Here we've collected together over 50 legendary examples of digital painting in Photoshop. This hyper-modern medium blends traditional painting techniques with a digital canvas to produce stunning results. Featuring Cris de Lara, Alon Chou, Frederic St-Arnaud and others.
1. Marta Dahlig
Marta is a long-standing Deviant Artist. She is 22 and from Poland, and she has been with DeviantArt since early 2003. During that time her amazing artwork and community involvement has made her work easily recognizable on the Deviant Art site. Her series of the seven deadly sins are pure perfection and a must see for any aspiring digital painter.
2. Daniel Conway
Daniel is a 23 year old lad who is currently living in the UK. He has spent 3 years studying both traditional art and digital animation. Currently however, he has been teaching himself the art of digital painting. His self teaching has certainly paid off, because his portfolio is truly amazing.
3. Marek Okon
Marek is also another digital painter from Poland. He is 27 and has some incredible talent. While he has been painting and doing web design for a while, it was only recently that he started he digital painting career. As you can see by looking at some his work, Mark is very into the sci-fi world. As a result, his work creates scenes that are truly creative and futuristic.
4. Cris de Lara
Who says all digital painting has to be complex sci-fi art? Cris has an awesome digital painting portfolio filled with a wider variety of subjects. Cris is currently living in Canada and started her jump into the digital painting world by learning traditional painting first. She first started with oil painting, but has now grown into doing work with comic books, illustrations, and TV.
5. Artgerm
Artgerm is the studio head and creative director of the talented digital painting studio Imaginary Friends. He is obsessed with Manga comics and this shows in some of his work. When not painting, he studies various other medias and styles as well as designs t-shirts.
6. Lorenz Hideyoshi Ruwwe
Lorenz is a freelance digital artist born in Germany. After finishing his studies, he decided to freelance full time and has been doing quite well at it. He mostly works with clients in the entertainment industry such as movies, video games, and books. The majority of his digital painting skills are self taught.
7. Alon Chou
Alon started working at a gaming studio doing 3D modeling work, but was more interested in his 2D work so he decided to leave his job. Today he works as a freelancer doing digital painting and other 2D jobs. Mostly he does character and scene designs for games and movies.
8. Linda Bergvist
If you are into CG and digital painting, you have probably seen the EXPOSÉ and EXOTIQUE books. If so, you have also seen some of Linda's work. Here digital paintings are no stranger to collections of great digital artwork. She likes to use a combination of Corel Painter and Photoshop to create her digital painting masterpieces.
9. Aleksi Briclot
Aleksi mostly works in the video game industry using his talents as a digital painter for creating concept imagery for game designs. Aleksi's work isn't limited to sci-fi digital paintings, but can also be found in books, comics, and a variety of magazines.
10. Goro Fujita
Goro was born in Japan, but moved to Germany where he currently lives today. Shortly after high school, Goro began freelancing with graphic design and programming. This led to his interest in animation and digital painting. Today he focuses mostly of digital painting and 3D animation. He currently works as a visual development director for feature films.
11. Jason Chan
Jason is from San Francisco and has been pretty successful in the digital painting community. His unique, child like sci-fi style has allowed him to create his own little niche in the community. You may have seen some of his work on the popular card game, Magic the Gathering.
12. Bobby Chui
Bobby started learning about digital painting by being an extremely active member on the CG Society website. Today he is not only an amazing digital painter, but also the owner of Imaginism Studios in Toronto. It is here where he teaches other about digital painting techniques. His art has won a number of awards and is very different from many of the other artists featured here today.
13. Robert Kim
Here we have another amazing young deviant artist who is filled with talent. Robert is 22 and from Calgary, Canada. He draws much of his inspiration from games, anime, and art. His digital painting offers a nice change from the complexly detailed images of many other digital painters. His style crafts together a mix of creative imagery and traditional painting to formulate an outstanding finished product.
14. Craig Sellars
Currently, Craig works as a freelance visual development artist. Mostly this means he works in the video game industry as a concept designer. In the years past he has worked with Walt Disney Features and the behemoth video game company Electronic Arts.
15. Vitaly Samarin Alexius
Vitaly was born in 1984 in south central Siberian Russia. In 1998 Vitaly moved half way across the world to Toronto. It is here that he began his journey into learning the world of art, Photoshop, and digital painting. He has a created a style unique to his name which he likes to call "dreamisim." He currently works as a photographer and illustrator.
16. Frederic St-Arnaud
You have probably seen a ton of Frederic's work without even knowing it. He has been in the business for over 11 years and has worked some really big names. He has learned everything from basic drawing to 3D animation. Some of his most popular projects include major motion picture posters such as Sin City, Indiana Jones, and Death Race.
17. Raphael Lacoste
Raphael grew up in France, but currently lives in Canada with his wife and son. Originally Raphael studied the fine arts, but later on in his life he began studying 3D animation. Currently Raphael is working as an art director for video games and other CG related work.
18. Taeyoung Choi
Taeyoung started out as a drawing instructor, but slowly worked his way into the world of digital painting and 3D animation. He mostly focuses his skills on the gaming industry to create character and background concepts. He has won several awards and features in an older edition of the EXPOSE book.
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( ADD YOURS )FeatherHost November 21st
Amazing work.
glee November 21st
Some very nice stuff here.
Mo November 21st
Jealousy… wow.
Me November 21st
I stumbled, I saw, I was amazed…
Beautiful works by all.
Jraider5 GFX November 21st
Wow those are amazing… Nice
q November 21st
Now thats what you call artwork. Some amazing and talented stuff. Great collection!!!
Eric Shafer November 21st
Wow, that is absolutely stunning. Let’s see some tutorials on this kind of thing!
graphic design brisbane November 21st
An absolutely beautiful collection, I adore this art!
VertigoSFX November 21st
Wow…not much more you can say to that…simply amazing.
insic November 21st
MIND BLOWING INDEED!. amazing
Alchemy November 21st
Wow, this is the most amazing collection I have ever seen.
shag November 21st
sick. (in a good way). love to see some step by steps for a simple digi painting.
RaverOfDarkness November 21st
This makes me like art more and more. Talent out of this world. Love the kid dressed as a whale. Hilarious.
Jin November 21st
good list. You missed ZhuZhu though.
http://zhuzhu.deviantart.com/
omarterrones November 21st
WOW!!!!
Guest November 21st
Not bad. I won’t name particular artists, but half of those are incredible, and the other half are kind of mid range and far from mind-blowing.
GeirBNystad November 21st
i hate this, make me realize how much i suck!!!
bob November 21st
nice work - great job assembling the list and giving bio/credit to the artist.
kudos
Tom November 21st
Very good.
I’m also a big fan of this guy: http://www.borkurart.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=7
yusuf1 November 21st
yep, me too. after seeing this i noticed i have NO talent lol. very good “MINDBLOWING” stuff for sure
Ben Reid November 21st
These are amazing! Pure eye candy!
The Final Fantasy VII is ace!
macias November 21st
masterpieces !
David Hellmann November 21st
uh great!
gadget n device November 21st
grreeeeeeeeat i loved it, i m nothing in front of his amazing art work.
Matt November 21st
What a visual treat.
manky November 21st
amazing work! how about some colouring tutorials : P
kate November 21st
its wierd how in all of history, all of humanity (after we learnt to simply survive) was merely concerned with what was ‘cool!’ science, art all of it, the real motivation of the people doing it is that its COOL,
cool
hehe
Bim November 21st
outstanding…
Bas November 21st
Looks awesome.
MiroARRR November 21st
OWCH
klio November 21st
great collection.
I am missing Calirezo though.
http://calirezo.deviantart.com/
Mabuc November 21st
All are very inspiring, awesome and superb design work. Im very inspired. thank you for sharing this.
Robert November 21st
1 and 8 (the book girl) are not mind blowing, boring photooverpaints, .. the book girls face is too big for the head /body.. just boring overpaint..
the other stuff: WOOOW!
Jonathan Drain | D20 Source November 22nd
Remarkable!
tct November 22nd
err…wow!
Overcome with a sudden urge to be creative, thanks for the post.
wYh0iUt November 22nd
(Quote : i hate this, make me realize how much i suck!!! )
I feel the same
Darren November 22nd
holy.crap. amazing!
Digital_13 November 22nd
You posted all my favorites! Great inspirational post.
I recommend checking out http://www.conceptart.org if your looking for more wonderful work like this.
Ariful Alam Khan November 22nd
Great works.
camilo vitorino da costa November 22nd
minha cabeça explodiu!!! (my mind blow up)
wiley November 22nd
i want a tut for one of these. might take me year to do…. but it’d be fun!
Eissoj November 22nd
Wow amazing, im blown away
Filip Redelius November 22nd
wao great inspiration!
truly skilled artists
Sharki (Poland) November 22nd
Awsome !!!
sean steezy November 22nd
i’m picking up tiny pieces of my brain from the floor and cubicle walls.
The Critic November 22nd
Amazing technique. But I wish they would choose other motifs. Haven´t we had enuff of fairies, dystopias, Cave Trolls and Transformers by now? Why not try something…err…artful?
Thodoris November 22nd
You forgot her: http://www.stateoftorpidity.com/2008/11/21/the-art-of-wen-xi-chen/
wifon November 22nd
Awesome one!
JPH November 22nd
Wow.
Alen November 22nd
Great selection.
Raj November 22nd
u guys are all amazin and i’m sure u’ll get far in an IT/ art job
SEO November 22nd
these are amaxing wish i could do stuff like that
Klaus November 22nd
Check out Chris Scalf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXjOi0d1DY
DCCrowley November 22nd
reallly great m:) Now all we need is a ‘how to’ :p
Juanjo Vargas November 22nd
Hum… you forgot Dylan Cole’s Matte Painting ^^! http://www.dylancolestudio.com/
Sacramento Website Design November 22nd
11. Jason Chan’s second Pic. I know she’s gonna kill me, but I can’t stop looking.
Rene Orozco November 22nd
Sad waste of talent unfortunately. Anyone can put junk deviant garbage up to appeal to lower destructive forms of thought. True creativity requires leading the observer to a higher plane of energizing and uplifting forms that evolve man’s thought process to a higher plane for the good of all mankind.
Karen Preston November 22nd
Wow! So many great works! thanks for sharing!
JarZe November 22nd
Awsome list!!! These are incredibly stunning artist…
Very very impressed
garg November 22nd
Of course, you couldn’t have posted all the amazing ones but how did you leave out http://goodbrush.com ?
artgeek November 22nd
quote: “1 and 8 (the book girl) are not mind blowing, boring photooverpaints, .. the book girls face is too big for the head /body.. just boring overpaint..”
Careful there. You have quite a nerve saying that about the works of Linda Bergkvist. You are ill-informed since she is indeed a very accomplished digital painter who learned all the fundamentals of painting. The same rings true concerning Martha Dalig.
I would have agreed if you had named the works of artist No. 15, because those are smudge-photo manipulations with eye-candy high-contrast coloration and lighting effects devoid of actual skill. WAY overrated also.
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Craig Sellars - excellent choice!
Also, it’s BergKvist and (Bobby) ChIU, not ‘Chui’.
Saul November 22nd
Stunning art!
Josh Drake November 22nd
Though there are some very talented artists here, I agree with Rene Orozco when I say that I’m tired of seeing all of the “normal” themes here, especially the ones aimed at all of us men (wink). Why not do something more uplifting? Just a thought…
nivaConcepts November 22nd
Wow. Mind-blowing. Thanks for the collection!
quote: “1 and 8 (the book girl) are not mind blowing, boring photooverpaints, .. the book girls face is too big for the head /body.. just boring overpaint..â€
Seriously, some of there work is astonishing. Linda Bergkvist might be my favorite one and Martha Dalig’s Oracle is beautiful.
John Spa Marketing Guy! November 22nd
Wow great work!
gogipatiala November 22nd
simply….mind blowing…wow10/10
Matt November 22nd
Wow! Amazing inspiration…thanks
jimboy November 22nd
why are most of the images about apocalyptic subjects???
very dark…maybe some “brighter” images next time?
Rupak Kharvandikar November 22nd
Mind blowing !!!
js November 22nd
nothing new here… fantasy kitsch crap
CRO November 22nd
I’ve seen Linda Bergvist’s work before. Her website is really great - there are tutorials and everything. If anyone happens to be into modding objects for the Sims 2, she goes by the name “Enayla” on modthesims2.com. Her page is http://www.furiae.com.
Nick November 22nd
Amazing stuff, really makes me want to get into digital painting…
I bookmarked at least half of these artists.
jouzinka November 22nd
I kind of missed Christina Ortega aka Dark Spider (http://dark-spider.deviantart.com/) in the selection. But anyway it’s a very nice selection, I am going to study those artists very closely, so thanks for it anyways.
soja.bob November 22nd
Awesome, absolutely amazing stuff.
Vasilis November 22nd
Most of them was awesome! Thanks
Kerpie November 22nd
It all was just… WOW !!!!
Takumi86 November 23rd
I’m so amazed when i first time visiting this topic and i was like ‘wow’ to myself
Jonathan Woodward November 23rd
QUOTE: “1 and 8 (the book girl) are not mind blowing, boring photooverpaints, .. the book girls face is too big for the head /body.. just boring overpaint..†END QUOTE
hmmm, just pick up any issue of ImagineFX and see Marta Dahlig present a step by step tutorial of one of her paintings from SCRATCH - she doesn’t simply paint over a photo and to presume so is ignorant. She is an amazing digital artist.
Great to see more digital painting posts on psdtuts these days.
Ernest Ojeh November 23rd
OMG!!! my head hurts. i would really love 2 see tuts on how to make those!
Dreams November 23rd
Simply amazing. How many years of dedication does it take to get this good with digital paintings?
Martin November 23rd
They are all from CGSociety. Great site and selection.
Seraphim Collective November 23rd
I’ve seen all of these before, this is a great collection!
Blackx November 23rd
Great collection, though I have the same comment as a reader above - I was suprised not to found the popular Graig Mullins - http://www.goodbrush.com
Kyle November 23rd
All are great examples of craftsmanship. Bobby Chui, Marta Dahlig, and Vitaly Samarin Alexius are the only one’s I found to be ‘creative’ in terms of content. These are all amazing PORTFOLIO painting. Masterpieces they are not.
Shawnster November 23rd
Some great ideas and beautiful colours but a lot of the content reminds me of Heavy Metal magazine covers.
Karol Adamczyk November 23rd
Stunning!
anotherwanderer November 23rd
I understand why some people say fantasy art is kitsch, it is indeed. But there’s a whole industry that needs this specific kind of art, games, movies (mattepainting), illustrations etc. You can’t use mysterious artsy images on a computer game package. Probably many of these artists do in parallel the ‘real art’ that some wish to see, but this doesn’t mean they should stop searching for an income in the name of some pure art ideal. On the other hand the so-called real art is also full of kitsch, of wannabe deep concepts and lots of images that don’t have any meaning. It’s just another style of kitsch. I prefer a well-done fantasy or sci-fi image than the mediocre work of a pretended haunted artist. Most of them don’t actually have talent and find a refugee in the eternal ‘i am misunderstood’. And yes, i can make difference between art and kitsch.
Only snobs always find a word to say..
Regina Dunn November 23rd
So ethereally beautiful. I’m just so amazed, I have by all this talent no more words.
Ann McCann November 23rd
Chris Howard, who wrote Seaborn, did the art - lovely!
Shockeye November 23rd
Every single one of these is flat out awesome
taksan November 23rd
wow
jagdish November 23rd
Really so nice
carringtonsmithers November 23rd
check this guy out, he does digital paintings and illustration, real cool stuff:
http://www.andresguzman.com/
Nels Nelson November 23rd
Pretty immature work, I think. There are some nice examples, but the hot chicks and the monsters and kid stuff shows that the medium still needs to grow up.
Lars November 23rd
Why just skulls, robots, aliens, manga etc. the first place is right!
Raj November 24th
I have also seen most of these paintings anyway thanx 4 sharing these collection!
ashvin November 24th
Breathtaking!
John November 24th
excellent work.thank you
Greg Althoff November 24th
I’m actually NOT blown away by these. In fact most of these are very uninspiring. A lot of these paintings are either very dark or exploiting women in ways they shouldn’t be.
Can we please get someone with better taste picking the art and artists used on this site? This article isn’t a showcase of amazing techniques, its bad taste from artists who don’t have much self control.
Women shouldn’t be portrayed as objects of our sexual desires, let’s get some maturity back on this article or any future articles! thank you!
Greg Althoff November 24th
Reno, who commented above, said it well
“Sad waste of talent unfortunately. Anyone can put junk deviant garbage up to appeal to lower destructive forms of thought. True creativity requires leading the observer to a higher plane of energizing and uplifting forms that evolve man’s thought process to a higher plane for the good of all mankind.”
I agree that it is a waste of talent. Because they are talented for sure…
Eve November 24th
I love it! Very inspiring artwork,
matt November 24th
that was pure awesome
some of those looked like great game designs
Jade Cadelina November 24th
thanks for sharing these paintings… very inspiring.
V November 24th
A lot of the “futuristic” man/machine ones are just repetitive. It was nice to see different takes on things instead of “Big gun, and a monster, and and and, yeah, some boobs.. heheh, yeah, that’s great”.
Art isn’t just about technique, but about originality too. Yes, all of the artists are technically amazing, but what about what they are actually drawing? We’re all a bit over the “delicate porcelain skinned vampire futuristic lady with a bazooka for an arm” thing, which is what made the other artists stand out a LOT more.
king simba November 24th
BRUTAL artworks!
hd November 24th
WoW!!!
Great works.
Tomas November 24th
Missed out my fav - http://spyroteknik.deviantart.com
dimkant November 24th
Perfect!!!!
WildCat November 24th
this is some of the best artwork i have seen online, its fantastic totally superb - wow wow wow
Love to know which pieces are done on a tablet…….
WOW WOW WOW
Rafael November 24th
Good selection
ET November 25th
wow coool stuffs. I’ve downloaded almost half of them…:)
eraserhead November 25th
good work
qwertyboy November 25th
awesome works, such varieties too, something for everyone to marvel at, amazing stuff
CariSizzler November 25th
Amazing work, talent…whole lot of talent.
Sayyed Saif November 25th
OMG that is some amazing work
I wish I had talent like that
Anand Mani November 25th
To Mr. Althoff: Out of approximately 58 images, only six were even remotely sexual. There were far more depicting standard sci-fi/fantasy fare involving conflict of some kind.
For most men, women ARE the object of their sexual desire and men are similarly objectified by those women. Every time somebody paints, sculpts, photographs, writes music about or depicts in any way, a person as a symbol for something, the subject is objectified. Okay, let’s just cut to, “Art objectifies that which is depicted” or “To be worshipped is to be objectified.” If you are offended by some depictions, fine—say so; just don’t attach any pseudo-moralistic platitudes to it.
aline November 25th
Very cool all the ilustrations..i loved
would be nice to make a thematic gallery of artists. what do you think?
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