Free online courseDigital Painting

Course Description

Welcome to "Digital Painting," an in-depth and comprehensive course designed to immerse you in the world of digital artistry. Spanning a total duration of 27 hours and 5 minutes, this course offers an extensive exploration into various aspects of digital painting, ensuring that you emerge with a strong grasp of essential techniques and concepts.

The course is anchored in the Design and Art category, with a specific focus on Drawing and Painting. It delves into the heart of digital painting, utilizing industry-standard tools and software such as Photoshop to provide a rich learning experience. Whether you are a beginner or an intermediate artist, you'll find valuable insights and practical knowledge to enhance your digital painting skills.

You'll begin by getting acquainted with the essential tools and software necessary for digital painting. The course covers everything from setting up your digital canvas to understanding the intricacies of different brushes including drawing, painting, texture, and special brushes. This foundational knowledge ensures that you're well-equipped to create stunning digital artwork.

The journey continues with an in-depth examination of the human eye, one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects to master. You'll learn to draw and paint the eye through a series of hands-on exercises, divided into well-structured parts to ensure thorough understanding and practice.

As you progress, you'll delve into the drawing fundamentals, such as line and contour fundamentals, shape blocking, 3D form fundamentals, and texture drawing. Additionally, the course emphasizes understanding perspectives and space creation, covering various techniques from 1-point to 3-point perspectives, atmospheric perspective, and scaling objects within perspectives.

Lighting and color are pivotal in digital painting, and this course addresses these themes expansively. You'll explore how light and color interact, mastering highlights, shadows, color choices, lighting forms, and painting cast shadows. Concepts like hue, value, saturation, ambient light, subsurface scattering, glowing objects, and still-life painting are covered to add depth and realism to your art.

The basics of color theory are also covered, including understanding color temperature, creating color palettes, controlling mood through color, and using tools like gamut masking. These lessons are critical in helping you develop a nuanced and sophisticated approach to color application in your digital paintings.

Layer techniques form an integral part of digital art, and you'll learn to navigate these with proficiency. The course includes lessons on layer basics, organization, modes, masks, and the fundamentals of composition. You'll also explore tools like selection, fill, gradient, blur, warp, filters, adjustment layers, and gradient mapping for a seamless painting workflow.

Brush control, blending, edge control, blocking-out techniques, and still life paintings are practical skills that will be enhanced through practice sessions within the course. Surface textures such as shiny, rough, matte, glossy, and translucent surfaces are also explored, allowing you to create diverse and realistic textures in your paintings.

The course culminates in specialized sessions on painting portraits, landscapes, environment designs, and character designs. You'll learn to sketch, block in shapes, refine values, work with textures, lighting, and add finishing touches to your artwork. The final segments extend into character design, idea development, creative exercises, and leveraging layers for variations.

Finally, you'll gain insights on how to create a portfolio and effectively use social media to showcase your digital art. By the end of this course, you'll be well on your way to becoming a proficient digital painter, ready to create and share your artistic vision with the world.