How to Paint in Photoshop - Best Digital Painting Workflows

In this tutorial I share my 3 Best Digital Painting Workflows!
If you want to know how to Paint in Photoshop faster and better this is the video for you.
If you are new to digital art you should watch this video. Or you are already experienced in painting digitally and you are looking for a tutorial on how to improve your painting workflow, I'm sure you will find value in this video.

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[ph]

The first method is my favorite. Looks more painterly and realistic less digital which is what I prefer.

[bigguy]

This was helpful! I'm an artist that has been trying to figure this out forever and now I feel energized and ready to create! Thanks for the advice and experience.

[wakandaforever]

Omg the base layer mask and the clipping method! That’s the method I’ve been looking for all over the internet, and teachers never really explained in design school for me! What a life saver! Thank you so much 🙏🏾

[sandfox]

I’d love that greyscale tutorial. I’d even love a more detailed tutorial of this video that explains what a clipping mask is, how to do it and so forth. Maybe you’ve already made a video like that, I’ll go on the hunt!

[JetDraw]

my common mistake is painting even tho my sketch is not finished. I'm so impatient. lol

[strngebrew]

0:54 - info start
8:18 - painting and rendering

[clockworkNate]

I really need to find a tutorial where people aren't just talking over a sped up recording of their paintings 😩

[ttwian]

Would love to see the tutorial on shadows in greyscale! Would be very helpful to know how you execute your brush strokes during the coloring process as well!

[mintchipicecream]

good tutorial for people that are already advanced users of photoshop. The methods you're showing look useful but I have no idea how to implement any of them.

[안소정-iv]

I wanted to draw a character like this, but it was good that you taught me the basics slowly.
It's amazing how the screen doesn't stop and I keep drawing. It's magical!
I'll try my best to learn. Thank you!!

[harrellt]

At 8:20 a faster way to color the entire character is to use the wand tool on the surrounding, then expand or grow by a pixel or 2(to remove the white space) and then invert it. After, simply use fill. Note that this is assuming ur character has clean line art and has no holes. Props to kienan lafferty for this method, and the guy who taught it to him xD

[theblueraven]

Thank you Im having difficulty on Photoshop cause Im just starting

[wakandaforever]

I just realised why I struggle so much with painting digitally. I’m not really a painter but rather a sketcher, and painting in the first method overwhelms me as a beginner in digital painting. The multiply and the workflow method really helps me stay organised and keep things simple and clean.

[exciteart]

I like how you breakdown these methods. I'm using almost the same concept of mixing Yolo methods rendering and Quick masking one. But not as detail as yours. Because if we work on complex background and many characters, this will surely slows us down. Almost forget. Here you using black flat background. Background lighting surely effected on characters lighting too, especially on the midday

[ebroz]

Amazing video, can you do a more in depth tutorial in the masking process, thank you.

[kevinpopescu]

I'm a yolo kind of guy but sometimes, when I get tired of the colors I wanted,
I like to go black and white first and then play with gradient maps to discover colors I never knew I wanted

[ltsauce]

Awesome videos, just started transitioning into digital art and your videos have been extremely helpful. Keep up the good work man.

[VitchAndVorty]

I haven't thought about using a layer dedicated for shadow in multiply.

God. This is super helpful. Thank you.

[jhilmiliqueen]

Thank you so much! That was so very helpful! I love the first method look, the YOLO! But it makes sense that first we must use the 2nd and 3rd method and then use the first method for the final artistic look of the painting!

[andrewpr]

Thanks a lot man!! this is super useful!! great tip about the shadows in b&w that allows seeing the values more clearly. man you content is so valious, as a (starting) concept artist i can say that everything you share in your videos is very well-grounded and helps a lot to us, thanks again man!