How to Make Digital Paintings Look Traditional

Digital painting is really versatile. You can make anything and work in any style, but what if you want your digital paintings to look like traditional paintings? In this video, Court will teach you about how to apply concepts of painting traditionally to your digital art with a focus on making it appear like a real oil painting. Huge thanks for Wacom for sponsoring this video.

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CREDITS:

Script - Court Jones
Additional Voices - Sean Ramsey

Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra

"Ain't No Friend of Mine" by Bryan Teoh

"Jazzy Frenchy" by Bensound

Additional music by Epidemic Sound

About Proko:
Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.

[felixfelicis]

When I just heard ”try not to use undo command” I almost had a heart attack.

[andrej]

I feel like this guy could draw a perfect circle using the sponge bob technique

[naicitoahc]

Loved seeing the comparison on the candle painting.
i never realized what a difference it could make.

[LissyAvenita]

Hi i tried to emulate some brushes like the ones used in the candle example, for Paint Tool Sai :)

1st brush used in the example:
*Min. Size: 50%
*Density: 81
*Bristle: 50
* Fabric 01: 10
*Blending: 59
*Dilution: 8
*Persistence: 80
Every other advanced setting remains untouched from the default brush.

2nd brush, the square kinda paper-y one:
* Min Size: 50
*Density: 82
*Middle_Flat: 100
*Paper 02: 48
*Blending: 47
*Dilution: 0
*Persistence: 80

3rd brush, the one that looks kind of like watercolor:
*Min Size: 50
*Density: 62
*Aquarelle: 22
*No texture
*Blending: 50
*Dilution: 0
*Persistence: 80

4th Brush, the very very very soft and stroke-y one (good for blending!)

*Min Size: 31%
*Density: 58
*Bristle: 100
*No texture
*Blending: 83
*Dilution: 55
*Persistence: 44
*Keep opacity ✅
Advanced settings:
*Quality: 4 (smoothest)

5th brush, the last one that has the most noticeable texture:
*Min size: 50
*Density: 100
*Middle_Flat: 58
*Fabric 01: 68
*Blending: 50
*Dilution: 0
*Persistence: 80
Everything else remains untouched.

Hope this can be useful for somebody :) have fun!! ✨

[fernandopaiva]

14 minutes of pure knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[anggarar]

"Your digital work will be the reflection of you and your skill, rather than the software"

That's the problem, my skill is mediocre at most..

[elinorearts]

PREACH! Understand traditional painting, make your own brushes, use fewer layers, reduce special effects, don't use erasers, use a palette, keep your painting small/stay zoomed out... This video is like all the stuff I love about painting. Great video. :)

[Ladisepic]

"Try to be zoomed out" "photoshop brushes" cries in ibispaint mobile artist

[deblud]

read the title and never clicked a video so fast, glad to know such valuable tips

[andarted]

1:50 - Tip 1: Follow a Traditional Process
3:03 - Tip 2: Textures!
5:47 - Tip 3: Limit your layers
7:07 - Tip 4: Avoid special effects
8:59 - Tip 5: Use a controlled color palette
10:43 - Tip 6: Stay back!
11:43 - Tip 7: Forget the lines. It's all about the edges.

13:14 - Conclusion

[hinaz]

being a microbiologist, the word “cross contamination” gave me a heart

[beautifulcarpetdiagram]

I'm an acrylic/oil painter and some of your works look super realistic and undigital. That really impressive

[EmiTheLoomistar]

This was honestly one of the best videos i've seen about trying to replicate a traditional painting. Thanks Proko team.

[Spazzsticks]

2:49 the most majestic goodboi to ever be painted.

[Liightmylove]

This is actually a really helpful video for someone who doesn't like their digital style and loves the style of traditional art! 10/10 dude

[evindrews]

If you don't want to use layers, a better option to save progress is taking a snapshot of your document, under the history window. It'll save an instance of your document that you can contrast & compare or go back too.

[bilalitani]

THIS VIDEO IS EVERYTHING!!!! No one understands HOW USEFUL this really was

[agneskener]

tbh overlay effects can do wonders if you have a solid painting under them! you definitely need good ol' painting skills first but do make use of the tools you have

[TinAlien]

I think I’m going to mix both of these techniques to create a half digital half traditional look. For example, perfectly smooth textures would be better to draw in a digital art style, rustic and natural textures would look better in a paint style.

[diasbrittannia]

Im transitioning from traditional art to digital but still want to keep the traditonaly look, a painting style more familiar to me

You have no idea how helpful this is to me