Hallo and welcome in pure digital art tutorial. For this tutorial we definitely need a tablet - I will create on my Wacom G4, Photoshop - I will skip the line part which I really like to do in Painter. This tutorial will consist of 2 parts: in the first part we'll do a black and white sketch - the main thing here is to create good shapes and value, maybe to drop a little atmosphere; in the second part we'll begin to color and refine details of the sketch.



So a lot of painting here and let's go. First thing that I do is I choose and create brushes to paint with.



The first brush is quite standard - something like digital watercolor brush.







The thing for the 2nd brush is this. I really like David 'vely' Levy for how he creates brushes and then uses them. It really, really good practice is you are a digital artist.

See the pictures to understand what I have in mind; I want to create a rock brush because our work here will be about the rocks, shall we say.

So thus how I've created a rock or single stone brush.







Just try to think about the actual stone texture: it has cracks, dots and scratches in real life.



We have a brush tip and now we have to set some parameters to the brush:















Now begin to paint: it is more intuitive here. In this stage - just try to create some shapes - and do watch the whole composition.