digital painting

Cool Digital Painting Posters & Covers

paul0v2 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:30:16 +0000

This is a mix of posters and covers digitally painted by Ashley Claypool who is a digital illustrator for Lantern Press in Seattle, Washington. Her work is very playful and very well done with some great detail and nice use of typography. Check them out!

For more form Ashley visit her deviantart gallery chronoperates.deviantart.com/gallery/

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Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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Incredible Illustrations by Mitch & Elizabeth

nenuno — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:11:52 +0000

I am a huge admirer of comic book art work with being brought up around them from a young age. I am always on the look out from creative and inspirational work and the work being showcased is just that! Mitch (mbreitweiser) and his wife Elizabeth (dismang) both work side by side producing fantastic work.

A little bit about Mitch & Elizabeth

I've been drawing exclusively for Marvel since 2006. I've been really fortunate to be on some really great projects including, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Captain America: The Chosen, Sub Mariner 70th Anniversary Special (Which also featured the last work of the late Al Williamson (a personal hero of mine)), and a handful of other great cover and interior projects.

My most recent book on the shelf was Captain America # 607 with Ed Brubaker and Butch Guice. I also have a four issue mini series coming out in September called "Captain America: Patriot." it's beautifully written by Karl Kessel, and will be the first full mini series colored by my wife, Bettie.

Bettie has also been the colorist for the AWESOME Agents of Atlas series over artist, Gabriel Hardman. She'll also be following him onto his run on The Hulk this fall!

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Illustrations

The Work of Rory Kurtz

abduzeedo — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:11:06 +0000

Rory Kurtz has been illustrating since he was old enough to hold a crayon. Self-taught and focusing in pencil, ink, and digital paint, Rory has carved out his niche as a unique voice in the illustration community.

Working with digital media allows his paintings a greater amount of versatility, and faster production time, which makes all the difference when meeting deadlines. His influences are spread out across the respective wolds of literature, fashion, art, film, & music. His work isn't necessarily easy to define, as he tends to shift from one style to the next and back again as fits the assignment, but the individual pieces seem unified by a shared sense of fantasy in a modern reality.

For more information and to check out the whole portfolio of Rory Kurtz, visit his website at http://www.rorykurtzillustration.com/ or follow his blog at http://rorykurtz.blogspot.com/

Paintings & Larger Works

Ink & Line Works

About the author

Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo

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Digital Painting by KREISELBERG

abduzeedo — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:52:45 +0000

KREISELBERG is a Toronto based creative studio with a team of innovative professionals and artists, specializing in digital media services, however, among with the works on very cool portfolio, what really caught our attention was their digital painting works, they are simply awesome, and that's why we had to feature them.

For more information visit Kreiselberg website at http://www.kreiselberg.com/

We construct unique visual experiences for corporations, broadcast networks and advertising agencies. By infusing your ideas with our original and innovative style, we bring stand-out designs, fresh and effective solutions to life.

Other works

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Outstanding Digital Painting Portraits

paul0v2 — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:51:48 +0000

Digital portraits take quite some work and a lot of skill from the artist, most of them take over 30 hours but the result is outstanding. In this post you will see a very impressive collection of digital portraits, some so good that it's hard to tell them apart from photography. Check them out!

by Charlie Bowater

by Suzanne van Pelt

by thali-n

by lone-momo

by claudiasutton

by janaschi

by Loopydave

by Amenite

by WarrenLouw

by Wen-Xi Chen

by Gonzalo Ordóñez Arias

by Yannick De Smet

by Anderzak

by Kristen "Adriana" F.

by julitka

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45 Amazing Digital Portraits

GisMullr — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:10:00 +0000

I simply love digital portraits... they can be drawings, paintings & airbrushing or whatever other technique you may like. I think it's pretty impressive the talent that some artists have on creating digital portraits that are amazing. Amazing for its realism, perfection, lines or even for its details. Maybe I like digital portraits so much because I totally suck drawing and I can only imagine people actually doing portraits so realistic that you may be confused if you are looking for a real photo or not.

And I have to say I like those very realistic digital portraits and I also like those with a traditional painting look, those who are a mix of drawing and something else are also cool. Ok, enough said, the thing is that I decided to make this selection of digital portraits to show you and I hope you enjoy it! And don't forget to visit each artist page, they are all at deviantART.

thesoulcanwait

binadog

orgo

glacierfusion

humbugle

artcova

padisio

betocampos

hazelong

whtmnk

alessioradice

paul915

lindalisa

bikerscout

calaymo

strahan

landeroc

About the author

Someone with a bachelor degree in Foreign Trade that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. A person ‘digging’ a new way as a ‘geek apprentice’, blogger 'wanna be' and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil
Twitter user: gismullr

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Surreal Digital Paintings by Alex Andreyev

abduzeedo — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:03:05 +0000

Alex Andreyev is a very experienced graphic designer and artist with more than 20 years of experience. What is incredible in Alex work is the clear surrealism influence with fantastic compositions ranging from trains with scorpion tales, endless stairs to heaven, flying cities and many more fabulous ideas.

Hello, my name is Alex Andreyev. I'm an artist living in Saint - Petersburg. I've been drawing, painting and doing graphic design over last 20 years. Now I'm creating the concept art to the Kin-Dza-Dza animation movie. You can buy all my picters in a high resolution for print - just mail me.

We highly recommend that you visit Alex' website to see the entire portfolio, it's definitely worth checking it out: http://alexandreev.com/

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Fantastic Digital Painting Image in Photoshop and Corel Painter

abduzeedo — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:12:41 +0000

In this case study today we present the workflow of Jill Tovey, a fashion illustrator from the UK. Jill will show us how to create an amazing digital painting design using Photoshop and Corel Painter. For more information visit Jill's website at http://www.jilltovey.com/about.html

I have been lucky enough to have my work showcased in various places such as Camden's Proud Galleries, MTV, Computer Arts & Digit Magazine and at Brighton's Hip Hop Festival. As well as being published in a book that showcased global illustration, I've also been nominated for some awards and was a finalist last year for Britvic's Drench Art Award (ooh get me!).

Most of my work is mixed media, I use Corel Painter, Photoshop as well as lots of different paints, scans and textures - mostly just playing until I have something I feel happy with.

Case Study

Unless I’m doing something a bit abstract I’ll start with an image for reference, then make a sketch. For this case study I chose something fairly simple - some lips. Here I’ve scanned in the sketch and popped into Photoshop.

Step 1

Once I’ve arranged the size and composition, it’s into Corel Painter where I’ll chose the base colours for the image. Sometimes I use kuler.adobe.com to help chose a base colour scheme but I mostly keep it a fairly random process (as with most things) and I don’t always stick to the colours I originally chose, adding new ones in as I go along depending on what I think fits best.

Step 2

Next I normally start making sure I’ve got a bit of a rough outline going before blocking the colours in. If it’s a more detailed image I’ll concentrate lots of detail on the areas I want to stand out the most, which if I’m drawing a person is usually the eyes and mouth.

Step 3

Next I’ve blocked in the colours and worked out where I want everything to go. I added a nice bright blue in for the background. I love using lots of bright colours and almost always use at least one fully saturated colour or I have some neon acrylics at home which usually scan in quite brightly.

Step 4

From here I just keep adding more and more details. In more complicated images I usually end up with hundreds of layers, which I merge as I go along to keep Painter working quickly.

The different brushes I use are also fairly random, I like to use lots of different brushes for different effects such as chalk and acrylics and the Real Bristle brushes.

Step 5

Once I’ve got something I’m happy with I print it off to use as reference for when the actual painting starts.

Step 6

I use lots of different types of paints: watercolour; acrylics, sometimes oil (but I’m often too impatient to let things dry), marbelling, airbrushing, ink, I also take photos of textures or things I think will fit in with the image.

I do a lot of mark making and things just for texture but I also paint parts of the image so that I can fit it into the picture I’ve got.

Meanwhile, Hugo the trusty Basset Hound helps me chose my materials…

Step 7

Once I’ve got lots of different images I pop it all into Photoshop and start playing, cuttings things out, overlaying or using different layer effects moving things around and blending them in to fit in with the main image.

Conclusion

That’s about it really! I tried to make it sound complicated but it’s really not. Here’s the final result:

Close ups

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The Fantastic Work of OmeN2501

GisMullr — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:19:58 +0000

OmeN2501, actually called Marek Okon, lives in Lublin, Poland, has 28 years old and an amazing talent! He started his graphic adventures in advertising and some years ago decided to do some more serious digital painting. Right now he is doing mostly book covers and concepts for various publishers and game studious. Marek really likes to mix Sci-fi and Fantasy to produce his pieces, and he is doing that in every possible opportunity. You will be able to see here that his work is just awesome!!

We got to know OmeN2501's work through one of our readers, Mateo (mateo85), who suggested it for the Daily Inspiration #219 and also gave us the e-mail to contact the artist.

I got very impressed by Marek's work and find some of the pieces really breath taking since they give you the sensation that the scene is really happening and that you are part of it. The realism, composition and details of his work are very eye catching and fantastic. So enjoy the selection featured here and also check out more about OmeN2501 and his work at deviantART and CG Society. So now, sit back and enjoy!!

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20 Fantasy Digital Paintings

paul0v2 — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:42:42 +0000

Fantasy art is the freedom for your imagination, if you looking for something different and unexpected in a artwork, always long with dragons, fairies, angels and demons. It's great to see all these crazy things put together in such good concepts with great illumination and colors, check it out.

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Amazing Case Study of "Lost With In"

paul0v2 — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:28:52 +0000

This is your chance tho check out step by step the newest experience of Richard Roberts, inspired by Salvador Dali he creates a totally surreal mix of photo manipulation and digital painting and the result is amazing. The meaning behind it is basically if you obsess over riches and luxury you can loose yourself as a person. Enjoy!

For more visit http://www.theotherstream.com/

For a bigger view click on the image

final result

close ups

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Digital Painting Tutorial by Vitaly Alexius

paul0v2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:03:31 +0000

In this tutorial, Alexius show us the whole process that he uses to create his digital paintings. I really like the way it's explained and it's really cool to see how other people work, and also a very good way to learn new stuff, so check it out!

For more visit svitart.n-tek.ca and alexiuss.deviantart.com

"Aburod Terra" (Uninhabited Earth) Came to as a commission by Daniel Jeppsson as a cover for his music "Hardcore/Gabber" CD Album/Vinyl cover for his band "Recall"; which I was hired to illustrate back in November 2005.

On November 23rd, 2005 after finding my artwork on the internet he contacted me with a request for an album cover. His exact words were "For my record, that i want to design, I need something DARK. The record will be called "Day of Evil" so something like destroyed houses, after war, burning buildings, dead bodies in a city landscape would look great. It needs to be minimum 30x30cm at 300dpi". He also provided me with links of my paintings, which he liked, requesting similar style, colors, and composition.

I quickly created 3 small sketches for the client to give him some options (sketches below). He decided to go with the second sketch, and so I worked on it, until both I and the client were satisfied with it.

Process:

Just like many of my other paintings, I love to research before starting a piece. For this one, I went out all around downtown Toronto, photographing everything that I witnessed that day. One of the streets I passed through was interesting and detailed and so I decided to use it as my main reference for this painting.

Photo 1 shows one of the street photos. Photo 2 shows some detail that have inspired the architecture in the piece and were used as textures in some places.

I usually start off with a gray canvas, that way the contrast values of the painting come out best, as I easily create lights and shadows. At this stage the painting is completely black and white, to better capture contrast values, a simple practice known way back in the Renaissance.

Sometimes I start sketching things on paper and then scan or photograph them, but here I started off sketching straight in Photoshop.

First things first, I develop the prespective, by looking at my photo references and by creating a vanishing point. From this point, I create perspective lines of reference for all my buildings in the piece.

There are 3 vanishing points

On my next step, I leave the perspective lines and vanishing point alone, and create a new layer, on which I start to block in the overall shapes, using a large square brush.

Next I make a copy of the vanishing point and perspective lines layer and set it above all my layers, set the layer mode to "Overlay" so I can always look at it in case I need to, by playing with it's opacity. Once I'm done with the perspective I remove the layer. At this point I decide where the light falls from.

For this piece, I used the following tools: Default Photoshop Brushes and the Smudge Tool.

Bellow is a box that shows the effects one can produce with just default Photoshop brushes, set at 10% Opacity and the Smudge Tool set at30% strength. I'm pretty much using Photoshop bushes/smudge tools and a tablet just as I would use acrylic/oil paints with a brush.

"Dab and Smudge" method predominates. Sometimes, when I wish to save time I insert textures from my photographs into the piece as separate layers set to "Overlay/Multiply/Lighten/Screen/Darken". The key is to just experiment with these layer modes for various effects.

Further development of the painting: Windows are set in place, detail start appearing. Using the same methods I put around 40 or more hours of work into the piece, until I am satisfied with the resulting black and white painting. I constantly zoom in and out to create big and small details.

Next step is the coloring. I create a new layer, set it to "color", and start applying various colors to this layer, experimenting, looking for the perfect color combo/look.

When I was pleased with the colors, composition, and detail, the piece was sent off to the client. However, the client was not satisfied with the "thank" and suggested that I should instead add some burning cars into the scene. Following his directions, I removed the tank, then I put in a burning bus and a burning truck into the painting.

The final .psd file is 123mb, has no layers (as I dont tend to use a lot of layers during painting and constantly merge them to slow down the loading time) and is sized at 45x45cm at 300dpi.

Detail shot of the painting, lots of details are usually invisible unless the painting is printed at its true 45x45cm resolution.

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Insane Digital Paintings of Vitaly Alexius

paul0v2 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:54:53 +0000

The digital paintings of Alexius are something out of this world, the scenarios that he creates make me think that the world has come to an end, and it's beautiful to see, so much inspiration and skills that you have to check by yourself.

For more visit svitart.n-tek.ca and alexiuss.deviantart.com

I was born in the year 1984, in the industrial city of Novokuznetsk, located on the Tom River in south central Siberian Russia.
For the first four years of my life, I lived amidst coal mining and aluminum/steel production factories; in a city of European architecture covered with columns and arches, surrounded by Russian Taiga.

Since I was four years old, I have been drawing tiny starships and celestial life fascinated me. At four, I moved to the city of Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia, with my parents. There, in a remote, forest covered, 'science community' district of Akademgorodok, at 11 years of age, I studied traditional drawing, watercolor/gauche/oil painting, anatomy, model building, design, art history and illustration at a great high-arts institution for two years, expecting a move to Moscow to further my studies.

On April 11/1998 fate has given me an unexpected twist and by means of aerial transportation I was thrown about 5555 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to Toronto, Canada, where I am currently residing, in my own lovely apartment east of Chinatown. After completing my OAC's at R. H. King Academy, I went on to the Ontario College of Art and Design, where I finished 2 years of “Environmental Design” and 2 years of "Illustration" program. Currently I'm in my Illustration Thesis year.

Since 2000, I’ve been tutoring on the subject of drawing and painting. In 2002, I've learned that magical program called Photoshop and have been using it ever since, to develop an innovative, digital-art style , which I gave a name - "Dreaminism".

Currently I'm working as a photographer and an illustrator, doing various: CD/book/comic covers, posters, concept art and etc.

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Amazing Digital Work of Kyle Lambert

paul0v2 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:59:54 +0000

Kyle is an illustration an animation student from the United Kingdom who creates amazing digital paintings. He works in a variety of styles which include highly detailed photo-realistic portraits, rough concepts and storyboards, digital animation and motion graphics. His work is primarily digital but has a background in fine painting with oils and watercolors.

Kyle recently won a nationwide storyboard competition for the movie watchmen. His entry was chosen by Watchmen comic book artist Dave Gibbons. He has the ambition to work on the production of movies once he graduates from University.

For more of his work, check out www.kylelambert.co.uk

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50 Amazing Digital Painting Portraits

paul0v2 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:14:26 +0000

Digital Painting is an art that takes a lot of knowledge and a lot of time, and these artists sure took some time to create these amazing portraits, there is no easy job when it comes to recreating faces and you will be amazed to see these.