The Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting

Join the digital art movement with Sara Tepes’ beautiful and beginner-friendly guide to portrait painting! Packed full of Sara’s best tips, step-by-step tutorials and practical art prompts, this handbook is perfect for every curious digital artist. With a focus on semi-realistic portraiture, Sara teaches how to achieve her glowing, ethereal style with cutting-edge techniques. Discover the answers to all of your questions with advice on the best paint programs—including Procre- ate, Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint—as well as the three most essential digital brushes and how to use them, setting up your canvas, working with adjustment layers and more. From there, dive in to hands-on tutorials and prompts that will teach you how to paint dazzling portraits, from sketching composition thumbnails, to mastering features like hair and eyes, to replicating skin tones and fabric textures. Plus, follow these tutorials and practice prompts using a downloadable digital package of brushes and color palettes created especially for this book! With this easy, no-fear guide, become a digital painter and create showstopping artwork—all with the tip of a stylus.