Looking for some help with digital painting

[Raikou]

I'm pretty good with all the physical forms of art but I picked up a wacom tablet and photoshop and I have no idea what I'm doing really. I have some stuff I want to paint in photoshop, but I don't know how to go about it and the stylus just seems clumsy compared to a pencil but maybe I'm not used to it.

Looking through some of the threads here, there's a lot of really good digital artists so please, any tips to help get me started? I want to paint the raptor shown below but I'm not sure how to get started. The tutorials I've read are either shitty or some dude talking on video which I don't want, so if you have something more worthwhile I'd appreciate it.

This is something I've done in photoshop just to give you an idea of what I can do. The dinosaur is painted with actual paint, the rest is photos. I just can't paint ON the computer at all. :(

 

[QuickDraw]

i'm sure you could find some good photoshop painting tutorials on either the program or the web. personally i would look on deviant art, there are all kinds of tutorials that are made by the artists there with a wide range of styles.

i just typed in "photoshop tutorial" and found these gems:
http://ramy.deviantart.com/art/Digital-Painting-Tutorial-D-21024511
(this one isn't as good as the next one but still covers a lot)
http://acidlullaby.deviantart.com/art/Portrait-Painting-Tutorial-22707443
(this one is pretty good but doesn't explain the basics of photoshop very well)
http://kitty1613.deviantart.com/art/15-Photoshop-Tutorials-Pack-57016407
(this is a pretty awesome tutorial pack)

both of those assume you have a basic-intermediate knowledge of photoshop, which i assume you do, but if you don't there are also a lot of specific tutorials that deal with just one part of the body and certain functions of the program.

hope this helps