33 Digital Painting Tutorials
Digital painting is something that I always wanted to learn. While finding my way to a start, I came across many great online tutorials on it that I should share with everyone here. Take your time to go through them and maybe some of them can spark your interest in digital painting too. I will be trying out some of them and then post my results up here ( for a laugh maybe 
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How to Draw Manga Very detailed explanations on methods to create a manga scene from the initial sketch all the way to final painting. Visit Tutorial |
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Spicy Curry Brush Digital painting process using brushes in Adobe Photoshop 7 with a pressure sensitive Wacom Intuos tablet. Visit Tutorial |
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Digital Painting Tutorial Detailed step-by-step guide for the creation of this masterpiece. Photoshop brushes used in the tutorial are available for download. Visit Tutorial |
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Digital Painting Steps A walkthough of one of Chris Arlidge’s digital painting done in Adobe Photoshop. General comments are provided on each step. Visit Tutorial |
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Advanced Digital Painting Techniques This covers the whole painting process, from sketch to finishing touches, and can be applied to either Photoshop painting or oil painting. Visit Tutorial |
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Making Frodo This is a walkthrough of how the creator made this realistic Frodo character from Lords of the Ring. Visit Tutorial |
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Red Assassin Tutorial Step-by-step walkthrough of how to create a beautiful red assassin. Visit Tutorial |
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Painting a Landscape Tutorial which will enable you to paint in Photoshop a basic landscape which could be thereafter detailed. Visit Tutorial |
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Jim Zubkavich’s Tutorial The step-by-step follows Jim’s process from loose sketch to finished art Visit Tutorial |
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Making of Yuka Creator created this stunning image by referencing a real photograph. Do check this out! Visit Tutorial |
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Making of Fire Energy Creator translates the fire energy to an image, and this came out, There isn’t any sketch, so he consider this a speed painting. Visit Tutorial |
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Bioshock Videogame Painting Creator explains how to use Photoshop and a Wacom Tablet to paint a character from the new videogame Bioshock. Visit Tutorial |
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Wonder Woman Pin Up Painting Use Photoshop and a Wacom Tablet to create a digital illustration of a voluptuous Wonder Woman pin up. Visit Tutorial |
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Fly Away Digital Painting Guide for fly away digital painting. I will say this is very useful for beginners. Visit Tutorial |
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Making of the Photographer Photographer, a war journalist picture in a cartoony look intending to be evocative and just a bit sad. Visit Tutorial |
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Spider Harp This picture represent a fantasy musician able to play harp on a spider web. Visit Tutorial |
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Making of Transformer Creator wants to create a scene filled with tension and drama, just like a still photographs from the film. Visit Tutorial |
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Making of Lida Creator want to interpret a new feeling of an old Chinese poem, and try to make it more fantasy, sci-fi and surreal. Visit Tutorial |
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Making of Angel of War Angel warrior. He is the solider of heaven to protect human from devil. And he obeys only GOD. Visit Tutorial |
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Making of Dragon In this tutorial we are going to color a dragon portrait. Visit Tutorial |
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Digital Painting Tutorial showing the steps to create this interesting manga-like painting. Visit Tutorial |
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Hair Painting Tutorial Neat tutorial showing how to paint a smooth hair. Visit Tutorial |
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Digital Painting This tutorial will show how to paint using almost 1 layer only. Visit Tutorial |
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Painting a Car Digitally Creator shows how he painted this car right from the start. Visit Tutorial |
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RoseVine Lady A detailed writeout of how the artist painted this magical scene. Visit Tutorial |
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Min Hyo Rin Step by Step Step by step guide on how to create this amazing painting. Visit Tutorial |
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Pepper Portrait – Process Artgerm sharing with everyone on how he created his very own style of digital painting. Visit Tutorial |
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Pepper Breeze – Process Another guide from Artgerm showing his processes in creating this piece of Pepper Breeze. Visit Tutorial |
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Digital Painting Tutorial Creator showing how to paint by referencing to several real photographs. Visit Tutorial |
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Digital Painting Tutorial This style of colouring resembles traditional painting because the brush strokes are still visible. Visit Tutorial |
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CG Tutorial 1 Ashen Ray sharing with us on how she done her manga-style painting. This is a must-read!. Visit Tutorial |
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CG Tutorial 2 Ashen Ray sharing with us on how she done her manga-style painting. This is a must-read!. Visit Tutorial |
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Digital Painting Cloud Step by step guide on how to build brushes and paint like the creator. Visit Tutorial |
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32 Comments | Write a Comment
Thanks so much, some great links, much appreciated.
really a nice paintings…plz..send me other paintings…
thank’s…..
that’s so amazing…
its very good paintings
send me your all paintings
i can’imaging after ssing this
It is realy great … plz we want more
that very cool work , i neve new that this kind of work we can get .thanks for opening new windows
awesome designs! the dragon one is my favourite design! no idea you could do all these with photoshop, also do the big films start off by actually using photoshop or do they use another package?
Yes Pink, it’s tough to achieve digital painting without putting in enough hard work. You can check out the latest post on layered PSDs for digital painting. All are free to download. We can learn some cool stuffs from there.
Couldnt thank you enough for this list! Transformer and Lord of Rings ones are awesome but seemed like a lot of hard work!
Thank you Johnson !! I love this site !
Waw good Thanks Johnson!
Very Nice thanks Johnson
Awesome…
it’s very helpfull to me thanks Johnson
great tutorials. and great site .
ill post something im doing soon
@Tadd and Yami: I’m new to these digital paintings as well. Do share with me if you’ve done up something!
I have bought a tablet recently and i was looking for tutorials like that ! Thank you Johnson !! I love this site !
Hot DANG this is a good collection! I’m not a digital painter – but I need to be .. and these will REALLY come in handy!
Thanks Johnson!
Thanks Rohin! It’s great to see you again
that’s an amazing list you have J , keep up the good work