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I've been drawing for a long time and I can copy anything drawing-wise. I started painting in Photoshop 2 years ago, then started doing oil painting around 9 months ago. I learned the most by doing oil paintings while reading Alla Prima by Richard Schmid. That book and a lot of practice paintings help me get a good feel for color and value, and mixing pigments.

If I didn't learn to mix pigments in oils I probably would have been frustrated using Nicker Poster Color. But luckily mixing in oils and mixing in poster color is pretty much the same. It's not too hard to learn, but you do have to learn it by trial and error. I have a lot of practice mixing colors so using poster paint feels like second nature to me.

As for the process, if you know how to paint in Photoshop you can do it in Nicker Poster Color. It's quite similar to using Photoshop with a 100% opacity brush with size controlled by pressure. There is a watercolor aspect to it too, but only if you add more water to the color mix.

In the actual painting, I learned that laying down base tones before doing highlights helps a lot. What I mean by base tone is the color that gets used the most in a section. "Highlights" are the lesser used colors, and they can be dark/medium/bright. Here's an image explaining it. To reiterate, you want to lay down the base tones first and then apply the highlights.

If you look at my progress pics (linked at top comment) I have some pictures of before and after of painting the big bush on the left. For the majority of the painting I just worked like that. I laid down base tones, and then added highlights.

Tbh, if you want to start painting you just have to dive in. It's something you have to learn by doing I think. I have yet to find a resource better than just spamming practice paintings and reading Alla Prima. I also found Feng Zhu very helpful, especially his podcast and the "self teaching" episode. Hope this helps

important: Also, if you are buying Nicker Poster Color make sure to get a good watercolor brush with it, like this one.

That really is Unfortunate that you didn't have a good book on it in school. There's really not many books that write about it well IN ENGLISH.

I reviewed one:
https://youtu.be/BfjbPsOlJzM

But there's this other one, with a confusing review on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0520059794/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1497854383&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=curvilinear+perspective

And it's $50 stupid dollars... who wants to potentially waste that much.

I bought a GREAT book about it... but it's Italian... so... it'd be great to get a better translator working on this...

Italian... and cartographic projections will be teachable... here in America... online. FREE.

Know any Italians willing to translate for free?

Thanks, they are just direct scans from The Art of Miyazaki's Spirited Away which I photoshoped down to look a bit cleaner.

Heh, maybe my old high school teacher. I don't remember much of it to be of use. That one does look very helpful, reminds me of Guptil's Drawing in Pen and Ink. This was the book I was thinking of: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1624650309/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

It definitely has a section on spheres in perspective and I saw one example image in curvilinear but I haven't bought it just yet to find out how in-depth it is. The one book review on the page flips through it briefly.

3 dollars on Amazon or you can get this plus another three nominated shorts for 5 dollars (Feast is not included).

My cousin gave me his tablet Huion 1060 PLUS but he lost the charge cabel for the pen.. Really frustrating.. Anyone know where I can buy a charger for the pen?
Here is the tablet on amazon.
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01FTE9HS2/ref=psdc_430217031_t1_B01HT0FREW