Conquering drawing digital skin can be a grueling yet gratifying journey for a digital artist. Between lighting, tone, and texture, there are so many techniques to master in the quest for realism!

That’s where digital art skin shading tutorials can come in handy. Whether you’re creating a stylized illustration, modeling a 3D character, or painting a digital portrait, tutorials can let you in on all the industry secrets of rendering human skin. 

Here are 8 terrific tutorials that will walk you through the ins and outs of achieving lifelike skin in a variety of digital mediums:

Ultimate Guide to Digital Painting Vol. 1

This course is perfect for both newbie and intermediate CG artists looking to specialize in human figures. It includes an abundance of video tutorials that walk you through how to draw female and male figures and anatomy in various stances, including techniques for practicing blocking, lighting, shading, color theory, and materiality. 

The bundle contains:

• 10 15-hour+ HD video tutorials

• Photoshop files

• Color palettes

• Brushes

Painting Skin

This digital art skin shading tutorial shares a step-by-step approach to painting skin in Photoshop. You’ll learn about techniques to achieve shading and skin tone using the brushes provided. Although the tutorial was created in Photoshop, the methods you’ll learn are applicable in other software too, such as Procreate.

This pack includes:

• 5-minute time-lapse video tutorial
• 1-hour+ HD video with commentary
• Photoshop file with layers
• PNG of final image
• Brushes used in tutorials

Figure Painting: Reclining Female Figure

This tutorial will walk you through the detailed steps to drawing a female figure, including the various techniques used to paint digitally from a reference image. It will cover methods to achieve human skin color and temperature, shapes, edge control, and more.

The set contains:

• 2.5-hour high-resolution video with commentary

• Photoshop file with layers

How to Paint a Realistic Portrait in Photoshop 2022

For those hoping to master realistic portraits, in this tutorial you’ll learn a non-destructive way of digitally painting faces in Photoshop step-by-step. It walks through blocking, facial anatomy, gradient maps, coloring skin, texturing lips, eyebrows, and hair, and more.

This bundle contains:

• Photoshop file with layers

• Basic portrait brush set

Process: Grayscale to Color

This tutorial zooms into the process of overlaying color onto a basic grayscale portrait. It targets intermediate digital artists, you’ll learn about skin tone, color balance, and mother color. 

With this pack, you’ll receive:

• 30-minute video tutorial
• Photoshop files
• High-resolution JPEGs

Making Magic: Kwende, Pride of Femeref

In this course, the artist explains the process they use to create characters from scratch. This one features Kwende, Pride of Femeref, from the popular card game Magic: The Gathering. It  covers how to compose darker skin tones, add color to black and white drawings, and how to play with temperature and lighting. 

This set includes:

• 3-hour+ high-resolution video tutorials with commentary
• JPEG of final painting
• Link to brushes used
• Extras

Texturing in Blender For Beginners

This tutorial is a great introduction to the many complexities of 3D modeling in Blender. With this as your guide, you’ll be able to render your characters so that they’re full of life. You’ll learn how to use Blender for texturing, UV unwrapping, creating materials, composing, and more.

The tutorial bundle contains:

• Blender files
• OBJ of models
• High-resolution renders
• 2 custom-made skin Alphas
• Updates and bonus sections

Character Skin Texturing

If you’re a beginner or intermediate digital artist struggling to paint convincing skin textures for your character modeling and illustration, this digital art skin shading turorial is perfect for you. It includes techniques to help you set up your file, import mesh, bake, texture, create roughness maps, render, and more. Commentary is available in both English and Spanish.

This set includes:

• 9 video tutorials with subtitles and music

• 4 Substance Painter files

• 7 detailed step-by-step guides

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