Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago
This is my new favorite thing and has quickly become my go-to workflow when I need to produce a high volume of concepts efficiently. Tonal sketching! Half shape carving, half value painting and in many ways (but not all!) the best of both worlds.
Check out this really cool and useful technique and watch a painting take shape in the background.
FREE BRUSHES! If you'd like the brushes that I'm using, they can be found in the freebies channel in the DPS Discord digitalpaintingstudio.com/community
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Shapes Are Everything
2:45 - Workflow Steps / Brushes
4:28 - Efficiency
5:43 - Highlight Shapes
7:54 - Use With Caution
11:02 - Why I Love This
12:26 - Wrap Up
Marco Bucci's fantastic video about going from grayscale to color (and why you shouldn't): youtube.com/watch?v=lJitss58XKc
Christophe Young's Amazing channel: youtube.com/channel/UCdr11zloANjPBmg8AaGebgA
Detectives in the DPS community tracked down the video I couldn't remember about character silhouettes. It's a great Feng Zhu video (this channel changed my life!) youtube.com/watch?v=9_XZtUVPoOs
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PAINT YOUR WORLD
Hardy Fowler is a professional Digital Painter with work seen in productions for Disney, Magic the Gathering, Warhammer 40K among many others.
Hardy's online academy, Digital Painting Studio, teaches the master-level skills, process and mindset he's learned from decades of experience as a professional digital artist.
MENTORSHIP WITH HARDY:
digitalpaintingstudio.com/academy
CONNECT
→ digitalpaintingstudio.com
→ instagram.com/hardy_digitalpaintingstudio
→ artstation.com/hfowler
→ digitalpaintingstudio.com/community
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#conceptart #digitalpainting #creaturedesign #howtodraw #howtopaint #digitalart #arttutorial #learnconceptart #onlineartschool #magicthegathering #digitalpaintingtutorial #digitalart #conceptarttutorial #conceptartcareer #conceptart #artportfolio #portfoliochallenge #artcommunity #professionaldevelopment #artjobtips #artcareer
This is my new favorite thing and has quickly become my go-to workflow when I need to produce a high volume of concepts efficiently. Tonal sketching! Half shape carving, half value painting and in many ways (but not all!) the best of both worlds.
Check out this really cool and useful technique and watch a painting take shape in the background.
FREE BRUSHES! If you'd like the brushes that I'm using, they can be found in the freebies channel in the DPS Discord digitalpaintingstudio.com/community
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Shapes Are Everything
2:45 - Workflow Steps / Brushes
4:28 - Efficiency
5:43 - Highlight Shapes
7:54 - Use With Caution
11:02 - Why I Love This
12:26 - Wrap Up
Marco Bucci's fantastic video about going from grayscale to color (and why you shouldn't): youtube.com/watch?v=lJitss58XKc
Christophe Young's Amazing channel: youtube.com/channel/UCdr11zloANjPBmg8AaGebgA
Detectives in the DPS community tracked down the video I couldn't remember about character silhouettes. It's a great Feng Zhu video (this channel changed my life!) youtube.com/watch?v=9_XZtUVPoOs
_______________________
PAINT YOUR WORLD
Hardy Fowler is a professional Digital Painter with work seen in productions for Disney, Magic the Gathering, Warhammer 40K among many others.
Hardy's online academy, Digital Painting Studio, teaches the master-level skills, process and mindset he's learned from decades of experience as a professional digital artist.
MENTORSHIP WITH HARDY:
digitalpaintingstudio.com/academy
CONNECT
→ digitalpaintingstudio.com
→ instagram.com/hardy_digitalpaintingstudio
→ artstation.com/hfowler
→ digitalpaintingstudio.com/community
_______________________
#conceptart #digitalpainting #creaturedesign #howtodraw #howtopaint #digitalart #arttutorial #learnconceptart #onlineartschool #magicthegathering #digitalpaintingtutorial #digitalart #conceptarttutorial #conceptartcareer #conceptart #artportfolio #portfoliochallenge #artcommunity #professionaldevelopment #artjobtips #artcareer
