I watched this series a couple years ago and fell in love with your approach. Then I lost it and couldn't find the video for ages (despite watching you in DeviantArt, how silly am I?) Now I have found the video again and am super happy. One of my favourite art advice came from watching this video. Start with the hardest/least favourite part first. It really, really changes how one approaches the drawing.
Nostalgia... Seen this video 5 years ago which showed me a different path. If you still read comments for this video I would like to thank you for helping me making me who I am now...I still remember the first time I saw this painting with open mouth wondering "Wowww".
This series is one of the best tutorials ever! I love that you talk how to do art in general. I've shared this series tons already. Hope you do more like this.
OOh this channel is what I've been looking for! I really want to do digital environment art I'm decent at things with anatomy such as horses or birds but environment art is something that amazes me beyond words now I'm going to watch every video you have and probably not sleep for a week
Thanks Noah! I really enjoyed this video. I've noticed what you mentioned with the smudge tool is very true! when I first started my digital paintings and using the smudge tool I didn't enjoy it at all! I stayed clear of that tool for while but once I got back into it I learnt how to use it properly.
I like to look at the trees on the leaves as well. It's fun when Autumn comes around and the bark begins to fall off. I'm just bustin' your chops, dude. Nice video, Great advice.
you have helped me so much in realizing what I can do and see what I can work on your just amazing thank you so much, I live in Seward Alaska there's not a lot to do and knowing that I can just like go out there and paint it will help me and digital painting to is awesome!
Thanks for the great video! I have watched a lot of tutorials, but I actually found yours the best! I really appreciate how you explain things beyond the painting itself, like the shadows, color - and how to get started with painting enviroments. I'll definetly come back to watch more of your tutorials! Keep up the amazing work man!
I can draw decently, but it's things like this that just absolutely blow me away. From the outside perspective it seems more than complicated. But, it sounds like the basics are fairly simple. Just outstanding. :D
If anyone is wondering what he did at 3:13 he used "Copy visible and paste in a new layer". Press Ctrl (Cmd) + Alt (Opt) + Shift + E will copy the visible layers and paste in a new layer. The stuff in brackets are the keys on a Mac.
Thanks for posting this video! Now I want to jump into a speedpaint and do a watercolor en plein air. And yes, seeing the paintings in person is much more breathtaking. I went to see David's "Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe" in a museum the other day, and it was just gorgeous!
Funny you said how you are driving around and pay attention to elements of nature in the real world around you. Just today, I was driving home from work and looking at the trees to get visual reference for my art, and suddenly I noticed how the shading on a tree trunk is NOT just on one side from top to bottom, but includes cast shadows from its own branches and only specks of light on the other side from the light peeking through the leaves. Now next time I paint a tree I will be thinking about that.
This is really late but if no one knew, there is a cool other makeshift navigator that you can use. Say if you have two screens. When you want to really do details but want a larger scope of your image but the navigator is to small or cumbersome, you can use a new window for the same file. You can go to Window > Arrange > New Window for "Your File Name". This is useful because essentially its is your current project but you can throw this window up anywhere, like a twin window. Try it out.
He's hitting the Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) key to bring up the color sampler. The color on top is the color he's picking from the painting, and the bottom color is the current color that he's replacing.
I love your painting! but I would like to know which brushes you use, specially the one for the big parts. I´ve been looking for them for a long time but cant find the brushes like your. I´ll apreciate the help. :)
I feel like landscape painting is all values..... do you have any insights or tips into seeing or comprehending all the little value shifts in a landscape?
Love your videos Noah, but would you mind adding the artists names you're suggesting in the comments section? Not necessarily links, but their proper spelling would help immensely. Thanks much and keep up the amazing work.
Hello Noah, What a wonderful landscape. I just had a question about blocking in (the beginnings of your paintings). The way I've learnt is self taught and also through some help of a friend who is also an artist. I'm now trying to learn to paint better by watching video tutorials, like yours and try to use the block-in method. However I can't seem to get anything out and it just looks like a mess. Have you got any tips to pick up this method better? I'm really desperate to improve as an artist
I second this question. I can get kinda demotivated when I just don't know where to begin. Are there books or whatever which have a step by step method of painting landscapes?
@noahbradley At the moment I have big problems with comming up with a really interesting enviroment design. I was wondering how you came up with the interesting composition and design for your enviroment, since it has a big deal to say in a picture as well.
Nice project, wanted to see it slightly darker and harder in the foreground - maybe the monks walking; as this would have given much more light beyond and also been a great contrast for the soft snow. A relay good effort though, well done.
I have a question. I have observed a lot of people painting tutorial online. Most of them (including you) seem to paint with low opacity colors for most of the time, but I don't see the pen pressure opacity button was not triggered, or the percentage of opacity itself dropped lower than 100% Did I miss something here ? Or is it just my imagination. I'm seeing an illusion ?
Is there any requirements to begin digital painting? I mean, do I need to have skills on oil, watercolor or any kind of traditional painting, or I can just skip directly into digital painting?
I know I'm not Noah, but I would say you don't have to know any other forms of painting to get into digital painting first. A lot of younger digital artists have never done any traditional painting before and are still able to produce some amazing work. BUT!!!.... knowing some of the fundamentals of oils, acrylics, etc. can come in very handy in digital painting, because a lot of the same rules still apply, but just in a slightly altered way. Good luck with your art! :)
Thank you for answering my question. The reason I asked that is because I have no time to start a course on traditional painting, so I was thinking about starting on Digital Painting.
You are definitely in the right place! You can learn everything there is to know right here on RUclips, for sure. Noah's videos are awesome, and you should check out these as well: CUBEBRUSH, FZDSCHOOL, Matt Kohr, Sycra, Tyler Edlin, & Xia Taptara. There are many more, but the information these guys above give out in their videos is amazing. I learn something new from each of them every day. Have fun!
Karl King thanks for the references :D I cang give you one more, draw with jazza is good too ;)
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Would recomend some place to trade some ideias with painters or just dispaying your work? Specially speed paintings. I was in the daily speed paint on facebook :c but they got me banned because I could never stay on the limit and that I was always open and honest about it lol. I need a new place to get inspired and motivated... So that would help a lot, thanks!
Gabriela Araújo You could try the facebook group called "Virtual Plein Air", I joined about two weeks ago and haven't gotten around to actually painting anything but it seems like a nice community and a great way to practice
Hi, i have a question, i see a lot of chalk brush here did you modified it any way? coz flow and opacity are set on 100% but lines if leaves definitely dont look like they were 100% also they look very soft:/ is it just my bad eye or you set something specific?
I am so sorry for the possibly noob question, but sometimes when you paint a large grey circle pops with two colors up while you are painting (8:41-8:43 is an example)....What is that and how do you get it?
+Finn Cooper there are layer options at the top of layers window. its set to "normal" but you can try other options like multiply,soft light etc. just try it and you'll find out.
I'm trying to learn how to paint .I have like many , Many Paint tool and brushes along with The Paints . It's so hard . And I'm trying to do so on the computer also . It always turn into a stick figure !
Thanks for a great tutorial. You actually give advice instead of showing your proces only...it helps to understand how you archieve the great light etc. But yeah it sounded abit complicated with the tones, it was something with the darkest light must not be the same as the lightest dark. Besides looking on the navigator, which I will start doing, I'ts also recommended to make your work black and white sometimes, to check the contrast, I forget to do it alot although making sure theres contrast really makes your work stand out. Wonder if that's something you do as well. I feel like running out and drawing landscape and citylife..wont people look at you like you are crazy though? .. guess I shouldn't care. I have a background when it comes to painting, also digitally, if you want you can follow my work on facebook Art by Louise Rasmussen. I'll have to look into if you have a page. It's no where as cool as what you do though. Love how your painting looks in this video, although you probably will do more to it. The rustique look is something thats very interesting to look at for the eye, and pokes my imagination more than if it's a photorealistic piece of graphic. I'll try and follow your advice and do some speedpaintings. Making the mountains look like mountains though and dirt like dirt, and stones etc, takes time. Perhaps having photoreferences will help, but it feels like cheating. Keep up the good work, i'm sure your advice isn't crappy;) and sorry for the long post!
He paints for Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering). I believe he also has many small personal projects as well. I think he has quit doing freelance work.
"Speed painting" isn't the goal. What you want is to maintain a nice pace and rhythm. It gives more life to your strokes and keeps you working the whole piece cohesively. As NB says, you are making a painting, not a collection of details.
If I had the monitor for that (a second one even),I´d prefer opening an own window and havin it a LITTLE bigger,to the navigator function..nice work anyway!
I dont really like something about this composition. Probably how there's two competing focal points, none of them satisfying. Like, what are they going towards, the door or the Bridge canyon thing in the background?
Online painting/digital art/ drawing tutorials should stress flipping the image more. I'm a beginner, but even I notice the imperfections when i flip the image. It's like a whole new image that you didn't even draw and you can criticizes your own picture with new eyes.
ditto, i have the same problem! everytime i try blocking in it looks like a ghastly goulash of grungy garbage the kind a 2 year old diarrhead unto the canvas and smeared with their fingers and the more i mess with the worse it looks! and on top of that it takes me 20 hours to make this mess as opposed to 20 minutes, i'm forced to leave my original linework and stay within it or this keeps happening, what gives?!
Awesome! I'm starting to appreciate traditional style painting alot more then the overly digital concept works. Thanks for your wisdom and video man. I know your probably busy but it would be super cool if you gave me a bit of feedback on my art :) I watched your interview with oats it was dope! I love the stories of the humble beginnings. -_- cause that's where I'm at ATM lol so I'm doing something right :p keep your head up man! And keep doing these awesome master pieces! instagram -Steelartstudios
Aww... I can do the sketch of a landscape/environment fine but... when I get to the colouring, I just really screw it up. No matter how much I try, I just can't understand colour theory O.o And so my paintings look like poop. :(
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I watched this series a couple years ago and fell in love with your approach. Then I lost it and couldn't find the video for ages (despite watching you in DeviantArt, how silly am I?) Now I have found the video again and am super happy. One of my favourite art advice came from watching this video. Start with the hardest/least favourite part first. It really, really changes how one approaches the drawing.
Nostalgia... Seen this video 5 years ago which showed me a different path. If you still read comments for this video I would like to thank you for helping me making me who I am now...I still remember the first time I saw this painting with open mouth wondering "Wowww".
This series is one of the best tutorials ever! I love that you talk how to do art in general. I've shared this series tons already. Hope you do more like this.
OOh this channel is what I've been looking for!
I really want to do digital environment art I'm decent at things with anatomy such as horses or birds but environment art is something that amazes me beyond words
now I'm going to watch every video you have and probably not sleep for a week
Thanks Noah! I really enjoyed this video.
I've noticed what you mentioned with the smudge tool is very true! when I first started my digital paintings and using the smudge tool I didn't enjoy it at all! I stayed clear of that tool for while but once I got back into it I learnt how to use it properly.
I like to look at the trees on the leaves as well. It's fun when Autumn comes around and the bark begins to fall off.
I'm just bustin' your chops, dude. Nice video, Great advice.
Great tutorial. So many people have trouble stepping back. I think its great that one of your focal points is staying with the whole picture.
RUclips has been my best tutor for digital arts. Thanks for posting friend! much appreciated!
you have helped me so much in realizing what I can do and see what I can work on your just amazing thank you so much, I live in Seward Alaska there's not a lot to do and knowing that I can just like go out there and paint it will help me and digital painting to is awesome!
Thanks for the great video! I have watched a lot of tutorials, but I actually found yours the best! I really appreciate how you explain things beyond the painting itself, like the shadows, color - and how to get started with painting enviroments. I'll definetly come back to watch more of your tutorials! Keep up the amazing work man!
I can draw decently, but it's things like this that just absolutely blow me away. From the outside perspective it seems more than complicated. But, it sounds like the basics are fairly simple. Just outstanding. :D
If anyone is wondering what he did at 3:13 he used "Copy visible and paste in a new layer".
Press Ctrl (Cmd) + Alt (Opt) + Shift + E will copy the visible layers and paste in a new layer. The stuff in brackets are the keys on a Mac.
Thanks for posting this video! Now I want to jump into a speedpaint and do a watercolor en plein air. And yes, seeing the paintings in person is much more breathtaking. I went to see David's "Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe" in a museum the other day, and it was just gorgeous!
Funny you said how you are driving around and pay attention to elements of nature in the real world around you. Just today, I was driving home from work and looking at the trees to get visual reference for my art, and suddenly I noticed how the shading on a tree trunk is NOT just on one side from top to bottom, but includes cast shadows from its own branches and only specks of light on the other side from the light peeking through the leaves. Now next time I paint a tree I will be thinking about that.
these 4 videos were a great watch, and very informative. please do more.
much appreciated!
I hope you decide to do more of these tutorials. I'd love to learn more about subsurface scattering and multiple light sources.
This is really late but if no one knew, there is a cool other makeshift navigator that you can use. Say if you have two screens. When you want to really do details but want a larger scope of your image but the navigator is to small or cumbersome, you can use a new window for the same file. You can go to Window > Arrange > New Window for "Your File Name". This is useful because essentially its is your current project but you can throw this window up anywhere, like a twin window. Try it out.
I just got a book ( Digital Painting in Photoshop for beginners) with this exact tutorial in it. Its fantastic
It was awesome to watch this to develop while listening to your words! Thanks so much for the upload!
Very informative and lots of helpful advice here. Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us!
I loved the comment about the smudge tool being evil. Even more sinful is the burn and dodge tools, lol. Interesting tutorial sir.
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hey noah you dont have to shift copy, you can Cmd or Control J to duplicate its ways quicker
Its great to see that you explain your work,
we need more people like you :)
Great advice. Totally helped me with my roadbumps.
He's hitting the Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) key to bring up the color sampler. The color on top is the color he's picking from the painting, and the bottom color is the current color that he's replacing.
Just came across your tweet about practice so I went to check out your channel. This advice is life changing
I love your painting! but I would like to know which brushes you use, specially the one for the big parts. I´ve been looking for them for a long time but cant find the brushes like your. I´ll apreciate the help. :)
Hey Noah, awesome stuff man! For most of your projects what resolution do you set up to work on?
I feel like landscape painting is all values..... do you have any insights or tips into seeing or comprehending all the little value shifts in a landscape?
Fantastic work and great vid, I learn alot from your way of working. Keep
Up the great work.
Love your videos Noah, but would you mind adding the artists names you're suggesting in the comments section? Not necessarily links, but their proper spelling would help immensely. Thanks much and keep up the amazing work.
Thank you Noah, great instruction. Very helpful!
cant thank you enough for this vid man!! great way of just showing the concept of it!
What is the best way to control opacity and flow? Like 20-30% opacity and 100% flow?
What about references? Do you use them? Is it useful to paint from photos? Thx)
how exactly do you spell "George enos" I tried to look it up couldn't find it...thanks btw your r awesome at painting ....
Try googling for "George Ennis Art"
Hello Noah,
What a wonderful landscape. I just had a question about blocking in (the beginnings of your paintings). The way I've learnt is self taught and also through some help of a friend who is also an artist. I'm now trying to learn to paint better by watching video tutorials, like yours and try to use the block-in method. However I can't seem to get anything out and it just looks like a mess.
Have you got any tips to pick up this method better? I'm really desperate to improve as an artist
Wow, that flip image is really nice idea!
Great tutorial. What is the distinction between rendering and applying?
Yet another amazing thing I've found thanks to reddit :). You are extraordinarily talented.
This is soooo useful. Thank you so much :)
I second this question. I can get kinda demotivated when I just don't know where to begin. Are there books or whatever which have a step by step method of painting landscapes?
Please do more of these videos where you talk over the recording. I love your work, especially your clouds!! haha :D
As well as being an amazingly informative video it was like a peaceful meditation whilst improving my own work, thanks :)
@noahbradley At the moment I have big problems with comming up with a really interesting enviroment design. I was wondering how you came up with the interesting composition and design for your enviroment, since it has a big deal to say in a picture as well.
Gosh i am so glad to have found your channel, you are amazing! I've loved this video!
Hello Noah, your are really a good tutor! I really learn alot just fromt his part 1 :) Thanks alot! :)
this tutorial is great! thanks a lot, btw can you give some advice to some basic brush settings that are good for painting rocks and other surfaces?
Nice project, wanted to see it slightly darker and harder in the foreground - maybe the monks walking; as this would have given much more light beyond and also been a great contrast for the soft snow. A relay good effort though, well done.
One day i hope to achieve this level, i practice speed painting every day
do u draw in a sketch book before you bring it into Photoshop? If so, do you redraw or scan?
I have a question.
I have observed a lot of people painting tutorial online. Most of them (including you) seem to paint with low opacity colors for most of the time, but I don't see the pen pressure opacity button was not triggered, or the percentage of opacity itself dropped lower than 100%
Did I miss something here ?
Or is it just my imagination. I'm seeing an illusion ?
+Thaibiohazard123 probably using a pen with pressure sensitivity controlling the opacity
Is there any requirements to begin digital painting?
I mean, do I need to have skills on oil, watercolor or any kind of traditional painting, or I can just skip directly into digital painting?
I know I'm not Noah, but I would say you don't have to know any other forms of painting to get into digital painting first. A lot of younger digital artists have never done any traditional painting before and are still able to produce some amazing work. BUT!!!.... knowing some of the fundamentals of oils, acrylics, etc. can come in very handy in digital painting, because a lot of the same rules still apply, but just in a slightly altered way. Good luck with your art! :)
Thank you for answering my question. The reason I asked that is because I have no time to start a course on traditional painting, so I was thinking about starting on Digital Painting.
You are definitely in the right place! You can learn everything there is to know right here on RUclips, for sure. Noah's videos are awesome, and you should check out these as well: CUBEBRUSH, FZDSCHOOL, Matt Kohr, Sycra, Tyler Edlin, & Xia Taptara. There are many more, but the information these guys above give out in their videos is amazing. I learn something new from each of them every day. Have fun!
Karl King thanks for the references :D I cang give you one more, draw with jazza is good too ;)
Would recomend some place to trade some ideias with painters or just dispaying your work? Specially speed paintings. I was in the daily speed paint on facebook :c but they got me banned because I could never stay on the limit and that I was always open and honest about it lol. I need a new place to get inspired and motivated... So that would help a lot, thanks!
Gabriela Araújo You could try the facebook group called "Virtual Plein Air", I joined about two weeks ago and haven't gotten around to actually painting anything but it seems like a nice community and a great way to practice
Believe it or not that is the eyedrop tool. It's a feature that was introduced in CS5... it's not that useful to be honest. Hope that helps!
Hi, i have a question, i see a lot of chalk brush here did you modified it any way? coz flow and opacity are set on 100% but lines if leaves definitely dont look like they were 100% also they look very soft:/ is it just my bad eye or you set something specific?
I am so sorry for the possibly noob question, but sometimes when you paint a large grey circle pops with two colors up while you are painting (8:41-8:43 is an example)....What is that and how do you get it?
First thing I noticed at the start of the video was that you have a Bob Ross brush. :P Awesome!
hi
i have recently started digital painting and i already have some assignment so if you could give me some pointers...
where can we download that kind of brushes that you used in this video...
you seem to be using a lot of different brushes, are they the standard ones or where did you find them? :P
Did you scan in the sketch then make a duplicate layer of the sketch? I'm terribly new to painting in PS sorry.
may i know what kind of brushes do you use?
because i see that you use circle brush and oval brush..
Wow amazing ! Thank you for sharing and explaining along the way--I really enjoyed your lesson:-)
How can you see the sketch under your paint when it says the opacity is at 100% for the brush and the layer?
+Finn Cooper
there are layer options at the top of layers window. its set to "normal" but you can try other options like multiply,soft light etc. just try it and you'll find out.
Brilliant thanks
awesome tutorial. great final image too XD
I'm trying to learn how to paint .I have like many , Many Paint tool and brushes along with The Paints .
It's so hard .
And I'm trying to do so on the computer also . It always turn into a stick figure !
how are you able to constantly change colors and shades so quickly?
It's critique, it's useful to artists if they want to improve. It's not meant to be taken offensively.
brushes...what type of brushes do you use?
Could you please tell me how you get those kind of shady brushes? The only problem I have are with the brushes
Thanks for a great tutorial. You actually give advice instead of showing your proces only...it helps to understand how you archieve the great light etc. But yeah it sounded abit complicated with the tones, it was something with the darkest light must not be the same as the lightest dark.
Besides looking on the navigator, which I will start doing, I'ts also recommended to make your work black and white sometimes, to check the contrast, I forget to do it alot although making sure theres contrast really makes your work stand out. Wonder if that's something you do as well.
I feel like running out and drawing landscape and citylife..wont people look at you like you are crazy though? .. guess I shouldn't care.
I have a background when it comes to painting, also digitally, if you want you can follow my work on facebook Art by Louise Rasmussen. I'll have to look into if you have a page. It's no where as cool as what you do though.
Love how your painting looks in this video, although you probably will do more to it. The rustique look is something thats very interesting to look at for the eye, and pokes my imagination more than if it's a photorealistic piece of graphic. I'll try and follow your advice and do some speedpaintings. Making the mountains look like mountains though and dirt like dirt, and stones etc, takes time. Perhaps having photoreferences will help, but it feels like cheating.
Keep up the good work, i'm sure your advice isn't crappy;) and sorry for the long post!
He paints for Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering). I believe he also has many small personal projects as well. I think he has quit doing freelance work.
Which software you used?
Could you write down the names of the old masters you mentioned, thx
What is he doing to make the circle with the colours come up in the middle of the screen?
How often do you use references in your paintings?
"Speed painting" isn't the goal. What you want is to maintain a nice pace and rhythm. It gives more life to your strokes and keeps you working the whole piece cohesively. As NB says, you are making a painting, not a collection of details.
If I had the monitor for that (a second one even),I´d prefer opening an own window and havin it a LITTLE bigger,to the navigator function..nice work anyway!
If we do want you to critique our work what would be the best way to get a hold of you?
Hi! I follow you on deviantart, but i didn't know that you got a youtube channel! subscribed! XD
How do i send you paintings for critique?
How do I add custom shortcuts? I want to make a shortcut to flip my image too, it's a hassle to go ctrl+T flip.
So, is the offer you made in the video, to look at watcher's work and offer advice, still good? Or are you too busy?
I dont really like something about this composition.
Probably how there's two competing focal points, none of them satisfying.
Like, what are they going towards, the door or the Bridge canyon thing in the background?
learned so much thanks for sharing !
Landscapes around me tend to be "flat" ND doesn't tend to be the greatest place to live for landscape observing. Unless one likes sunflowers and corn.
What software do u use? Please tell meeeee
Really great commentary.
what is the shortcut keys for plipping the image?
What is the program you use?
What is the name of the program?
What is the Bob Ross brush at 6:31?
Online painting/digital art/ drawing tutorials should stress flipping the image more. I'm a beginner, but even I notice the imperfections when i flip the image. It's like a whole new image that you didn't even draw and you can criticizes your own picture with new eyes.
What program is this o.O
ditto, i have the same problem! everytime i try blocking in it looks like a ghastly goulash of grungy garbage the kind a 2 year old diarrhead unto the canvas and smeared with their fingers
and the more i mess with the worse it looks! and on top of that it takes me 20 hours to make this mess as opposed to 20 minutes, i'm forced to leave my original linework and stay within it or this keeps happening, what gives?!
Really nice! you remind me of Feng Zhu :)
Awesome! I'm starting to appreciate traditional style painting alot more then the overly digital concept works. Thanks for your wisdom and video man. I know your probably busy but it would be super cool if you gave me a bit of feedback on my art :) I watched your interview with oats it was dope! I love the stories of the humble beginnings. -_- cause that's where I'm at ATM lol so I'm doing something right :p keep your head up man! And keep doing these awesome master pieces!
instagram -Steelartstudios
Aww... I can do the sketch of a landscape/environment fine but... when I get to the colouring, I just really screw it up. No matter how much I try, I just can't understand colour theory O.o And so my paintings look like poop. :(