Thread 7620554

I'm trying to get into digital, but I'm getting overwhelmed by everything. I don't know anything (which specific brushes to use, which tools, how to layer exactly, ...). I've already been drawing on my tablet a couple of days, so I'm mostly used to the the absolute slipperiness, it's more about actually creating something now.

So my question is: what are the classic go to courses for digital painting/drawing in general? Like how you have Vilppu for figure drawing. Maybe to be more specific if a general painting/drawing course doesn't really exist, classic go to course for figure drawing in digital? clip studio or photoshop are both equal to me.

>what are the classic go to courses for digital painting/drawing in general?
No such thing. They are all shit.
You lack talent to figure things out yourself. That's it. Many such cases.

>>7620560
>You lack talent
I think such a statement warrants a pyw

maybe I should clarify, I don't want a course that explains me every little thing about the process, I want a course that uses either clip studio or photoshop, so I can just do what they do and imitate it, preferably an actual good course from a legit artist, preferably with figure drawing as main focus but I guess anything goes

>>7620668
maybe I should clarify, I don't care. No one cares. Anyone who gives you a course is either a larper or a marketing intern.

you can just do vilppu on your tablet and watch videos on how to use clip studio

>>7620672
maybe you should just kill yourself or post your work, but we all know you won't do either, unfortunately

>>7620668
None of them explain everything, you'll need to piece things together from multiple courses. A lot of the courses assume you already know the basics, or skip over lots of things. Usually they only show two or three methods/approaches that work for them. To find what works for your personality and style, you'll have to try a bunch of them and keep what works.

Ctrl-Paint is good for the basics, the free stuff is enough.
https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library

Then try out these instructors on YouTube. When you find one you like, then do one of their full courses. Search on YouTube if you get stuck on something, there a video or short for almost everything now.

Christophe Young, Ahmed Aldoori, Craig Mullins, Sam Nielson, Nathan Fowkes, Marco Bucci, Jonathan Hadersty, Bobby Chiu, Hardy Fowler, Aaron Blaise, Andrew Hou, Dice Tsutsumi.

>>7620554 (OP)
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>>7620554 (OP)
It's normal to be overwhelmed, there's a lot of stuff in modern software, normal people use very few of those options when drawing, you should start with a minimal workflow, one normal looking brush and one or two layers (sketch + painting) and once you are used to that and start missing stuff you can gradually expand from that. Most of the useful options I found them by just playing around pressing random buttons, but don't worry about that until you are a few months in.

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>>7621168
thank you gentlemen

thanks for the help, I'm already starting to get the hang of it. Simply downloading a bunch of the most popular brushes in clip studio was also very helpful, since those are actually good and intuitive to use.
Here's some retarded 3 minute painting I made about this insane dream I had last night where I got visited by a glowing orb in my bed

>>7621781
Glad to have helped you, if you want a bit more advice, it looks to me like you are drawing with your canvas as big as possible (edge of the canvas at the edge of the screen) or even zoomed in, this is very common for beginners but when you draw like it's super difficult to have a good sense of composition, you should start with the canvas at a size where you clearly see the eges, then once you are happy with the composition you can zoom all you need for the detailed drawing