My 6 Steps to Digital Painting

Watch as I take you through my 6 steps to painting digitally.

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About Aaron Blaise:
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Aaron Blaise is an animation feature film director and wildlife artist.

For 21 years Aaron worked with Disney helping to create some of the greatest animated films ever made. During that time he worked as an animator or supervising animator on "The Rescuers Down Under", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Mulan" and more.

In 2003 he was co-director of "Brother Bear" for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film.

[jakeycorrour]

Aaron, was about to give up with digital, always seems to turn into a "buggers muddle"... Your basic steps video has really helped to sort out where I'm going wrong... If you could just stand behind me occasionally, like my old art teachers used to do, and make a few encouraging noises now and again... Thank you for sharing your knowledge, enthusiasm and talent 😎👍

[m.rosariomartinez]

"The first step is doing a rough sketch"
*Makes a splendid face*
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Gorgeous!!! Completely random, but I recently found Bob Kuhn and his art and his animals are just 😭🥰 Not as dynamic as yours Aaron, but just as lovely.

[Isa-tmls]

I swear to god, my jaw was open the entire time you were refining. You made it seem really simple and I felt like I was going to cry from how beautiful the tiger was. You're like the Ratchet of art (and yes, I mean Ratchet from Transformers). Thank you so much! Please consider a tutorial for textures like reflective metals if you haven't done so! :)

[christinamayart]

Caught myself smiling when you added more shadow at 15:45, just boom. Came to life.

[kiplingbassil]

Been confused for a few years now on finishing works past local color stages, and this video is simply the best most excellent and direct resource ive found, thank you Aaron!!

[michelplante]

Thanks you so much for sharing! You're more than an inspiration, you're a mentor! Followed lots of your lessons on your website and here on Youtube! It's worth every penny and more! You're so generous! You're so passionnate and you transmet your teaching very well! Would like to tell you in more specific words but I'm not good in english so... Well, thank you so much! Cheers!

[diventiart]

Aaron, your teaching is as excellent as your art.

[nayolfa]

Thank you for this. I've been struggling with coloring for the longest time. I'm going to see if this can pull me out of my funk.

[Aroe]

I love this approach! This is the first tutorial I've watched where I felt like I understood what was going on and could achieve a similar result! You are a great teacher - bravo!

[lizbecker]

Your videos inspire me so much! I tend to overcomplicate everything, so to see you break things down into six manageable steps makes me want to pick up my digital sketchbook again and create something. It's a blast to watch your sketches come to life through the painting process.

[galaxshiigames]

A really good friend of mine shared this video with me cause im struggling with drawing. I dont feel stuck anymore and more motivated to keep drawing since im a beginner. Thank you! Very direct and to the point. Ill be watching this many times

[jonathansebastian]

I been struggling to color and layering, thanks so much for the video

[sephire]

thank you for providing affordable options for art education, really means a lot

[funfilmanimations]

I love that you’re doing videos on Wednesdays now thank you Aaron 🦁😁👍

[drewby]

Aaron has a lifetime full of superb hairstyles! How does he do it

[sophiaisabelle]

Thanks for this video. May you receive more blessings.

[vijayagovindadas]

Thanks for your valuable techniques and more thankful for sharing them unconditionally.

[davyapis]

I love this. Best tutorial about digital painting I've seen yet. Putting it into practice on my next product I'm planning to try to paint. You're a savior, sir!

[sarahbrownell]

Thank you!! I just been trying to understand how to do the background while not messing up the main character and figuring how to use the layers!! Now to try this!

[Tamikimaru]

Can't like this video enough; really well explained and to the point.
This was very much helpful!