>>3730440Painter and Photoshop were both out around 89-90 but I don't think they were adopted by many video game houses until a few years later. I'm digging through the Capcom Design Works which is hard to search because no years. It seems like everything is liquitex, acrylics, gouache, and copic until either Vampire Hunter or VSav so that's like ~1996. The earliest Photoshop work I can confirm by date seems to be from X-Men vs SF which definitely fits in with how I remember that style and something that would influence a lot of 90s art after. Really basic shading under probably scanned lines, treating it like gouache. Not even a year later though the complexity of the PS illustrations gets a lot better. No abuse of blur like in this one. CRMK is Bengus.
I'm actually interested to know what the earliest digital painting was as we could consider it. I know of the 80s computer art but I mean actual digital artwork someone used a tablet/telestrator with, not a photo manipulation, digital piece. Obviously that's subjective but I'm wondering when people started using PS as a painting program as opposed to just image manipulation.
