The Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting

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 Procre- ate, 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 in to 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 downloadabledigital 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.

"This book is such a thorough resource. Sara generously shares all her secrets and inspires us with her beautiful, rich paintings!"
-- Lois Van Baarle, artist and creator of @loisvb

"Sara's dedication and discipline are truly inspiring! This art book is an invaluable resource for those starting their digital art journey."
-- Hiba Tan, artist and creator of @hiba_tan

"I've admired Sara's work for some time. It's wonderful to see her sharing her skills in this book.
I'm not a digital painter myself, but if I ever want to learn, this would be a great place to start. "
-- Brett Helquist, artist and creator of @bhelquist

"Filled with beautiful soft and starry portraits, this book is gorgeous to look at and offers a rich,
easy to understand guide for building up your painting skills little by little. It's a delight that feels
both ambitious and accessible."
-- Lily Ashton, artist and creator of @mothcub

"Sara is an incredible artist whose work I've admired for years. Her attention to detail--both in
her art and in this book--is meticulous, yet never overwhelming. Each section is easy to follow,
with tips that feel more like a friendly chat than a strict lesson. One can apply so much of this
book to any type of art!"
-- Jimena Agra, artist and creator of @himepaints

Sara Tepes is a self-taught artist, freelance illustrator, graphic design student and art educator who dedicates her Patreon account to teaching digital and traditional art. She has a combined social media following of nearly 700k, and she has notably partnered with Netflix, Dell, Wacom, Trekell and Wix. Sara lives in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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.

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