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Learn how to make wonderful digital watercolor paintings

Name: Learn how to make wonderful digital watercolor paintings
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Korshub's take

Digital watercolor painting with a free iPad app

Real watercolor painting has an appealing unpredictability, but it's also unforgiving — mistakes on paper are hard to undo. This course shows how to recreate that same wet-in-wet, glazing, dry-brush, and wash character digitally, using the free iPad app Adobe Photoshop Sketch.

Who it's for

Anyone curious about watercolor painting, whether you already paint traditionally or have never picked up a brush — the digital format removes the cost barrier of paper, paints, and brushes, and every step can be undone.

Key takeaways

Recreating classic watercolor effects — wet-in-wet, glazing, dry brush, and wash — digitally
Working with undo, redo, and layers, which real watercolor painting doesn't allow
A full painting process from start to finish in Photoshop Sketch
Using digital sketches to prototype ideas before committing to a real watercolor piece

Korshub's take: the forgiving, undo-friendly nature of the digital format makes this a genuinely lower-risk entry point into watercolor technique than buying real supplies first.

About this course

Painting with watercolors is an interesting and intriguing activity. Unlike other mediums, you never have full control over how the colors interact with each other and how they finally look once dry. That adds lot of magic and interest to the paintings. This magic makes watercolors one the best mediums for expressive paintings.

At the same time, it can be challenging to get desired results with this transparent medium. Digital technology has made this challenge simpler and inexpensive. Painting with watercolor has never been so easy.

In this class I'll be walking you through my process of creating watercolor styled paintings using a free iPad app called Adobe Photoshop Sketch. It mimics the real watercolors to a great extent and has many benefits over real watercolor painting. Being a digital medium, you can undo, redo, use layers and still get those wet in wet, glazing, dry brush and wash effects.

You should take this course if you paint using watercolors, or are thinking about it. Even if you have never painted with watercolors, you can start now because it is so easy with this app. This app also removes the need to buy expensive watercolor papers, premium watercolors and brushes.

It is a way of creating nice artworks without having to fear you might spoil the paper, deal with the hassle of spilling water, getting color on your clothes, wet painting being ruined by unwanted splatter or any other worry that kept you from painting with watercolors. If you are an experienced watercolor artist, you can use Adobe Sketch to try your ideas before you develop them into real watercolor paintings. You can even print and frame your paintings for adding more colors to your life or turn them into exclusive gifts for your friends and family. So, join the class and learn to paint with digital watercolors! See you in the class!