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Nowadays, lots of great Photoshop tutorials appear on the web each week. However, lately I’ve noticed a real decline in the amount of tutorials teaching digital painting and drawing. This is most likely because these tutorials are often more intricate and time consuming to produce. However, any great designer should at least explore the wealth of techniques involved with digital painting. Towards that end, we’ve compiled some great examples of digital painting tutorials to help you master this aspect of Photoshop.
Create your own digital character with the help of this interesting tutorial.
Make your favourite portrait in a drawing by just following these simple steps!
Design an awesome Hellboy composition which will surely impress your friends and mates.
A surrealistic scene drawn in Photoshop and explained detailated in this great tutorial.
It’s not real, but it looks so, doesn’t it? Learn how to create your own delicious fruits using Photoshop.
A good tutorial to learn the basics of coloring and digital art drawing.
Find out in this tutorial a simple and nice method to create a digital portrait that will shock everybody with its realistic look.
Here you will find out how to make a extremely cute monkey with the help of simple Photoshop tricks.
Create a hot and beautiful portrait colored extremely well and with an amazing look.
Make the famous logo of Transformers all by yourself and a little help from this tutorial.
Learn how to improve your photos and make them even more beautiful and expressive.
Guided out by this tutorial will allow you to create almost every fictional character you wish!
Find out that you can create even the most beautiful portrait from nothing, just by following the steps of this amazing tutorial.
Create a western style composition with a great color arangement and detailization.
Make an awesome lightning using just simple tricks and usual stock material.
Want to create such pictures with a full realism? Check out this awesome and interesting tutorial to learn more about it.
Create a digital painting of Rihanna, being possible in such a away to see your favourite star from different visions.
Learn how to manipulate the liquids in Photoshop properly with this simple tutorial.
This tutorial presents you a great way of creating original and cute pictures with the help of simple tricks.
Design a beautiful and retro-style picture with a great color pallete and delicious look.
Make your own fictional places and landscapes with the help of this simple tutorial.
Following this tutorial will make you able to create your S.F. scenes and pictures.
Create a beautiful and expressive portrait which has a great look and gives a nice feeling.
Make yourself a majestic and beautiful knight by simply following this awesome tutorial.
Design your favorite heroes being helped by this cool tutorial.
Manipulate with numbers in order to create an awesome composition!
Create a fantastical scene that suits your imagination and could represent the place of your dreams.
Learn how to color almost everything around yourself perfectly guided by this nice tutorial.
Find out how to improve your beloved cosmic creations with this simple tutorial.
Make a realistical and impressive portrait of your favorite movie heroes helped by this cool tutorial.
Transform yourself into an Avatar character with just a little bit of imagination and some tricks.
Create a cute and nice composition with the help of this awesome tutorial.
Learn the basics of creating awesome Sci-Fi composition and their detailisation.
A little bit hard, but the result of this tutorial will surely impress everybody!
Stelian is a design enthusiast from Republic of Moldova. Right now he is working on his new design-related blog called Rocket Graphics. Visit RocketGraphsor follow his twitter account @rocketgraphs.
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Great tutorials. Something for everyone too~
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 7 post on Jun. 01, 2011. Thanks again.
Thanks guys! I’m glad you enjoyed this post.
… That Rhianna ‘tutorial’ is basically:
1. Open Photoshop
2. Paint a picture of Rhianna
Some nice work collected here, though.
Hi Tom,
Great post! If I may, I’d like to share a few digital painting tutorials myself: http://shadowness.com/mynti/freckles-tutorial-part-1
http://shadowness.com/Victorior/the-making-of-to-the-waterfall
http://shadowness.com/bobnolin/the-making-of-five-chicks-named-moe-by-bob-nolin
Thank you!
Meng