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Learning Digital Painting

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn all about digital painting: mixing paint, working with layers and brushes, using color creatively, sketching, and painting with photographs.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Advantages of painting digitally
1. Expressive Input Devices
  • Customizing mouse behaviors
  • Introducing the concept of axes of motion
  • Using the pen tablet and stylus
  • Understanding the Intuos and Cintiq options
2. Expressive Painting Applications
  • A world of options
  • Emulating analog media with Painter
  • Going beyond traditional image editing with Photoshop
  • Painting with the iPad app Procreate 2
3. Digital Paintbrush Mechanics
  • Introduction to brush mechanics
  • Brush tips: Variations on a theme
  • Brush color behavior
  • Brush and surface interaction
  • Emulating media via physical modeling
  • Through the looking glass
4. Painting Abstractly
  • Introduction to abstract painting
  • A great way to explore brush qualities
  • Using color to express emotion
  • Layers as a compositional tool
5. Painting What's in Your Mind's Eye
  • Introduction to sketching as creative self-expression
  • Preliminary sketching
  • Paint to your skill level
  • Going back in time: Undo
6. Painting from Life
  • Interpreting reality with digital painting
  • Working from a still life in a home or studio
  • Using a photo to capture and edit a still life
  • Exploring some tips for working on a portable tablet en plein air
7. The Photograph as Wet Paint
  • Dipping a paintbrush into a photograph
  • Separating brush work from color and composition
  • Use a dry brush to smear a wet photograph
  • Work nondestructively using layers
8. Clone Painting
  • Funnel a photo through your brush
  • Using the funnel method to act as a paint reservoir
  • Sit back and let the app do the heavy lifting
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

John Derry

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