Hi guys. I love drawing but I've never been able to colour anything since young. In Toribash, I'm always only using a single colour for all my artwork and most people tell me it's a shame that the plain colours ruin my work. I'd like to add more life into my work, more shading, more colours - to make things more interesting but I don't know how. So, I'm here to ask if anyone is willing to teach me how to paint on Photoshop. Please?

you can learn cell shading if you dont have a tablet.
or do what I do and make the opacity of your brush very low and draw over and over until you get the desired colour levels.

the more expensive alternative is to buy a tablet so you can use pressure opacity.

Google it!

ftfy



If you're wanting to add more colours into your art, but you're not sure what colours do and don't work together, Kuler is an excellent tool to make swatches.

http://ctrlpaint.com/
The best for teaching digital painting.

join concept art forums, You will find many tutorials there.

Hi, if you really want to get into art, either as a hobby or as a strong life choice then I can help you with ways you can learn. Mind you, keep on reading only if you want to be flooded with knowledge, make sure you are ready. If you want to keep things casual, then carry on and ignore this post, because i'm taking things to another level.

Disregard "coloring", and using only one color. There's more than just 'color', and getting into detail is very complicated, for there is a ton of different styles in which you can do art, color isn't of matter unless you want it to be. Anyways, enough with what you want, and now lets get onto what you need.

First of all, art is something that is personal, and you should only do it if you feel comfortable with doing it, don't do it if you are pressured to do it (Unless it IS your paying job). The actual color doesn't matter, and if you think your art looks sufficient, then its sufficient. Second of all the best way to learn is PRACTICE. There are indeed techniques and styles that you should learn beforehand so that the quality of your art increases, though there's a limit to how much learning you can do, and then its all practice and your own personal style. (Protip : ALWAYS be open to some criticism, when people point out your flaws, then you understand them more and get to overcome them more easily and at a quicker rate, although thats my opinion on it, people might have different thoughts.)

If you want to do art on photoshop, then mind you that its digital art, and theres more than one way to do that, some free some expensive. Not to mention photoshop is only one of the many programs that are available for digital art, and depending on what you want to do, some would work better.

If its editing, distorting already existing pictures or your own, then stick with photoshop. Though there are some substitutes that can work, such as Gimp or Paint.Net.

Here are a list of a few free ones if you want to try another kind of program.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-...ves-photoshop/

If its actual art, be it from cartooning to realism, then prepare to become bloated with info. First of all, you should have a tablet to do your work on, its basically a pen/paper input for your computer, so you can do digital work more accurately and skillfully. Companies like Bamboo have ones that should work very well, though some of the better ones get real pricey.
When it comes to programs, photoshop isn't the only one, and it isn't the best when it comes to graphically painting, sketching, and doing things free hand on the computer, though you can get the same results, its more comfortable to find the one that you find the easiest to use.

A few possible ones for example (Mind you, there are a lot and you should find the one most suited for you) :

- http://www.inkscape.org/en/
- http://www.serif.com/free-graphic-design-software/
- http://mypaint.intilinux.com/
- http://www.artweaver.de/en
- http://www.artrage.com/demos/
- http://www.rendera.net/

Also be sure to read tutorials on the program you use, and use every possible function you can to the fullest. There's no point in having a program you don't know how to use.

Anyways, your art, your rules, your everything. Use your style of preferred choice, always try out new things, keep practicing, long stokes not short strokes, use appropriate shading.... There are a crap ton of things to memorize and learn when it comes to doing art, and many of these things are possibly already being used without knowing it! The goal to being good is to know the basics, im not going to go into it because of the sheer amount of actual things it requires, or else I could be here for years.

You can learn more about how to do art with a few resources and websites such as :

- http://www.drawspace.com/
- http://www.learn-to-draw.com/
- http://www.reddit.com/r/learntodraw
- http://drawsketch.about.com/od/learn...rn-to-draw.htm

(I highly recommend going through these and getting some more skill onto expressing your arts)

Anyways that's all I can give for you right now. If you want to know more, then its up to you to learn on your own, with a Teacher, with a program etc.
The most important thing is to PRACTICE , and to keep things personalized. Your art is your decision, you are in control of it and its something you should enjoy. There's no point in doing it if you don't like it, unless there is a great profit in things, which shouldn't happen unless you are at a very advanced level.

Anyways take this to heart, PRACTICE, and have fun!

Just look up regular drawing tutorials on youtube.
You can literally use real life drawing techniques in photoshop as well. If you learn to use photoshop's tools you will be capable of going shortcuts and become versatile, but brushes are gonna be your main tools.
There is nothing wrong with drawing in only one single colour either. 's called monochrome painting. Remember that one colour has many shades.
Shading is THE thing you will have to learn, everything else is just child's play.

you can consider buying a tablet. Many people find drawing with a mouse to be very hard. I personally don't mind doing it. vOv
If you have more money skip the tablet and go straight for a touchscreen monitor.

Alright, to be fair, I might have been a little vague with this post, but then again, I thought a long post wasn't necessary and thought that the title was self-explanatory. First of all, thanks a lot for replying, guys (especially Tom). Make no mistake, I'm not requesting for a software to use, suggestions for the latest model of a Bamboo pad or the same thing everyone tells me - watch a video on YouTube. So, let me clear things up with this post:

First of all, I use Adobe Illustrator in general, it's a great software for me to work with since I use the pen tool often but I've decided to try something new rather than keeping myself to this one tiny software, I'll never improve like this. I never said there was anything wrong monochromatic colours. My drawings for textures are all monochromatic anyway - shades of black. But now, I want to try painting my textures with a brush and all on Photoshop. I have no problems whatsoever in obtaining these softwares because I've already had them a good 2 years now (it was a compulsory software to purchase), but I've only ever stuck to Illustrator. So, I'd like to bring myself up a level and try things on Photoshop. Not that I ignore the suggestion to "watch some youtube videos", but for me, these things can't just be learnt by watching someone do it. I've tried and really, this isn't maths or chemistry. It's art, people - not magic. I can't be expected to watch a video and make a masterpiece. I consider myself as one for Photoshop beginners for painting but don't misunderstand this, I'm not here to learn how to draw or anything close to that.

I need assistance in painting on Photoshop. (eg: recommend tools that could be helpful or methods of how you would paint on Photoshop, etc) That's all! Comments from Velair, dengue and Tom were the ones I found helpful. I hope I get more replies to this now since I've made myself clear. Thanks guys. Oh, and also, how do you flip/reflect on Photoshop to get the exact same shape of it in the opposite direction? I also realised you can't copy and paste the shapes you've created. Is there a solution to this too?

I've attempted painting on Photoshop, it just doesn't look right. Yes, it's a head texture, kind of.

for painting,
Use brush, color picker( hold alt with brush) and eraser,
you wont need more tools.

You can use blur, dodge/burn and mixer brush to create something,
but you wont really need all of it.

first, the skecth, you can use pen tool with mouse, a pen tablet could help a lot on this step and on the next steps would help a little.
stroke paths and you are ready to paint.

set opacity really low,
select colors, put the colors in a good tone looking on references, do not detail on this step, just place colors, it is called blocking, you can do it with a mouse.

after you set the colors, set the opacity low (I recommend 15% opacity),
select brush and use color picker with alt,
select color and paint the edges of each color you had set.
select midtones and paint over, from each midtone you will have many others, do until you stay comfortable with the result.
This step is called Render, it is blend in step.

Now go with a small brush and go into detail, duplicate window and zoom out, now you have one window zoomed in and other zoomed out
try to replicate details you see on some reference and look on the other window to see its look.

After this, you are done with painting.

tips:
create brushes for each effect you want.
Use selections and paths to do stuff you cant do without a pen tablet with a mouse.
Use refereces for better results, if you dont have a drawing style especially.

good luck painting.

I recommend getting comfortable with layers, and layer masks. also pay attention to flow and opacity on your brushes.

A layer mask allows you to fine tune details. When you apply a layer mask, you can still draw on the layer, but you can now draw on the "layer mask" which will be linked to the actual layer. You need to draw on the "layer mask" with black or white. Black will mask/hide the parts of the layer you draw on.

Also work in layers as safety measure.