Udemy – My first study: Digital painting

What you’ll learn

Build a confident composition and place objects on the canvas with intention

Understand tonal relationships and apply them in a painted study

Work with loose, expressive brushstrokes — without overblending

Control warm and cool color temperatures to make your painting feel alive

Model form and volume using brushwork alone

Complete a finished digital study of a fruit from start to finish

Apply painterly techniques in any brush-based app — Procreate, Photoshop, and others

You’ve probably seen those digital paintings that seem alive — loose brushstrokes, rich colors, a sense of texture you can almost touch. Have you ever wondered how that’s done?

This mini-course is the fastest path to your first real digital painting. Not a polished illustration. Not clean vector art. A living, breathing painterly study — with expressive mark-making, confident values, and warm and cool colors that glow.

Here’s the truth most beginners never hear:

Digital painting isn’t about finding the right app or the perfect brush. It’s about learning to see — shape, value, temperature — and deliberately putting that on the canvas. That’s exactly what this course teaches.

You’ll go from theory to a finished painterly study.

We start with the fundamentals: composition, value, color masses, brushwork, edges, and warm-cool color relationships. Then we go straight to the canvas — no gap between theory and practice. You’ll paint a fruit study step by step, building volume through brushstrokes and chasing that elusive sense of life in every mark.

By the end of the course, you’ll have:

A solid understanding of composition, value, and color temperature.

A confident, expressive brushstroke — loose and alive, without over-blending.

A finished digital study you’ll be proud of and excited to share.

This course is for you if:

You want to try digital painting but don’t know where to start.

Your work looks neat and tidy but feels flat and lifeless.

You don’t want to spend months studying before seeing a real result.

You look at painterly work and wonder: how do they make it feel that way?

Who this course is for:

Beginner digital artists who want to understand color and learn to paint with expressive brushstrokes

Anyone who wants to try digital painting without committing to a long course

Artists from other disciplines — graphic design, illustration — who want to explore a painterly approach

Anyone who wants a fast, clear, and tangible first result in digital painting

Size:3.57 GB

home page

https://www.udemy.com/course/my-first-study-digital-painting/