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  • "Matte Painting Tutorial" by Shantanu Jahagirdar
    We will be creating an mystic night scene with rainy atmosphere. Few preprations are required before u start.
    First baisc step is a concept and where will be the matte paint used? Always start with rough thumbnails


  • "Painting Lips" by Katherine Dinger
    I guess I'm tutorial crazy! Here's yet another one - for how to draw lips. They are based off of my lips so I don't
    know if these same steps apply to a big masculine warriors sneer. :D. . .

  • "Painting Eyes" by Katherine Dinger
    Here's another tutorial I made tonight. A few people have asked me how I draw eyes... so here ya go. :D. . .


  • "Painting Fur" by Katherine Dinger
    Here is the way I usually go about rendering fur in Photoshop. You'll find that its actually pretty simple, but
    can often require a lot of patience if you want to make it look realistic    . . .


  • "Painting Clouds/Smoke" by Katherine Dinger
    A tutorial I whipped up on how to paint clouds/smoke/steam or whatever. Its all basically the same technique
    anyway right? ;] The full-sized images are actually the size I've painted them at. I believe that the technique
    shown here works best when you are working HUGE and resize your painting down     . . .


  • "The Making of Mary-Jane and Spiderman" by Mohammad F. Haque
    I was thinking, for a few days, that the best idea concerning this tutorial would have been to explain the steps,
    one by one, the conventional way. But after a while i realised that there was probably not much to talk about,
    as the major interest of the image can be found in the three first steps     . . .


  • "Artistic Process: 'The Cave'" by Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier
    I was thinking, for a few days, that the best idea concerning this tutorial would have been to explain the steps,
    one by one, the conventional way. But after a while i realised that there was probably not much to talk about,
    as the major interest of the image can be found in the three first steps     . . .


  • "Artistic Process: 'Come With Us'" by Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier
    I was thinking, for a few days, that the best idea concerning this tutorial would have been to explain the
    steps, one by one, the conventional way. But after a while i realised that there was probably not much to talk
    about, as the major interest of the image can be found in the three first steps     . . .



  • "The Making of Mission Impossible" by Mohammad F. Haque
    In this tutorial I will explain how I take inked drawings and color them in Adobe Photoshop. Once again,
    there are many ways to color a line drawing in Photoshop. There are many tutorials on the web and in books
    that will show you how. I'm going to show you the method I know and use often. Notice I said "often",
    I have different methods for different situations. This is the general one     . . .


  • Airbrushing the landscape 'Desirable Thirst'" by Niklas Forsberg
    Welcome to my tutorial on how I painted the landscape/waterscape Desirable thirst. The tutorial works like a walkthrough/step-by-step guide. I will not explain in detail how you should paint the different parts in the painting.
    But instead try to show one way on how to work     . . .


  • "Painting a Chi Orb" by Mohammad F. Haque
    In this tutorial I will explain the steps I developed to create a Chi Orb (Shiney Glowing Ball with Engery) using Photoshop. I'm assuming you know all the tools in photoshop and know how to add and modifiy Photoshop
    layers. Also this work BEST with a wacom or any other computer tablet with a tablet pen . . .


  • "Arkanium Cover #1" by Lesean Thomas
    The deal peoples, LeS back again and welcome to another WPB update. i mentioned last update that I'd go
    through my process of putting pages together for this crazy story, but other callings demanded for that
    unnecessarily cool Triple Gatefold Cover for issue #1 . . .


  • "ABC, 123... The Tutorial" by Lesean Thomas
    Hey now! LeS back in action after a retardedly long hiatus (pardon the politicaly incorrect metaphor).
    been hustlin , pushin these pages to loyal fiends at DW, heh. seems they love my product. Busy Busy
    Busy Busy!. in anycase i'm back as promised, with another brief look into my process . . .


  • "Painting Hair in Photoshopokay" by Arthur Santel
    The techniques used to produce the hair in this tutorial will be quite simple from a technical standpoint.
    Only the simplest brushes in Photoshop will be used so that anyone can follow along using any program
    supporting some form of layers. . .


  • "Painting 'The Blood Sirene'" by Robert Chang
    Here are the steps I took to complete the Blood Siren painting. . ..


  • "Painting 'Mood'" by Robert Chang
    First I block in all the masses, and then just went ahead and finished up the background, since i liked
    where I was going with the colors, I used nothing but the Palette Knife tool for this painting.


  • "Painting 'Scythe and Wolf'" by Robert Chang
    This painting was time-consuming and a lot of hard work. I made sure to save every step so you can all
    share the pain I went through...


  • "Character Painting" by Randis Albio
    For this tutorial I did create a virtual Character AYU, she does not appear in the game. I did not want to
    spend too much time on it, so I only did spend about 7 hours on her painting and arranging the images
    for this tutorial.


  • "Matte Painting for Film and Television" by Dennis Sedov
    One of the most important parts in visual effects, and also one of the easiest and cheaper one to do is a
    matte painting. Regardless of whether it is painted on a piece of glass or generated on computer it serves
    one purpose – creating or extending the virtual space of the scene


  • "Painting the Souleater by Roberto Campus"
    This drawing was inspired by a vivid vision from a nightmare. The first and most important step for me is
    to set the right mood for the illustration. I chose to use an orange background color because flesh tones
    can be easily rendered from it.


  • "Portrait Painting" by Roberto Campus
    The main shape is loosely sketched with a large brush with a 60% opacity. At this stage, I don't worry
    too much about precision of the strokes.Mostly, I use one or two colors.


  • "Painting the female body" by Roberto Campus
    In this illustration, I wanted to convey a sense of power and elegance. The body, muscular yet very feminine,
    creates a seamless curve with the hair.


  • "Painting Exercise - Lord of the Rings" by Roberto Campus
    This image is part of a series of quick painting execises featuring "Lord of the Rings" characters. As a
    reference, I used a frame of the movie's DVD put on pause on a TV    . . .

  • Painting hair by Will Kramer
    I hope it will help you in your artistic endeavors. Some of the techniques used below can be used for
    painting all kinds of things in Photoshop.


  • Painting Clothes by Will Kramer
    In painting the folds in cloth, it helps to have reference if you need it. Keep a folder near your computer
    of reference material. Or take a look at a few books out there that specialize in helping the artist draw cloth.


  • Anatomy of a picture by Will kramer
    In each step will be another layer in the order they were set up, from bottom to top. That's not the order
    that I did them, but just a way to present it. Sometimes it looks strange... remember that to paint some
    layers, I viewed the layers above them, painting underneath.