Draw Exploding Planet Earth using tools and filters.

Today we are going to do a painting tutorial. We will also study and interesting gradient technique that I've figured out. So enough talking let's start painting.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a piece of pixel art by tracing an image with Pen and Pencil tools.

Ever thought of creating your own metallic-looking Transformers logo? This tutorial will show how you can do it with Photoshop.

Here will demonstrate the simple steps on how to create a realistic graffiti painting on a brick wall. Pimp your wall now!

Create an iPhone with a few basic shapes.

Illustrator Evgeny Parfenov explains how to paint a digital portrait using techniques based on geometrical rules. I create a diverse range of illustrations, but I enjoy portraits the most. As an illustrator, I’m attracted to Expressionism, particularly the work of Egon Schiele and Wassily Kandinsky. This style has certain features that appeal to me a great deal. Pictures are extremely stylised, with deliberate deformation, and there’s a tendency to render objects in flat areas and employ sharp, dissonant colours. This is the approach I try to use in my own work. In this tutorial I’ve outlined my approach to creating stylised portraits. The image I’ve used as my example was produced for my online project called tss Magazine. Every month I create a cover or two, illustrated with events or people I find especially interesting. I hope that you find my techniques useful…

In this Photoshop tutorial I will show you how to take an illustration created using Vector Masks in Photoshop, turn it into an Illustrator file with all the associated paths, layers and colors and from there turn it into a true .EPS file.

Following the recent launch of SoulTweet, Graham Smith made a call out for any illustrators to help out with the site. In a few minutes that I had spare, I doodled a couple of birds to offer up for use, and sent across the best of the two for consideration. It didn’t get taken up, so rather than let a sketch go to waste, I decided I’d illustrate it for a tutorial of how I like to use Illustrator.

This time we'll create a simple vexel image from a picture. Also, we'll use some pattern effects to give the image some interesting texture. This is a basic way to create a vexel image using predominately Photoshop's vector based tools. After completing this tutorial, you'll become a master of the Pen Tool.

This is a micro-tutorial about drawing interweaving tree branches. I do not claim this is the best way :-) but it works well for me.

First things first, I use a drawing tablet (which gives me pressure sensitivity) and few self made fur brushes in Photoshop. They are much more convenient and much less time consuming than drawing each individual piece of hair.

This time, I will show how, with some patience and a tablet, you can produce your own eye textures, applicable to your 3D characters. It's a realistic texture, but it can be simplified, depending of your intention and your character's style. This tutorial will also be able to be taken advantage by those that work with 2D, helping them to understand a little of the Photoshop capacities.

Scanning a drawing, sketch, portfolio piece, even a photo is one of the black arts of photoshop. There are people out there who know so much about the adjustment tools that they can make any scribble look amazing. I'm not one of those people. However, this is the process I go through when I'm scanning one of my drawings. Hopefully you'll pick up a thing or two also.

I have seen many good and interesting articles about how to color pictures in Photoshop. My article, therefore, cover the art of PAINTING directly in Photoshop. I use mainly soft edged airbrushes in different sizes. I work at different layers, the brush set to low opacity and low pressure. To do this picture I had a photo of a friend in the position and lightning I wanted to draw. I used this photo as a reference and a guide line making the picture.

This series of images will show the general method that I used to create my painting “Heaven and Hell”. Each image has a brief description of what was going on and how I was working. Should you want to see a more detailed Image, click on the picture and you will be taken to a larger version. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

I'm going to show you how I coloured my character Alicia's hair on my New Year picture. I took lots of screens during the process, to clearly show you the way I colour. First I coloured her skin eyes and mouth on different layers... I tend to do that before colouring the hair...

The final image, probably my first attempt in a long, long time to colour something in Photoshop, been too comfortable with Painter. I got too scared with Photoshop’s brush setting and the way the colour mix in PS that I always stick with my Painter. Lately I see a lot of inspiration of awesome work done in Photoshop that still gave the stroke type feel that I try to achieve. So I thought to save this attempt step by step and maybe it could be some help to those that are struggling with Photoshop like me too because in the process of colouring this I learned a bunch of new things myself.

aka “How to Integrate SketchUp and Poser Models into a Photoshop Scene”. What follows is a step-by-step tutorial for how I created the most frequently viewed digital piece in my Epilogue Gallery: Lost City of the Amazons. Herein you will learn how to create customized Photoshop paint brushes in order to paint leafy foliage, how to generate a rainbow effect using built-in Photoshop tools and filters, and how to integrate SketchUp and Poser models into a Photoshop scene. The versions of the software used: Photoshop 7, SketchUp 5, & Poser 5.

This “dark to light” method is different from what I usually do. Normally, I start my paintings with a middle-toned background and paint in the shadows (darker areas) first, then the lighter ones. Here, I started with a very dark background and built up forms from there, painting almost nothing but lighter tones. The shadow areas in this painting are not painted in, but are parts of the background that were spared.