MY COMPLETE DIGITAL PAINTING PROCESS 

Traditional Art Level 8: Hyper Realism Digital Art Level 2: Still not understanding how to blend

"I have a really good understanding of anatomy." This was so refreshing to hear. I get so demotivated when I hear skilled people constantly talk about how bad they are at said skill, completely waving aside the skills they've clearly gained in the process. I'm also sick of hearing, "i cAn oNlY dRaw A STiCk fIguRe" like, this self-deprecating humor was comforting and charming the first time I heard it, but now it's just overused. I want to see it be more socially acceptable to be visibly proud of your accomplishments. I guess what I am trying to say is that I appreciate people who take the time and effort to not only study a skill, but to take a step back and recognize the great extent of what they have achieved. It is more motivating for me, too.

Sara: Draws a beautiful masterpiece Me: Draws something that that looks like Shrek’s cousin

jeez i wonder if ill even be able to comprehend this in the future. i use krita too but only just completed my first lineart. yare yare daze

my problem is, I am rly slow, so after a few hours (like 12) I get rly impatienet, but if I leave it be for a day, even if it's just "going to sleep", I know I will prolly never pick it back up again, unless it's something with a deadline x.x >,

SHE USES TWO (2) BRUSHES. DID YOU HEAR THAT, PEOPLE WHO OBSESS OVER DOWNLOADING BRUSHES??? SHE ONLY USES TWO (2) BRUSHES!!!

I was like "Oh, the Moon's a button. Haha, it reminds me of Coraline." Sh*t, it is Coraline.

1. Do a rough sketch 2. Create lineart using a reference to get accuracy proportions (flip the canvas once or twice to check proportions) 3. Add a dark grey background and add rough values in greyscale, focusing on the lighting but don't go too bright. Keep things soft and painterly, avoid using pure white and keep highlights for the end. 4. Be patient and take your time with the piece until you're satisfied 5. Use color dodge to lighten brighter areas 6. Paint colors using the soft light adjustment layer. Duplicate this layer and turn down the opacity. Play around with the color adjustment curves. 7. Clean up the details (I'm not quite sure how you would replicate this gray scale to color technique in procreate 🤔)

I just noticed it was coraline it took me like a while to figure it out

Digital art has always been so completely fascinating to me as a traditional artist. I love what you said about it being it's own art form, and your piece turned out so lovely. Thanks so much for the shout out at the beginning as well! 💜

Not even half way done and the art goes from a 0 to a sudden 500

Sara: maybe the problem is in your face Me: How do you know sara

8:51 "maybe the problem lies in your face" I felt that :'(

I tried this technique and let me tell you , This is one of THE BEST painting tutorial ever 😂♥️♥️ It really improved how my paintings look like and It made me better understand shadows and lights !! (Please don’t mind my terrible sentences I’m French 😅..)

Uses krita: Check. Left-handed: Check. Ohmy this video appeared in my recommended feed and it taught me so many tips and tricks for Krita. Thanks so so much for the video!!

I used to love traditional art for how "hard" it was, but the arts have traditionally always received innovations in media positively. Artists aren't craftspeople that have to master a physical production, their job is to design images, feelings and meanings.

"I wish the hand turned out better." Girl I cheated on my last digital drawing and just got a royalty-free hand and slapped it in my picture XD pro tip: *don't do that*

The problem with traditional art Digital artist:”Darn it I don’t like the colors oh well remove them and start coloring again.” Traditional artist:”The colors are horribl🤯😡...oh well onto the nest piece all hope is lost!”

I'm so jealous of people's ability to draw like this. You are SO GOOD

IM HAVING THE STRONGEST BURST OF INSPIRATION NOW WOW

me ten minutes in: why does the moon have holes...? OH ITS CORALINE

That's beautiful!! I love Coraline too. I've started painting in greyscale after I have realized I have a difficult time painting edges and value. I have a fairly good grasp on color, (I adore vivid color), but it didnt look right sometimes. Your videos help so much. I've improved so much in just two days after practicing with value. Thanks so much! Couldn't do it without you!

I've wanted to achieve this painterly style for sooo long but I'm incredibly impatient with my art, I'm slowly learning to let things sit and to go slow and this tutorial is amazing for me

i didn’t notice she was drawing coraline until the end of the vid lmao it’s sooooo god omg

I watched this so many times, it gives me different inspirations each time i do rewatch! Awesome keep us update girl!!

That looks glorius! Your shading is excellent. Thank you for showing the entire process. God bless you!

ugh this makes SO MUCH SENSE to me and is the first time I'm seeing this approach to digital painting. Thank you for sharing!

This piece turned out amazing, 🖤🖤 I loved watching your entire process from start to finish!

I just started looking up tutorials last week, and found your videos. They've been fantastic, but I was a little saddened in that your last video said you were taking a break so imagine my delight this morning! Anyway, solid video, great advice, and it was fun watching your entire process.

This rendition of Coraline is ABSOLUTELY. STUNNING.

Very helpful! Ive loved drawing traditionaly forever and the last years Ive been gettin into digital drawing, videos like this make me want to get better at it even more!

This was great, I learned so much in just 15 minutes, especially how to break a piece down into the separate layers. Painting greyscale and then colouring it afterwards is something I'd never have thought about. Thanks!

Now this is a real Art tip video!, It shows how you begin, how you shade and you even throw in some helpful tips!

This honestly has been more helpful to me than any other video I have seen thus far. Such helpful tips thank you 🙏

Warning about grey scale painting: I really wouldn't recommend grey-scale painting for anyone who doesn't know how to/isn't good at painting with just colors. The reason being that this method of painting often makes a disconnect between value, hue, and saturation. When you paint traditionally (watercolour, acrylic, oil, encaustic etc.) value, saturation and hue are all taken into consideration while putting down color, generally, darker values are cooler hues, and are less saturated, while lighter values are warmer hues, and are more saturated. These can always be changed of course and often are depending on distance, atmosphere, lighting, etc. but knowing how value, hue and saturation all connect and utilizing them well together is pretty crucial in having a colored painting look interesting and not flat. Also, traditional painting allows you to learn how to neutralize colors (you mix the opposite colour! not Black!), mix colors and teaches you about how hues seem to change with value, so it's sort of the best way to start painting. That being said, you can still learn some pretty good color theory by painting digitally if you think about the things I mentioned earlier, however, painting with grey-scale is a pretty surefire way to not achieve that. What grey scale pretty much does is reduces all shadows to a darker value of the same hue, and saturation, and all highlights to a lighter value of the same hue and saturation, this often makes things look very dull (she executed it pretty well, but she also added in different hue in the highlights after) To bring 'life' into your painting you should be using different hues and saturation based on the shadows, it can look ESPECIALLY lifeless on skin. See how the hair was just colored in with a very saturated ultramarine blue? This is exactly what you want to avoid (typically), and different areas on the canvas should vary in saturation, by adding a saturation filter to the whole thing there's less emphasis and everything becomes more flat. Finally, you can't translate this method into traditional painting and you miss a lot of knowledge by going straight to learning this method. The only way I can see this to be applicable is graphite with watercolour. I've tried it before and the only thing that came out nice was the still lives (WHICH ARE SORT OF SUPPOSED TO BE BORING BECAUSE OF FORM, this is probably why grey-scale then colour worked so well haha). I tried it on a portrait too and it looked awful. So in conclusion, please don't do this as a beginner

I love this calm, classical but emotional and chill music in the background... It's so calming

I really love your technique for painting. I’ve always spent too much time on painting with colors that never even looked good, so I think I’ll try painting in gray scale to see if that helps!

Love this breakdown. Now I need to practice!

Everyone has already given you every compliment on this tutorial by now, but thank you very, very much. This was very helpful. I feel like I could cry, this made so much sense to me.

This is seriously the best tutorial I've seen of this program. The grey scale is definitely an old masters trick so seeing it used in here really helps me understand how to create a successful base. Thank you so much!

Your voice is so soothing that I listened to the whole video while I was working on my own digital painting 😂💖

I suddenly had the desire to try painting digitally but it’s really difficult for me. Even with different ways: greyscale to color, lineart guide at the strat or directly painting in color. But painting and drawing traditionally I’m very good at, it was self taught and my process worked because it depended on what was comfortable for me. I think I have to find what works for me by making so many mistakes, though I’m quite impatient so I’ve been frustrated lately with trying.

Thank you so much for this video. Digital art has been something I've desperately wanted to improve on, but I haven't found a process that's been comfortable for me. You have given so many great points and tips in this video. It honestly helps.

Thank you, Sara. You are really awesome, I could re watch your videos every day and still learn something new each day

Well, it's been almost a year since this video was posted, still extremely helpful! Thanks! Also, great painting!

Well that was thoroughly informative and entertaining. Glad to see another video from you! Just to let you know though, the skillshare link in the description is broken for me; I'm pretty sure you just need to remove the semi-colon at the end.

Wow! I followed your advice with the soft brush and coloring at the end and it worked wonders! I've really been trying to practice my digital art skills lately, and I finally feel like I finished something passable! Thanks for posting such an informative video!

the way you blend continues to amaze me omg ive watched this video like five times

Another left handed artist whoooh! :D

I'm just trying painting for the first time, I've always drawn with lineart and cell shading and stuff like that. I've always been scared to try painting cuz I'm a noob xD But now I'm trying

It's great hearing about peoples' processes! It always brings up good points to help when you go and start your own work then. Thanks for sharing!

As an artist, I just love this. I really like your explanation and honesty. Props though- I learned big time- I’ve never seen anyone do it that way, in the way you did with lighting first.... truly added an extra frame of thought for me with just that.. if that makes sense! You are extremely talented, too! Subbed!

A little late to this video, but I just want to say “wow”. Amazing tutorial, thank you.

10:38 my jaw just dropped right here. at first i was like, why isnt she painting first then adding values later? (cuz that's how i do it... :^D) then after this part I was like... DAAAAAAMN JUST LIKE THAT? i actually take too much time adding values because my "darker" shades are a bit different but this just makes so much sense. and makes it a lot easier. damnnn.

You’re super talented! I think most people are capable of this quality if they really apply themselves. It’s very clear that you’ve put in hundreds if not thousands of hours drawing and painting. Great video!

This is such an awesome video! There is so much information given in it. I love your art style and the digital technique you give. Plus, the video is well done. Thank you!

Wow, ive never come across an artist who starts with tones and colours after it... The art process of grayscale to colour is very interesting :3

I just dont understand how using only greyscale you can make everything look like a different color. It's just.... Befuddling. So much skill. I know you're in school now but you've been doing this since your channel started.... How did you learn value like this? Also do you ever use traditional paint in grayscale and then add a glaze of oil or something to add color similar to digitally?

This was fun to watch. I'll have to try that grey scale method. That tip on choosing colors is sure to help, as well. Thanks for a great video.

This video is a godsend!! As someone who did a lot of traditional painting, I found colouring digitally difficult because I couldn't physically and visually mix the colours/paints. Your video made me realise that I can just do everything in grayscale then add colours easily on the computer. Thank you + your Coraline looks bomb!!! ^^

This was awesome!!! Thank you for sharing. How long did it take you to complete in real time?

Thanks, i'm a beginner in digital paint (mobile) and your fan subscribed from Brazil (sorry for my bad english)

Out of all the tutorials I have searched for krita this was the most useful one! Thanks :D

Lovely seeing you do the entire painting , Amazing techniques!

I love your video I have one question does the paint tool you use blend colors together or is it a layered effect of the soft under painting (or both)

this video is almost a year old but your painting process is so fascinating omg

that's so beautiful!! I love the colors you used!!!

This looks so perfect in so many ways. I love your approach. She is so pretty.

It literally took me like 10 min. To realize where this drawing was inspired from.

Me: oh this looks so cool I might try digital art Also Me: *causally ignoring the fact I n e v e r draw or have any art skills at all*

This helped so so much!!! I was in a real art slump but this got me pumped and I immediately tried it!! Works fantastically 💜

Learning from other artist in terms of style, techniques, etc. and apply it to your artwork will give a huge impact, Thank you for sharing your skills.

I can't believe on the intro she made Coraline :D my childhood idk NIGHTMARE!

I just realize you were drawing from the inspiration of Caroline lol. I love that movie. Great art and tips.

You are awesome! This video is SOOOOO HELPFUL!!!! I’m watching it thinking about how helpful it is, and the bit about being left handed came on and you answered the question I had about using Krita as a lefty. 🤯🤩 Amazing video 💖

I absolutely love your style. Great instruction too. Interesting to see you take your painting 75% using values then screen your color on. Love it! It’s so much easier that way.

Something I really struggle with is the hair... how are you so good at it? Any suggestions?

Really love this piece!! Just a question though. Did you make her neck so thin by accident or is it your art style? I'm not trying to be mean it just looked kinda weird to me! Great painting nevertheless!

Thanks for this video. I'm currently working on painting a cover for a chapter book and have kind of made up my own techniques as everyone has their own as you mentioned. I do love that you remind your audience that it doesn't matter how long you spend on a piece or an aspect of that piece if it looks good to you and fits the specs of the project then just stop. I find I have to force myself to stop as yes formal illustration training conditions you to be this "arteeest" and filling you with guilt if you bring a piece to fruition and it takes half the time. I also agree that walking away is a mandatory practice as working on something for hours can subject your brain to blocks and make it difficult to keep things in perspective. Adding to that I admire your particular candid candor (somewhat redundant I know) where you express that you seemingly get bored at times and just want to get it done. I love that honesty as I'm in a similar place. Although I love what I do sometimes I want to move on. With every finished piece more is learned and there's always more to learn.... And at times you just want to do something completely different. I'm thrilled to have found your channel. I'll be coming back for more videos. I see you use Krit to paint. Is that the free version of the subscription? I use and love Clipstudio Paint over most others. I have Krit but am such a slave to the familiar that I think its more of learning the interface then anything else. Anyway, thanks so much again for this. Back to painting!

Very informative and professional video that doesn't skip important details! Valuable information right here, and your art is great!

Can you do a video on how to draw noses? Im highkey struggling lmao

All:Good tips,this portait is fantastic Me:coraline

You’re really good! Can’t wait to share this to my friends! They’re gonna love this

This was wonderful. thank you so much for explaining your process! Beautiful painting.

i personally master the sketch [really good at traditional art] , but i miss something in the colouring so it has weird like borders that totally dont fit my drawing style at all , i cannot do the shading in krita , the lighting here is harder and i feel really lost someone help?

I am the only one to prefer the black and the white ??

Man I gotta keep practicing with value... I love the way you do lighting! Even in greyscale it looks gorgeous!

Loved it!! Thank you so much for all your tips and I will try to color with gray first for sure!! ❤️

what computer do you use? :)

me sitting here with my 3927 layers for a 10 minute sketch: hears "I used 17 layers for this painting" ... i think ive done something wrong here

this helped me understand a lot about digital art, because i've been researching and wondering a lot on how artists make their art look a certain way

As an artist struggling with moving my painting techniques onto a digital platform this is an awesome tutorial. My problem was using brushes that weren't compatible and always gave it that stiff feeling like you mentioned. Thank you for making this it helps a lot.

*sees this* wow i'm so gonna try this now i have the motivation yay! *tries* *fails every little thing* *angry noises* *tries again* *nope* *watches another video* *motivated again* *tries* *fails* *tries again* *angrier noises* so the circle spirals... i have wasted 3 evenings by practically doing nothing but practising with what feels like no results. but hey i guess that's fine. maybe i'll get the hang of it in a week or so...

wait is that supposed to be coraline edit: turned on sound and yes it is

Thank you so much. I got Krita but was very confused on how to do digital art. This was a super helpful guide for beginners of art like me. beautiful vid tyyy

Your drawing turned out so cute😍😍. It is realistic but at the same time not and I love it! 🤩🤩

Hi! I haven't been able to draw in Krita since February because the pen pressure stopped working. I've literally tried everything to make it work again, and I know it's not my pen because the pressure works in photoshop. I really wish it would work again so if anyone has any tips at all please please tell me:)

The glossy oil brush that you use is it already present in krita or did you download it?💕💕

watching the final bits was my fav part. so mesmerizing.

We really have a different art style. Most of the time, I don't follow your tutorials because it's totally not the same with ny process but watching your timelapse / speed paint and listening to your voice is so soothing it kind of motivates me to do arts.