digital painting

Digital Paintings | How to Paint Clouds

May 3, 2012

Using photoshop to paint your pictures is pretty much a norm in our transportation design industry but it is also a terrific tool to use for painting virtually anything.  As you work to solidify your skills in sketching in the analog format, working with digital tools is a wonderful way to explore other subjects.  Let’s [...]

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Digital Paintings | Intro to Layers in Photoshop Part 2

May 1, 2012

So you are new to Photoshop huh? Well…we begin with learning some of the basics and fundamentals in digital painting.  This requires you to start from rock bottom and to understand what how layers affect your work flow.  Check out the video below above. Join DM for FREE Video, Post and Podcast Updates!

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How to Draw Cars New Video! | Color Compositions for Digital Paintings

April 17, 2012

When drawing cars or creating a digital painting, color compositions are really important to help you finalize a color pallet for your digital painting.  It also helps to reduce the intimidation factor of completing a finished rendering.  Once you have your colors chosen, all you have to do is start to refine and add details.

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How to Draw Cars | Photoshop Speed Rendering

March 29, 2012

Welcome to yet another video tutorial on photoshop speed painting.  We are going to continue on with some speed paintings that will help you to draw cars from reference photographs.  Reference photographs are always useful to train your mind to see the photos as a collection of shapes, value, texture, and patterns.  Matte painters in [...]

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How to Draw Cars : Pay Attention….

September 23, 2011

To the world around you that is!  The power of observation is yet another critical element in your visual development.  Observational studies are what I am going to focus on for this post.  Every ambitious artist or designer seeks to be able to draw cars out of their head without any effort.  However, how does [...]

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