Finally my tutorials are back up again, and with updates!
A word about these tutorials:Usage is an interesting thing when it comes to tutorials. I ask that as a trade for all the time I put into creating these for everyone to see, that they follow a few simple rules. Please note that there are porbably much, much better tutorials out there floating around, this is just the way I do things. Please keep in mind that with much patience, and even more screaming, you probably CAN achieve the following results with a mouse. However these tutorials were designed to be used with a graphics tablet such as a Wacom. Not sure what I'm talking about? Go here.
-Do not redistribute these tutorials either in part or wholly; meaning, please don't take the images off of them for any reason and post them elsewhere or modify them or any of that crazyness. I've purposely left them on the page in a way where you CAN save them if you want to for future reference, please don't take advantage of it. You're welcome to save them to your computer for your personal use though!
-Don't use these tutorials to make a drawing exactly the same as mine then post it all over the internet claiming it's yours. This has actually happened before. These are intended to help see the process, not help you do a "paint-by-numbers" or Bob Ross painting.
-Don't use these to try and base your style on them; I want to encourage individuality and originality!
-Please DO use these however it helps you best. They are definately not an end-all guide to anything artistic, by any means. If you leave thinking "those are terrible" that's fine! But if you get even the least amount of help from them, that's what they're here for!
-Link here if you'd like! I don't mind at all if you share the link to these tutorials, the more people it helps the better!
I hope these tutorials are helpful to you in some way! These tutorials are free to use for individual enrichment. I enjoy helping others and do not put a price on my aid. I was only paid to help make one of these; the rest are because I enjoy helping. Tutorials take a lot of time, effort, and bandwidth to make, and then format for you to see online, so if you enjoyed this tutorial or found it helpful, please consider donating a dollar or two. Donations are always appreciated but are never required nor expected.
A very in-depth tutorial about how I work in Corel Painter- This tutorial is many pages long and was originally written for Corel Painter: Official Magazine, issue #3. It gives an in-depth walkthough of the painting of one of my pieces and talks about lighting, shading, and color use. Completed June 2007.
Painting in Painter; simple oil pastels- This is a more simple, and older tutorial of how I painted the image "Friends" in Corel Painter. Completed in 2003.
Windstone Editions "Paint Your Own" Tutorial - WARNING: this will take you to a PDF file off of this site, which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. This is a tutorial for those of you that need help painting your own "Paint Your Own" Windstone figurines. I wrote it but all content is copyright © Windstone Editions.
For further reading, check out the Windstone "Paint Your Own" FAQ.
In the works: Feathers, wings and things; Clouds; and more!
OLD tutorials!
Here's a few OLD tutorials of mine, I don't use these methods anymore, but on the off chance they might help someone somehow, I'm going to leave them up. Take note that I do not use these methods anymore as I far prefer the organic feeling of "painting" more than anything, however there's nothing saying you can't use these methods. After all, I know not everyone has Painter!
Working from scratch in Photoshop- Working on a piece from start to scratch in Photoshop!
Coloring a scan or sketch in Photoshop- Adding color to a scanned drawing (or a sketch you had alying around...) with Photoshop.