Digital Art Tutorials And Online Knowledge Base For Digital Artists

1. Planet to Planet

Planet to Planet; Creatures and Strange Worlds is the title of resident CGPAD’er Mike Corriero’s new artbook. Its Mike’s first print of a compilation of sketches which feature his unique vision of the weird and...

2. AZUREUS RISING by Black Sun Entertainment

Black Sun Entertainment have released a short animated film called Azureus Rising to great applause and review, it has also won Best Animated Picture at the Malibu Film Festival and is a stunning example of what can be achieved when...

3. CGPAD collaboration with STEAMBOT Studios

Welcome to our newest, professionally judged contest on CGPAD. This time in collaboration with the amazing talent of STEAMBOT Studios. The contest will provide all registered members of CGPAD the opportunity to win Steambot Studios...

4. Clash of the Titans

Already as a kid I loved all movies designed by Ray Harryhousen. This old chap is actually one of the pioneers of “stop motion animation”, something probably long forgotten by now in the days of “motion capturing” Tim...

Planet to Planet

Planet to Planet; Creatures and Strange Worlds is the title of resident CGPAD’er Mike Corriero’s new artbook. Its Mike’s first print of a compilation of sketches which feature his unique...

AZUREUS RISING by Black Sun...

CGPAD collaboration with STEAMBOT...

Clash of the Titans

Already as a kid I loved all movies designed by Ray Harryhousen. This old chap is actually one of the pioneers of “stop motion animation”, something probably long forgotten by now in the days...

Interview with Dave Rapoza

This is an interview with Dave Rapoza a fulltime freelance artist, I tried to ask him some very basic questions that would help everybody who is aspiring to have a career as an artist! CGPAD: Tell...

Design Brief Mini#5 comes to life!

In last week’s S.O.T.W. theme, staff-member IGB challenged the CGPAD forum members to submit concept-art panels utilizing an early, 20th-century expedition to the Great Rift Valley as the base inspiration...

Traditional vs. Digital

This is a very modern dilemma for a lot artists and I find myself increasingly intrigued by the situation when people discuss the difference between traditional and digital painting methods. When I discuss...

About Us

CGPAD [cg-pad] -noun
Origin: Sept 2007
1 - the joining of CGPaintings.com and ArtsDojo.com
2 - online arts forum/webpage
3 - unlimited online learning and resources

CGPAD is a merger of former CGPaintings and Arts Dojo to bring you better resources, greater personal instruction and tuition along with a better platform for presenting and showcasing your artwork.

Primarily a drawing and painting forum but with the addition of 3D and mixed media sections with on hand advice and instruction from industry leading artists. Regular challenges and contests help improve members skills and learning through friendly competition along with a front page to help promote members work.

If you’d like to take advantage of the many free resources available to all members then visit our forum at: http://www.cgpad.org/forum