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🎨TUTORIAL//How to Digital Paint Water Easily🌊

Added 2025-09-20 15:00:12 +0000 UTC

This tutorial breaks down my process of painting water, from calm pools to crashing waves. We'll go over how to capture reflections, transparency, movement, and colors.

Water is such a fun subject to paint, but it can be intimidating. Let me show you my straightforward approach to simplifying water so that you can feel more confident about incorporating it into your own work!

let's "dive" in!

🔸{Chapters}🔸

00:00 What are we doing?
00:38 The TWO things to keep in mind when painting water
03:57 The simplest pond/lake
08:41 pool with a floating ball (ripples)
14:12 Sandy beach with caustics
20:48 Waves
26:47 Micro Splash
31:26 Painting water for an actual illustration

🔸Resources from the Tutorial🔸

🔸BRUSHES🔸

My Top 5 CLIP STUDIO PAINT: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53979567
Top 5 PROCREATE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54091665
Top 12 PHOTOSHOP: https://gum.co/top12brushes All PHOTOSHOP: https://gum.co/eVgO
Ghibli Brushes Mentioned

🔸Past Tutorials Related to this Topic🔸
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Tutorial: How to draw BACKGROUNDS when you HATE drawing backgrounds PART 1
Tutorial: How to draw BACKGROUNDS when you HATE drawing backgrounds PART 2
Tutorial: Making a character look like they BELONG in a Scene
Easy Backgrounds for Character Art

Looking for more past tutorials?-> Tutorials Index

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