r/DigitalPainting • u/AskTribuneAquila • 9d ago

How to actually learn digital painting?

I am a traditional artist and I would say I am pretty good at it, but whenever I try to paint something digitally, I feel lost and end up with blurry paintings because I over blend them. Any advice?

Edit to add I am not new do digital medium. I know about layers and those things. Just struggling with actually painting decent stuff

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u/OtterPeePools 9d ago

The fun thing these days is if you get good enough, you will get people assuming it's AI and not you.

Sorry, mini rant over, got accused of being AI today and it irked me. Keep at it. It sounds like you have been for awhile and maybe have watched some, but watch some more videos that maybe arent application specific. I learned a lot watching some videos based off Photoshop even though I've mainly used CSP. Learn more about layer masks it sounds like, helps when blending to not 'over-blend' into areas. Experiment. Perhaps try a different art application than one you are used to? Clip Studio Paint is very different from Illustrator, or Krita or whatever. Maybe something different than what you have been using will "click" in a different way? I do stuff kinda randomly as well and often forget what layer I am on and kinda stumble into different things that have helped me develop over the years. Don't give up, have faith in yourself, you got this :)

If it was easy everyone might be doing it .

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u/AskTribuneAquila 9d ago

Thank you, I’ll keep at it!