Posts Tagged ‘Corel Painter’

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Now in Technicolor!

May 24, 2012

My tentative journey into the world of color continues…

I recently had the pleasure of working with Corel Painter and I never want to go back. Here are a couple of sketches that I scanned and painted using Corel. I tried to give myself a 10 minute time limit in an attempt to create some sort of fresh, dashed off look, but then I got into what I was doing and lost track of time. Each of these probably took about 30 minutes to paint. Having the option to erase mistakes and undo regrets is at once the benefit and the curse of digital painting.

The above drawing is of my husband and my brother at Disneyland. I talked a lot about this and other drawings from that trip in a previous post. In this drawing I committed the sin of mixing moments, resulting in a very unenthusiastic looking Richard and Tanner among a crowd of happy theme park goers. The truth is I actually did the drawing of R&T after a long first day as they were sitting on a bench outside the park waiting for the shuttle to take us back to the hotel. The crowd of people in the middle ground was added here and there as we waited in various lines the next day.

This fountain was in the courtyard of the Sheraton Anaheim where we stayed during our trip. I must have drawn this in the morning on the day that we checked out, as I can’t imagine I would have been willing to sacrifice much Disneyland time on a drawing back at the hotel. I do remember being quite happy with it when I was done, and it was nice to rediscover it again and freshen it up with some fake paint.

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World of Color

April 27, 2011

I did this sketch of my 3 friends one night at Carly’s downtown. I really kind of liked this one and wanted to give it some color, but I’m a lousy painter and was afraid that if I took a brush to it I would ruin it. So I downloaded a 30 day trial of Corel Painter and used the watercolor feature to paint this drawing on the computer.

What great software! It really was just like painting in real life, except that I could undo every brush stroke I regretted. Which, okay, that really kind of defeats the whole point of painting, especially with watercolor, but what can I say? I am straight up namby pamby when it comes to color. But maybe this could be a stepping stone to the real thing. Or it would have been, had the 30 day trial not already expired.