When I discover the world of Digital Painting, one day I found Marta’s amazing gallery, and I was “WOW”! From that day I’ve looked for her tutorials online, especially video tutorials, because I really wanted to learn from her. Then I found she wrote tutorials for ImagineFX Magazine, and I subscribed. During these years I read lots of Marta’s tips and tutorials, and she started making painting videos.

One of my favourite Marta’s tutorial is Painting Wavy Hair, since I find lots of difficulties when painting and drawing hair. This tutorial is pretty old since it was featured in Issue 34, but I’m happy ImagineFX staff decided to share it for free.

The tutorial is made of four parts, a pdf file with the tutorial published on the magazine, the DVD support files, which are tutorial images in a higher resolution, and two video tutorials, showing Marta’s painting process.

Have you ever heard about idrawgirls? I discovered this fantastic place some years ago, when I started learning more about digital painting and drawing. At that time I was looking for video tutorials and lessons to learn the basic of figure drawing and I accidentally found this site… what a surprise! I found tons of video tutorials about… everything!

But first let’s talk about the author, the artist who’s behind this project. His name is Xia Taptara, aka idrawgirls, a Concept/3D Artist living in Seattle, WA, United States. As he states in his website, he founded “idrawgirls” during 2007, to motivate himself to draw better, refine his skill, experiment and to be free to draw everything he wants.

Anatomy is one of the greater challenge for an artist. Understanding better how human and animal anatomy works require a lot of patience, time and practice.

There are a lot of theories and studies, lots of techniques you can learn to draw a human ody perfectly. Of course you don’t need to master all of these, but it’s important to learn them and use them to fix your own style. In this period I’m focusing a lot on human anatomy, because I truly need to improve on this side. And today I’ve found on Deviantart this amazing tutorial series concerning anatomy. This is a tutorial by BittersweetDisease and it is splitted in 7 parts. It sums up the most important bases and fundamentions of drawing human anatomy, in a really humorous way: it’s a pleasure to read it!

Below you can read about the various parts content, and you will find the links to the tutorials! Have fun!

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Judith is another great masterpiece from Marta Dahlig. It receives the

Excellence Award in the last Exposè 7 book, by Ballistic Publishing. Now, CGSociety released her free tutorial about the making of this fantastic piece, along with a free 320 mb Video Tutorial of Marta working on it, from the beginning to the very end. It is a great opportunity of seeing how Marta works, even you can find her other video tutorials only in ImagineFX DVD.

She also upload the video on Youtube, so you can watch it below in this article.

Here’s another article of the video tutorials series! This time, I choose some video tutorials from the amazingly great illustrator Bobby Chiu. He’s a really expert artist, with a lot of talent, his drawings are really particular, with a great study on volumes. I truly suggest you to look at his gallery, he’s an incredible inspiration source.

Bobby Chiu illustration experience grows every day, because he constantly draw, paint and sketch. He should be an example for every beginner (and advanced) artist. He also shares his knowledge with others, so everyone has the chance to learn something from him: he has a blog, a youtube podcast, galleries in the most important art communities. He’s also part of the Imaginism Studio and is a illustration teacher at Schoolism, with an online video courses about Digital Painting.

In the video tutorials I’ve choosen from Bobby’s youtube podcast, he explains the techinques he uses for painting his fantastic creatures.Videos are long, from 20 to 40 minues, and have been a bit speeded up to match Bobby’s vocal explanation.