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Digital painting. Render
The second part of the digital painting course: color, light and complex setups. Seven weeks — a plaster head, a portrait, a cityscape, an interior and homework.
- 9
- modules
- 13
- lessons
- 4 hr 38 min
- videos
About the course
A course that for years ran only in semesters is now recorded and split into seven weeks, so there’s no intake to wait for. Every week is theory and practice: color temperature and contrasts in a still life, a still life with a candle, composition in two parts with a plaster head and a portrait, states of the environment and a cityscape, an interior, and the final presentation. Every week has homework; the bonus block has a review of students' work.
This is not a beginner level: it assumes you already hold value and light, and the best entry point is after the course on the basics of digital painting. The difficulty here is a different one. With colored light or two sources, the shadow usually gets painted in the same color as the light, only darker, and the picture goes muddy. The course covers how to separate the temperature of light and shadow, and what happens to local color when the state of the environment changes.
With your own hands you’ll paint six or seven setups in different genres: two still lifes, a plaster head, a portrait, a cityscape with perspective and an interior composition, and then present them the way it’s done for a portfolio. Any tool works — a tablet or an iPad with pressure, Procreate, Krita, Photoshop, Sketchbook.
The mini-course comes with the Club plan and isn’t sold separately. The subscription opens everything at once: the mini-courses, the video lesson archive, the reference packs and the marathon recordings.
- Format
- Video lessons with practice after each one, your own pace
- 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
- 01Color theory and temperatureyou’ll learn to see and convey warm and cool, and to work with color contrasts.
- 02Color schemesyou’ll learn to choose a palette deliberately for any setup.
- 03Working with lightingcolored light, two sources, natural light — understanding each type.
- 04Composition and balancethe principles that hold a picture together.
- 05Different genresstill life, portrait, landscape, interior — well-rounded practice.
- 06Final presentationbeing able to lay out and present a piece at portfolio level.
Program
9 modules · 13 lessons · 4 hr 38 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 those who already have a base in value and light and are ready to move on to color and complex setups. The best entry point is right after “Digital Painting: Fundamentals”.
- It also suits working artists who want to put their knowledge of color and composition in order and get an honest outside look at every piece.
What you need to have
- A graphics tablet or an iPad with any stylus
- A computer, laptop or tablet on any operating system
- Any program with brushes, pressure and a palette: Procreate, Krita, Photoshop, Sketchbook, etc.
- Any device 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