My 6 Steps to Digital Painting

Watch as I take you through my 6 steps to painting digitally.
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About Aaron Blaise:
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Aaron Blaise is an animation feature film director and wildlife artist.
For 21 years Aaron worked with Disney helping to create some of the greatest animated films ever made. During that time he worked as an animator or supervising animator on "The Rescuers Down Under", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "Mulan" and more.
In 2003 he was co-director of "Brother Bear" for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film.
After "Brother Bear" he helped to develop several projects but ultimately left Disney to pursue an opportunity back home in Florida. Aaron recently served as 2D Animation Supervisor and Character Designer for the "The Bear and the Hare" an advertisement loved by millions around the world. (vimeo.com/7874...)
Aaron currently is working on his mission to bring affordable art education and animation training to the world through his website: CreatureArtTea...

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Over 600 Hours of Art & Animation Lessons on my site: CreatureArtTeacher.com

[@ramizshould]

Thank you Mr. Aaron Blaise sir I really enjoy your art work as well your 6 steps in digital painting you know.

[@Meantime_Creations]

Saw this on facebook thank you for uploading this here :)

[@jakeycorrour59]

Aaron, was about to give up with digital, always seems to turn into a "buggers muddle"... Your basic steps video has really helped to sort out where I'm going wrong... If you could just stand behind me occasionally, like my old art teachers used to do, and make a few encouraging noises now and again... Thank you for sharing your knowledge, enthusiasm and talent 😎👍

[@houndgirl7365]

I'm not Aaron, but as someone who has been doing digital art for about 12years or so I can say this: play with your layers multiply, lighten, overlay, screen are great to use, but sometimes another setting can surprise you especially depending on how it interacts. You can also play with your color layer setting to get the optimal contrast without becoming muddied. Just play with the program and have fun these are great tips, but that's expected from a professional who does this for a living ^^

[@christinamayart9630]

Caught myself smiling when you added more shadow at 15:45, just boom. Came to life.

[@Isa-tm6ls]

I swear to god, my jaw was open the entire time you were refining. You made it seem really simple and I felt like I was going to cry from how beautiful the tiger was. You're like the Ratchet of art (and yes, I mean Ratchet from Transformers). Thank you so much! Please consider a tutorial for textures like reflective metals if you haven't done so! :)

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Glad it helped!

[@kiplingbassil]

Been confused for a few years now on finishing works past local color stages, and this video is simply the best most excellent and direct resource ive found, thank you Aaron!!

[@michelplante2280]

Thanks you so much for sharing! You're more than an inspiration, you're a mentor! Followed lots of your lessons on your website and here on KZbin! It's worth every penny and more! You're so generous! You're so passionnate and you transmet your teaching very well! Would like to tell you in more specific words but I'm not good in english so... Well, thank you so much! Cheers!

[@JJizz23]

Thanks for posting this Aaron, being trained traditionally, switching gears to digital has been a challenge I'll definitely use this in my approach. You are a great artist.

[@1Aroe1]

I love this approach! This is the first tutorial I've watched where I felt like I understood what was going on and could achieve a similar result! You are a great teacher - bravo!

[@nayolfa2926]

Thank you for this. I've been struggling with coloring for the longest time. I'm going to see if this can pull me out of my funk.

[@lizbecker1677]

Your videos inspire me so much! I tend to overcomplicate everything, so to see you break things down into six manageable steps makes me want to pick up my digital sketchbook again and create something. It's a blast to watch your sketches come to life through the painting process.

[@artofkairos]

This is an amazing tutorial. Thank you Aaron! You make it easy to follow along and understand. And your art style is gorgeous ❤

[@jonathansebastian118]

I been struggling to color and layering, thanks so much for the video

[@vijayagovindadas]

Thanks for your valuable techniques and more thankful for sharing them unconditionally.

[@sarahbrownell25]

Thank you!! I just been trying to understand how to do the background while not messing up the main character and figuring how to use the layers!! Now to try this!

[@sephire25]

thank you for providing affordable options for art education, really means a lot

[@peckerdecker]

Beautiful illustration. I enjoyed the beginning when you were doing the lines and contours of the animal . Brilliant

[@diventiart]

Aaron, your teaching is as excellent as your art.

[@funfilmanimations]

I love that you’re doing videos on Wednesdays now thank you Aaron 🦁😁👍

[@rosariomsoley]

"The first step is doing a rough sketch" *Makes a splendid face* 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Gorgeous!!! Completely random, but I recently found Bob Kuhn and his art and his animals are just 😭🥰 Not as dynamic as yours Aaron, but just as lovely.

[@SophieD633]

Wow! This video is soooooo amazing! Thank you for sharing these steps of digital painting!

[@drewby4701]

Aaron has a lifetime full of superb hairstyles! How does he do it

[@megdias7]

Thank you, Aaron! Your art does sing!

[@artworkbyrocky]

Love it. Thanks for your dedication to educate and share what you love.

[@Soundguydan]

This is great! More more more. I’ve been waiting for a video like this for a long time.

[@sophiaisabelle027]

Thanks for this video. May you receive more blessings.

[@benedyktjaworski9877]

Overlay blending mode works as both Multiply and Screen - that is, for bright colours it adds light, and for dark colours it adds a shadow. There is (at least in Krita, I think in Photoshop it’s the same) a “Screen” blending mode which is basically inverse Multiply - it does to light the same as Multiply does to shadows - that is, black doesn’t cause any change at all, but any other colour brightens the image slightly (and white just gives pure white). Screen is basically - invert the layers, multiply them, invert the result. Overlay is “multiply for colours below the value 0.5 - cast shadows; blend as screen for values above 0.5 - cast light”. TLDR is: Screen is the “Multiply for light”, and Overlay is both combined.

[@benedyktjaworski9877]

But I guess that’s the point of using Overlay (the Multiply-Screen mix) for lights - it brightens the light colour, and deepens the dark colours, enhancing contrast - cause in well-lit areas the transitions between colours are much sharper.

[@Tamikimaru]

Can't like this video enough; really well explained and to the point. This was very much helpful!

[@matiaslazaro1562]

Thank you always for this amazing Content!!

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@EdsonCamacho]

I loved this art! Congrats Aaron!

[@EClouds36]

It's amazing how you don't go overboard when coloring.

[@steiff-art]

thank you Aaron for all this awesome information ... can't stop watching your channel video's and tutorials I bought on your site ... such an amazing amount of information ... my digital drawing improved nearly instantly ... greetings from Belgium

[@anadilfayaz2764]

Thank you so much for the process 💖😊

[@GendefectX]

Love your workflow and started to use it aswell :) Thanks for sharing

[@heathertaylor32]

Thank you!

[@sharkall77]

I already paint like this but it was nice to see how you do it =)

[@YC305]

Wow when you drew the reflections in the eyes it came to life. Amazing 😉👍

[@terrimcsorley1785]

This art is so very Good and Great, How very Clever.

[@Angelddart]

I'm on it Aaron! thank you so much!

[@icymal6685]

Thank you for sharing!

[@flatpigeon9349]

Very helpful. This is very helpful. I can't seem to transfer my traditional skill to digital because of how I hold my pen, but this is great.

[@caynite]

thx for this video, made the whole process a little easier to understand!

[@gmeliberty]

Brilliant tutorial! Thank you.

[@mikipixi]

Magnificent. Thank you so much.

[@fuzzydragons]

such a lovely fur texture to the ears 😀

[@zeusolympus1664]

I have been confused with how to start a digital drawing. I pretty much do traditional drawing so I used traditional techniques to create shadows and highlight in just one layer which is a bit tough. This video really helped me get to know the proper process tp any digital painting. Thank you sir, you are great.......

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dipuartsdigital]

Wow nice 👍

[@gabrochart]

Very good tutorial

[@mparis130]

This was so helpful, thank you!

[@AD7Films]

Beautiful work.

[@itz_nelina7150]

Thanks you so much for sharing! Youre soo amazing and such a huge inspiraion! Not only for me but also for all the others here!! Your videos and art truly inspire me so much!

[@SOM_-sy6pv]

Thanks, really!!

[@LikoKZN]

Было интересно, спасибо!

[@rrmendoza1]

Thank you so much! This is very helpful!

[@hongkongtennis]

great work

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Thanks!

[@poisonedpeanutbutter9475]

Thank you so much for this :)♡

[@utagagua]

Wonderful video, amazing artwork!

[@valmyburgh2811]

Thanks for this Aaron! Please clarify whether you're using your paint at 100 percent opacity when you're doing shadows and highlights. Also, are you using the mixer brush or the straight brush? Thanks Aaron.

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

In most cases yes. The blend mode creates the opacity effect.

[@valmyburgh2811]

@@AaronBlaiseArt Thanks for your response! I've learnt a lot from your videos.

[@EddinArt]

Nice

[@claird6477]

Thankyou Sir!!

[@aishteru8790]

Question: what settings do you use for your brushes 😭😭😭😭

[@palmspringsartist]

Awesome video! Appreciate the lesson

[@TommyLikeTom]

The thing about flopping the drawing is that perhaps if something looks good one way it doesn't the other,and vice versa, so by trying to improve a flopped image might make the image worse. Just a theory

[@SeanWickett]

Great as always Aaron, but 65,000 unread emails?? Good gravy dude!!

[@segoviasibiricus]

WHERE CAN YOU GET THE REFERENCE PHOTO, IS IT IN ANY PHOTO PACKAGE ON THE PAGE?

[@kittypost3929]

I really like the thumbnail, the lion’s face is _squished._ :D

[@AWomanCalledWinnie]

I've been doing digital art for almost 20 years! Gross! And I've never done it very well and when I do it well it was a struggle to get there. This entire time it's because I wasn't using multiple and overlay and was doing my lights and shadows in a traditional way. I've watched many videos telling about the multiply and overlay but they OVER explained it and confused me. You've just opened a gate in my art career wide open buddy. You have as much talent in teaching as you do art.

[@shaleahaormerod4404]

Can you download new brushes on your drawing software? I use Medibang paint pro

[@geryuthetzakandi2769]

Have you ever considered doing a video on feathers? Shading them, I mean. I bought your bird course, and I like it a lot, but that's something I still struggle with landing.

[@psychof1086]

👏👏

[@mannixpro3543]

Im watching your watercolor tutorial. Now i want to go back to digital 😂

[@zeuspublishers7463]

How do you chose appropriate colors?

[@yeetwhatisyeet5622]

Color theory is the way, along with a basic understanding of how light works

[@adinail_daniel5555]

🤗🤗🥰👍

[@Anonymous-ue7dl]

❤❤🎉

[@psychochickenanimations464]

So what step do you start drawing over the sketch?

[@felixb.788]

What really demotivates me is the coloring. I just started digital painting and I just dont get how you get from laying in the local color, to what comes after that. It looks so real, how the lion has different kind of colors here and the there but without feeling displaced, it just looks all natural how the colors are blend in to another. When i try to do anything with colors after the local color it just looks shitty and not natural how the different color types are working together. I hope you understand what i'm saying, english is not my first language ^^

[@estrangeiroemtodaparte]

Second!

[@nicholashughes4342]

Coolness,dream it,draw it,do it, stay blessed all in Jesus shalom

[@ronaldramirez2794]

I never tire of seeing this teacher. all a CRACK

[@christofthedead]

Aaron Blaise - pro drawing flopper

[@ryankates]

bring back the pony tail!

[@Clay-tality]

The second you added that reflection to the eye it changed the whole picture. Subscribing so I can learn more from you, good video!

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Die.Trying]

I’ve been loving these new videos, keep it up.

[@colinreid325]

Thanks!

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Thanks for watching & supporting!