In our 30th week you’ll see a lot of illustration or digital painting tutorials with great techniques and with talented authors who wrote them in detail. Just perfect to make you follow them easier.

Red Assassin Digital Painting Tutorial

Here’s how I do my painting. This is a work in progress so you’ll see the steps I do in creating a piece. Below is a quick sketch over a black background. Then I fill them with colors I am going to use. I normally place a palette of color beside the drawing so I know what the colors will be.

Sleek Dark Header Design Photoshop tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a dark header with a sleek and stylish navigation. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.

Digital painting Photoshop tutorial

Well this isn’t so much a tutorial as it is a step walkthrough of one of my digital paintings done in adobe photoshop. The brushes and exact methods used throughout were not recorded but I will make general comments on each step if applicable. I hope you enjoy. The original refernce for this painting was a photo taken by Epoxy5. This tutorial assumes a comfortable level of proficiency with adobe photoshop and the brush settings.

How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks in Photoshop

Lighting effects have become quite popular, and are an effective way to add bright eye catching details to a photo or illustration. In this tutorial, you will learn a simple technique for creating brilliant light streaks which can be used in different ways to add motion and brightness to your designs.

Blending waterfall-castle-sky Photoshop tutorial

Design Studio Layout #2 Photoshop tutorial

Professional Photograph Restoration Workflow Photoshop tutorial

In this tutorial, we’ll take an in-depth look at restoring an old torn photograph. Restoring old family photos is something that you can do for your relatives and bring tears to their eyes, and yes this is a service you can offer to clients as well. Let’s take a look at a professional workflow for restoring old photographs to their former glory.

Create a Shiny 3D Snooker Ball in Photoshop

In this tutorial, it will demonstrate you how to create a realistic 3D snooker ball. It is not difficult to make. Hope you will find it interesting. To create a 3D design, the shadow & reflection are always the most important elements to think of. Once you get familiar, your design will become awesome.

3D Box Icon Photoshop tutorial

Digitally Paint a Fantasy Tree Scene Photoshop tutorial

Learn how to make a fantasy scene using only standard photoshop brushes. In this tutorial, I describe the basics of color and light theory. With this tutorial, you will paint eye-catching illustration in less than two hours.

The final image is a fairly realistic looking scene, where the tree is uprooted and floating in the sky. All You need for this tutorial is Photoshop and a precise mouse. This could be a difficult work for those, who are just starting with photoshop, but everybody can try it for themselves.

Advanced Digital Painting Techniques

Before you start: This is a fairly advanced tutorial–definitely more difficult than the clouds tutorial. It covers my whole painting process, from sketch to finishing touches, and can be applied to either Photoshop painting or oil painting. The example in question is a digital painting, but I will also describe how I would render the same effects in oils, for anyone who would like to follow along on a non-electronic canvas. You will need a pressure sensitive tablet of some sort if you are going to do this on the computer: a mouse will NOT work for some of the techniques I am going to describe. If you are using oil paints, you will want at least one large brush (1 inch across or more), one medium flat brush, and a small detail brush. You should also have at least some experience with whichever medium you intend to use, because this tutorial assumes your knowledge of basic terms and techniques.

Ripped Paper Effect Photoshop Tutorial

Gaming Navigational Menu Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a professional, horizontal gaming navigational menu. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials, the psd is available for download.

Creating A Professional Magazine Web Layout

This is a tutorial to show you how to create a magazine web layout. We also discuss about what we need to pay attention and what we have to ignore. There are a few things we need to pay attention when designing a magazine web layout.

How to Create a Detailed Audio Player in Photoshop

When working on GUI design, shapes are a great way to achieve a realistic look to your design. As the shapes are vector based, you enjoy the ability to resize them with minimal detail loss, which is a significant consideration in GUI design.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a detailed audio player from scratch. This tutorial will be a great opportunity for you to practice those Shape Tools and Layer Styles skills, with lots of adding and subtracting of Shapes.

Create a Star-skinned Playstation 3 with Nebula Background in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we create a Star-skined Playstation 3 with Nebula Background in Photoshop. The techique I used in this tutorial is similar to the previous “rocky laptop” tutorial.

Together we can explore tools such as the selection tool, various image adjustment tool and various filters and layer style effects. I would also like to raise to attentions to features such as the curve, levels and black and white adjustment tool.

Gothic Cross Photoshop Tutorial

How to Digitally Illustrate a Camera with Light Streaks

Without a doubt, digital illustration and art is a big part of any Photoshop oriented community. A great way to get started on that road is to create as much as possible using Photoshop’s unique tools. Let’s make good use of them and learn one way of featuring a digital camera with glowing beams of light.

How to Illustrate a Delicious Ice Cream Bar in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw an ice cream bar. Throughout this tutorial we’ll have a look at various drawing techniques. We’ll be creating everything within Photoshop from start to finish, except the font used. Let’s jump into this tutorial.