[Sublimo]

Hey dudes, I'm struggling with this digital painting like nothing else I've ever done. Could you guys encourage me and show some of your first digital paintings ? And maybe how you got better, and show some progress pictures.

Would be really great.

Thanks
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[Al Ian]

This is my work over the last year. About how long Ive been digitaly painting. I hear if you have a traditional background in painting its not to much more difficult. However I dont have that background so I cant say for sure.

All but the last one was done with a lazer mouse.

1st Attempt


3rd Attempt


6th or 7th Attempt



12th or 13th Attempt


1st Attempt with a WACOM


Current Project (you can find a step by step in the WIP section)
This one is not finished yet.



Here is a list in random order of the best advice I have been given thus far.

Paint the image 4 to 8 times larger then the intended final size, then shrink it.

Stay away from filters.

Go easy on the dodge/burn features.

Use alot of different colors. (this one is hard to explain, there is a GREAT thread in the first section about this.)

Oh yeah, and practice practice practice.


Good luck!
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http://jmarkey77.home.bresnan.net/

[wayfarer.]

now it�s gonna be embarassing , no just kidding.

Well, I myself went for digital painting since nearly half a year now, I think. I�ve never done traditional before, so I was really new to art. And when I sometimes got depressed like you, time passed for a week or something like this, but then I saw some new technique or a new tutorial and wanted to try. So my phases, where I did nothing were really short. And I had much of time, as pupil. Here are some of my first paintings. (host could be slow)

hmm.. I just recognized I lost my real 1st attempt. And all my other few attempts were either colorations of refpieces or pencilwork. And they�re so big, that I don�t want to show them. Well, I joined DSG at conceptart for a month or so in my early stage. Let�s show some of them

#1


#2


#3 after some month


#4 new speedie


to get not depressed or loose encouragment try different styles, do linework, paint from ref, learn anatomy, just do different things. At least this helped me. here�s the hawkprey tutorial, after which I was encouraged a lot more (it�s a 10min. video in ps): http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10868

[Tinusch]

A computer isn't going to make an artist out of you. If you're struggling that much, maybe you need to take a few steps away from the computer and find a paper and pencil. Start with the basics.