50+ Truly Inspired Photoshop Digital Paintings You Should See
As a person with a traditional art background, I used to harbor aggressive thoughts towards using a computer; especially when it came to design and art. Quite a long time ago the computer graphic industry was not as developed as it is today. However, traditional artists were looking to computer graphics not only as a clumsy art tool but also as a threat towards their career and their artwork. Today, I use a pen for putting the first lines to my ideas and then from there I move forward to use my digital tools.
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3D based digital art
3D digital art depends mostly on 3D tools such as 3Ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, Mudbox, Zbrush, etc. These 3D tools create the digital art in the 3D space while you are creating the artwork. Photoshop has always been the basic tool to create effects, final touches, textures and backgrounds; this type of digital art is similar to the traditional method used for making sculptures.
2D based digital art
In this type of digital art you depend on 2D tools such as Photoshop, Painter and Illustrator. This type of digital art is much similar to the traditional art as it works on the 2D dimensions, and uses the talents of the artist to create the depth in the image using lights, shadows and other artwork elements. Adobe Photoshop is the main tool in this type of art as well.
Photo manipulation
This type of digital art relies on the ability to work with digital photos; by modifying, editing and using them to create the desired effect. The end result can be quite different then what was originally seen in the original photo. Since Photoshop is the best application for photo editing, it is the main application that is used to create photo manipulation digital art.
As you can see from the above categories, Adobe Photoshop is the main tool while working in digital art. Furthermore, you can use Adobe Photoshop to create digital art without the need for any other tools. However, in this post, I do not want just to share with you the artwork, I also want to share the experiences behind the below artwork; each having been completely or partly done in Adobe Photoshop.
In the below digital art inspirations I focused on two main factors; these artwork pieces are done using Photoshop and the focus on humans as the main concept of the artwork.
There are two main style of digital artwork in Photoshop; the first style depends on digital painting using brushes. This style is more similar to oil painting as some brushes can give the same effect as the traditional brushes. While the second style is based on lines that can be done inside Photoshop or drawn on using a drawing application such as Illustrator. Let’s start by sharing some of the amazing digital artwork over the web.
Study of a Demon
Field of Daisies
Mongol warrior
Doves
Warcraft Erindae Firestrider
Amber
Bride of Lucifer
The Oracle
The Witching Hour
Umbrella Sky
Varvara
The Storyteller
Digital art for Shane Madden
Digital art by Adele Lorienne
Digital art for Yu Cheng Hong
Digital art for John Kearney
Digital art for Michael Hideux
Shrapnel
Digital art for Paul Wright
Girl Portrait
Master of Illusion
The Manikins’ Portrait
Gaia
Christian Nauck’s Portfolio
Digital art by Bente Schlick
Digital art by Kerem Beyit
Farseed
Charlotte
Hostile Takeover
Golden Panda
Escape From Neon City
Snatch
Viking: Battle for Asgard
Redhead
Stay
Admiral
Commission: Declan
Commission: Ellarwyn
Hana
His Only Friend
Lackadaisy Perennial
Mayanda Commission
Portrait of a Girl
White Phoenix
Broken Dawn
The Repression Of Frustrations
You can notice that the below digital art is different than the above digital paintings. The below digital art is based more one lines or may be sharp lines in some artwork. The lines in the below examples are sharper than above and this can be done either in Photoshop or, the artist can draw the lines in tools such as Illustrator and take it into Photoshop to paint over it.
Emerveillement
Pepper Freedom
Tifa Lockhart
Micro. Phonic Girl
Category: Inspirations
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Rafiq Elmansy is a graphic designer and runs his own design studio Pixel Consultations. He is also an Adobe Community Professional, Certified Expert and Adobe user group manager. He is a Friend of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations).You can read his writings on Adobe site, Adobe Edge magazine, communitymx.com and his own blog www.graphicmania.net. He can also be followed on Twitter @rafiqelmansySubscribe
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Really great collection of paintings!
Really great collection of paintings!
Omen2501 is probably the best digital painter I’ve seen, was nice to see some works of his included here.
.-= Eric Shafer´s last blog ..30 Lovely Hand-Picked Flower Desktop Wallpapers =-.
Omen2501 is probably the best digital painter I’ve seen, was nice to see some works of his included here.
.-= Eric Shafer´s last blog ..30 Lovely Hand-Picked Flower Desktop Wallpapers =-.
I liked all the digital photos over here all this are very creative and colorful artwork.The photos are very impressive it inspires alot as Photoshop has been moving towards letting users do everything non-destructively.
I liked all the digital photos over here all this are very creative and colorful artwork.The photos are very impressive it inspires alot as Photoshop has been moving towards letting users do everything non-destructively.
Its unbelievable what some of these people can do with photoshop. I just wonder how much time and dedication it must take to attain this level of ability? Surely these guys must be professionals, doing this day in day out? Do you reckon that the average weekend photoshop user could ever (realistically) aspire to beautiful designs like these?
Its unbelievable what some of these people can do with photoshop. I just wonder how much time and dedication it must take to attain this level of ability? Surely these guys must be professionals, doing this day in day out? Do you reckon that the average weekend photoshop user could ever (realistically) aspire to beautiful designs like these?
Such a work requires alot of effort and practice to reach this accuracy in using the tools. You can reach this level in weekends practice, but it will take very long time comparing with practicing two or three times a week.
Such a work requires alot of effort and practice to reach this accuracy in using the tools. You can reach this level in weekends practice, but it will take very long time comparing with practicing two or three times a week.
Amazing art work, what a lovely share. thanks
Amazing art work, what a lovely share. thanks
let’s face it, these works are all similar and without style.