BanOnRan: Long Long Way

[Ban On Ran]

Finally i have time to paint in Photoshop. Actually i used it before only for web-sides' design. So i decided to get familiar with the digital painting. Last time when i painted with colour or pencil was 8 years ago. I think, it's time to remember paint theorie :-)

This is my first digital painting. It was painted with two types of brushes "stipple 43px" and "soft mechanical" without smooth-tools or effects.

I would be glad if you could recommend me some good tutorials for beginners.
Thank you.

[Kaileighblue]

For photoshop stuff: This is great. (http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm) It was made by someone here, but I found it before I found this site.

This is nice as well. (http://navate.deviantart.com/art/SKIN-a-tutorial-Part-1-144294636) Second link in the comments. I'm not sure if they're here or not.

You should also go by the tutorials forum (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=42) here. There's a lot of useful stuff. More than photoshop tutorials like lists of useful books and other links.

[glaudarien]

Very nice start, nice rendering on the sphere.
Keep it up i'll check back.

[Twan]

good start but I need to see stuff less simple than a simple sphere.
try to paint harder things: faces for example
keep it up

[Vagabonda]

Good starts!

[Monkeydominator]

Good start! A tip is to not work on a white background; it gets tiresome for the eyes after a while, and objects are rarely depicted in completely white spaces anyway. ;)
It's a good start, very smooth. Must have taken a while. Why don't you show us what you can do! I'd love to see a still life! :D

[Ban On Ran]

Guys, thank you very much. now i have more motivation than before. :^^:
I am going to practice firstly and find out some photoshop tricks :-) But some ideas for the pictures i have already now. I will put it online as soon as possible. ;)
Monkeydominator, thank you for your tipp. Really, this time i got eyestrain when i was drawing the ball.

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