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  • Spontaneous speed painting could help you to trust your art
  • How to build a digital painting from the ground up using Photoshop and Blender
  • Rebelle 8.3 proves the future of digital painting isn't AI, it's making brushes feel real

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creativebloq.com /1 month ago

Spontaneous speed painting could help you to trust your art

Artist Duy An Lam shows how to loosen up and stay spontaneous while turning a sketch into a finished digital painting.

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creativebloq.com /1 month ago

How to build a digital painting from the ground up using Photoshop and Blender

Fantasy freelancer Pierre Ignaszewski share his process.

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creativebloq.com /2 weeks ago

Rebelle 8.3 proves the future of digital painting isn't AI, it's making brushes feel real

How Escape Motions is bucking tech's biggest trend.

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creativebloq.com /1 month ago

Speed up your painting with issue 268 of ImagineFX

Practical inspiration for your art projects

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cgchannel.com /2 weeks ago

Escape Motions releases Rebelle 8.3

Unusual update to the natural media painting app makes it possible to export the paint surface as a heightmap for use in 3D software.

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cgchannel.com /3 weeks ago

Abstract adds a new 2D painting system to InstaMAT 2026-07

Material authoring and 3D painting app now lets you paint directly onto a mesh's UVs in a dedicated 2D viewport. See all the new features.

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creativebloq.com /1 week ago

This Blender Deep Paint artist makes 3D look like a children's book brought to life

Gaku Tada's new animation is everything AI can't do.

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designyoutrust.com /1 month ago

Expressive, Atmospheric, And Honest: The Visual World Of Pluviumgrandis

PLGR is a digital painter who self-describes as a “third rate artist with a fourth rate brush” — a self-deprecating tagline that sits in ironic contrast with a genuinely strong, ex...

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creativebloq.com /1 month ago

This self-taught concept artist takes inspiration from traditional landscape painting to emphasise mood and suggestion

Check out the work of film and game artist Leonardo Borazio.

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creativebloq.com /1 month ago

How simple 3D blockouts help build realistic fantasy art

Billy Christian shares his process for using 3D blockouts alongside expressive digital painting techniques.

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cgchannel.com /4 weeks ago

ArcBrush 1.5 is an interesting $49 node-based image editor

Inexpensive cross-platform Photoshop alternative gets new 32-bit pipeline, Crytomatte support and new compositing nodes.

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doodlewash.com /1 week ago

A Brush Of Color

For our prompt of “Brush” today, I sketched a painting brush with a splash of colorful watercolor. I still remember the feeling when I first discovered watercolor over a decade … C...

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creativebloq.com /3 weeks ago

How to turn a sketch into a stunning surreal dreamscape in Photoshop

Amir Zand reveals the process he uses for his Dreamer series. of digital artworks.

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creativebloq.com /3 weeks ago

AI provoked this artist into seeking "transcendent truth" in traditional tools and the fun of creating

Joseph Weston creates whimsical fantasy art using pencils, crayons and Photoshop.

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cgchannel.com /1 month ago

Mixos lets you paint PBR textures in your web browser

New online tool lets you paint textures directly onto 3D models, or create new PBR materials by remixing a library of CC0 assets.

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creativebloq.com /1 month ago

This acclaimed fantasy artist isn't letting AI put him off traditional painting on vast canvases

Check out Greg Rutkowski's traditional fine art.

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designyoutrust.com /1 month ago

Dark Fantasy, Cyberpunk Light, and Epic Visual Drama In the Work of Philip Sue

Philip Sue is an illustrator and digital artist from New Zealand whose work is closely tied to fantasy, science fiction, and polished digital painting. He is also deeply engaged in...

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artistsnetwork.com /1 month ago

An Exercise in Simplification: Sketching & Painting

Let go of the idea of getting everything down just as you see it. Look for the big shapes—the large and simple geometry in which it fits—and then block out your work first.  The po...

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creativebloq.com /1 month ago

How to create stunning panels for a graphic novel

Author and artist Tim Probert talks us though how he creates the pages of Lightfall, from thumbnail sketches to flatting and painting.

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designyoutrust.com /2 days ago

Josh White’s Sci-Fi Concept Art Blends the Precision of 3D Sculpting With the Feel of Paint

Josh White is a digital artist who describes himself simply as “learning by doing,” building most of his work with Nomad Sculpt on iPad and painting it in Procreateю White’s proces...

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creativebloq.com /18 hours ago

XPPen's new Artist Ultra 14 drawing display gets the important specs right

An OLED at 90HZ and 720g – XPPen's new tablet impresses.

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pcworld.com /1 month ago

Can’t draw? AutoDraw doesn’t care

You no longer need the ability to draw or an art degree to make something that looks good. In this newfangled world of AI there is, of course, something to help turn your amateur d...

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creativebloq.com /2 weeks ago

The drawing tablet I'd recommend instead of Wacom is finally on sale again

Save $40 on a time-limited XPPen Deco Pro (Gen 2) 15-inch.

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creativebloq.com /4 weeks ago

This artist created a ‘Southern American sumi-e’ art style using sumi and Diamine ink on Bristol vellum

After studying law, Will Thompson found his true passion in traditional ink drawing.

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