Landscape Composition Guide

Johannes Vloothuis has written probably the best composition guide i’ve seen. More a guide for painting landscapes, it covers just about all the rules i’ve ever heard of. Great reference

 

Good lighting Ref

Some nice pics, worth studying the lighting to practise painting

right here

Lighting Guide

One of the best guides to light and lighting i’ve read. Lots of info on colours and times of day etc.

ConceptArt.org Tutorials

I should spend more time on this site. Has loads of tutorials (link above) and great inspiration. I’m putting it here so i’ll remember to check it out.

 

 

John Hagan Painting Lessons

A whole set of good traditional old painting tutorials here. Useful info from what i’ve read so far

Niklas Jansson Art Tutorials

A great one here. Looks at digital painting broadly, and illustrated well.

Another one by the same guy about how he paints in photoshop.

The rest of his work can be seen here

Photoshop Painting wiki

Lots of info for learning to paint in photoshop here on CGNetworks wikipage

Phil Straub Composition Tutorial

Great composition tutorial from Phil Straub. 3 whole pages. Nice nice!

Visual Perception and Aesthetics

Really good tutorial from Steven Stahlberg on visual perception and what makes an image pleasing to the eye. Definately worth a read and has some interesting psychological stuff.