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Learn to create realistic water effects in digital art through a comprehensive 37-minute tutorial featuring artist Devin Elle Kurtz as she demonstrates her process for painting an underwater scene. Master the challenging aspects of depicting water, including how light refracts and distorts beneath the surface, while following along as the instructor creates a top-down view of a shark scattering a school of fish. Discover techniques for establishing rough sketches, adding effective color schemes, creating custom fish brushes, rendering convincing water ripples, and applying final rendering touches to achieve photorealistic water effects. Gain insights into overcoming the complexities of underwater lighting and distortion that make ocean scenes particularly difficult to execute convincingly in digital painting.
