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matte painting tutorialby *sandara

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Digital Art / Drawing & Painting / Photoshop

BEGINNERS : THIS IS A SHORTCUT METHOD. fundamentals are still more important.

EDIT EDIT : i changed the title to matte painting : / though it's really not, as actual matte paintings are very time consuming and painstaking pieces.

EDIT : i'm surprised at all the bashing that'd been going on for this simple tutorial. it's not THE way to paint, it's just a quick and dirty way to get things done/get an idea across. someone asked that i showed them this technique, and so i thought to share it here.

photos and textures are sometimes used in art pieces, and especially when the piece is to be done fast. matte paintings, which are longer and more painstaking to do, also uses photographs.

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here's leventep's DA page : [link]
here's his custom brushes, including the mist one : [link]

in fact, you guys can just hop over and watch his tutorials, which are wayyyy better than mine... lol

also, the guy is a master at painting backgrounds

in that, rough, brushy, concept-art way.

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=zahuli Apr 19, 2013 Hobbyist

Fantastic!!! Thanks for making this

~sinverse7 Apr 2, 2013

it looks simple... but it's not!!

Ok I just don't have talent -_-

~RozwellCake Mar 2, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

so good, this'll really help thanks bro!

*ChaztheWeasel Feb 26, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for sharing!!

~citizenfield Feb 24, 2013

How can anyone say this is "cheap" or anything else negative? Those people are idiots. The GREAT REALISM masters have always used source material and employed "quick and dirty" techniques to fill the paintings (to say nothing of entire ceilings, etc) -- always. What we can now do with computers is the EXACT SAME THING they did with mirrors, shadows, tracing, and drawing from life ("muses", etc). But they invariably traced & copied and filled in gaps with quick and dirty techniques. This is the reason why they are the Great Masters -- those fools who tried to draw everything out of their imagination, or those lazy time wasters who worked 100 hours to make one chair in a full painting look perfect made no sense (and still make no sense) because all art is a matter of expression, but also of efficiency. If you want to make money in this industry, you LEARN how to copy, trace, and make things quick and dirty, while FOCUSING on the overall expression and intention -- AND delivering it in a timely manner. If you would rather be poor and spend 3 weeks painting the perfect chair, then have fun eating ramen for your main course for the next 30 years, because no one will pay you to waste their damn time, unless you are a genius. And by definition 99% of you are not and never will be. These tutorials are great and they make perfect sense in a world that is getting faster and faster and where efficiency is more and more important.

~kardiology Feb 11, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

awesome! thank you for sharing

~Raenwyn Jan 31, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks for this helpful tutorial !

I did something with your tutorial here :[link] That's not the same level, but i'm proud of me, because it was my first matte painting

~OxydeG27 Dec 27, 2012

It's cheap but convenient, but yeah thanks for sharing~~

BTW the custom brushes link's dead...could you please reupload?

~LoboLoss Dec 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Very Nice!

~frostherz Nov 12, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hello there and thanks for the tutorial. How about doing a tutorial for absolute beginners? Because I'm such a guy and would love someone to teach me the basics and fundamentals since I just can't get the hang of the whole painting method.

But - again - great tutorial. Very helpful.

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