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 content:

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. Quick Tip: Painting With Layer Blend Modes in Adobe Photoshop

    Quick Tip: Painting With Layer Blend Modes in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    In today's quick tip for our Digital Painting 101 series, you'll learn about Layer Blend Modes in Adobe Photoshop and how you can use these settings to...

  4. New Course: Environment Concept Art for Games

    New Course: Environment Concept Art for Games

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this course, concept artist and game designer Jonathan Lam will teach you how to paint environment concept art for video games. The course will take you...

  5. How to Paint a Dapper Victorian Cat in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Paint a Dapper Victorian Cat in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Even cats can be hipsters. Inspired by the portraiture of the Victorian era, today's tutorial will show you how to paint your very own dapper cat using Adobe...

  6. Draw Your Mind Out: How to Create Without Thinking

    Draw Your Mind Out: How to Create Without Thinking

    Tutorial Beginner

    How to draw something you have never seen? How to create on the fly, without a reference, when you're not experienced yet? How to bring your ideas out and...

  7. Learn to Paint Beautiful Realistic Lips in Adobe Photoshop

    Learn to Paint Beautiful Realistic Lips in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Ever wished you could draw the perfect pair of sweet, beautiful lips? Now you can, with this tutorial and Photoshop!

  8. Harness the Elements: Paint Liquid Water in All Its Forms

    Harness the Elements: Paint Liquid Water in All Its Forms

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Following on from our previous tutorial on frozen water, now you'll learn how to render liquid water in many forms—drops, lakes, puddles, rain, and...

  9. Quick Tip: Painting With Hard vs. Soft Brushes in Adobe Photoshop

    Quick Tip: Painting With Hard vs. Soft Brushes in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Beginner

    In today's quick tip we learn more about painting with the Brush Tool in Photoshop. Discover the difference between working with Hard vs. Soft Brushes and...

  10. How to Paint Realistic Eyes in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Paint Realistic Eyes in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn the basic anatomy of the eye and learn how to digitally paint a beautiful, near realistic eye in Adobe Photoshop.

  11. Quick Tip: How to Blend With the Brush Tool for Digital Paintings

    Quick Tip: How to Blend With the Brush Tool for Digital Paintings

    Tutorial Beginner

    A continuation of the Digital Painting 101 series. In today's lesson, we'll show you the most important technique to learn for digital paintings, blending...

  12. How to Paint a Polish Winged Hussar in Adobe Photoshop

    How to Paint a Polish Winged Hussar in Adobe Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to paint a legendary Polish warrior! And, along the way, get familiar with planning a picture, shading it in grayscale and adding vivid colors...