TUTORIAL // creating original art (Patreon)

It's time for the first tutorial of the year! This one is on creating original art, and basically discusses my overall workflow for making an original painting. In order to do that, I use one of my existing paintings, Flourish, as a case study. I talk about the difference between original art and studies, which challenges come with creating original art, and how you can tackle issues that come up at each different stage of the creation process!

  The main brushes I use in this process are:

 The MaCaLabs HB pencil brush for the initial sketch of Flourish (there's also a Procreate version)

The hard round brush from my own brush set for blending and painting Flourish

I also use a textured brush during the thumbnail demo. That brush is the oil pastel brush from my own brush set.

Because this is an overall workflow tutorial, I reference a lot of other tutorials that cover more specific parts of my workflow, and which might be helpful if you have struggles in that specific area. Here's a full list:

Stage 01 // generating ideas

Using your creative spark to generate ideas

Creating emotive art 

Stage 03// creating thumbnails

Creating a strong composition

Constructing a pose 

Stage 04 // rendering

Lighting as a design tool 

Choosing colors 

Sculpting with color 

Stage 05 // finalizing

Finalizing without over-rendering

Next to that, there's also the full process videos of Flourish and two other paintings that I mention in this tutorial. You can find them here:

Flourish // Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // phone version

Abundance // Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3

Forest // Part 1 // phone version

As always, here is the cheat sheet with essential information from the tutorial, which you can also find attached to this post as a PDF file with clickable links:

I hope you find this video helpful and that you make some amazing painting concepts after watching it! Feel free to share any future tutorial suggestions in the #tutorial-suggestions channel in the discord server (If you don't know how to join, just follow the steps outlined here) or leave them in a comment below ❤