How to do Illustration, Painting, or Photography

When you’re ready to move on from the basics and start illustrating on your computer, check out our digital painting lessons.

Lesson 1: Get Started Painting on Your Computer Painting digitally is significantly different from painting with brushes. This kick-off lesson in digital painting provides you with a broad overview of those differences, suggestions for the software and hardware you'll need in your digital painting toolbox, and some tips for getting around with your tools of choice.

Part I: Understanding How Your Digital Camera Works With so many cameras available, figuring out how all the specifications and options translate into your everyday use is complicated. For our first lesson in the Basics of Photography, we learn how cameras work and make sense of what that means in terms of choosing a camera to buy and how that choice affects your photographs.