Introduction To Matte Painting - Digital Painting Basics - Concept Art Tutorial

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[@za-qe4oi]

As someone who can't have access to a formal art education let alone digital art, I just can't thank you enough for your efforts in making and sharing those videos for free

[@samhuddson]

Thank you so much for making tutorials like these for free. They're really helping me with discovering new digital art techniques. Really appreciate the effort you put in to teach us!

[@WalidFeghali]

Hearing that they help you out is why I create them. Very happy to hear that! :) All the best, W.

[@mickeysimon3789]

Hey Walid, I have question. What program would you use to animate this painting you did. For example, make animated waterfall, sky or bird flying around. Would you just transfer this picture to after effects?

[@lauralefever5461]

As a person with no income trying to make her art better so I can make more money to support my family, I really appreciate your tutorials. They are helping me become a better artist and I really appreciate the effort you put in to make these. Thank you so much!

[@WalidFeghali]

I am so happy to hear this. It's why I do it! Love to share knowledge and see other artists benefit. :) Good luck and keep being awesome!

[@voicelesssavior]

get a job

[@MattproThe]

i pay more atention to this than the University. (bad english)

[@WalidFeghali]

Haha! Well as long as you're learning good stuff!!

[@MattproThe]

Walid Feghali this is amazing i'm watching the video and i love it, always love your work and your way to explain everything, i dont speak english to much because i didnt study english but i understand some things ans this is awesome, all i know of digital painting i learn it from you (my deviantart gallery dont show what i know, i'm bad but i'm talking about teory/details/how to). Thanks you for the video! maybe in a future i'll try to make things like this one or study this :)

[@Flougdd]

@Sharon Newman That's true my friend

[@williand8]

I was struggling to choose between painting or photo manipulation... then that just popped out on my youtube page. LOL! it can be the solution for my struggle, thank you! awesome art

[@WalidFeghali]

Haha that's awesome to hear. This is truly a great blending of two worlds. :) Best, W.

[@tkundrid5095]

Me too.. like I love photo manipulation due to the speed of getting the concept done faster, but I also love painting because It lets you more creative freedom to add extra stuff that you can't find in photos.

[@lisamaier9984]

I cannot begin to tell you how awesome this tutorial was. I learned so much, and I am so excited that I am FINALLY understanding how it is done. I entered a contest for a photo realistic environment, and a group member left me your link to help me. What a "gift"! Thank you so very much for sharing your talent, knowledge, and for just being you. You made this for free which so many do not do anymore, and for that I thank you as well. I will be watching all your tutorials, I am sure. Wow..... :)

[@WalidFeghali]

Happy to hear that, Lisa! Thank you for your support. :) Best, W.

[@teddybonzo8460]

Bro: I really hope you've learnt something from Me: Bro I've learnt everything from this..

[@theologian1456]

I thought matte painting was what is used in movies, painted on glass with gaps for live action?! Is this something else?

[@phoenixdk]

It is - the kind of painting being done here, is "just" photorealistic painting. You would generally avoid having moving elements in a matte painting, like waterfalls, electric bolts, etc... and you would leave gaps in the painting for the live-action projection afterwards. Today though, the digital workflow kind of makes all that obsolete.

[@irhammaulana3646]

dude it was so cool ....thanks to make this video and its free

[@Spacecookie-]

"I'm batmanburg, from gothamburg" Is what goes through my head when you say Gothenburg. XD

[@WalidFeghali]

Hahaha! Yes :)

[@abalczon]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this, my kids and I appreciate it.

[@emouthic556]

I literally learned more from you than in my 5 years in college :I I drastically noticed improvements every day following your techniques and I've only watched like 4 of your videos. I just want to say thank you so much!

[@suannstudio]

Thanks, man the worthiest hour I've ever spent during quarantine.

[@niklasruotsi3802]

On of the best tutorials I've seen in youtube. Learned more in an hour than I normally pick up in a whole course. Thanks for this!

[@stephensummers1958]

Wow and it’s not sped up garbage. More of this please!

[@themathias7014]

I have been roaming Gnomon and pluralsight the last 3 days and yet i still find more success with this simple video, thank you

[@WalidFeghali]

That's great to hear! :)

[@IamJohnnyFan]

Amazing. I knew nothing about matte painting and this just inspire me to learn more as an artist. Thank you so much for this informative tutorial.

[@trisharu9108]

Thanks so much for these! I wish I discovered your videos when I was doing my thesis work because I had no idea what I was doing whatsoever. Point of this rant is that they're super helpful for someone who wants to get back into digital painting again!

[@ehsan_shardum]

thank u so much! this is so educational, u actually took ur time to explain the details (most utubers just speed things up or just skips the details), i didnt even know what matte painting was, may god bless u.

[@Rezyon]

I love these long thorough videos! I feel like they help me through the obstacles I run into when painting

[@benderrodrigez9285]

Really good. Like you videos and arts very much. Every time I find something new and interesting in your tutorials.

[@guldenfried7190]

I don't want to sound rude, but I don't consider this well executed. There's too much going on in the composition, some logical errors, too much mist etc. But keep going and all the best!

[@murraywestland775]

Your work, tutorials and teaching techniques are superb. I have painted in watercolour all my life but since discovering this I am hooked to digital art. Concept and matte just gives so much scope to any image I want to produce. Can't thank you enough.

[@MC50000]

A really useful and interesting tutorial and yes I watched every minute of the entire video and enjoyed it immensely. Thankyou so much! Please keep the tutorials coming

[@samzaleskifilm9405]

Hi, this whole video was fantastic to watch and I feel like I learned so much. Thank you so much!

[@gustavogirotto]

Thanks so much for this video. I loved your workflow and the way you explained it. ;)

[@WalidFeghali]

Happy to hear that. :) Cheers Gustavo! Best, W.

[@Alice_Hamilton]

I had a dream a while ago, and I would have loved to recreate a certain image of this kind of landscape but I never thought I could! Now I might acually be able to do it...I am really excited to try this, thank you so so much

[@WalidFeghali]

Happy to hear that Charlie. I know how it can be... You can definitely do it! Stay tuned for more. W.

[@mojosrin]

Thank you for going into such great detail! Out of the countless videos from other channels that I've watched on this subject I finally feel like I learned something! Yay!!

[@virberrocalart]

Just discover your channel! Thanks a lot for your tutorials. Greetings from Spain ^^

[@ahanucasey1227]

I have a Surface Pro, I really want to be able to do this sort of thing, but the most I've ever really done to draw three-dimensional scenes is to sketch them, so using colors and textures digitally is harder for me to really imagine in my head, so this helped me a lot. There are plenty of speedpaints I've seen, but I like that you did this in real time to sort of explain it. I bought Sketchable on the Windows store because I happened to have a $25 Windows Store gift card from a couple years ago (I was in Middle school and thought I could buy Minecraft Java with it) but I can't really afford the subscription to higher-level applications like photoshop. Still, I think your techniques will be helpful to me. Thank you!

[@markusruplitsch]

Awesome Tutorial. I downloaded the brush pack but i couldn't find the chalk brush you were using in this video D: Also here are some videos i would love to see: how to paint skies/clouds how to paint water/rivers/oceans special effects/ after effects (like the sun beams or the blue energy you did in this video) Thanks a lot for making these videos.

[@WalidFeghali]

I have a "Cloud painting" tutorial on my channel already. Water/Rivers/Oceans is a good idea, I'll start cooking that one up soon. Also, for the chalk brush, redownload the brush pack and you should see the chalk brush there 100%. If not, please let me know! Best, W.

[@markusruplitsch]

Oh yeah, sorry i did'nt see the cloud tutorial :D I can't find the chalk brush even after Downloading the brush pack again. Could be just me tho.

[@shadi5885]

Easily the best tutorial I found for matte painting! thanks so much for teaching us such priceless knowledge without a price. Could you teach us a little about your Wacom Intous Pro setup for your workflow please? It would help me a lot

[@bobbyrne5089]

Dylan Cole is amazing just checked him out and he is so talented and I thought it was all real filmed in New Zealand.

[@JohnGetchel]

Thanks so much for making these videos. They are such a great source of learning and inspiration! I even love the fact that you were just winging it and made such an amazing image!

[@Artistsomaya]

thanks 4 mkng this tutorial....👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 its really vry hlpfull

[@xrbabystudio]

Thanks a lot for making this tutorial, watched from beginning to the end and really enjoyed learning your tips =) Thank you for sharing with us!

[@sanjayrawat4876]

Whenever i am going to use the images on the painting... it feels like the creation is not completely mine.

[@WalidFeghali]

That can happen. It's really up to you and what you find is good for your workflow and what you feel is right. :) Best, W.

[@dantheman2907]

This was a great tutorial. I just learned a whole bunch of new techniques to try out. Thank you, kind sir!

[@WalidFeghali]

Happy to hear. :) Good luck!

[@fogann_]

Wow, it's amazing. Do you think that is it possible to a person, like me, who isn't really good at drawing, to do something like this in the future ? I'm an interactive media designer so I know photoshop and my things is to do album covers but, I just love concept art and I didn't ever tried it because I'm too bad at drawing. I'm actually 21 and I was wondering if it was possible for me to began and to, one day, have these kinds of results. So do you have some advices to a very beginner like me ? I really really want to do things like this, this is amazing, I really love it

[@rphlwis]

you should put the key on the video so we can know what you click to pops up the thing ( Bad english btw)

[@catking1705]

Very inspiring tutorial sir. This is a working smart method and everything here is about learning.

[@WalidFeghali]

Great to hear! :) W.

[@catking1705]

Your welcome :D. Please keep it up.

[@stonebrew6116]

Great tutorial! I learned a lot from the real time portion in the beginning. Where at in Taiwan did you stay? I have been here for almost 9 years now.

[@WalidFeghali]

I lived in Taipei half a year. :) I wrote the music for a Taiwanese puppet 3D movie called "Arti: The Adventure Begins". Cheers!

[@TehSpeedRunner]

I had no idea that the Mandalorian also teaches how to matte paint!

[@SonnyBurnett2012]

Which parameters are you using with this chalk brush? From what i do here...looks like a flat brush simply. Do i have to activate which brush settings to achieve different colors each time i stoke? thx.

[@Kurayami231]

thank you so much for the great tutorial. It is helping me a lot with new techniques

[@roguesodyssey]

Great video! Thanks! It was cool to see you use photos from Zion National Park, my homeland.

[@chancedreamscape3526]

I guess I am a little late to this party. Not sure if you will see this comment or not. I really love the concept and execution. Beautiful work, well executed and enlightening. I would humbly suggest though that you stop apologizing for this and that not being perfect or not being planned ahead of time. No work of art is ever perfect, yet as this work demonstrates the end product can still evoke a sense of awe, wonder, technological achievement, the full glory and power of nature and a bit of mystery all at once. All of this just makes me want to go wander around inside the world you managed to create over a 4 hour period. Only I think I want to spend at least a few years there, not just four hours. All said it's pretty amazing and no apology for anything to get from start to finish is necessary, I humbly submit for your informed consideration Walid.

[@finmcalester7142]

your brushes link is 404 now. i had them before but can't find them now, or re download them now. Glad your site is taking off and full of traffic. Continue on inspiring and best wishes for you and your team of artist.

[@Protokjax]

Yo, thanks for the tutorial. Watched it thru and thru. Just one thing, you should probably get your site secured (the green thing that says secured at the top of a url) because rn it's not lol. I wanted to download the brushes and even sign up but I can't do so until I know what I'm getting into. Thank you so much again, will be subbing.

[@paulatreides6711]

Matte painting techniques from 2003, nobody does that anymore

[@petersolomon5227]

There is very much more to matte painting than majestic, Hollywood styled fantastic art. Some of the most fascinating matte paintings and set extensions are for everyday environments, and that much more difficult to pick.

[@sonorityscape]

Oh gawd, I don't know why, but now I need to learn digital painting. Do you recommend buying a tablet with a pen? Sorry if you mentioned this in a video. Thanks Walid!

[@WalidFeghali]

Yes I highly recommend that! It's very important if you want to do any sort of concept art or digital painting. Using a mouse is simply not good enough (way from it!). I have written an article on getting your first tablet: www.evenant.com/design/buying-your-first-graphics-tablet/ Good luck, Sonorityscape!

[@ilovemykidy]

As an artist who wants to get into concept art, this was super helpful. Thanks so much for making this video.

[@ashish3saxena]

Thank You so much, Brother! From India.

[@T_2966]

You are amazing!! Loved this tutorial!! Thank you 🙌🏽

[@destinyparkour2029]

Hello, i want to do this art , like do a fantasy landscape or something like that but my question is if i dont know how to draw very well i can do that ?

[@tkundrid5095]

Fucking hell, THANKS DUDE. This is amazing you made my day!

[@griffrider2114]

I love your tutorials, man! Super helpful, I'm learning more than I did in a year of art school. I do have a question though, mostly related to the resolution of your images. I like to work on bigger canvas sizes especially if I'm printing afterwards (but also just more comfortable if I want to go in and render something later in detail, etc.) but I notice you work a lot with smaller canvas sizes for your speedpaints. I'm assuming this is to make things like brushes faster and textures a bit better looking... but as far as I can tell there is no way to take this smaller speedpaint and bring it up in size to say print quality without a drastic decrease in quality. So how do you deal with this? Do you increase image size and then paint over the whole thing to make it look nice again, or do you just make separate images in full resolution when you know you want to detail it more later?

[@WalidFeghali]

Great question. The thing is, I usually start off with a smaller canvas, like perhaps 2000x1000, or 3000x2000, and do my initial sketching and speed painting on there. Once I like what I've done, I scale it up to about 5000 pixels wide, and then just start rendering things out and making everything look finished. This is enough resolution for most prints! Thanks for your comment! Best, W.

[@griffrider2114]

Thank you so much! You're an excellent teacher, keep doing what you're doing. :)

[@gulde_fubber3353]

hey man, now i know why the artist use much waterfall on this images!!!

[@Conceptsofsanket]

Will I get Copyright issue if I use photo bashing ?

[@ottz2506]

Hopefully I can get a reply, but when it comes to digital painting generally, would you eventually have to add some real photographs in in order to achieve the best look or can you avoid that and still achieve the same look?

[@WalidFeghali]

You can paint it all from scratch! If you use photos you will get a more realistic, matte painting look, and if you paint it all you will get a more painterly look. All about what effect you want to create :)

[@magicimaginations]

it kinda like evolves like that you know... omg like what??? i do art but wtf you are a natural and you don't even know it

[@vanraid1]

bro thx for information, i wanna see again to learn more aboute MP!!! Thx salute from Paraguay!

[@ymirsmack324]

Amyone knows if this is a step by step real time course that also shows you the tools that are being used in the process? If not, is there any course like that for begginners to become advanced digital artists?

[@WalidFeghali]

Hey! Yes, my course Cinematic Design: From Idea To Finished Concept Art is exactly that. I open it up again now in February so stay tuned! W.

[@dabijasergiu3871]

I can.t understand.. a lot of things.. in special how to blend photo and mix it with the paint.. that is blowing my mind , i want to learn it because is cool i can do a lot of staff on paiper but i can.t digitaly that makes me feel sad

[@theunraveler]

What should be the optimal setting for canvas size? Mine tends to lag alot when I do broad strokes

[@NeneChan203]

I struggle with art so much, I was thinking about going for an art career since I can kind of draw but I always see these incredibly talented artists, some of them MUCH younger than me, who do incredible things with their art skills and I get so demotivated... thank you for these tutorials, your videos are amazing

[@dgodd2284]

Flip the switch. What I mean is there is not much difference between the feelings of intimidation and inspiration - other than your perception. You can look at those same artists and realize that with time and diligence you can also reach that level. Flip the switch from intimidation to inspiration.

[@mrwhitey2027]

Do you really aftu do photos? I want to paint it all 😅 is more interesting but I want to hear ur opinion because I'm the noob here

[@carriepray7154]

This is so helpful! Thanks so much. I'm curious why you use mostly destructive techniques as opposed to non-destructive? Meaning, it seems like there is not a lot of use of layers, masks, etc. I'm wondering if that's an industry standard to reduce file size or just a preference? Thanks!

[@WalidFeghali]

Because I don't care as much haha! I like being bold with my creation, and not second-guess. I can always fix later if I really need to. But it's really up to each and every one to decide their own workflow. Thanks for your comment! :) Best, W.

[@megakillerx]

Lmao at the Kjellberg Inc. on the first illustration.

[@MoonshineSazerac]

Jesus, I'm sat here watching you do it, yet I still have no fucking clue how you did it. It's such a strange experience.

[@WalidFeghali]

Hahaha!

[@stellakerr8924]

Your work is incredible! amazing tutorial thank you!

[@STG2_Saad]

معليييم كيف مظبط لهجتك ماشاء الله عليك 😅

[@JJayPGZ]

Bro... You've just blown my mind!

[@inshuuuut]

lol, timestamping myself. 45:03 disregard this comment.

[@jsteo9205]

Sir I wish to c d video tutorial about building digital painting from u.. Ya

[@TranquilGeo]

As suggestions go, do you know where I could find a video that incorporates both photos and videos? I have recorded so much footage with a beautiful stream or waterfall but the land around it looks terrible. I would love to learn to put some pretty land around the moving video. I've tried this several times but it always looks very fake.

[@danlewis5138]

Kjellberg inc? we know what pewds is gonna be doing after t series beats him 2:40

[@danielharf7478]

Awesome Brother Tank you so much for your Knowledge

[@wendellpo2215]

Nice video thanks for sharing your work flow thanks

[@MiiikeeeHuuunt]

as a beginner. seeing you not use layer masks, and paint directly on the layer makes me so nervous.

[@Unknown-uu2bs]

Help! The chalk brush is solid colour and not like the one in the video! How?

[@alexg.7453]

How do you switch between shades like that? Do you have buttons that are preset to different shades or...? Thanks

[@lowrez2703]

Looks like he's using the eye dropper tool to pick colours up from the surrounding areas. With brush selected just hit alt and you'll see the little pipette, then click on a nearby colour to choose it. Hope that helps

[@itsSmacky]

First video i ever watch from you, and as soon as i heard "hometown Sweden, Gothenburg" i subscribed! #ReppaGötet

[@WalidFeghali]

Så ja!

[@Procione07]

Look like a card from magic the gatheting. Amazing 🤣👍

[@twicedimension8727]

I don't know how to download your brushes i put an email but i didn't get any link

[@PhotoshopImagination]

Nice work... Love this... Could you please tell that which touchpad you used for your paintings...? Thank you

[@WalidFeghali]

Hey, using Wacom Intuos Pro Medium :)

[@T0mN7]

My god... You're like the Bob Ross of Photoshop!

[@mfrobles93]

This is just extreme scrapbooking lol.

[@joelsypuub]

So smart and articulate, rapid and effective. I basically love you. Thanks man!! Cheers,

[@WalidFeghali]

I love you too.

[@tzimukim]

Thank you so much for your videos and brush pack, i learn so much!

I just found out about you and Evenant, and dude, I'm blown away. Just joined the Evenant group on Facebook, but right now I'm highly insecure about my skills HAHAHA!

[@surpriseraisin5892]

Man this is impressive

[@annamudge15]

Wow, this is awesome! I'm trying to get better at environment illustration and I hope to get as skilled at this as you. Seeing your technique and the beautiful illustration you have after is really inspiring. You really make this look so easy, haha! I will definitely keep practicing.

[@WalidFeghali]

Thanks for your awesome comment :) Stay tuned for more! Best, W.

[@MC50000]

Where do you learn all the photoshop techniques used to do all this?

[@alicjakupiec7584]

Thank you so so much!

[@anuragsingh4087]

Love your work the initial part of sketching itself was so amazing, without any doubt am watching the complete video. Thank you so much for sharing. Respect from India. 😃✌🏼

[@WalidFeghali]

Cool to hear that. :) Best, W.

[@patriciabonelli3958]

What do you use to paint/draw? A tablet or the mouse ¿?

[@Red_Rebel]

Wow first time learning the match colour trick!

[@vipulhamirani4927]

Thank you ...Thank you ......Thank you sooooooo much............

[@WalidFeghali]

And thank you as well for being here! Best, W.