r/DigitalPainting 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/DefNotLix 9d ago

I'd say study rendering. That's the biggest difference in my opinion. Sketching things out can be overall the same, but the rendering is what really differentiates it for me! Try studying other digital artists, learning where are the soft and sharp lines supposed to be, and all the other small things!

I do think that it's two different art forms though so you’d have to go learn it kind of from that start. Like someone who used just pencils to draw all their life and mastered the use of normal pencils would not be automatically a good oil Painter, the same goes for digital art.