This tutorial shows one of the ways I do digital painting. I used Painter 7.0 for this example, but the same sort of thing can be done in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Open Canvas, The Gimp, or almost any other computer graphics program. I used only two tools - the Brushes->Round Camel for applying color, and Liquid->Just Add Water for blending, and you can substitute any paintbrush/airbrush and smudging/blurring/blending tool. This is a modified comic-type style, where I fill an area with a base color and then apply highlights and shadows to it, and I use this when I'm painting from a well-developed lineart sketch. If I started without the lineart, I'd use a different, more painterly, method of laying in my colors.

Click on the arrow to download. Unzip it and use a web browser to open 'index.html' to read the tutorial.


Edit 6/19/2006 The zip files seems to have gone walkabout on me - there's a version on my webspace here.