Real Digital Watercolor Painting in Photoshop - The Most SIMPLE Tutorial for Artists!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- PLEASE CHECK OUT THE LATEST 2020 VERSION OF THIS VIDEO HERE: • Real Digital Watercolo...
UPDATE 2020: I am no longer using these brushes but have a few favorites you can download for free from Adobe ~ Kyle T Webster Watercolor Brushes - my favorites are: Kyle's Real Watercolor Round Robin (creates wet edges - better than the one I use in this video), Kyle's Real Watercolor 500 Giant (great for soft watercolor backgrounds) and Kyle's Real Watercolor Soft Edger 1 for blending.
Hi Guys! I'm back with a new video for you. This one was inspired by my recent exploration of the digital watercolor tutorials on TH-cam and I was immediately SO confused and overwhelmed by what people were trying to teach and to me all of them had lost the magic of REAL art!
So if you haven't already given up hope on trying art in Photoshop check out my video. I make it easy to learn and it's perfect for traditional artists who typically work with pencil and paper or brush and canvas.
You will need:
Photoshop
Drawing Skills (or not - drawing is like a muscle you have to use it to make it stronger - get started and you will only improve).
Wacom Tablet (any kind) and digital pen (usually comes with the tablet)
A watercolor brush - UPDATE 2020: I am no longer using these brushes but have a few favorites you can download from Adobe Kyle T Webster Watercolor Brushes - my favorites are: Kyle's Real Watercolor Round Robin, Kyle's Real Watercolor 500 Giant and Kyle's Real Watercolor Soft Edger 1 for blending.
I hope you enjoy - please let me know if you have any questions. Subscribe to my channel for future videos and please share my video - Cheers!
~ Jess ;-)
My smudge tool wasn't working as well as yours, so I realized "Finger painting" wasn't selected. That changed everything.
I'm saying it in case someone's going thru the same.
Thank you! Was wondering why mine wasn't working too!
Legend! Also do you recommend any Watercolour brushes like she uses in this video? None of the ones I have found look like a real watercolour painting.
@@dannybizal yes!
Gosh this was so helpful. I’m trying to make an illustration in a watercolor style (I usually do highly-rendered digital) and oh my *god* I didn’t realize I needed to be told “just put colors down, don’t worry about being clean and have fun with it”. Thanks *so* much
You are so welcome! I’m glad you found it helpful - sometimes going back to the basics is the best way to grow - good luck with your art!
Thank you very much. The kind of video I was looking for.
Awesome!! 🎉
This is exactly what I was looking for when searching TH-cam for "photoshop watercolor tutorials", Jess you're amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your amazing PS brushes! Thank you thank you!
Hi Anna - thanks so much for watching and your lovely comment - that's the reason I do these videos :-)
I tell you, even if i'm a noob, I think it's better having as many layers as you can. In this way your draw would be easier to edit. A long time a go I did a drawing where I created a layer for every single line of the lineart i was making. This allowed me to change some lines of it at the end of the work easier and faster than when you have all in one layer, and then i could switch between them to see which one was better
I agree sometimes it is good to have lots of layers for certain types of art. I do this for fabric art for example when I want to replicate one element over and over and move them around easily. The disadvantage to many layers is the more layers you add the larger your file size will be. You also have to be very disciplined and label each layer so you don't spend half your time searching for a certain line or element. But if it works for you then that's great - we all have to find what works best for us.
I've always been on the traditional side of art, especially watercolor illustrations. But I just bought a pen tablet and the whole digital art world felt so intimidating, the tools, brushes, settings etc! But this is the most sincere and humane digital art tutorial I've seen so far haha. Your voice is so comforting and loved it when you said like "Be messy, be free, and do it like how you would do it, not like how computers would do it". The whole thing seems more familiar already, thank you :)
Aww that is wonderful! I am so glad you enjoyed my tutorial. I made it for people like you :-)
I just learned things I didn't have a clue about......that was AWESOME! Thank you!!!
I'm so glad - thanks for watching Urban Fairy!
I’ve been looking around for an hour or so trying to find a video that shows how to actually do watercolor painting from scratch, but couldn’t find anything on that, with everything being the effect, but it doesn’t work if you want to create an original piece instead of a base photo.
Hi Alexis - well I hope this video helped you on the path to doing a digital watercolor painting from scratch. Thanks for watching
Miss Jess Bircham, your video inspired my aesthetics and let me go back to the basic point of art.
I'm a Hong Kong cartoonist, I just shared your tutorial to FB.
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That's great! I am so glad I could help you :-) Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this, just what I wanted to hear after being locked into the graphic designer mindset! Brilliant ✌️
This is exactly what I needed! Gosh, why does everyone else think I just want to throw a filter over my drawing?! Thank you Jess!
Actually, digital art is a different form of art. As a graphic design major I’ve realized it’s not all about drawing and painting, it’s about how you can create and design, whether it be logo design, business cards, menus, web designs, etc. It still takes an extremely creative mind to be a graphic designer. If you’re an artist, you should know this.
I do a lot of graphic design myself - I'm not knocking graphic designers - art is a fluid concept. This video is meant to help those who want to do traditional art but on a digital platform.
Bless your heart, this video is super easy and straightforward, and all I needed was a new brush and some guidance. I used to dread having to color b/c as good as I am at drawing, I can't color at all digitally, so now I'm learning to do it. I love the watercolor effect and although all of the other watercolor videos on YT look nice, the effects don't look genuine at all; or if they did, you still had to buy brushes and all sorts of complicated tools and actions :(
I totally hear you! I'm glad I am able to help you. Good luck with your art!!
The BEST video I've seen today. Thank you so much
THANK YOU ♥
You're welcome 😊
The best and most simple tutorial.thank you
You have no idea how long I’ve been looking for something like this. Thank you so much for uploading this
Aww you are so welcome!!
Thankyou for the beautiful video. I am a beginner digital artist and the detailed explanation your video helped me a lot. Thanks and keep inspiring us everyday :) Love from india
You are SO welcome! Thanks for watching :-)
This has cleared up the mystery of how I could start painting directly in photoshop, rather than just on my ipad...then try to manipulate in photoshop later. Thank you so much for your clear instructions!
You are very welcome! I'm so glad you found my tutorial helpful :-)
Just what I was looking for. And I like the mindset and method behind it. The process should be like painting.
Love it! Thank for the tips. I agree a lot of other tutorials are so robotic and logarithm based. This was a breath of fresh air.
Thanks SO much Daniel!!
Hi jess I tryied to make similar brushes to those you showed in this tutorial.... I like it , but I need a little powerup for my taste, I am looking for Paul's bonner style....your brush setting for this purpose it is ok! I mean very natural I thing....Less plastic and less fxs...just the way the natural way...however any trick or reocmmendation to give a extra spread for those? thx!!!
Have you tried the Kyle T Webster brushes? I love those
Effective simple technique. I, being the dreaded _graphical designer_ i am, improved the end result by duplicating the color layer, applying find edges and a few pixels of blur and multiplying that on top of the color layer. Makes more convincing dried outlines to the "watercolor strokes". With that addition and a bit of touch up i am quite happy with the effect.
Well I am glad you are happy with your final art.
Everyone always takes things so negatively! I am a graphic and web designer who loves to paint and produce digital artworks for our clients if needed, and I found no offense in what you said. It wasn't: "Be a real artist", it was, "Think like a fine artist,". Paints and applications are so much different than digital, she's just trying to get the feel of the most realistic composition. Which people pay loads for! The more realistic the watercolor, the better the quality. And in the digital world, it's all about thinking like a fine artist would. Love this video, thank you!
Exactly! Thank you so much for this comment - that's exactly what I'm meaning!
Amazing tutorial, exactly what I was looking for. Can't wait to get started!
HELP!!! Im using PS 2020 CC and when I go into Fill/Pattern I don't see option for artist surface...Just trees, water and grass.
Yes! It's super annoying lol. Check out my new video - I explain in there where they've hidden them: th-cam.com/video/L6wtRQbhODc/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much I just loved watching this and am inspired to try!
That's brilliant!!
I don’t have such pattern in my photoshop 😩
An old and traditional artist like me salutes you.
Amazing work you've done, my friend!
Thank you so much for your kind comment!
Excellent video, thank you.
It's so simple but it looks so good!!!
Thanks so much!!
love your techniques.And also love your brushes.Thanks you are amazing ......
Thanks so much Renu! ❤️
Thank you for reminding me how to be a real artist ❤
So helpful! Thank you very much!
I like that drawing you did! Very Cute!
Thanks so much! :-)
Ok... Short Video.. straight to the Point what i wanted to know. Just 2 Layers.. THANK YOU SO MUCH
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
Thanks Jess, this is exactly what I was looking for. So refreshing to see an artist using real art skills to paint digitally.
So glad you like it! :-)
Great video!! You really can't find tutorials liket this. Super helpful!! Thanks for sharing!!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!
I love how she says its not for graphic designers, its for REAL artists.. and that this is REAL art... wow
Thank you Kay Kay - we are underrepresented in this day and age ;-)
Art is Art. there's no right or wrong way to do it...
Chiaotzu that's my point.. I was being sarcastic. It seems that the creator of this video thinks that graphic designers are not artists. Little did she know, graphic designers study art and practice it as much, or even more than fine art artists or whatever she calls artists.
Actually I NEVER once said Graphic Designers were not real artists. I said the videos you find on TH-cam with the computer effects do not feel like real art. I am trying to bridge the gap between traditional art and digital art. People who have been drawing and painting their whole lives very often have a hard time translating that to digital media. If you are going to post negative comments on my videos I will remove them as this was intended to be for people wanting to learn something not for hateful remarks. I am completely self taught on all of the Adobe software and others as well as being a traditional fine artist so you don't have to preach to me about the hours it takes to learn this stuff - because you're looking at it.
8:45. Although I come from a Graphic Design background, I've been trying to find a way to water colour just like this instead of using my traditional method. Thanks for the video :D
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH:) I have been looking for you lol. I don't have photoshop I use affinity designer and make my brushes but not very good at watercolor. So I wanted just what you are showing not all the adjustments just a few and being an artist. I am still working on that but takes time and with your videos, I think I can do it. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome Diane - I'm glad you like my video. Good luck with your art!
Thank you for tutorial and the watercolor brush.
I will try it soon.
1 question. What software do you suggest for replacing PS?
I use FireAlpaca for simple coloring. But I want to try watercolor effect like yours.
Any suggestion?
Thanks before
Photoshop is my favorite program but I am also really interested in trying Procreate on the iPad :-)
I really enjoyed this tutorial. I'm a graphic designer and I majored in illustration in University, but first I'm an artist. I tend to approach my design work by hand. My problem is that I want to use the computer more, but with the skills I have as an artist and designer, not as a Photoshop expert. However, I need to be an expert in PS to be able to create the artwork I see in my head. It's confusing. The first thing I wanted to learn was how to paint watercolour in PS and Illustrator. This was a good first step for me, I found it really helpful. I too like to do my line drawings by hand and scan them in, and you also showed a great way of deleting the background I didn't know about either. So THANK YOU, sorry for taking up so much space and rambling and I love your accent, it adds that extra touch to the video.
Aww thank you so much for your comment! I'm so glad you found my video helpful :-)
Hi! First of all, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us! Second, can you please tell us what brush suggestions you have for those who can't get their hands on Kyle T Webster Watercolor Brushes :)?
Hi - I highly recommend you check out this video I did as I get asked this question a lot and this addresses exactly what you are asking about - thanks! th-cam.com/video/Fj9BDF-CAMU/w-d-xo.html
Brilliantly Simple!! I have been searching for days for just this information. I am turned off with videos that just show how to paint over a photo...I want to create and work on own original art. Thank You!!
You're welcome! I'm so glad it was helpful!
This really is excellent... Ive also seen your 2020 updated vid as you suggest but unfortunately i still use an older version of PS as it still does 99% of what i need and I refuse pay Adobe for the rest of my life for CC (Continuing Costs !), so i cant get the brushes you suggest :(
Check out my video on Photoshop brushes - it’s my latest video. I think that will help you with your problem. You do not need fancy brushes to make great art. Good luck!
Her technique with the eye dropper is cringe-worthy, but you can’t argue with the final results!
And when she says about “real artists” she is talking about being free with your choices and not confined by laws or techniques like the rule of thirds or symmetry. Just be creative! 👍🏾
A fast little technique that any beginner can utilize!
Thanks for watching :-)
You’re great at tutorials, you make it easy, which gives newbies like me a boost! I’m a self taught graphic designer, but I’ve recently challenged myself to play with water colour. I’m currently working on an illustrated logo (bunny). How can I go about adding hairs to the ears? Is there a way I can share what I have so far?
Sorry this took me so long to see - if you still need help with your art and have an Instagram page - feel free to tag me on it @jessbirchamillustration - I'd love to see your work!
Thanks sooooo much!! Right after watching your video, I painted one watercolor effect painting for the first time in my life!! I was always curious how to do it, and met your video!! You are the best!!! :) If you don't mind, I have one question. What kind of brush do use for the watercolor effect? Is the brush you used in the video is basically set in the Photoshop? I tried to use the brush in a photoshop that seems what you used in the video, but it doesn't look same. The brush I used has tips very splited out like messy. But yours doen't look like that. Can you tell me how to get the brush like yours? Thank you so so much! :)
Hi Dahye! Thanks for watching my video. If you'd like to use the brush I use in this video there is a link to it in the description box on this video. However, check out my latest video about new FREE watercolor brushes now available on Photoshop CC. They are AMAZING! and even better than the brush I use in this video. Thanks!
Great tutorial mam. Other painting tutorials with millons of layers maintaining techniques were driving me crazy, not gonna lie. I'm a beginner and I appreciate this tutorial too much. I can keep it simple and authentically artistic, such a joy in digital painting!
That’s awesome thanks for watching ❤️
Hello, this tutorial is amazing, I have only a problem with your brush (the same that you use).
When I use it, it gose very slowly, but only with that one. Maybe you can help me.
Thank you very much
Hi Robert - glad you like my tutorial! Sometimes I have the same issue. You can try my other watercolor brushes which are free for you to download in the link above - they do not have the same lag. I tend to find when that brush does lag it's because I have it set to pretty large. Unfortunately I have no idea why it does that!
it is a super useful video!!! thank you very much! I would like to ask a stupid question if you dun mind... did you draw the fox on paper and scan it? or did you draw it on PS? I would like to transfer my hand drawing onto the computer, do you have any video suitable? thanks.
Yes! I drew the fox by hand and then scanned that drawing into my computer and colored it in Photoshop. I am going to do a video on the entire process from start to finish here soon so make sure you are subscribed and keep a look out! Thanks for watching! :-)
note to self: create mask>edit>fill
I'm not able to change my brush to multiply? It can only change modes between dry/wet/very dry and wet. Please help!
Hi Jessica - are you using Photoshop CC? Sounds like you might just be in the wrong area. When you have brush tool selected go to the top left corner of the grey bar - it says Mode: click the drop down menu and you should be able to see a big list of options - multiply is one of them. Make sure you're in "Painting" set up - you can choose that in the top right corner of Photoshop on the grey bar. Hope that helps!
So cool..... this technique is fantastic...... you are a great teacher.... and your voice is so nice.........:)
Aww, thank you! 😃
I m very good at sketches but don't know how to colour digital. Now I understand it with simple way. Very nice video.
Thanks! I am so glad - I hope you explore digital art now :-) Thanks for watching!
Thank you... Refreshingly informative but not daunting x
You’re welcome 😊 glad you enjoyed it.
anyone got advice for how to access brushes for CS6 as Kyles are for CC ... or Jess are some in the original palette ok to use with a tweek.. not had much success but then didn't have you little secrets either.
Hi Jo - you can definitely use the normal brushes Photoshop has to offer - in fact when I create my hyper realistic art I only use the hard round and soft round to create that art and it comes out great! The key is detail and attention to color. Good luck!
It looks good but I can't really use the downloaded brush cause it lags horribly. It is of course my PC but other brushes don't lag :(
No it's not your computer - that brush suddenly started having issues. Check out my latest video - there are loads of even better watercolor brushes free with Adobe CC now - Kyle T Webster's Watercolor brushes :-)
This is a very useful video, I love how watercolor looks but my only access to it is thru digital sadly but àll the videos I find that are supposed to be helpful aren't really showing me a live process like this
Glad it was helpful!
This is the best and most useful tutorial I have seen in TH-cam. You should do a tutorial in skill share, I would buy it (I’m sure so would many many of us)
Thank you that’s a great idea!
Where can we find the watercolour background texture in the latest Photoshop? I don't see all these options at all! (3:12)
Check out my updated video - it explains where Photoshop moved all of these background texture options - thanks! th-cam.com/video/L6wtRQbhODc/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant video thanks! How do you make the smudge tool work so well? what settings do you use? mine just looks messy whereas yours on the edges of each colour looks diluted and more natural.
Hi! I use Kyle T Webster's blending tools. Check out the updated version to this video here: th-cam.com/video/L6wtRQbhODc/w-d-xo.html It explains in detail all the new brushes I use :-) Thanks!
OMG, exactly what I've been looking for. YOU ARE EXCELLENT! A million thanks!
That's great!! Thanks for watching :-)
thank you thank you thank you!!! thats exactly what I was looking for. no photoshop cheating.
You're so welcome!
i dont have the water color paper pattern in my PS 2020. what to do? thx for helping me out. there are not pattern in my library to install.
Hi - yes they moved everything around in the updated version of Photoshop- check out my new video, I explain where everything is - thanks! th-cam.com/video/L6wtRQbhODc/w-d-xo.html
This is a beautiful and perfect video thank you so much I have a question if I wanted to take the background out and just have the image of the fox cut outs how would I do that
Thank you! If you want the fox on it's own with a blank background you could lasso around the fox and put it on a separate layer. The background layer could be set to transparent, if you wanted it to be actually blank. You may have to clean up around the fox a little with the eraser tool. Hope that helps
thanks, you have helped me with this video.... everybody help me please to give me brush like that in this video...
You're so welcome!
This is what I was looking for! thanks for sharing it! I'll suscribe!
That's great!! Thanks for subscribing :-)
Bravo Ms, Thank you very much, Ive been looking for this
You are very welcome :-)
So helpful ! Thank you for the brushes and the straight to the point vidéo !
You're welcome - thanks for watching!
Thank U. I was also disappointed with the trick painting. This is a true watercolor.
You’re welcome 😊
It’s the most useful vid for coloring tutorial I saw. Thanks so much
You’re welcome 😊 So glad you liked it!
This is perhaps the easiest, most comprehensible tutorial on TH-cam. Everyone else keeps spouting jargon. I am a noob. I want ease. Veterans can't seem to understand that -_-
Thanks Krabby Kat! i am so glad this is working for you!
Jess Bircham yes it really is. I was starting to feel Photoshop is not equipped with watercolor at all :o considering it has everything!
Awesome tutorial . Thank you very much and lots of love
Aww my pleasure 😊 Thanks for watching!
wow! This is very helpful. Thank you for sharing.
You’re so welcome ☺️
thanks so much,this is great video ,everything clear)
Glad it was helpful!
wow!!! that was cool...really helpful, thank you!!!
You’re welcome ☺️
Thank you so much. I have been looking for a looong time for a tutorial for this and it is perfect :D One question: The brush with the many duts in it has a long lag time, do you have an idea to what I can do about it?
Thank you again :)
Hi Mette - thanks for watching! I am not sure why that brush sometimes has a lag time. I may try to make some more watercolor brushes. Stay tuned. :-)
Thank you so much i fall in love with you just know.....thanks a lot
Hahaha thank you x
Great tutorial, very helpful, thank you so much for that!
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much!
wonderful and inspiring tutorial! thank you!
You are very welcome!
Extremely Helpful and concise
Thanks for watching! :-)
about the drawing did you use drawing pen or just pencil
I used pencil first then went back over it with a fine black illustrators pen :-)
Simple and Cute. Beautiful example to make a Minimal painting.
Thanks so much!!
Thank you so much for explaining this so simply!! :)
You're so welcome!
Love it!! thanks for this tutorial, its a game changer!
Yay! So glad you liked it :-)
Wonderful Art... Really good... The sketch is really awesome, It brings detail to the painting. want to see a video how you do your sketch...
Thank you so much 😀 I'll try to get some video of me sketching - thanks!
@@JessBircham Do you have any online course from sketching to digital illustrating? that you do :)
Really wonderful i gona try 😍@umacolors
Great!
Thank you so much for your tutorials!!!! I have downloaded your brush, but I think somehow my brush settings are different? It is sort of making streaks?
Hmm that is strange - not heard that before. Did you download the set of brushes - as there are 8 or 9 different brushes to choose from and you can try them all and see which one you prefer. I will have a tutorial soon on how to make your own brushes too :-)
I'm fairly new at this and am attempting to download the paintbrush linked in your description. Is there anything specific I need to do to get it to upload into photoshop?
(P.S. I have spent years looking at different digital art tutorials and yours has been, by far, the most valuable!)
That's awesome Emily thank you for your kind words. You just need to download them and then upload them to Photoshop by going to Brush Presets (top right icon by the brush presets box> Load Brushes and then find where you downloaded them and they should show up in your brushes. Hope this helps!
This information is really helpful. 👍😄
Great! Thanks for watching :-)
This tutorial was absolutely awesome, thank you! I have a quick question - my blend/smudge tool doesn't have the same effect yours done. Instead of blending, it seems to just smear the top color across the page. Any tips? Thank you!
Hi - thanks for the lovely comment! Every computer is different and has different settings. So my suggestion when this happens is to play around with the brush type and strength of the blending tool until you find something you like. It can take a bit of time to really find the ideal blending tool. If you can download NKS5 - that is my favorite blending tool - however some people have trouble downloading it. Hope that helps!
I know its been a long time but I think I found the solution: try to increase spacing and scatter in smudge brush settings. it worked fine for me :)
hello! to achieve this effect do i need my system unit to have a higher RAM? because it worked with me but the brush is responding slowly and it doesn't paint along with the brush :(((
thank you for the tips though!
Nope - for some reason that brush has been lagging for me too - I'm not sure why but I need to remake it or upload it again - sorry! My other watercolor brushes don't lag though and you can use this technique with any brush!
Oh i see-- i forgot to try out the other brushes included! Thank you so much for replying~
thank you sooooo much this was super helpful and it saved me the biggest headache in the world. I love how simple it was to follow
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching!! :-)
Thanks! Your tutorial is awesome and you're nice to listen too. :)
Lol thanks David!
I'm in love with the watercolour you made its wonderful, you should get more like, thankyou because of your video i can learn watercolour painting in this qurantine time❤❤❤
I'm your new subscriber
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Thank you so much 😀
Thank You!!! :D :D :D this is everything
Yay! You are so welcome :-)
you are working with out presure only multiply?
Yes sir! :-)
Question! Did you draw it digitally or traditionally?
I drew it with pencil and paper and ink and then scanned it into my computer :-)