Digital Painting Basics - Simple Forms to Complex Paintings

Tayler Olivas is here to give you a digital painting tutorial that’s geared towards beginners! He shows you how to set up your workspace, the digital tools that he relies on, shortcuts for accessing them, how to practice non-destructive editing, using texture brushes to get a unique look in your digital painting, and how to combine those elements into a finished painting. By the end of this lesson you’ll have a solid understanding of how to use digital tools to turn simple forms into complex paintings.

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Credits

Editing - Dzmitry Tsydzik, Sean Ramsey

Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra

"Jazzy Frenchy" by Bensound

“A Minor Jazz” by Brett Van Donsel is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

"There's No Coffee in Hell" by Bryan Teoh

“There Is No Greater Love” - Tanner Olivas
By Isham Jones
Alto Sax - Tanner Olivas

Someday My Prince Will Come by Andre Brito

“All The Things You Are” - Tanner Olivas
By Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II
Tenor Sax - Tanner Olivas

"There's No Coffee in Hell" by Bryan Teoh

[sinixdesign]

Woaaahhh, Tayler!! Was not expecting to see you here, that's awesome! Congrats!

[taylerolivasart]

Thanks for having me on guys! Shout out to Proko and his team for making this a fun experience. :)

[Kimri]

It's scary and fascinating how a 20-minute video reallt felt like a few years to me with how much information is concised and delivered. Thanks so much Tayler!

[generalfishcake]

I am a digital artist with years of experience and I still found this video interesting and useful. Great presenter and very cool format.

[Bionitech]

"Big Brain Setup"

Ah, the one true way

[cantbeconquered]

Oh wow i was just trying to learn how to paint digitally then this showed up on my notifications. Thank you

[Sewius]

If you're cramped for screen space Krita has some great options for managing the U.I. such as a canvas only mode and pop-up palette among other options.

[win]

I like the way Tayler explained everything, not only he made it simple and very easy to understand for a beginner like me, but his tone is also very soothing, it's so nice to hear!

[ButsJeroen]

Lots of little "aha"-moments for me in this vid, both technically and artistically. Thanks!

[darasto]

I find those very short specific tutorials very useful, especially when flooded with work I can still add some learning without using too much time. thanks!

[Prederick]

YES I literally just started fiddling with this stuff this week. Perfect timing.

[ARTYCOATY]

Sophisticated artwork! I think your work is very special and wonderful. thank you for sharing. I respect you who have learned a lot from your work.

[Lobstrique]

this is so amazing! I've been using Photoshop for years, but not professionally, self taught kinda, and this video showed a new world for me

[ArtAngelMouse]

Wow, I'm still learning digital painting and this is incredible.

[eris]

this was so helpful, thank you for the video!! loved how you explained your thought process and technical decisions so throughly

[mahimain]

I've been meaning to learn digital painting for a long-time, and I found this gem. Thank you so much ! Can you please upload more videos on this ?

[abreathingcoffin]

Extremely fun video that held my attention for the full run time. Never saw somebody use so many selections while painting.

[nicojar]

This is interesting from the very first minutes, and all the way through - wonderful! Thank you!

[Rosenblum]

Amazing technology - and the artist who knows how to use it! Just astounding how far we've come from a couple of guys in a 1976 garage - to this!

[sirrr.]

This is the perfect video I have found for a beginner. Please also make a step by step tutorial (not a speed art) of any illustration or painting I just want to grab the complete workflow in adobe illustration or adobe photoshop. Thanks