You can try to get a blender effect with the Healing Brush Tool (J), to use it that way you need to change it's settings. At first simply make a new document, 100 x100 px whatever size filled with white color and define it as pattern, after that take the healing brush, in the field Source: click on Pattern and choose that white pattern you ...

I know this might no belong in here directly but anybody who tried the Wacom Cintiq 21UX already? I am really playing with the thought to get one myself, I am having a intuos 2 platinum in the moment and use it that much (I needed two new pen tips the last half year) it would be a big but hopefully utilized purchase.

Heya! I thought it would be a good idea to make a post about the bugs and parts of the CS2 version which may cause troubles and which are probably easy to fix... One "popular" bug I am having trouble with lately is that color pick problem, if I pick a color doesn't matter where, if it's for a brush, a font or an effect, CS ...

Overlay = Love I use that a lot, specially on the fur parts... I like the linear Dodge and color Dodge settings for the brushes also, specially for highlighting. Hmm.. for my taste the beak has a to "sharp" highlight, it looks almost wet... a bit flat too, I will add some more texture, scratches, etc. to it, it almost looks like a ...

As far as I get it you want to keep the shading and the lines of the already drawn picture you scanned in. There is an easy way to do so in photoshop, I simply call it "Channel Marking" method. To clean a picture using the channels you need following settings: make a new document with your scanned black and white paintings or drawings ...

Thanks a bunch people! You really know how to give some great tips! :D  @Will Beck I need to check the pic! My main problem is the combination, the front of that fire demon is supposed to look like a creature, which should change its form into a liquid and a flame on the top. I already played around with the photo idea (even managed it ...

Many thanks for the tips! Really good idea with the flames! I will try that definitely for the top of the flame there, the ends do look sharper in real as I always imagined. Also the drop tutorial looks highly promising! Since I am painting the background and the hand with the knife behind the flame full I can make it shine through the ...

Heya there! I thought this is a qood place to post this WIP since it ends up as a really... let's say complicated project I want to get some opinions on it, and also tips...  So what is it for.. It's supposed to be a cover picture for the book "ArtAviana" a book specially dedicated to bird-like creatures and characters.. ...

Heya there, I am Liz coming from the heart of europe, I am 23 and really love arts, specially digital arts! I am working as 2D graphic and concept artist at a gamestudio in austria for over two years now. I myself love to create animation-like graphics (so that they look like a screencap from an animation-movie) I also do a lot paintings but I ...