Painting Tutorials: 15 + Painting Tutorials For Beginners

Painting is such an enjoyable form of art. It helps you express your emotions that is why painting is good to one’s health. There are various kinds of paintings and one popular is the oil painting.Here we collected Painting Tutorials: 15 + Painting Tutorials For Beginners.

Paint a Castle in Photoshop – Part 1

Create a Lava Monster Concept Painting

Draw a Character Concept Using Drapery in Photoshop

How to Paint Clouds With Photoshop

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.

Working With Colors and Establishing a Color Palette in Photoshop

Create a Medieval Landscape in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a medieval landscape using digital painting and photo manipulation techniques. We will begin by sketching out a rough idea of how we want our image to look. Then, we will then add various stock images and build upon them until we produce the scene below. Let’s get started!

Create a Surreal Upside Down Mountain Painting in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a surreal upside down mountain illustration using digital painting techniques in Photoshop. This piece was part of SlashThree’s latest Paradigm Shift Exhibition.

How to Create Cityscape Concept Art

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to easily create a successful piece of cityscape concept art. We’ll be using a very basic 3D scene as a foundation for the piece, then taking it into Photoshop for some creative photo manipulation of reference photos, basic painting and adjustments. Let’s create this urban scene!

Create an Underground City in Photoshop – Psd Premium Tutorial

In movies, filmmakers often use matte paintings when the backdrop of a scene can’t or doesn’t exist in real life. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopez will demonstrate some advanced matte painting techniques by creating an underground cave city with Photoshop. This massive tutorial, which includes over 400 screenshots and almost 3 hours of video will show you how you can create your own matte paintings or photo compositions using stock photography, computer generated images, and even some manual painting.

Create a Snow Covered, Coastal, Mountain Town Matte Painting – Psd Premium Tutorial

A matte painting is a backdrop that filmmakers use when the scene they need doesn’t or can’t exist in real life. In the past, they were created by actually painting a scene on a canvas. Today, they are created digitally by combining photographs to produce the scene that they need. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopez will demonstrate how to create a snow-covered, coastal, mountain town scene using Photoshop. This is a written tutorial but it also includes about 2 hours of video instruction. This tutorial is available exclusively to Premium Members. If you are looking to take your matte painting skills to the next level then Log in or Join Nowto get started!

Create a Herd of Grazing Dinosaurs in Photoshop – Psd Premium Tutorial

Just about everyone remembers that scene from Jurassic Park when the characters come across herds of dinosaurs grazing in a grassy field. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopez will demonstrate how to create a scene filled with Triassic era dinosaurs including a Brachiosaurus, one of the largest animals to ever exist. In this lesson we will demonstrate several matte painting techniques and will also show how to create dinosaurs from scratch. This tutorial is available exclusively to Premium Members. If you would like to take your matte painting skills to the next level, Log in or Join Now to get started!

The Cosmos: Create a Red Giant Star in Photoshop

When a star like our own reaches the end of its life, it begins to run out of hydrogen fuel in its core. Like a car running out of gas, it will begin to sputter, swelling to a size that could encompass every planet in our solar system out to Mars. When this happens, the sun will swallow the Earth and will spell certain doom for all life on our planet. Today’s tutorial is part of a 4-part series depicting the journey of the inhabitance of a dying world that must travel into the unknown to find a new world to call home.

Turn an Ordinary Photo Into an Avatar Style Portrait in Photoshop

The beauty of Photoshop is that you can do nearly anything with it, even turn yourself into a Na’vi alien from Avatar. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to use basic digital painting techniques to turn an ordinary photo into an Avatar style portrait. Let’s get started!

Create an Ethereal Gothic Portrait – Psd Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your digital painting and photo manipulation skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump! read more

Create a Futuristic, Fantasy Matte Painting – Psd Premium Tutorial

Matte painters often take several photos and combine them with 3D elements to create futuristic or fantasy scenes for movies, film, or video games. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopez will demonstrate how render objects in Cinema 4D and then combine them with stock photos to create a really nice futuristic spaceport scene in Photoshop. This tutorial is available exclusively to Premium Members. If you want to take your matte painting skills to the next level, then Log in or Join Now to get started! read more

Photoshop CS5 to Turn a Photo Into a Realistic Painting

Before Photoshop CS5, transforming a photo into a realistic-looking painting was quite tricky. Now that CS5 has been released we now have some new tools to help achieve this effect a bit more realistically. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to use Photoshop CS5’s new Mixer Brush tool to transform a photo into a masterpiece in minutes.

Create a Fantasy Painting With Photoshop CS5′s Mixer Brush – Psdtuts Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your digital painting skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump!

Create a Vivid Themed Illustration Using Simple Hand-Drawn Elements – Part II

Drawn elements are certainly something that can enhance an illustration. Even if you’re not very good at drawing, you can still create a quality piece. All you need is a good idea and some Photoshop skills. And if you don’t believe me, you will definitely change your mind after reading this Part II of his two part tutorial series. So let’s take a look inside!