Digital Painting Techniques
in Photoshop

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Paint like the masters!

If you are interested in digital painting, this DVD is a rare treat! Join one of the entertainment Industry’s leading experts. Bloodfire studio’s Creative Director, Lee Kohse takes his vast experience painting for clients like Lucasfilm and DC comics and shows you exactly how it is done. Starting from a pencil sketch, Lee will digitally paint two complete projects. Watch as lee paints a fantasy piece featuring a dragon and fairy. Then prepare to be inspired as Lee paints a futuristic robot. Watch and learn as Lee unveils the workflow and techniques necessary for creating stunning work in Photoshop. As a bonus, you will learn how to use the Wacom pressure sensitive tablets. You will love his down to earth and witty style of teaching.

This fast loading DVD ROM contains 3.5 hours of sharp video. The advanced interface allows the user to instantly jump to any of the lessons with complete control over the playback. All the lesson files are included, so you can follow along at your own pace!

This is your chance to sit down with one of the industry’s leading experts and discover the secrets and digital workflow for the pros.

Lessons Include:

Watch as Lee sketches a comic book character and then paints 2 amazing pieces of art.

Learn the techniques to get you started on a lifetime journey of digital painting

Understand how to paint in Photoshop

Creating custom brushes

Repurposing brushes

Discover the workflow of the pros

Ideal for someone coming from a traditional background

Learn the techniques that were used by renaissance masters

Master the brush dynamics in Photoshop

Learn how to block out color

Work with shadowing and highlight techniques

Adding detail

Blend and composite your final piece

Watch two complete projects, start to finish (Portions are sped up so you will see every brush stroke without being bored).

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Lee Kohse is an artist from California. One day in 1994, he found a computer with Photoshop on it. He has been using it almost daily ever since. He has earned over 30 awards for Art Direction and design. His client list includes Nike, Verizon, Microsoft, Lucasfilm, Topps, Inkworks, DC Comics, IDW Comics, 20th Century Fox and he has produced art for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Aliens Vs Predator, Angel, and more.
Currently he is the Creative Director of BloodFire Studios (www.bloodfire.com), an indie comic publisher where he works with some of the best artists in the film and comic industries creating comics and original content for corporate clients as well as his own comic, Kindergoth.

What's on the disk?

1. Welcome from LEE
   

Overview of the scope of the DVD.

1. hair brush
   

Getting started creating custom brushes to paint with. A quick look at creating hair.

2. moon brush
   

Creating the main brush that you will use for the majority of the brush work.

3. Splatter brush
   

Creating a brush for special effects; learn to repurpose brushes.

4. sketching
   

An excercise to improve your brush skills. Sketching a cartoon character from Kindergoth. A look at using the Wacom Cintiq.

5. base color
   

Getting started on our fantasy piece. Using an alpha channel as vellum. Laying down the basic color palette.

6. background
   

Creating the background for the piece..

7. dragon
   

Blocking out the dragon.

8. fix eyes
   

Making adjustments to your reference as you progress through the painting.

9. roughing out dragon details
   

Beginning to rough out the details in the dragon.

10. fairy
    

Painting the fairy working with characters.

11. detailing dragon
    

Painting the details for the dragon. Working with shadow and highlight.

11. finishing dragon
    

Adding the finishing touches to the dragon. Making it look realistic.

11. ground details
    

Adding the detail to rocks, ground and cracks etc... texturing.

12. refining painting
    

Adding the finishing touches to the details of the painting.

12. compositing
    

Some tricks to bring everything together into a tidy composition.

13. robot 1
    

Beginning to paint the Sci-Fi Robot. Creating a paint palette.

13. robot 2
    

Continuing with the robot and adding details and working with the fire.

13. robot 3
    

Finishing up the robot. Making it pop.

Finally, learn how the masters paint in Photoshop with this revolutionary new training Video.

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