Finding Dumbo — Painting Depth and Color Falloff Underwater

In this tutorial, I paint Finding Dumbo from start to finish, creating an underwater scene with multiple characters at different depths.

I focus on decisions around color shift, value compression, and atmospheric depth, and how light behavior changes as subjects move farther away and deeper into water.

This is a complete, uninterrupted painting process with voice-over, including adjustments and corrections made as the image develops.

Includes

• Full process video with voice-over
• Procreate file