Here’s a digital painting study I worked on today of a rocky beach (a few WIPs included).

Here’s the source file I used for reference:

I wanted this painting to be pretty quick and loose so my canvass was only 2500 px wide.

Here’s WIP 01:

Here’s WIP 02:

And here’s the final piece:

I used only a few different brushes – pretty much all default chalk. I say ‘default’ but I generally take the photoshop default chalks and just tweak them so they look a bit more powdery – usually this involves a duel brush or texture brush added to it (or both in the case of one of my chalk brushes).

Stay tuned for more digital painting tutorials, freebies and inspirations.