With the new year comes new and even greater goals, making it the perfect time to uplevel your skills. Whether you’ve set your eye on a new skill or are looking to brush up on some of last year’s, Cubebrush has your back. We’ve collected some of the top tutorials to start the 2023 year off on the right foot.

Video Tutorial: Full Body Character Portrait

This tutorial walks you through Loish’s workflow for creating full body characters from start to finish, and includes:

• Voice-over video tutorial
• The Loish brush set
• Low-resolution final image
• Optional spotify playlist with mood music

What You’ll Learn

This tutorial kit will teach you how to create character concepts and rough character artwork like a professional artist. Y

ou will learn how to manage your time effectively, use shortcuts, and create a final piece directly from a sketch. For those invested in learning the art of character creation, this is a great start.

Painting Like a Sculptor

This tutorial set highlights this out-of-the-box method using lighting and values to help you paint like a sculptor. It includes:

• Video tutorial
• Photoshop file
• Additional notes
• Final image JPEG  

What You’ll Learn

In this tutorial, you’ll learn the various techniques used for painting in a sculpture-like manner, which covers:

• Demonstration on limited values
• Pushing and pulling forms
• Z-brush demonstration
• Painting tumor monsters to train your forms

Drawing Practice Kit: Cube, Sphere, Cylinder

This kit offers a rigorous set of practice material for mastering drawing basic 3D shapes, and includes:

• PDF with instructions
• Video explanation and visualization of pattern rotations
• 14 prepared Photoshop practice files for digital drawing
• 56 videos of visualizations of all possible shapes and positions
• Bonus drawing/painting fundamentals guide

What You’ll Learn

Whether you’re looking to learn analog or digital drawing, this tutorial set covers everything you need to master the basics of drawing. With a comprehensive collection of 3D shapes, including cubes, spheres, and cylinders, as well as multiple angles of rotation, this tedious practice kit will teach you the fundamentals of how shapes move in space so that you’re able to capture more complex forms with greater accuracy and ease.

Skin Painting Tutorial

This tutorial takes an in-depth look at painting skin in Photoshop in order to create detailed portraits. It includes:

• Layered Photoshop file
• Final image PNG
• 1-hour HD video walkthrough
• 5-minute timelapse video
• Full video commentary
• Required brush set

What You’ll Learn

In this tutorial, you will be taught the in-depth techniques necessary to detail skin accurately starting from a blank canvas. This will also include a new brush set, which you will learn how to use in order to create various skin tones, lighting and shading. 

Although this tutorial focuses on Photoshop, you can use the skills you learn and apply them within other applications, such as Procreate.

Line Art to Hyper Realism - Portrait Illustration

This tutorial walks you through the full pipeline of creating a hyperrealistic portrait from sketch to final product, and includes:

• Layered Photoshop file of lineart stage
• Layered Photoshop file of rough color
• Layered Photoshop file of final render
• 1-hour timelapse video
• 30-minute painting narration
• Process JPEGs
• PDF notes

What You’ll Learn

For those interested in hyper-realism and renders, this course is a unique guide, during which you will learn the technical requirements of rendering from a line drawing like a professional. It teaches you how to build a high-quality and stylized product efficiently in order to create something that is client-ready in a matter of hours.

Whether you’re searching for groundbreaking techniques or classic methods, the possibilities to explore in 2023 are abundant. Thankfully, Cubebrush has an endless supply of inspiration, information, and resources to fuel your creativity for this year, and many more to come. Join the Cubebrush community today to unlock your new year’s potential.