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Digital Art Tutorialby ~spiritwolf77

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I've been wanting to do this ever since I took my old outdated Photoshop tutorial off the 'net. But I wanted to wait until I had a better understanding of all these programs and actually found a process I really liked. Courtesy of a little extra free time over Thanksgiving break, I have finally put this thing together.

This tutorial goes through all the steps I use to produce a piece of digital art. It covers things in Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, and Corel Painter 9 (if you have different versions of these programs, you may still be able to use the tutorial but some minor or major details might be different). I hope people find this useful, as opposed to long, tedious, and redundant. I've yet to see anyone else post a tutorial on the exact same process so hoepfully you'll get something out of it.

I also apologize for how increadibly long it is. I considered dividing each step up into a different file, but that proved more complicated than I would have liked so I just stuck with this.

I apologize in advance for any typos/terrible spelling errors. The day Photoshop gets a spellcheck will be a happy day for me.

Feel free to send this link to friends and post it places and such, just please do not repost the actual tutorial itself. If you want to show it to people, send them the link to this page or my gallery, thankye.

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Thank you all so much for all the favorites and comments! I'm very honored!
Also, I've received a number of good comments that made me aware of things I should have mentioned in this desc originally:
1-A tablet is not 100% needed but there are several parts of this tutorial that will not quite work without it. For example, anything involving pressure settings like opacity transitions and line tapering.
2-If you use the pencil-linework method and don't have any tracing paper available, you can also use regular printer paper, tape it over your sketch, and put it up on a window during daylight hours...instant lightbox!

Edit 2: While you're obviously still free to use whichever parts of this tutorial you may find useful, I don't really use a lot of these methods any more because I've found new ones which work better/easier. If you're interested in seeing some more up-to-date tutorials, they can be found in the tutorials section of my website: [link]

Edit 3: Thank you guys for the continued support and feedback! Just to let you new watchers/commenters know, I actually don't update this gallery anymore. You can find new art over here:

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~PeshugadePosho Apr 20, 2013 Student General Artist

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~readndraw Apr 11, 2013

nice picture

~jovalie4 Apr 3, 2013

Pleaws, tell me why I can't draw like this? ;u; help me please...

*RandyButternubbs May 1, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

practice makes perfect, so just keep practicing

~jovalie4 May 18, 2013

xD I'll never be that good

~nour1010 Dec 28, 2012

how can i watch this video please

~jlyvers Nov 8, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

A very nice tutorial, thank you. I am a deviant but had not seen your work. I use Stumble and your page this page came up. Thank you for posting.

~mapper3 Sep 30, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Try coloring your pictures without Photoshop. I'm all for a little digital touch - up, but have you considered painting or colored pencil? You can find these in high quality at fine art retailers. Your art is good, but I'm also somewhat naturally averse to furry art. No hard feelings meant.

~spiritwolf77 Apr 21, 2013

I studied traditional drawing and painting in school, using a wide variety of different mediums. I just prefer working digitally.

And okay, everyone is welcome to an opinion. I don't really have any interest in, say, drawings of cars, but I don't seek out artists who draw cars and tell them I don't like their subject matter. Because really what would be the point of that?

~MoshiArt Sep 24, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Nice! Keep it up!

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