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The book covers drawing software choices, brush workflows, and core color concepts such as hue, saturation, value, complementary relationships, warm vs. cold effects, and color harmonies. It also explains foundational tools like gamut masks and sets up deeper chapters on contrast, light and shadow, values, materials, effects, characters, textures, the science of light, and environment painting.","HOW TO LEARN digital painting  \nby mitch leeuwe  \nYOU'LL LEARN:  \ncolor theory & Painting characters, props, effects and backgrounds  \nCopyright © 2019 by Mitch Leeuwe  \nAll rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. For personal use only  \n[mitchleeuwe.nl](mitchleeuwe.nl)  \nPrinted in the Netherlands First Printing, 2019  \nGraphic design: Harmke Leeuwe [harmke.com](harmke.com)  \nCopy editor: Yessica Claire Baeten [yessicabaeten.com](yessicabaeten.com)  \nhow to LEARN Digital Painting  \nby mitch leeuwe  \nHi there!  \nLet me introduce myself. I’m Mitch Leeuwe and am an illustrator from the Netherlands. I always drew a lot asa kid. I even had the childhood dream to become an animator at Disney. During my teenage years, I lost that dream. Luckily, I slowly started drawing more and more. When I was 19, I began to do some freelance work asa graphic designer, which made me consider picking up drawing again. I attended several drawing programs at schools but I learned most from online resources. Now, I’m a freelance artist working on visual development. This means I design characters, props and backgrounds for games, animation and toys. However, you probably know me from my Instagram where I release tutorials and more. My goal is to create a place where people can learn the things I wanted to learn when I started out.  \n4  \nAbout this book  \nIn this book I show and explain everything I know about digital painting. Being able to paint your own drawings is a great way to get a job as an artist at a studio or find jobs as a freelancer. Maybe you just want to make your own products or just for fun! When I worked at a game studio painting was a big part of my job. Games with cartoony designs and realistic painting were really popular at the time and they still are!  \nEveryone can learn how to paint. However, it’s  \nimportant to allow yourself time to learn and to make  \nsmall steps. With this book I want to help you with that. So, I start with the basics and we’ll work our way to more complex rules.  \nHappy drawing and I hope you will enjoy the book.  \nBest,  \nMitch Leeuwe  \n5  \n6  \ntable of contents  \nHi there! 4  \nDrawing software 10  \nColors 12  \nContrast 20  \nLight & Shadow 22  \nValues 26  \nMaterials 28  \nEffects 44  \nCharacters 50  \nTextures on a character 54  \nScience of Light 68  \nSurfaces 72  \nUse a Gamut Mask 78  \nPaint an Environment 80  \nConclusion & Thank You 86  \n7  \nDigital painting  \ndrawing SOFTWARE  \nI get a lot of questions about which software and brushes I use. Thereis a lot of different great drawing software. I started using Adobe® Photoshop® software back in 2004, because I just started drawing digitally.  \nAdobe® Photoshop® is still the main drawing software for artists. There are more and more alternatives coming. However, software is not the most important part of painting, knowing the principles behind color and light are.  \nPanels to manage your brushes The brush settings  \nHere you can create your own brushes with their own settings  \nBrushes  \nThis is your library of brushes  \nTool presets  \nHere are your tool presets and you can create new presets.  \nAdobe® product screenshot(s) reprinted with permission from Adobe®  \nproporties of color  \nColors have three different properties:  \nHue  \nThese are pure colors. Like green, yellow, red, purple, blue.  \nSaturation  \nHow intense/vivid is the color? Does it have a low intensity, [e.g. is](e.g. is) it almost grey, or is it really bright with a high intensity.  \nValue  \nThis determines whether the color is light or dark. For example: a light pink or a dark deep blue.  \nComplementary colors are color pairs, which are also called opposite colors. If you take a look at the color wheel you see why they are called opposite colors. 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