A Basic Introduction to Illustration in Photoshop with Aaron Blaise (Great Tutorial for Beginners)

In this 1 hour and 11 minute tutorial, Aaron Blaise will take you through the very basics of creating images in Photoshop using his methods. This Photoshop Illustration Tutorial is perfect for beginners and aspiring digital artists. Photoshop can be scary piece of software to approach but with Aaron’s easy to follow instructions, he’ll have you beginners up and illustrating in no time. NOTE: While the software demonstrated is Adobe Photoshop, the techniques shown here generally apply to all digital painting Apps including, Procreate, Krita, Clip Studo Paint, Corel Painter and many more. Please get more instruction and see more of Aaron’s work at Chapters: 00:00:00 Opening Titles 00:00:47 Introduction and Overview 00:03:25 Hardware Suggestions 00:06:29 Starting in Photoshop / Interface 00:10:25 Color Picker 00:13:47 Work in Layers 00:15:13 Basic Drawing 00:29:12 Refine Drawing 00:33:33 Local Color (Base Color) 00:35:21 Quick Brush Tip 00:43:39 New Co lor Layers 00:46:09 Shadows Layer and Blend Modes 00:52:54 Adding Highlights 00:59:00 Eye Color 01:02:35 Secondary Light 01:05:20 Background 01:08:45 Wrap Up ** Find More Art Lessons and Tutorials at my Website: ** ============================ About Aaron Blaise: ============================ 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. () Aaron currently is working on his mission to bring affordable art education and animation training to the world through his website: