How to use acrylics in Photoshop?

Caabal

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and new to digital arts but not new to drawing (I am a tattoo artist). I just started to use a Surface Pro with Photoshop CC, but I am in the very beginner phase. There is an artist who is, for me, a great inspiration and I woul like to paint like him. His name is Emanuele Taglietti and was an illustrator for italian comics during the '70s. I am not sure if his technique was "tempera" or "acrylic" colors, maybe some of you can recognize it better than me. Some pics of his works: The question is simple: how can I achieve the same result with PS? Is there any "acrylic" tutorial (can't find anything by googlin it)? Or maybe a particular setting for the brushes to look like acrylic colors? Any suggestion is of great importance, as I really want to improve to the point of painting like him.

MagicSugar

Dude seems to be still alive and  still working.  Check his youtube channel.  If you zoom in to the paint tubes it says liquitex heavy body.  Google that and you'll find that they're acrylics.  Though I'd think he'd use other brands in the 70s and get same effects and quality with oils or gouache.  Acrylics just dries faster than oils.

There are photoshop brush presets sold by many artists that the sellers claim to emulate analog brushes.  You can check for sample art from buyers to help you make an informed shopper's decision.  How to find them?  Check for brush reviews.

Personally, I'd just use real brushes and paints first.  Scan or photograph the art and fine tune in Photoshop.  It's more straightforward than reverse engineering his techniques with just Photoshop as your art tool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQa57yOYS6Q

Caabal

Yes he is alive and working. One piece of his art costs something around 1200/1500 dollars, but it's quite hard to find. Back to your suggestion, do you think I should learn oil painting in PS to get close to his style?

Caabal

Yes, my post was not explained correctly. Since there are various tutorials on how to use oil brushes, airbrush brushes, pencil brushes etc...I was basically asking if there are some tips on how to properly use acrylic brushes when it comes to color painting, as there are almost no tutorials regarding the acrylic effect.
Also, I noticed that a lot of brushes collections downloadable from internet are simply a texture copy/pasted into a brush slot. I mean, it's impossible to draw with them, since they only stamp "acrylic textures" all around, they are not really a brush.
So, another question is: how do I set a basic brush to make it become an acryilic brush?
I know that eventually I will find it out by myself through experience, but you know, learning from others is the also the fastest and better way to avoid wasting time by repeating errors other people has already done and fixed.
Hope I explained myself better.

Steppenwolf

It's not about the brushes. You could do that with a simple round brush in Photoshop. But you can't if you don't know how to paint.

throttlekitty

Look into Corel Painter, it's designed around physical mediums and can emulate the thickness of paint while you work. And I think you can load a brush with multiple colors for "dirty" strokes or knife effects.

However, I'm not seeing any impasto effect in the images you posted, just his personal brushing style. In Photoshop, the best you can really get is to use those textured brushes that you see. You might have better luck over at the conceptart.org forums for painting techniques.

Caabal

Ok thank you for your help, I am going to study acrylic for real and then try to apply the techniques in PS.