Tutorials

Looking for assets to use in your fine-art composites? Feel free to take a look at my downloadable assets.

Digital painting

To create a digital painting I use a couple of different techniques combining photography, photoshop, sketching and painting into a new work of art.
Usually I follow these steps to create a new painting;

1. preparation – moodboard
2. preparation – create base image
3. create working layers the quick & easy way
4. create working layers by hand
5. digital painting using actions
6. finishing touches

Composite photography

1. Shoot studio photo and location photo’s. The location photo’s I often shoot as HDR.

2. Shoot background image
HDR photographing, camera settings, etc

3. Retouch model photo
Adding detail using the Double RAW Converting technique, skin retouching (using the dust & scratches filter), dodge & burn
A frequency separation technique is explained very well on Fstoppers by Julia Kuzmenko.

4 Background editing
Tonemapping, Adding detail, cleaning up, dodge & burn

5 Creating the composite
Cutting out the subject, adjusting

6 Creating shadows

7 Blending foreground with the background

8 Final touches

9 Publishing the end results
Use of social media

Using assets

More recently I started to incorporate renders into my work. With the use of renders comes a lot of creative freedom and endless possibilities for creating backgrounds/backdrops as well as creating main subjects.
Take a look at the Assets page for free downloads and asset packs I have for sale.