Digital painting courses can help you learn core techniques such as color blending, brush control, lighting, and composition. You can build skills in creating textures, developing character or environment art, and working through iterative design steps. Many courses introduce tools like drawing tablets, digital brushes, and software platforms used to create polished artwork and refine creative ideas.

Skills you'll gain: Adobe Firefly, Adobe Photoshop, Photo Editing, Storytelling, Adobe Creative Cloud, Generative AI Agents, Data Import/Export, Image Quality, Color Theory, Generative AI, Photography, Graphic and Visual Design, Editing, Creative Design, Design Elements And Principles, Design Software, Design, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Portfolio Management
Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

University of the Arts London
Skills you'll gain: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Generative AI, Data Ethics, Image Analysis, Art History, Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics, Creativity, Responsible AI, Prompt Engineering, Intellectual Property, Photography
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Color Theory, Style Guides, Generative AI, Creativity, ChatGPT, Aesthetics, Art History, Design Elements And Principles, Image Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Adobe Illustrator, Color Theory, Graphic and Visual Design, Design, Design Elements And Principles, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Typography, Adobe Creative Cloud, File Management
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Adobe Firefly, Adobe Photoshop, Generative AI, Graphic and Visual Design, Prompt Engineering, Photo Editing, Artificial Intelligence, Ideation, Image Quality
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Adobe Firefly, Storyboarding, Adobe Express, Prompt Engineering, Responsible AI, Data Ethics, Collaborative Software, Creativity, Adobe Creative Cloud, Prompt Engineering Tools, AI Enablement, Generative AI, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Creative Thinking, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Creative Design, Storytelling, Branding, Content Development and Management
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Scrimba
Skills you'll gain: OpenAI API, Image Analysis, Multimodal Prompts, Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Vision Transformer (ViT), Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), PyTorch (Machine Learning Library), Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, Image Analysis, Python Programming
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Adobe Photoshop, Photo Editing, Adobe Creative Cloud, Editing, Image Quality, Graphic Design, File Management
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Adobe Photoshop, Layout Design, Photo Editing, Graphic and Visual Design, Creative Design, Typography, Color Theory
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Animations, Motion Graphics, Storyboarding, Adobe After Effects, Apple software proficiency, Layout Design, Color Theory
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Simplilearn
Skills you'll gain: Autoencoders, Generative AI, Embeddings, Generative Model Architectures, Prompt Engineering, Image Analysis, Unsupervised Learning, PyTorch (Machine Learning Library), Transfer Learning
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks