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.
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  1. Create a Planetary Asteroid Impact

    Create a Planetary Asteroid Impact

    Tutorial • Advanced

    While asteroids don’t slam into the Earth all that often, movie producers sure act like they do. We can all think up a few movies with similar plots. An...

  2. Matte Painting 101: Lighting Fires

    Matte Painting 101: Lighting Fires

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Matte painting is a technique that filmmakers use to create backgrounds for scenes that can't or don't exist in real life. In the early days, matte paintings...

  3. Create a Surreal Upside Down Mountain Painting in Photoshop

    Create a Surreal Upside Down Mountain Painting in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Advanced

    In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a surreal upside down mountain illustration using digital painting techniques in Photoshop. This piece was...

  4. Create a Wine Bottle and Glass with Smart Objects

    Create a Wine Bottle and Glass with Smart Objects

    Tutorial • Advanced

    Smart Objects are very powerful layers in Photshop. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a wine bottle and wine glass using Smart Objects as well...

  5. Create a Self-Portrait Caricature Illustration in Photoshop

    Create a Self-Portrait Caricature Illustration in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Advanced

    Revamping scrapped artwork is a great way to improve the skills of any artist. It is a great measure of your improvement and changes in style over time. Back...

  6. Create a Surreal Rock Formation in Photoshop

    Create a Surreal Rock Formation in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Advanced

    While photo manipulation is an important part of just about everything we do in Photoshop, photo manipulation isn't always the answer. Sometimes you'll need...

  7. Create an Ancient Temple Entrance Carved in Rock

    Create an Ancient Temple Entrance Carved in Rock

    Tutorial • Advanced

    We’ve all been there. We need to create a specific scene in Photoshop but we can’t find the proper stock photography to create it. Why not paint it instead?...

  8. Create a Herd of Grazing Dinosaurs in Photoshop

    Create a Herd of Grazing Dinosaurs in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Advanced

    Just about everyone remembers that scene from Jurassic Park when the characters in the movie come across herds of dinosaurs grazing in a grassy field. In...

  9. Create an Underground City in Photoshop

    Create an Underground City in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Advanced

    In movies, filmmakers often use matte paintings when the backdrop of a scene can't or doesn't exist in real life. In this tutorial we will demonstrate some...

  10. Create a Snow Covered, Coastal, Mountain Town Matte Painting

    Create a Snow Covered, Coastal, Mountain Town Matte Painting

    Tutorial • Advanced

    A matte painting is a backdrop that filmmakers use when the scene they need doesn’t or can’t exist in real life. In the past, they were created by actually...

  11. Create a Post-Apocalyptic Matte Painting

    Create a Post-Apocalyptic Matte Painting

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In the movies, we often see images of ruined landscapes or apocalyptic cities. What many of us don’t know however is that much of this imagery was produced...

  12. The Cosmos: Create a Supernova and a Ringed Planet in Photoshop

    The Cosmos: Create a Supernova and a Ringed Planet in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    When stars die, they explode in a brilliant burst of light that releases more energy than our sun releases in its lifetime. This brilliant burst of light is...

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