Mini-courseFor beginners
My first study: digital painting
Six lessons and about three hours: value and mass, brushstroke and edge, warm and cool. Two painted studies in a week — an apple and a pear.
- 1 week
- of study
- 2
- modules
- 6
- lessons
- 2 hr 43 min
- videos
About the course
Six lessons, roughly two hours forty minutes of video, four theory blocks and two practice sessions. The theory covers graphic device and composition, materials and value, strokes and edges, and techniques taken apart on examples of form, silhouette and color. The practice is a study of an apple and a separate recording with a pear, where volume is built with the stroke instead of being blurred out with a soft brush.
The sore spot of beginner digital painting is over-blending. The piece gets worked over with a big soft brush until the form goes plastic, and the color temperature meanwhile doesn’t change at all: the shadow is painted in the same color as the light, only darker. The lessons build the opposite approach — first three or four value shapes, then the edges where the form turns, refinement last of all, and warm-cool watched from the very first stroke.
In a week you end up with two finished studies made with one technique on different objects. That’s enough to tell whether a painterly approach suits you before you take on a long course. You need a tablet or an iPad with a stylus and any editor with pressure: Procreate, Photoshop, Krita, Sketchbook.
The mini-course comes with the Club plan and isn’t sold separately. The subscription opens all the mini-courses at once, along with the video lesson archive and the reference packs. Video plays only in the built-in player; working files and lesson references can be downloaded.
- Format
- Video lessons with practice after each one, your own pace — about 1 week
- Materials
- Working files and references for the lessons — yours to download
- Where to watch
- In your account: your progress and the rest of the plan’s courses live there too
What you’ll be able to do
- 01Composition and placementplacing the object on the canvas well.
- 02Value and shapesunderstanding value relationships as the basis of painting.
- 03Brushstroke and edgesa live, confident stroke with no overblending.
- 04Warm and coolkeeping an eye on color temperature throughout the piece.
- 05Modeling formconveying the volume of a simple object with brushstrokes.
- 06A finished studya completed piece you won’t be shy to show.
Program
2 modules · 6 lessons · 2 hr 43 minEvery lesson opens with a plan — you watch them in your account
How it works
Watch the lesson
The walkthrough video and its working files open in your account.
Repeat it
Every lesson ends with practice — you draw right away, step by step.
Show your work
Post it to the shared feed, and Azat reviews the work on stream.
Who it’s for and what you’ll need
Who it suits
- The course is for beginning digital artists who want to try painting — quickly, without a long program, and with something concrete in hand.
- It suits those who already draw digitally in other areas and want to pick up a painterly approach, and equally those just starting out who want to find out whether this is for them before committing to a long course.
What you need to have
- A graphics tablet or an iPad with any stylus
- Any program with brushes and pressure: Procreate, Photoshop, Krita, Sketchbook, etc.
- A computer, laptop or tablet with internet access to watch the lessons
SubscriptionClub — $33 a month
The course opens along with the whole studio
286 video lessons
Azat’s archive on drawing and painting
9 mini-courses
all of them, not just this one
4 reference packs
references and working files, yours to download
Streams and work reviews
Azat reviews work on the Sunday stream