'' />   When I started this digital painting I had no idea what to draw I just kept adding shapes and values and eventually came up with a Mermaid and then I added everything else. The story of this picture is a Mermaid Princess looking for her crown at the bottom of Atlantis.

Thanks for the helpful replys The main reason I use greyscale is because I am so used to pencil sketching and I find drawing in black grey and white easier to blend the values together. I just cant figure out how make a good digital painting starting off with colours first instead of monochrome, can anyone give me some advice on starting ...

In Photoshop I find working in greyscale first easier than starting off a digital painting in colour I use greyscale to get the values/tones but I cant really get my pictures to look good using the colour layer to add different colours. I have also tried overlay layers but I cant really get the colours to blend in with ...

Thanks mate  I coloured the apple by memory (I dont have a great memory hence the lack of highlights on the apple) I will use some reference if I ever got back to finalising things on the painting.

'' />   This started off as a basic pencil sketch then I scanned it into Photoshop and painted in the details

Another fantasy landscape that started off as a pencil sketch then scanned into photoshop and then I added colour and more details.

A sci-fi painting inspired by the mythical creature Medusa

Thanks guys for the advice