Alpacas am I right? So cute and adorable. They’re the angels of the llama family. Funny thing is, before moving to Colorado, I had never seen one. I didn’t even know they existed! It took working on a guest ranch for me to discover this wonderful fluffy animal.
After rummaging through pictures of my time on the ranch, looking for inspiration, I stumbled upon photos of alpacas. I couldn’t resist, I had to paint one! I made this alpaca speed painting video while creating the portrait in Photoshop, thinking it would be cool to see the whole process once I was done. It shows how I use Photoshop to create my artworks.
This alpaca painting is called “Colorful Happiness”. I wanted to capture the cuteness of the animal with bright and cheerful colors. Watch how I created it!
I love making speed paintings videos, it’s so much fun to watch how I created something once the illustration is finished. Kinda like magic! As you can see in the video, I started with a different color scheme at first. In the end, I wasn’t entirely satisfied with it so I played with the color settings in Photoshop and I ended up making the painting more colorful.
This happens a lot. I end up with something different than what I had in mind. It’s like my animal paintings have a life of their own. Digital art truly is amazing!
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Let me know what you think of it!
What a beautiful painting. I love all the colors here. I doubt I could make one as pretty. I am pretty terrible when it comes to art.
Thank you! Haha I’m sure you’re not as bad as you think 😉
I love the way the painting looks on the pillow. This is such great talent that I wish I had.
Thank you! I love seeing my art on products 🙂
This is such a fun painting, thank you so much for sharing how you did it. I would love to be able to do things like this but I just don’t have the vision.
Thank you! It just takes some practice, the vision comes after.
This is beautiful and love the tutorial. Didn’t realize how creative you could get on Photoshop!
Thanks! Yep, Photoshop is an art form in itself!
This is awesome, love the tutorial. I need to brush up my photoshop skills, this came at the right time.
Thanks! Go for it, Photoshop is a lot of fun!
I am a fan here. Please continue doing this. Really inspiring T_T Hope to do this once day.
Thank you so much! ♥
this is so fun! i love how beautiful it turned out – so inspiring!
Thank you!
Wow it’s mesmerizing to watch the video in action! This alpaca painting is gorgeous!! I love it on the phone especially!
xoxo
Annie
Thank you! I’m pretty pleased with how it looks on products 🙂
So much talent in one post it hurts haha very impressive, you should be so proud!!
Thanks so much! ♥
No doubt you are one talented person. In this competitive world, it is difficult to stay unique and you have that unique quality. I can imagine how much time is spent on doing this detailed work. Great work. Keep it up 🙂
Thank you so much for that thoughtful comment! It means a lot to me that you think that!
It’s a stupendous painting. You’re very talented. I am not good in Painting at all.
Thank you!
Wait, what!? This is so rad! Thanks so much for the tutorial! I love the pillow!!!
Thank you!
Alpacas are my most favorite animals. I mean they’re so cute and adorable. I could hug them all day. I loved this portrait idea. Looks so artsy and beautiful!!
Thank you! Yes, alpacas are the best!
What a beautiful painting! love alpacas! they are so cute and funny! such a cool tutorial!
Thank you! I agree, alpacas are so cute!
Omg! That is a beautiful alpaca painting. Unfortunately, I am not blessed with talent such as yours, not even in photoshop.
Thank you! Haha it just takes practice 😉
You’re really good. I love how you just go splotch after splotch to get so much realism. That’s amazing you can do that in Photoshop. How long did it actually take you?
Thank you! It took me about 4-5 hours total I would say.
This is absolutely wonderful to see. I don’t think it is that easy to handle. The portrait looks great
Thank you!
Beautiful painting. you are amazingly talented. Love that picture in pillow too. I am not that good at painting.
Thank you so much!