DANIEL MOLYNEUX · DIGITAL ART ACADEMY
Learn to draw and paint
on your Artist 12.
Thirty lessons that take you from plugging the tablet in for the first time to finishing an original character sheet. Built around the fundamentals, not tricks — and around the drawing skill you already have.
30
LESSONS
8
MODULES
58
VIDEOS
59
PRACTICE FILES
THE COURSE
Eight modules, in order
Each one builds on the last. Do them in order the first time through.
MODULE 1
Your Studio
Get the Artist 12 connected, calibrated and comfortable. The boring lessons that stop everything else being frustrating.
4 LESSONS
MODULE 2
Digital Foundations
The handful of ideas that separate digital from paper. Layers is the big one — it changes what a drawing even is.
4 LESSONS
MODULE 3
Drawing Fundamentals
Construction, proportion, perspective and gesture — the skills you already have, sharpened by tools that let you check your own work.
5 LESSONS
MODULE 4
Value & Light
Value does the work colour gets credit for. Learn to see light as shapes before you learn to paint it.
4 LESSONS
MODULE 5
Colour
The colour picker decoded, harmony as deliberate restriction, and the local-vs-light idea most people never get taught.
4 LESSONS
MODULE 6
ArtRage 6
Real paint behaviour — oils that smear, canvas that has grain, knives that scrape. Where digital stops feeling like a computer.
4 LESSONS
MODULE 7
Photoshop for Artists
Reshape a photographer's app into a painter's studio, then learn the brush engine and the non-destructive stack properly.
4 LESSONS
MODULE 8
Capstone
One original character, taken from twenty silhouettes to a finished presentation sheet. Everything you've learned, in one piece.
1 LESSON
Watch, then do
Every lesson has one to three hand-picked videos and a practice exercise with a clear finish line. Watching without drawing doesn't count.
Files to work from
Practice files come with the lesson — line art to colour, templates to fill, worksheets to print. No hunting around.
Check yourself
Each lesson ends with questions. If you can't answer them in your own words, that's the signal to go back — not whether the drawing looked good.
Ready when you are.
Lesson 1 takes about 25 minutes and you don't need to draw anything yet — just get the tablet talking to your computer.