Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Digital Painting Steps
Digital Painting Steps
A quick walk-through of one of my digital paints, done in Adobe Photoshop.

Painting Clouds in Photoshop
Cloud Painting Tutorial - Adobe Photoshop
Learn to digitally paint some quick and easy clouds in Adobe Photoshop.

Digital Coloring - Part 1
Digital Coloring Part I - Preparing Line art for color
Step one of the digital coloring and coloring comics routine is to take that scanned line art and prepare it for coloring. This tutorial explains how this is done from taking a dirty scan to creating an alpha channel to store your final line art. Learn to color comics like the pros!

Digital Coloring - Part 2
Digital Coloring Tutorial Part II - The Render
This tutorial shows you how to fully render comic book art using industry techniques.

Color Theory - Basic Primer
Color Theory Primer
Most artists are familiar with the color wheel and have some notion of color theory, but its handy to have a resource at the finger tips. This tutorial has diagrams of the various color schemes and suggestions for color moods.

Scanning Line Art
If you want to color those lines or just output your inks after scanning so they look good, this is the article for you. This tutorial is an in depth look at how to scan and clean up line art in Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Create a Swoosh in Illustrator
Creating a swoosh in Adobe Illustrator
In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to use the trim tool, and the free transform tool. This tutorial is geared towards those just learning to use this wonderful application.

Logo design in Illustrator
Logo Design in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial, create a stylized logo in Adobe Illustrator.


Quick Tips

Photoshop Paintbrush controls - Use the [ and ] (left and right square brackets) to increase (right) or decrease(left) brush tip size on the fly. One of the handiest keyboard short cuts for digital painters.

Sampling color on the fly in Photoshop - Using the eyedropper tool can be tedious for digital painting and other quick sampling needs. Use the ALT key (Windows) or the OPTION (Mac) key while you have a brush selected and the cursor changes to the eyedropper and does its thing...no switching of tools needed!

Fun with Tilde in Illustrator - Open a blank document in Illustrator, then pick a shape (square, circle, line etc.) then hold the tilde (~) key down and drag...fun...and cool.

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