Digital painting AP tutorial?

[APD15]

Hi, I am trying to learn some AP stuff, at the moment more than other I would like to (slowly) learn some digital painting but I can't find any guide or tutorial.

There are a couple of photoshop tutorial (I never used a software othen than AP) but seems too advanced for me.

In particular, I would like to learn how to do this kind of jobs: start from a picture like this and create this. Of course I don't expect to reach this result, but I would like to see the technique behind this work, and slowly learn it.

Thanks for any tip in advance

[firstdefence]

In any artwork, the techniques can be seen in the art.

Artists of all levels have their own style, this is how they represent what they see. You need to develop your style and the only way to do that is to practice and play. Try making a drawing of that image with a pencil, it can be a sketch nothing fancy but the techniques you use to make that drawing are transferrable to a Drawing Tablet/Screen. There is no wrong way to make art, there is your way.

 

Study the image, I don't mean look at it, I mean really study it, look at the light and shade, look at how the shadows fall, look at how the image is in sections, so the grey tarmac at the top, the painted logo on the ground below and the car on the tarmac, notice the texture of the tarmac and the rubber left on the surface, notice how most of the image is blurred, continue to do this until you start to understand the image and what it consists of. Once you have that in your head you can start to draw. Never give up, use whatever tools are necessary for you to create your art, that can be tracing paper, grids, whatever you need to use to get an image you think looks OK.

 

Some people will sketch a drawing first and then scan it in, all techniques are permissible.

 

With digital art the first thing you need is a Drawing Tablet or a Drawing Screen, when doing Photo to Art, a mouse just isn't up to it.

[APD15]

13 hours ago, firstdefence said:

In any artwork, the techniques can be seen in the art.

Artists of all levels have their own style, this is how they represent what they see. You need to develop your style and the only way to do that is to practice and play. Try making a drawing of that image with a pencil, it can be a sketch nothing fancy but the techniques you use to make that drawing are transferrable to a Drawing Tablet/Screen. There is no wrong way to make art, there is your way.

 

Study the image, I don't mean look at it, I mean really study it, look at the light and shade, look at how the shadows fall, look at how the image is in sections, so the grey tarmac at the top, the painted logo on the ground below and the car on the tarmac, notice the texture of the tarmac and the rubber left on the surface, notice how most of the image is blurred, continue to do this until you start to understand the image and what it consists of. Once you have that in your head you can start to draw. Never give up, use whatever tools are necessary for you to create your art, that can be tracing paper, grids, whatever you need to use to get an image you think looks OK.

 

Some people will sketch a drawing first and then scan it in, all techniques are permissible.

 

With digital art the first thing you need is a Drawing Tablet or a Drawing Screen, when doing Photo to Art, a mouse just isn't up to it.

Thanks, I understand now.

I think i will buy a cheap drawing tablet (since I don't have it) and try to have some fun!

But, I was never good at school in free-hands drawings, I hope I can get better with time in digital ones, I don't like a lot drawing on paper but this kind of digital drawing really impress me and make me want to try to emulate it. Do you think that developing a basic sketch above the original reduced opacity photo would be ok? I really don't know how to start without 

[firstdefence]

Yes, use the image as a trace, lock the layer and start creating. Practice and experimenting is all part of the learning curve. Even the great artists had to start somewhere and were novices at some point. have a go and have fun, it will all click together at some point.