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Professional artists are often invited to give one or two hour lectures on their area of expertise, and these videos are later uploaded to YouTube by the university. The secret, I’ve found, is to look beyond ‘tutorials’ – and to search for lectures delivered on college campuses. If I want to learn more about a subject like Interior design, Architecture, or Typography, YouTube is a great place to go. Recently I’ve been watching college and professional lectures on YouTube. Which resource do you use for constant improvements / new ideas? It’s so wonderful to hear from these learners. It was designed with an American audience in mind, roughly a third of my students live elsewhere. Additionally, I’ve been amazed at the number of international students who enjoy Ctrl+Paint! I often receive personal email from students upon achieving their first art job or commission. I’ve been humbled and honored to hear of my students’ successes. How had been reviews of artists who learned from your content?
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Since I believe strongly in high quality videos, I am only willing to teach the software I’m most fluent with. Why only Adobe Photoshop as the software application? Also, revenue from my premium videos in the Ctrl+Paint Store have allowed me to dedicate significant time to the website. I prefer to make short videos of Photoshop tutorials, which helps keep production time to a reasonable level. So for my own website, I’ve decided that quality is much more important than quantity. Bad, confusing, and boring tutorial videos are extremely tiresome. I spend a lot of time learning online, so I’ve experienced tutorials from a wide range of quality. How do you manage continuous video production for ‘Ctrl+Paint’? Your production quality and quantity both are amazing. Luckily, the name has worked well for the website! My wife is very clever with word-play, and she combined ‘paint’ with ‘Ctrl’ in order to mimic the format of a keyboard shortcut. Then we spent many days trying to combine these words in interesting ways. It began with a list of individual words that related to my website idea such as ‘learn’, ‘digital’, ‘digital paint’, etc.


I can’t take the credit for the name – my wife is responsible for the creative title. ‘Ctrl+Paint’ is quite a distinctive name. Ever since then, I’ve wanted to design fantasy & sci-fi worlds.Īs an avid video gamer and computer user, it was only natural that I pursued Photoshop instead of traditional painting techniques. Originally I wanted to be an Animator (either Pixar or Disney), fell in love with conceptual illustration after seeing a book of Ralph McQuarrie’s Start Wars illustrations. How you got interested into Art, specifically Digital Art? No matter you’re a professional photographer or an amateur in photo retouching, you’ll find something useful for your portraits. View more simple but helpful Photoshop tutorials for portrait retouching to make outdoor and studio photos look amazing in several minutes.
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Additionally, I’m the creator of Ctrl+Paint: a free digital painting resource and Photoshop tutorials for beginners. I’ve worked on many shipped games, both realistic and stylized. I’m a concept artist in the American video game industry, and I specialize in man-made objects: everything from vehicles and props to architectural environments. Thank you for inviting me to The Virtual Assist! Kindly share your educational and professional credentials. Ctrl + Paint is leading website for digital painting and Photoshop tutorials.
