Tutorials!

I got a couple of emails from my art friends who had read my blog post from yesterday and the day before. In those posts, I said I was trying my best to emulate painting with Photoshop.

Turns out (as I fully expected) there are more than a few ways to accomplish this:

First of all, here is a really nice tutorial from the talented Chris Wahl. The idea of laying down a fully penciled drawing first and then scanning it in and blending it with color is one I would have never thought of, but as you can see, it works out quite well for him. Lot's of really nice full-color samples over on his blog his blog. After doing some digging last night, it looks as though this technique is used quite a bit by digital painters.

Another really nice tutorial on painting digital anatomy can be found over at this CG Society message board posting.

I started using this one last night on my Garbage Pail Kid, and it works really well. I mainly just dabbled with it for a few minutes, but it sure helped to achieve a painted look to the image. I had to work on another commissioned piece last night, but I'll screw around with it more tonight and try and post something tomorrow.

If anyone has any other nice tutorials like this which offer advice on painting in a digital sense, please post them in the comments section.

If I dig up more, I'll post them here.

EDIT: I just realized that the first tutorial I posted deals with Painter and not Photoshop. However, here is a great thread on painting in PS from over at ConceptArt.org.