Digital Step by Step Drawing Techniques!

Free Drawing Tutorials
This introductory article on the free drawing tutorials listed on this site will focus on finding techniques that cater towards creative drawing through a strong artistic foundation.

Contour Drawing
Here is where we translate simple a contour drawing from pencil into your digital canvas. It’s basically practicing some basic drawing skills and getting to know your digital stylus.

Gesture Drawings
Once you’re familiar with your digital stylus, speed up your lines by doing some gesture drawings. This is a technique that focuses on motion of the lines rather than methodical slow lines.

Continuous Line Drawing
Learn to make a continuous line drawing and how it can benefit you as an artist in developing a strong foundation for digital drawing and painting.

Sketching Techniques
Using skills learned from contour and gesture drawings, this is where you control the lines further and focus on sketching techniques common to any digital painting.

Color Gradient
Learning how to create a color gradient in your digital art program is important to get the color range down. Here is where you learn about the digital art tools that will allow you to create one.

How to Mix Colors
This lesson will focus on a few key concepts to learn how to mix colors digitally. See if you can find a process on your own because this is unique to the individual preferences of the artist.

Digital Inking
Digital inking involves taking an old real media technique and translating it to how it is done in the digital medium. Luckily, there are a few tips and tricks to get that effect.

Drawing Light
As a digital painter, you have to think a little bit different. Instead of drawing shadows, you will be drawing light digitally. It is a regularly used technique in painting in general.

Definition of Shadow
This is a lesson focusing on the definition of shadow manipulation in art as learning how to draw shadows requires knowledge of perspective. Use it as a guide for correct shadows.

Three Point Lighting
While originally developed for film, three point lighting is a basic skill every artist should know as it will dramatically bring your paintings to life.

Texture Painting
Apply what you know about light and shadows for this texture painting tutorial. As such, in learning how to paint textures, the goal is to paint within the object without altering its shape.

Basic Color Wheel
In regards to color, start off by learning about different color harmonies from the basic color wheel to get an idea of composition through color.

Color in Design
Here is where you will learn how color in design phases are decided on by focusing on the color properties of hue, temperature, value, and intensity to help you color your digital paintings.

Digital Colors
Let’s say you have a black and white picture that you really like but you want to have it in color. This lesson will teach you how to add digital colors with your digital brushes.

How to Paint Landscapes
Your first digital painting. Using just your understanding of monochromatic schemes of color, you will learn how to paint landscapes with just one color.