Free digital painting courses and tutorials

Master digital painting with these in-depth tutorials. Whether you're using Photoshop, Procreate, or other software, you'll find tips and tricks to help you.

All Digital Painting tutorials:

  1. Quick Tip: Outsmart Perspective With the Mixer Brush Tool

    Quick Tip: Outsmart Perspective With the Mixer Brush Tool

    Tutorial Beginner

    Do you want to draw animals with slim necks, snakes, long tails, and Eastern dragons, but they're very hard because of perspective? There's one tool in...

  2. How to Create and Apply a Fish Scale Brush in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create and Apply a Fish Scale Brush in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    Create scales quickly and easily to apply to all your favourite fantasy and armoured creatures!

  3. Create an Ariel-Inspired Mermaid Painting in Adobe Photoshop

    Create an Ariel-Inspired Mermaid Painting in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Advanced

    In today's tutorial, we'll create a beautiful mermaid illustration inspired by Disney's The Little Mermaid. You'll need Adobe Photoshop and a pen tablet to...

  4. How to Create a Pastel Painted Landscape in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Pastel Painted Landscape in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Nature is the most inexhaustible source of inspiration! Follow me in this tutorial and let’s make a dedication to the beauty of nature by painting a lovely...

  5. New Course: Creature Design in Adobe Photoshop

    New Course: Creature Design in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    In our new course, you'll learn to create a fantasy creature in Photoshop, from sketch/concepts to final production.

  6. How to Incorporate Selection Tools Into Your Workflow in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Incorporate Selection Tools Into Your Workflow in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    A continuation of the Digital Painting 101 series. In today's quick tip, learn about Selection Tools and the different ways you can use these tools to paint...

  7. Digital Painting 101: Using Texture Brushes in Adobe Photoshop

    Digital Painting 101: Using Texture Brushes in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    A continuation of the Digital Painting 101 series. Today we'll teach you the basics of painting with texture brushes in Adobe Photoshop, and the difference...

  8. How to Create Animation Assets in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create Animation Assets in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to set up Photoshop documents for easy transition to Adobe After Effects for animation!

  9. Harness the Elements: Paint Fire in All Its Forms

    Harness the Elements: Paint Fire in All Its Forms

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to use Photoshop tools creatively to render various forms of flames, fire, and lava without painting them in a traditional way or using stock images.

  10. Create a Fantasy Landscape Matte Painting in Adobe Photoshop

    Create a Fantasy Landscape Matte Painting in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    ​​​In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a fantasy landscape matte painting named "Eagle's Land". We'll start this tutorial by sketching out the...

  11. Quick Tip: Improve Your Digital Paintings With Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop

    Quick Tip: Improve Your Digital Paintings With Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    In today's lesson of Digital Painting 101, we'll cover Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop. Learn how you can improve overall color impact and intensity...

  12. The Secret to Realistic Painting: How to Master Value

    The Secret to Realistic Painting: How to Master Value

    Tutorial Beginner

    Are your colors lifeless when you're painting in grayscale first? Or maybe they're garish and mismatched when you paint without grayscale? Do you wonder why...