Normally similiar tutorials in "real life" cost money (and not little) and you are making it for free, in way that viewer has the impression that you are speaking directly to him/her. It's very valuable, thanks.
I think its more like Borodante teaching us all he knows but also learning or in this case reviewing his working progress for his own benefit as well. After all, the great ones usually always say they learn every day. :)
Oh my. I've been digital painting for a while but constantly get bogged down in the details and have been wanting to learn how to loosen up and become more painterly. Watched tons of tutorials, but this is the first one I've seen where something clicked in my brain. Now to try it out :). Thank you Borodante
I've been thinking about this video regularly since i first saw it when it came out. Probably the most important tutorial i've seen in my art journey, to this day.
LOL! (at myself!) I've been doing 3d for over two decades. I "doodle" in 2d for roughing out ideas and just giving my brain a rest (zoning out). As you were describing it, it hit me; this is the 2D equivalent of "blocking out" a 3D model. Simple primitives to define shape and composition/location. Now that my feeble brain has made the connection, I'm going to go try it out on this homework you've given us. Thanks Boro! Thanks to those who suggested Boro do a "beginner tutorial" series... see what I did there, Daniel? ..."series"... ;)
I have been amatuer artist for 5 years cuz of lack of knowlagde and resources. Thanks to you, now I can learn more advance about art. I'm a dropout collage student of Film and Animation student because of personal problems. Again thanks to creator like you. Now I want to catch my dream and became Pro Artist. Hope you have wonderful day :D
I really liked this idea of giving your audience "homework" and reviewing it and sharing another tool in another video. I would try but dont have money for a digital art tablet. I have a touchscreen on my laptop and a stylist but its not a precise stylist, just a generic one. i guess i could do mouse but that seems like... a bad habit. Ill still watch and see what otherpeople come up with :)
www.ebay.com/itm/Graphic-Tablet-Wirless-Drawing-13-8-x-8-6-WH1409-Giano-12-HotKey-Closeout-SALE/253106629265?epid=13011371032&hash=item3aee54aa91:g:mTYAAOSwX7JbB8dt save up and buy that. i have used other huion and also have a wacom intuos medium. for the money nothing can touch this tablet. for 30$ more than the huion h610 pro, it is a no brainer. i can not recommend this tablet enough for how much you get for the price
this! I am a self taught artist who didn't get any help and I'm just going to say that learning to draw on your own is difficult when you don't have anyone showing you what's wrong and right, also the fact you gave homework is amazing!
Interesting way of going about teaching how to concept. I was traditionally taught in high school so I've never had any teacher as far as digital painting goes. I've watched you for a while and I notice you talk about lighting quite a bit. This video is a nice change from the usual and I feel like you did a really good job putting it into perspective; I will definitely be using this in the future :)
The idea beyond this video push me a lot in the understanding of the light and make me think in a different way what I'm doing and how I do it. As I can, I will do it Mr. Borodante :D
I've been watching you for a couple of months now, and I feel like I just have to thank you for providing this huge volume of educational content for free. I have never, not once, finished watching a video of yours and not learned anything new. You're a uniquely amazing channel and I greatly appreciate all the work you put into this. I'm here now at
Well Borodante, you are an artist first, and your teaching is the way your brain works as the artist you are. If Picasso would be doing this video, we all be shock by the way he teach us how to paint. So artist first, and second you are an art philosopher. LOVE that! I see that in each one of your videos. Excellent!
This is a genius idea. Not many people can put together something like this that is so primitive yet still really helpful to a more experienced artist. You have a real gift for instruction.
Very helpful. I think my painting process is going to slightly change now. In the beginning of starting a project I will limit myself to only large brushes, then once I'm happy with the placement, color and values I will switch over to a smaller brush. After digitally painting for 4 years now, you would think this would have sunk in by now, but It's all to easy to grab that fine liner and start adding in the fun stuff like, air particle and stray hairs. But I guess I been told to use a large brush so many times, I never really had a homework assignment that forced me to apply it. So well done, this was more helpful than initially I realized.
I've watched many of your videos, i feel like my paintings finally take a good form. Also started to paint in one layer, a very cool and artistic way of painting indeed. Keep up the great work, sir!
I love your tutorial videos. You're great at not making things sound more complicated than they actually are and even though you're making a tutorial for noobs it's obvious that you have respect for your viewers.
I’ve been watching your videos for like four days cause I just discovered your channel, and I can say with all honesty that I’ve learned more about lights and shadows in these four days thanks to your videos than in all the years of my life that I’ve been drawing and painting. I love your videos ❤️
Wow your dedication and your true desire to teach people and the way you do it. In addition to the accompaniment to your followers really give desire to sit and just do it. Thanks for so much in such a short time.
Thank you so much Boro! This video helped me understand pressure accuracy and how to make natural soft edges and hard edges. I've just been watching and re-watching your videos every single day, until i could understood the concept. I'm so happy i can connect the dots in your videos and Now exercise with my brush's!
if it wasn't for Boro, I would not have had any idea of how to manage digital painting, even though I am still very new to it and need a lot of practice, Borodante's video have pushed me ten steps forward, thank so much.
This has to be one of the best tutorials regarding painting on youtube. You explain your points and the purpose of this very clearly and it helps a lot. I hope you perhaps continue in a part 2 of sorts, if not this will still be incredibly useful on its own! Thanks again!
The way you explain it makes tons of sense. I've tried this before but it didn't work out. I was less patient with art then than I am now; I should give it another go. Looking forward to more videos like this. :)
Really difficult to keep the paint brush big, but I like the lessons this assignment is meant to teach. I also really love the brush / texture that you provided.
Great video! I found the brush and works with my own setting. Thanks! I really like this method you are teaching. I'm not at a level where I can show it publicly, but it makes a lot of sense. I'll keep practicing until I can apply it to my own art style. I want to break away from some aspects of my art style I dislike.
You can get it from here, if you are interested in it. :) It's also available in many different countries. www.pullandbear.com/gb/man/clothing/t-shirts/t-shirt-with-motif-print-c29070p500586508.html
I think you could also add how long it took you to finish the "final" painting, because something that scares a lot of begginers, hell even some advanced painters is how long it took them to finish something, makes them thing it's not worth the time they spent. Most people know that time is not that important, but i think it will be reassuring for everyone with this problem.
this was quite awesome. the way you're doing it here is how I always wanted to do it, but I didn't because I guess I needed instructions as clear as yours. I'm also put off by the fact that my computer renders on it's CPU because the GPU is so weak, that I can't use large image sizes in PS. But now I'm definitely gonna try this!
Krita doesn't use GPU to compute nearly anything, because the computations needed are very simple. The problem you described would be (in that program, not PS, I don't know how PS is made... but I guess it is similar) that you have too little RAM to handle bigger canvases.
Very well done. Not the boring stuff of so many tutorials that are heavy on effects/tools but light on real content. You didn't put me to sleep once. I have seen a lot of trainers.....I think you have a talent for teaching. Small problem for this very beginner as I tried this exercise...I don't know how to control my Paint Storm brushes or pick colours or many basics. Any tutorials you recommend? Update: You had a tutorial!
It really does look like a picture that's out of focus, like you talked about in another video. I don't have a tablet or anything that I can work with like that and usually just draw with my mouse and do what I can with it, so I never trained paiting stuff in that way but a friend of mine was kind enought to give me an used device
would i be correct in saying the grey on the ground should reflect in the shadows of the objects? is the ambient light necessary, and could we see the whats in the shadow just from the reflection of the original light on the ground? or is the light too angled downwards to reflect on the ground?
what if ur painting a very detailed painting thar you got from this method ans then if u add one more stroke it will take a long time to get back to your orginal spot
So I have a Cintiq Companion 2, I’ve had it for a couple years and it hasn’t given me any trouble, but now it’s acting really weird? It turns on, but the screen won’t turn on. It’s always black. After looking online I found many people with the same problem, but I haven’t found a solution. Do you know how to fix it? I would really appreciate some help if you can! Wacom charges like $1,000 to fix it but I really can’t pay that. this is super freaking frustrating
Hey nice video Boro, even for non beginners it's really good, i think my biggest problem in my digital painting is that i add too much little strokes that would not be possible in a real painting with a real brush, the question is, how can we know what would be possible or not with a real brush when you never did real painting ? that's why i recently bought some acrylic and charcoal to figure this out and make my digital painting more "artistic" and less digital. Didn't try it yet but i should do it in a few days.
Hey Boro, how do I add your ArtStudio Pro brushes to my iPad? When I open it in Safari, it's just a bunch of ASCII and I can't seem to save it to my User Resources -> Presets -> Brushes folder in Artstudio Pro. It seems I can put your Photoshop brush on ArtStudio Pro, but I'm concerned that it won't have the same configuration as you have it on your copy of ArtStudio.
Would you be open to making more tutorials like this with homework attached, like once every 1 or 2 weeks? I give $5 on Patreon every month, but I would definitely pay $10 or more every month if you had special content and homework to share that could teach me more about drawing and painting. I want to learn more about drawing accurately from imagination. Like building shapes and 3D forms and how that process works. Its super complicated, but with your help I know I could learn. I'm also really interested in learning how to translate skills of drawing from sight into drawing from imagination. What is the connection between these things? Anyway, I'm so glad you finally made this amazing video. I'd hate to ask for more, because you already give so much, but I can't resist because you are the most amazing artist AND the best art teacher I know, which is why I'm so desperate to learn from you. Anyway, I'll definitely be turning in my homework later this week. Thank you so much. I could just die.
Thanks Boro for this great tutorial! This is very useful, and really made me think differently about digital painting. I have a question about brush size and blend mode for the brush. When I loaded the brush into Photoshop I got airbrush mode turned on and blend mode for the brush is on overlay. Should I turn off airbrush mode and set blend to normal to get the right results?
Normally similiar tutorials in "real life" cost money (and not little) and you are making it for free, in way that viewer has the impression that you are speaking directly to him/her. It's very valuable, thanks.
I think its more like Borodante teaching us all he knows but also learning or in this case reviewing his working progress for his own benefit as well. After all, the great ones usually always say they learn every day. :)
Oh my. I've been digital painting for a while but constantly get bogged down in the details and have been wanting to learn how to loosen up and become more painterly. Watched tons of tutorials, but this is the first one I've seen where something clicked in my brain. Now to try it out :). Thank you Borodante
I've been thinking about this video regularly since i first saw it when it came out. Probably the most important tutorial i've seen in my art journey, to this day.
LOL! (at myself!) I've been doing 3d for over two decades. I "doodle" in 2d for roughing out ideas and just giving my brain a rest (zoning out). As you were describing it, it hit me; this is the 2D equivalent of "blocking out" a 3D model. Simple primitives to define shape and composition/location. Now that my feeble brain has made the connection, I'm going to go try it out on this homework you've given us.
Thanks Boro! Thanks to those who suggested Boro do a "beginner tutorial" series... see what I did there, Daniel? ..."series"... ;)
I have been amatuer artist for 5 years cuz of lack of knowlagde and resources. Thanks to you, now I can learn more advance about art.
I'm a dropout collage student of Film and Animation student because of personal problems. Again thanks to creator like you. Now I want to catch my dream and became Pro Artist. Hope you have wonderful day :D
The best homework ever, in 15 min all has been done, I never painted nothing so fast.
I really liked this idea of giving your audience "homework" and reviewing it and sharing another tool in another video. I would try but dont have money for a digital art tablet. I have a touchscreen on my laptop and a stylist but its not a precise stylist, just a generic one. i guess i could do mouse but that seems like... a bad habit. Ill still watch and see what otherpeople come up with :)
Daniel Wertz signature tablet from wish it's pretty cheap. I use that. Comes with a pen
Peach Quartz thanks I'll look it up!
www.ebay.com/itm/Graphic-Tablet-Wirless-Drawing-13-8-x-8-6-WH1409-Giano-12-HotKey-Closeout-SALE/253106629265?epid=13011371032&hash=item3aee54aa91:g:mTYAAOSwX7JbB8dt
save up and buy that. i have used other huion and also have a wacom intuos medium. for the money nothing can touch this tablet. for 30$ more than the huion h610 pro, it is a no brainer. i can not recommend this tablet enough for how much you get for the price
tyrejo I second that. The huion h610 pro is really good value
love getting art homework and exercises to do, so much better than just watching things.
this! I am a self taught artist who didn't get any help and I'm just going to say that learning to draw on your own is difficult when you don't have anyone showing you what's wrong and right, also the fact you gave homework is amazing!
ik this is two years later. but i am glad to have found this video. thank you! i will go watch part 2 now!
Interesting way of going about teaching how to concept. I was traditionally taught in high school so I've never had any teacher as far as digital painting goes. I've watched you for a while and I notice you talk about lighting quite a bit. This video is a nice change from the usual and I feel like you did a really good job putting it into perspective; I will definitely be using this in the future :)
The idea beyond this video push me a lot in the understanding of the light and make me think in a different way what I'm doing and how I do it.
As I can, I will do it Mr. Borodante :D
Thank you so much for this! I had no idea how to start painting and you video helped me get a start, I'll go paint right away
this is the most straight forward and useful painting tutorial I've seen thus far, this has helped me a lot. Thank you so much!
This channel is among those channels where I want to be the early bird ;_; lobe yew boro
I've been watching you for a couple of months now, and I feel like I just have to thank you for providing this huge volume of educational content for free. I have never, not once, finished watching a video of yours and not learned anything new. You're a uniquely amazing channel and I greatly appreciate all the work you put into this.
I'm here now at
Well Borodante, you are an artist first, and your teaching is the way your brain works as the artist you are. If Picasso would be doing this video, we all be shock by the way he teach us how to paint. So artist first, and second you are an art philosopher. LOVE that! I see that in each one of your videos. Excellent!
This is a genius idea. Not many people can put together something like this that is so primitive yet still really helpful to a more experienced artist. You have a real gift for instruction.
Very helpful. I think my painting process is going to slightly change now. In the beginning of starting a project I will limit myself to only large brushes, then once I'm happy with the placement, color and values I will switch over to a smaller brush. After digitally painting for 4 years now, you would think this would have sunk in by now, but It's all to easy to grab that fine liner and start adding in the fun stuff like, air particle and stray hairs. But I guess I been told to use a large brush so many times, I never really had a homework assignment that forced me to apply it. So well done, this was more helpful than initially I realized.
This is brilliant I'm actually about to run to the computer and try this ASAP after I finish watching
I've watched many of your videos, i feel like my paintings finally take a good form. Also started to paint in one layer, a very cool and artistic way of painting indeed. Keep up the great work, sir!
I've improved so fast because i watch your videos, all your tips and tricks has helped me sooo much. Please don't stop making videos.
I just found your channel a couple days ago and it has helped me out A LOT. Thanks for all the great content!
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Great content indeed
Good job man you're very good at teaching. Keep this series up!!!!!!
I love your tutorial videos. You're great at not making things sound more complicated than they actually are and even though you're making a tutorial for noobs it's obvious that you have respect for your viewers.
You deserve at least triple the subscribers that you have. Thank You!
YES BORRO! A guide from you is EXACTlY what I've been waiting for this whole time!!!
I’ve been watching your videos for like four days cause I just discovered your channel, and I can say with all honesty that I’ve learned more about lights and shadows in these four days thanks to your videos than in all the years of my life that I’ve been drawing and painting. I love your videos ❤️
oh, that's quite an original approach! I'm going to try this :D
Thank you so much Borodante.
I'm so grateful for this.
Wow your dedication and your true desire to teach people and the way you do it. In addition to the accompaniment to your followers really give desire to sit and just do it. Thanks for so much in such a short time.
Boro thanks for this free tutorial. You are amazing. I hope this Will be continued. Thx again.
ive seen a lot of youtube videos about art, and i gotta say you do the best. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much Boro! This video helped me understand pressure accuracy and how to make natural soft edges and hard edges. I've just been watching and re-watching your videos every single day, until i could understood the concept. I'm so happy i can connect the dots in your videos and Now exercise with my brush's!
As soon as I start doodling and buy myself an art tablet, you release this!
if it wasn't for Boro, I would not have had any idea of how to manage digital painting, even though I am still very new to it and need a lot of practice, Borodante's video have pushed me ten steps forward, thank so much.
you're honestly one of the best art channels out there. Keep doing what you do!! Loving it
This has to be one of the best tutorials regarding painting on youtube. You explain your points and the purpose of this very clearly and it helps a lot. I hope you perhaps continue in a part 2 of sorts, if not this will still be incredibly useful on its own! Thanks again!
The way you explain it makes tons of sense. I've tried this before but it didn't work out. I was less patient with art then than I am now; I should give it another go.
Looking forward to more videos like this. :)
thanks boro. you awesome bro. i always comeback to this channel.
Really difficult to keep the paint brush big, but I like the lessons this assignment is meant to teach. I also really love the brush / texture that you provided.
Great Idea! I am loving this. I have difficulty with perspective. I love your art!
Very interesting, this approach made me think in a different way how to start my learning.
That moment where you watched borodante for years and decided to try digital art... It's finally time for this video.
Ooooh I love this ! I'm going to do it :D THank you for the homework !
Great video! I found the brush and works with my own setting. Thanks! I really like this method you are teaching. I'm not at a level where I can show it publicly, but it makes a lot of sense. I'll keep practicing until I can apply it to my own art style. I want to break away from some aspects of my art style I dislike.
Wow! Thanks!
The video is super useful, but also I can't stop looking at your shirt. It's damn amazing! Why I never find cool clothes like that?
You can get it from here, if you are interested in it. :) It's also available in many different countries.
www.pullandbear.com/gb/man/clothing/t-shirts/t-shirt-with-motif-print-c29070p500586508.html
thanks for providing psd files man!
Thank you Borodante !
Enjoyable and informative. Ty
I think you could also add how long it took you to finish the "final" painting, because something that scares a lot of begginers, hell even some advanced painters is how long it took them to finish something, makes them thing it's not worth the time they spent.
Most people know that time is not that important, but i think it will be reassuring for everyone with this problem.
this was quite awesome. the way you're doing it here is how I always wanted to do it, but I didn't because I guess I needed instructions as clear as yours.
I'm also put off by the fact that my computer renders on it's CPU because the GPU is so weak, that I can't use large image sizes in PS. But now I'm definitely gonna try this!
Krita doesn't use GPU to compute nearly anything, because the computations needed are very simple. The problem you described would be (in that program, not PS, I don't know how PS is made... but I guess it is similar) that you have too little RAM to handle bigger canvases.
I hate the fact that I have so many tabs up of your videos because I want to watch them all.
There is a way to get detailed accuracy by putting each object on its own layer, but I assume that's counter-productive in this example.
Very well done. Not the boring stuff of so many tutorials that are heavy on effects/tools but light on real content. You didn't put me to sleep once. I have seen a lot of trainers.....I think you have a talent for teaching. Small problem for this very beginner as I tried this exercise...I don't know how to control my Paint Storm brushes or pick colours or many basics. Any tutorials you recommend? Update: You had a tutorial!
This helped me with my compulsive use of ctrl. z
I am excited to do it thanks i
will try it
It really does look like a picture that's out of focus, like you talked about in another video. I don't have a tablet or anything that I can work with like that and usually just draw with my mouse and do what I can with it, so I never trained paiting stuff in that way but a friend of mine was kind enought to give me an used device
Man this is good i realy have to try this technique
I found that with this approach I lose the form too much and it changes to something I never meant in the begining
Thanks, I guess I will try to
would i be correct in saying the grey on the ground should reflect in the shadows of the objects? is the ambient light necessary, and could we see the whats in the shadow just from the reflection of the original light on the ground? or is the light too angled downwards to reflect on the ground?
Yo you deserve a shit ton more views and subs
This is a good video for begginers
What should I do if my pressure sensitivity sucks?
do you have a tutorial for someone who uses a mouse to paint?
Thank you so much. Waiting next tutorial)
Good job and rly thanks for this tutorial :D
Is no one going to mention that adorable little wooden mannequin holding what looks to be an acorn/Pinecone?
The brush in photoshop CS6 dosent recognize brush pressure i dont know why :(
yes pls this is so awesome man
very great that one like many other you did (but what is that keyboard on the sofa like a remote or?) ^^
So what is thisbart style called? I really love it and want to make my own art in this style
Nice! Will do it just for fun
I have done my homework how do I send it to you
Болшой спасибо, Данил! Привет из Мексики ;)
Wow great tutorial! Ill definitely try that too :D
Thank you for this I’d enjoy more videos with homework in the future!
Also where did you get that shirt? I love the design
Now this is something I need.
what if ur painting a very detailed painting thar you got from this method ans then if u add one more stroke it will take a long time to get back to your orginal spot
So I have a Cintiq Companion 2, I’ve had it for a couple years and it hasn’t given me any trouble, but now it’s acting really weird? It turns on, but the screen won’t turn on. It’s always black. After looking online I found many people with the same problem, but I haven’t found a solution. Do you know how to fix it? I would really appreciate some help if you can!
Wacom charges like $1,000 to fix it but I really can’t pay that. this is super freaking frustrating
I love your shirt.
I really like the soundtrack in the background. What is it called?
Also really cool with the tutorial and homework! Thank you
more of this pls
Hey Boro can you give me the link to your wallpaper? 0:26
Hey nice video Boro, even for non beginners it's really good, i think my biggest problem in my digital painting is that i add too much little strokes that would not be possible in a real painting with a real brush, the question is, how can we know what would be possible or not with a real brush when you never did real painting ? that's why i recently bought some acrylic and charcoal to figure this out and make my digital painting more "artistic" and less digital. Didn't try it yet but i should do it in a few days.
Hey Boro, how do I add your ArtStudio Pro brushes to my iPad? When I open it in Safari, it's just a bunch of ASCII and I can't seem to save it to my User Resources -> Presets -> Brushes folder in Artstudio Pro.
It seems I can put your Photoshop brush on ArtStudio Pro, but I'm concerned that it won't have the same configuration as you have it on your copy of ArtStudio.
Oh hell yes i cant wait
Would you be open to making more tutorials like this with homework attached, like once every 1 or 2 weeks? I give $5 on Patreon every month, but I would definitely pay $10 or more every month if you had special content and homework to share that could teach me more about drawing and painting. I want to learn more about drawing accurately from imagination. Like building shapes and 3D forms and how that process works. Its super complicated, but with your help I know I could learn. I'm also really interested in learning how to translate skills of drawing from sight into drawing from imagination. What is the connection between these things?
Anyway, I'm so glad you finally made this amazing video. I'd hate to ask for more, because you already give so much, but I can't resist because you are the most amazing artist AND the best art teacher I know, which is why I'm so desperate to learn from you. Anyway, I'll definitely be turning in my homework later this week. Thank you so much. I could just die.
Who disliked this? It takes only a second to swipe left to get off. Even as simple as, oh, I don't know, choosing another video....
Awesome.
I really like your shirt, where did you get that?
Also, awesome video, as always :)
Love your accent ;)
Thanks Boro for this great tutorial! This is very useful, and really made me think differently about digital painting. I have a question about brush size and blend mode for the brush. When I loaded the brush into Photoshop I got airbrush mode turned on and blend mode for the brush is on overlay. Should I turn off airbrush mode and set blend to normal to get the right results?
Can u do more stuff about perspective
awesome !
Bless you, my frond!!
I draw with my finger and I have a really bad problem of zooming in a lot.
Awesome idea man ! Just made homework as 5th submission on instagram tagging you :D
nice
Can you do a quick video about some artist you watch yourself to learn ? it can be nice for us to see different approach
ok thank you
Can I still do it with a mouse? I don't have a drawing tablet and wanted to know how important this opacity = pressure thing is
in most programs you can lower the opacity of brush manually. It's less fun than painting with a tablet, but still possible!
Thanks! I am using Krita to paint and I'm a very beginner at digital painting :D
I paint like this as an underpaint alot. Especially when I'm doing a study