Digital painting, to me, was the next logical step in my journey in learning art skills. Having learned the value of quality training from my pencil drawing lessons I looked for good online digital painting courses that would extend what I had already learned. This search ended when I found the CG Society.

The CG Society offer a number of similarly structured online courses for a range of digital art subjects. I was looking for something that could teach me foundational art skills in addition to the skills of digital painting. That course was called “Becoming A Better Artist”, an eight week “boot camp” style art course created and presented by Robert Chang. I couldn’t believe my luck in finding such a life changing course.

The course assumes you have Photoshop however I successfully managed to use GIMP instead without compromising the value of the lessons. After the course I purchased Art Rage digital painting software. This software provides a less technical environment for painting studies. This is what I used for the figure studies on my digital painting gallery.