Hello. Today our tutorial will be about digital painting. Only few things here that you' l be able to create without a Tablet. I will begin my work with doing a scan copy of my quick sketch painted on the paper. You should know this ? if you are or becoming a digital artist, the scanner is the thing you should always have. Many and many ideas can come during just easy sketching on the paper. Plus to that painting on paper is still the most convenient way to draw (well if you don't have a Wacom Cintiq or something like that. 

So let's finally start to do something.

Here is my scanned copy already in Photoshop.



I will choose the bottom part figure. I really don't like the top.

And here it is:



Create a copy of a background.



Create a new layer. It is our base painting and coloring layer.



The other good thing about the scanner, it does a high res. Format just from the beginning.

For example my painting has such dimensions from the very beginning and it is not the best of it.



If you will begin to paint you'll probably notice that you can't grab any color (only black to white). This is because I've chosen Grayscale mode when doing the scanning. Convert.



Now chose a brush.







And set the opacity and flow near this.



Begin to paint. Just basic tones for now: