Tutorials on drawing/ painting with photoshop

Dude, seriously uncool. Here we have a site for people who are hoping to sell their intellectual property and you're casually talking about ripping off other people? There are authors who wrote those books, you know, and stores who sell them and publishers who publish them. Really uncool.

Well, true on one point of view. But on another point of view, I could have gone to my local library to borrow it or even go to a book store, take a look at it and put it back there all of this for free. So it gives exactly the same results: I won't buy the book anyway. It's just the media that changes, instead of touching physically the book I electronically touched the book. So I looked rapidly at the e-books, I saw what I wanted to see, and then I'll just delete the files.

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After a quick reading of these books, Like I said, they tell you how the tool works, but they don't necessary tell you how it could be used. The best analogy could be the difference between knowing how to use a pencil and knowing how to draw. Everybody can use a pencil, but not everybody can make a beautiful drawing out of it.

Here its the same thing, you know all the tools which are available to you and what they can do, but it does not mean that you know how to make something good out of it.

The advantage with computer software is that you do not need as much dexterity than when using a pencil. So it should be easier for non artist to do relatively good things. There is also the advantage of being able to undo or move the things you drawn. Still, I think there are still other elements that real artist have which allow they work to go from OK to great.

For example, I made some acrylic paintings and one of the problem I have is painting a forest without painting every tree in the forest. It some sort of abstraction problem: Make some stains at the right plays so that it looks like a forest without having to draw every tree in the forest.

There is also the situation where you have so many tools that you don't know that you could actually use a certain combination of tools to create a certain effect. For example, on of my friend showed me the concept of overlapping 2 textures and changing the transparency level of a texture to blend the textures together to make 1 final texture. It's very easy to do, but maybe I would have never thought about it by myself.

This isn't the place to discuss the ethics of the illegal downloading of intellectual property, sorry if I implied that it was up for discussion.

what do you want to see? graphic design, game presentation, or illustrations?

simpson

This may not be of mutch help, but I have experimented a bit with GIMP and am begginning to see that it's not so hard once you learn the program and it's features. I would say start by uploading a pencil sketch into photoshop and just play with it. Practice with the various tools. It's easiest if your using one of those digital drawing pads. If you already know how to draw and paint, you will find it vary easy to mimic the techniques you are using in painting. Like for me, I can do a portrait much like I do on the canvas. In GIMP, I start with a sketch. Then, using the paint brush set to the transparency I want, I can built up layers that are much like glazing technique. Just play with it. You can find out many videos on youtube that explain the features. Once you know how to use the program you can do what you want with it. I hope that helps.

I'm not sure what you mean by CLEAN .. but there are tons of excellent tutorials readily available.
I'm coming more from the painting/illustrating side of things but here's some of my favorites.

1- Buy Don Seegmiller's books. Digital Character Painting with Photoshop CS3
His stuff is well written, and goes step by step with long tutorials

2- Massive Black (the guys who run conceptart.org) offer phenomenal download video tutorials by pros for affordable prices (~15 bucks), and also on DVD. Well worth it in my opinion. You can find them here at : media.massiveblack.com

3- And for a bit rougher finals Xia (a concept artist working on Guildwars2) runs www.idrawgirls.com He has a bunch(50+) of short video tutorials showing how he does stuff (mostly as the title says paintings of girls, but theres some scenerey ,Mechs basic art fundamentals etc mixed in as well ) He also offers some longer 2+hr videos for sale (5-10 bucks) where where he goes slower and in greater detail about the choices he makes while making a piece, so you get to see the revisions and how a painting evolves.

Further, I'd recommend you pop over to www.Conceptart.org and dig through the forums.

for Photoshop turorials - http://psd.tutsplus.com/
for Illustrator and inDesign - http://vector.tutsplus.com/
- http://vectips.com/
- http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/20-exceptional-websites-for-lear...

They also link to a ton of external tutorials.

I love the tutorials for the 3D drawing and also 3D art paintings,those are very informative and also there many more links i found in Google and other search engines,but most of them were not appropriate.

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