The Digital Painting Academy is your one-stop solution to becoming a world-class digital painter!

We’re on a mission to give you a better education than a traditional art school or university (which often cost $30,000+/year), for a fraction, of the price!  We’ve had multiple students tell us that they learnt more in our lessons than at their art school, and we’re hoping we can do the same for you.

In a nutshell, the Digital Painting Academy contains a huge library of professionally-produced classes, downloadable exercises, and premium resources to help you become a world-class digital painter. And to guarantee your results, you also get monthly live feedback and critiques on your work from a seasoned expert.

The Digital Painting Academy currently costs $35/month.

Please note that it is a monthly subscription. You get access to everything immediately upon enrolling, and get to keep access for as long as you keep your subscription active.

We don’t lock you into any contracts or do anything shady, and you’re free to cancel your subscription any time you’d like. 

If you’re a complete newbie, the very first thing you’ll learn is how to get started with your tablet and software, and how to make your first marks.

More advanced artists can skip ahead a few lessons, and dive right into mastering the fundementals of painting. Through a series of fun, project-based classes, you’ll learn key skills like

• Sketching, proportion & measurement
• Rendering and lighting
• Advanced techniques for working with color
• How to build a good workflow, fix your mistakes, and push your style
• Portrait details like skin tones, hair, textures, anatomy, and more

Once you have mastered the Foundations, you can dive into more advanced lessons, where we cover topics like:

• How to fix dull & muddy colors
• Painting clothing, jewellery, and other accessories for your characters
• Painting landscapes & foliage
• Designing epic dragons, and painting special effects like glowing embers, flashing spells, and fiery explosions
• Creating your own powerful brushes, and using them to add details and textures

And much more!

Yes! We make it really, really easy for you to cancel your subscription (it only takes 2 clicks from your Account Settings), because it forces us to work hard to keep your business.

You’re not locked into any subscriptions, and are free to cancel any time you’d like.

The only requirement is that you have a graphics tablet of some sort (click here if you’re not sure what that is).

Other than that, you’re free to use whatever tools you’d like!

Though almost all of our lessons are recorded in Adobe Photoshop, the vast majority of what we teach is app-independent. We focus on teaching the really important stuff – the fundamental skills of digital painting like measurement, lighting, values and form, coloring, etc – rather than specific apps or tools.

Your software interface may look a little different to Adobe Photoshop, but the basic concepts will all be the same!

Yes, and in fact we many students happily following along in just about any software you can name!

See the above question (“Will I need a specific software or tablets to follow along?”) for more information.

The lessons in the Digital Painting Academy will be most useful for beginner and intermediate artists.

That being said, we also have a number of advanced artists who stay in the Academy just for the sense of community and monthly feedback on their work!