You don't always need an expansive Wacom tablet or any pen mouse to create awesome digital painting in Photoshop.
In this not-so-long tutorial I will show my work-flow for digital painting in photoshop using solid and gradient layers, vector clipping, layer masks and layer clipping. As I am not writing this as a tutorial so there is not much descriptive text – I assume that you have working knowledge in Photoshop. So here is only the summery of the painting procedure.
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