Digital art is a perfect medium for drawing, manga, comic books, animated film, graphics for video games, or simply make pictures of your own. If you’re used to dealing with conventional pen and paper, or don’t have a lot of previous art experience, it might feel daunting to produce digital art. But the right instruments and a lot of practise are what you need. To read, pick a digital software application, get a computer that fits your requirements, and start making your first digital artwork!

Foundational Art Skills Learning

1. Learn circles, cubes, and triangles sketching. You’ll need a solid base in the conventional mediums of drawing and painting to be successful at digital art. Although the tool you’re going to use for visual art is different, the talents are the same. So, if you don’t have a lot of drawing experience, you can start at the beginning: drawing simple shapes.

Train with circles , squares, and triangles and then move on to drawing 3 dimensional forms such as cones, cylinders, and spheres.

2. Shade and apply cast shadows to the forms. Attach an abstract light source to the website to make the cones, cylinders, and spheres appear three dimensional. Shade in the places farthest from the source of light and leave those nearest to the source of light. Draw a shadow, stretching away from the hypothetical source of light, underneath the object.

The shadow should have the same shape as the target, but, depending on the angle of the sun, it may be longer or shorter than the object itself.

3. Learn to draw from the viewpoint of one and two points. A point perspective is a linear perspective with just one vanishing point. When you look straight down a railroad track and all the lines merge or “vanish” at one time in the middle of the scene, you will see this happen. If you’ve learned the hang of drawing one point perspective, on either side of the scene, practise two point perspective, which has two vanishing points.

4. Draw, from close observation, individuals, artefacts, and environments. It’s time to draw from reality until you’ve gotten the hang of simple forms, colouring, and perspective! It would be more difficult to draw from reality, but more useful than merely drawing from your imagination or copying photos or other sketches.

• By arranging a pile of objects and drawing them with correct perspective and colouring, practise still life.
• By making a friend model for you, or going to a figure drawing event, learn gesture painting.

5. To get a grip on colour theory, research the colour wheel. In the colour wheel, colours adjacent to each other, like blue and green, are analogue colours. For one another, they seem harmonious. On the colour wheel, colours immediately opposite one another, such as red and green, are considered complementary. They contrast nicely with one another. With colour, play about and use your imagination!

You’re able to start on studying digital art until you feel familiar with the fundamentals of shapes, colouring, viewpoint, drawing from life, and colour theory!

Choose The Apps and Hardware

1. Choose your stylus and machine. You may want to use a pressure-sensitive tablet with a stylus, so that conventional art can be imitated better. A stylus is like a marker on a touch-screen device that you can use. It is possible to work with only a normal monitor and mouse, but you would definitely probably want to use a stylus and tablet to really get good at digital painting.

2. For free, download GIMP or Krita. GIMP is a software art application that is free , open source and developed by volunteers. It has the same functions as Photoshop, the industry standard, but has a more confusing user interface and is less comfortable for beginners. Krita is a free, simple, beginner-friendly app dedicated to digital painting and conventional media imitation. It does not have GIMP’s photo-editing capabilities, but has a lovely visual painting user interface.

• It’s best to concentrate first on mastering only one programme, and then you can try other programmes until you get the hang of it. It can get overwhelming to continue to understand a lot of different systems at once.
• You’re best off starting with a free software whether you’re a novice or a hobbyist. You will want to explore paying options, which are well known in the sector, if you’re studying for an industry work.

3. For digital art, think Corel Painter. Like Krita, Corel Painter is app for digital painting. Unlike Krita, it costs cash, but digital painters love it for its great imitation of traditional paint-on-canvas. Before determining whether you want to pay, you can pursue a 30 day free trial to see if you like it.

4. For making manga and anime, select Clip Studio Art or Paint Method SAI. Among the manga and animation design designers, Clip Studio Art and Paint Method SAI are also favourites. Unlike free , open-source projects, they both cost money. They are more restricted than Photoshop or GIMP, but they have some resources to create manga that are useful.

• Clip Studio Art smooths out the outline you draw automatically, so it appears like a cartoon painting.
• Paint Tool SAI has a large fan base for anime, and so it has lots of tutorials for anime. It helps you to make smooth, elegant drawings.

5. Pay for Photoshop, the norm in the field. Photoshop costs money, but it has tonnes of useful features, is constantly revised, and is widely accepted to be the animation and graphics industry standard. It might be worth forking out the money for this high-powered and valued software whether you want to try a career in digital art, or are otherwise really serious about your craft.

To create the first visual artwork

1. Build a new paper using your apps for digital art. To open a new document, go to the File tab at the top of your computer screen and, depending on which software programme you are using, press Build New Document or other similar expression. You will define the size and resolution of the folder you are using to save it.

2. On the paper, choose your colour settings. If you’re going to digitally show your painting, use RGB, which stands for Red Green Blue, the optical display of three pixel colours. Using CMYK, which stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow Key, the four inks used in colour printing if you want to print out your work.

3. For your painting, choose a background colour. You might start with a white sheet of paper, but it’s very easy to fill in the entire background with a different colour digitally. This will be useful in determining the light and dark ideals, since not all of them would have to deal with the brightness of a white background. Generally, a grey backdrop is a nice place to start.

4. Experiment with the paint brushes and the instrument for the paint bucket. To fill wide spaces, use the paint bucket tool, and the paint brush to draw lines. You can vary the line ‘s tone, thickness and opacity. Many software applications for digital art provide tonnes of different “paint brushes” that imitate various real-life media, such as pencil, charcoal, watercolour, or acrylic.

You may also use an eraser tool, a fill tool, and other blur effects, including adding ripples, in addition to paint brushes.

5. Build several layers. Many software programmes for digital art allow you to store your work in numerous layers. First, you should create the backdrop and save it as a layer, and then start a whole new layer in the foreground for something. If you screw up a single sheet, you can erase the whole drawing without removing it. In your image, you can also transfer layers around.

You would only switch it if you draw a tree on the left side of the image and then decide that you like it on the right. This is a super useful tool in real life drawing that you can’t do.

6. To add info, zoom in on your image. Rather than painting on paper, this is another fantastic feature of working in visual media. To add fine detail, you can zoom in on your painting, then zoom out again to see the entire image.

7. Reorder the layers and hide them however you wish. In whatever order you choose, you can stack your layers. For eg, in one layer, you can create an initial messy drawing, then trace it in fine detail in a layer on top, as if you were using tracing paper. The underlying messy sketch should then be covered, so that you only see the finely detailed drawing.

8. As you go and once you’re finished, save your artwork. Be sure to regularly backup your artwork while you work, so that you can still have your work saved if the software unexpectedly shuts down. Also, make sure to save it until you’re done! You can digitally display it to your friends, or print it out.

9. Train with online guides and improve. Don’t stop at one piece of art. Keep progressing through experience and by online learning of new skills. Tons of excellent videos on how to use the simple techniques of visual art software programmes are hosted by YouTube and other sites. Free video courses, such as Ctrl+Paint, are also available online, providing a continuum in skills from basic to advanced.

A better way to learn is to watch videos so they will teach you specifically which buttons to push to use which resources.
When you watch the updates, take notes so that you’ll know better!