Digital Painting Made Simple: Create Captivating Portraits in Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Photoshop & More - Softcover

Tepes, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1645675521 ISBN 13: 9781645675525

Publisher: Page Street Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Demystify Digital Painting with Easy Tutorials and Prompts

Join the digital art movement with Sara Tepes’ beautiful and beginner-friendly guide to portrait painting! Packed full of Sara’s best tips, step-by-step tutorials and practical art prompts, this handbook is perfect for every curious digital artist.

With a focus on semi-realistic portraiture, Sara teaches how to achieve her glowing, ethereal style with cutting- edge techniques. Discover the answers to all of your questions with advice on the best paint programs―including Procreate®, Photoshop® and Clip Studio Paint―as well as the three most essential digital brushes and how to use them, setting up your canvas, working with adjustment layers and more. From there, dive into hands-on tutorials and prompts that will teach you how to paint dazzling portraits, from sketching composition thumbnails, to mastering features like hair and eyes, to replicating skin tones and fabric textures. Plus, follow these tutorials and practice prompts using a downloadable digital package of brushes and color palettes created especially for this book!

With this easy, no-fear guide, become a digital painter and create showstopping artwork―all with the tip of a stylus.

About this title

About the Author

Sara Tepes is a professional artist, freelance illustrator and art educator who teaches digital and traditional art through YouTube. She’s partnered with notable brands like Netflix, Dell, Wacom, Trekell and the U.S. Mint. Sara lives in Virginia.

From the Back Cover

While Photoshop and Procreate, which have always been trendy art mediums, are continuing to grow in popularity, undertaking digital art can be intimidating for many: fortunately, beloved artist Sara Tepes has used her self-taught knowledge and understanding of common struggles artists face to create the ultimate beginners? handbook for Photoshop and Procreate. With step-by-step images that are easy for readers to follow, and through various in-depth projects covering the full spectrum from composition and lighting, painting hair and eyes, to skin tone and fabrics, readers?be they art novices or simply new to digital forms?will soon be amazed at how quickly their skills flourish. What is more, total beginners and artists looking to transition from traditional mediums will be given a comprehensive overview on brush types, sketching on the digital canvas and working with layers. Sara also includes a downloadable digital package of brushes and color palettes created specially for this book, so readers can easily follow along with her tutorials. With The Beginner?s Guide to Digital Painting readers will demystify the digital creation process, and gain the fundamental skills to take their art to dizzying heights. This book contains 25 projects and 25 photos + step by steps.

Edition details

• Publisher: Page Street Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1645675521
• ISBN 13: 9781645675525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160