i just started getting into painting using photoshop rather than painter after seeing steel dolphin's tutorial. i've only used PS for design work previously. i found anry's video of Tyrael painting and i was just perplexed. i don't know much about the brush engine yet, but what kind of settings could he be using? is he just picking colors off the top of his head..? (<-NOOB QUESTION)

i'm kicking the dodge/burn habit, what other methods are useful for digital painting in photoshop??

thank goodness for resources like yours to help fledglings like myself!

-anders h.

Tyreal is a /diablo character so I think he got the colors from that, or some picture... Though its possible he just makes them up, cant help you on the rest really just w8 :p

my question had more to do with him using tiny brushes- why the small brushes? what's the advantage there? how does the finished product look so damn polished? I couldn't tell by the video if he was using a smudge tool to smooth out the color or if he was just constantly adjusting his colors and applying them..

i'm rather clumsy and mix and match my colors on a seperate "pallette" image or off to the side of my work. even then i go back and fuss with everything 12 times over. maybe i am too right brained or something.

-a.h.

I just realized that mr. anry created tyrael in painter. d'oh! i need some more advanced painting tutorials for photoshop having to do with the brush modification tools and technique..i think mr. steel dolphin needs to give us (me) a second painting tutorial.

One of the reasons I am sure he [Anry] uses the small brushes in painter is that he works on very large canvases, and by using larger brushes his computer would problably bog down way too much, and he has lots of fine detail. Using painter its far easier to blend and have smoother color depending on what type of brush you are using. I typically use a smeary round and a Camel hair round and even a felt pen blender. In photoshop its much harder to make things blend without using softer edged brushes, or the smudge tool (not recommended, it can become very obvious this tool is used and it can make your painting appear gimmicky, there are only af few people I know that can use it effectively in a painting.)

The brushes I use in photoshop are the ones I have in my tutorials, I dont mess around much with overly custom brushes and I use the same brushes to this day.