How to Use an Alpha Mask in Sketchbook Pro 9.0
Yes, that’s right—the newest Sketchbook Pro update gave us the long awaited feature, the Clipping Mask/Alpha Mask! Let me quickly show you how to use…
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How to Draw Fur with a Fur Brush Set
Realistic fur is very difficult to draw—that’s why digital artists often use custom brush sets for this purpose. However, while they make drawing fur easier,…
Shadowbeast: The Making Of
Gothic was the first cRPG game I’ve ever played, and since then nothing really came close to it. Its world felt truly alive, not only…
Free Tiger Body Base + Tutorial
When was working on the image below, first I prepared a “tiger base” with body features and shading, so that I could create all the…
Starry Lion: The Making Of
Here’s an artwork I created for the #drawthisinyourstyle challenge, using this amazing piece of chenandink as my inspiration. If you want to see how I…
10 Years of Artistic Progress: Before and After
In July 2011 I painted this nice heartwarming scene of a dragon mama with her baby. I was very proud of it at that time—I…
Drawing on an XP-PEN Artist Pro 16TP Tablet
Recently I’ve been commissioned to create a sponsored tutorial for XP-PEN, which you can find here. I’ve recorded the process of drawing the main illustration…
How to Turn a Drawing Into a Painting
Drawing is cheap—all you need is a pencil and some paper. That’s why most of us have more experience in drawing than painting. So even…
How to Paint Fur: Short, Medium, Long, and Thick
Last time I showed you a simple method to shade in digital art. However, while it’s easy enough to shade something that doesn’t have any…
How to Shade in Digital Art: a Simple Method
There are countless ways of shading digital art—it’s one of the reasons why there are so many distinctive styles, even when the artist is trying…
10 Mistakes in Shading and How to Fix Them
If you want to paint something realistic from imagination, you only have one thing to learn—shading. But it’s a more difficult and complex subject than…
What Are Blend Modes and How to Use Them in Digital Art
In many digital drawing tutorials you may be asked to “change the Blend Mode of the layer to Multiply”, or something along these lines. What…
How to Paint Fur with Ambient Light
When you paint fur, what you’re actually doing is painting the shadows between the strands of hair. These shadows appear even if the light is…
Three-Point Lighting in Digital Painting
There’s this concept in photography called “three-point lighting”, where you use three types of light to properly accentuate the form of your subject. We can…
A Colored Cat: the Making Of
During the last lighting study I learned how important it is to define the lighting early on, before adding any details. So I decided to…