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. International Artist Feature: Argentina

    International Artist Feature: Argentina

    Tutorial Beginner

    For this article in the international artist series, we turn to Argentina, featuring six artists who create fantastic work, from illustration to graphic...

  2. New Course: Designing a Sci-Fi Galaxy for Film

    New Course: Designing a Sci-Fi Galaxy for Film

    Tutorial Beginner

    Do you want to create a beautiful sci-fi scene that can be used for film or games? In our new short course, Designing a Sci-Fi Galaxy for Film, you'll learn...

  3. Photoshop in 60 Seconds: How to Properly Fill a Drawn Outline

    Photoshop in 60 Seconds: How to Properly Fill a Drawn Outline

    Tutorial Beginner

    In Photoshop, you don't need to fill an outline manually, stroke by stroke—you can use the Paint Bucket Tool to fill it with one click. However, there's one...

  4. New Course: Digital Matte Painting for Beginners

    New Course: Digital Matte Painting for Beginners

    Tutorial Beginner

    If you want to learn some new digital painting skills and create a fantastic post-apocalyptic city scene at the same time, check out our new course, Digital...

  5. How to Use Color to Set the Mood in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Use Color to Set the Mood in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Advanced

    Color sets the mood in every digital painting. So in this tutorial, digital artist Melody Nieves will show you how to paint three totally distinct moods in...

  6. New Course: Digitally Paint Fantastic Giants Walking the Earth

    New Course: Digitally Paint Fantastic Giants Walking the Earth

    Tutorial Beginner

    Do you want to improve your digital painting skills while working on a complex fantasy scene? If so, our new course, Digitally Paint Fantastic Giants Walking...

  7. How to Create a Pirate Treasure Chest in Paint Tool SAI

    How to Create a Pirate Treasure Chest in Paint Tool SAI

    Tutorial Beginner

    Who doesn't like to play games? In this tutorial we will draw a game object that can also be used as a game icon. The main theme is a pirate or underwater...

  8. How to Create a Little Red Riding Hood Inspired Fairytale Illustration in Paint Tool SAI

    How to Create a Little Red Riding Hood Inspired Fairytale Illustration in Paint Tool SAI

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Who doesn't like fairy-tale stories? I love them, and one of my favorites is "Little Red Riding Hood". The little girl who met the Big Bad Wolf in the...

  9. New Course on Lighting in Digital Painting

    New Course on Lighting in Digital Painting

    Tutorial Beginner

    Paying attention to the interplay of light and shadow can help you make your digital paintings look more life-like. So in our new course, How to Digitally...

  10. How to Paint Realistic Hair in Adobe Photoshop: Braids and Dreadlocks

    How to Paint Realistic Hair in Adobe Photoshop: Braids and Dreadlocks

    Tutorial Advanced

    Two of the hardest hairstyles to recreate for artists are braids and dreadlocks. In this tutorial, digital artist Melody Nieves will show you how to...

  11. How to Create a Landscape Matte Painting in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Create a Landscape Matte Painting in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Advanced

    In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create visual development concepts for animation using matte-painting techniques.

  12. How to Create a Vibrant Dragon Boat Illustration in Paint Tool SAI

    How to Create a Vibrant Dragon Boat Illustration in Paint Tool SAI

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial we will create bright colorful illustration for the Dragon Boat Festival. Also, you'll see a clear workflow of making a digital illustration...