With all these tuts, I do not get the same results. Maybe because my settings. But it is making me crazzy.
It may not be the same for you but from my own experience of searching for the perfect settings, I've ended understanding my troubles cames mostly from my lack of practice or my lack of understanding some concept like getting the right values and shapes.
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Thank you so much
This looks like a beginner tutorial, but I think it's very important to show us what brush you are using. It's very difficult or impossible for a beginner to reproduce this brush and the beginner will be frustrated. I had to switch from Photoshop to CorelPainter and used Real 2B Pencil to get better result than with photoshop default brushes.
Please show us how to create the brush you use in this tutorial and explain why it gives better result than default ones.
Sure! If you want to start from the beginning, I recommend checking out my full (free) library of videos at www.ctrlpaint.com/library/. They're listed in a viewing order, like a curriculum, and will answer many questions like this one. Enjoy!
Thanks, Matt. I can see now you have a link to the library in the video description but I didn't go there until you pointed it out in your comment. The library looks nice and solid and I've started my journey! But still, can you please help me and other people who will watch this video and wonder about the brush? I mean could you describe the brush you were using in this video? I tried the brushes on this page: www.ctrlpaint.com/brushes but they look different.
Hello, I am using Photoshop CS8 and I am unable to find Wrap Tool. Could you please help me?
Thank you :)
Not a very smart answer.
you are the best teacher here in youtube (for digital painting):
confident, easy to understand, focused into the important parts.
Thank you very much.
and your voice is nice to listen.
how do you make your brush change size like that? i sound stupid xD
He probably uses keys "[" and "]"
hope I helped :D
So that's why my digital brush can't have that realistic texture because didn't have any texture all along
wow man you are just shitting these things out in rapid succession
i just want the basic rendering courses
Ah, gotcha. Send me an email, and we'll figure something out!
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На английском кстати в 10 раз лучше воспринимается, сам не могу понять почему.
that french fry voice is very annoying but love your videos, liked and subbed.
who the fuck disliked this?
Can you stop spamming my subscription box please. You are pushing all your videos onto us.
This is not a good practice.
Sorry about that! I just found the 'notify subscribers' checkbox, hidden in the advanced settings. You'll stop getting spammed now :) Thanks for letting me know!
Ctrl+Paint I'm gonna disagree with this guy. I like all the updates! I think its awesome that you have such quick and easy to digest 5 min videos. much better than one 20 min long tutorial.
Ctrl+Paint I agree with MasterCharlz too. Better stay updated. Well described and so go on. THanks for those tutorials, subscribed. :)