Digital Painting: The Sketching Approach By Julien Schleiffer

Digital painting is an excellent storytelling tool for capturing the spontaneity of everyday life and depicting scenes or attitudes. Nevertheless, digital drawings often end up looking too perfect and their strokes very two-dimensional. This is exactly what Julien Schleiffer tries to avoid by playing around with sketching and exploring the evocative power of each line.

In this Domestika course, illustrate a story using digital painting as you would a sketchbook. Unlock your imagination with a few initial sketches for your narrative image, and before you know it, you’ll have created a vibrant illustration of full light while also exploring the secrets of Photoshop.

Use digital painting techniques and sketching to tell an illustrated story, such as storyboard or graphic novel, and create a template in the form of a mood board or collection.