Phoenix Girl Digital Illustration Tutorial Part 1
By silent-rage
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This is the first part of my tutorial, which will cover how I created 2 of my latest illustrations titled "Awakening" and "Phoenix Rising"
Paraphrasing the brief, I'm asked to paint "a woman with wings made of fire."
Here are the finished paintings. I've made them available for free download at 8x10 inches 300 DPI, you can make your own prints!
fav.me/d7hd2zr
fav.me/d7h9cvf
You can download the PSD of these paintings and see the layers, adjustments, progress, and all that fun stuff.
It'll be perfect if you want to follow along the tutorials.
It's available here for free:
drive.google.com/file/d/0B2v-b…
Or you can buy it from DA to support me. ^^
In part 1 of the tutorial I will discuss how to research and gather reference, and how to create interesting thumbnails.
I will also include lots of samples, step by step, and any brushes and plugins used in the process as downloadable content.
In this part the only downloadable is the Thumbnail/Ideation brush available here:
drive.google.com/file/d/0B2v-b…
This is my first tutorial, so if you have any thoughts and suggestions, please comment, it will help me and everyone who enjoys these tutorials.
Stay tuned for the Part 2: Color palette, light and form, and concept design!
Paraphrasing the brief, I'm asked to paint "a woman with wings made of fire."
Here are the finished paintings. I've made them available for free download at 8x10 inches 300 DPI, you can make your own prints!
fav.me/d7hd2zr
fav.me/d7h9cvf
You can download the PSD of these paintings and see the layers, adjustments, progress, and all that fun stuff.
It'll be perfect if you want to follow along the tutorials.
It's available here for free:
drive.google.com/file/d/0B2v-b…
Or you can buy it from DA to support me. ^^
In part 1 of the tutorial I will discuss how to research and gather reference, and how to create interesting thumbnails.
I will also include lots of samples, step by step, and any brushes and plugins used in the process as downloadable content.
In this part the only downloadable is the Thumbnail/Ideation brush available here:
drive.google.com/file/d/0B2v-b…
This is my first tutorial, so if you have any thoughts and suggestions, please comment, it will help me and everyone who enjoys these tutorials.
Stay tuned for the Part 2: Color palette, light and form, and concept design!
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You should do Youtube videos or tutorial in Youtube! It will be amazing, I love your art
Thanks! I plan to! But work and life and procrastination, blah blah, please keep nudging me to do it, it will help motivate me. 
Believe me, I will continue reminding you
Haha, thanks
Wow, thank for sharing this. I know it takes time to put all these resources together and I really appreciate it!
Thank! Yeah it takes a bit of time but I'm really happy if I could benefit other artists.
:3
I love you ;_; your too kind
Thanks! I'm ok. 
thanks for this, buddy!
this is great, just found you, gonna be studying those psds for a good bit tomorrow : ) any chance Part 2 is gonna come out? Would love to see the process on those wings, glorious work. Also, what was the brief? just wondering what the prompt was. Thanks!
Hey, thanks a lot! I hope you can benefit from this. I do plan to make part 2 but with full time work and a side project it won't be any time soon, but I will try.
The brief was something like "A girl has turned into a pheonix with firey wings."
The brief was something like "A girl has turned into a pheonix with firey wings."
this is so great, thx a lot!
No prob, glad you enjoy it!
Awesome!
Thanks!
Awesome thank you for this.
Videos are always good because you see every single step but laid out with images like this is really nice too because you keep saying to keep it loose, and the less detail we pay attention to (like in a video) then the more free we are to stay loose with practice
Cheers
Videos are always good because you see every single step but laid out with images like this is really nice too because you keep saying to keep it loose, and the less detail we pay attention to (like in a video) then the more free we are to stay loose with practice
Cheers
good point! thanks for the feedback!
Great tutorial~!
I was wondering how big each of the thumbnails are?
I was wondering how big each of the thumbnails are?
Thank you!
Around 720 x 960 I believe.
I would paint them larger if I planned to directly enlarge a thumbnail into the next stage, but in this case I didn't, so they could've been smaller.
Around 720 x 960 I believe.
I would paint them larger if I planned to directly enlarge a thumbnail into the next stage, but in this case I didn't, so they could've been smaller.
Thanks, man, this is really helpful. Some of this I've been doing recently, but it is good to hear someone else say it....helps me confirm I'm on the right track. Looking forward to the rest of the tutorial.
No prob dude, and thanks for your feedback. I'm happy to hear that this is helpful to other people. ^^
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