Digital painting fundamentals with corel painter

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design and layout For technical editing, I have Darren “Daz” Winder to thank, and I’m also grateful to Brandon Penticuff for designing the CD interface Thanks to the friends and family members who allowed me to use their likenesses for educational purposes A big thank you goes to Joseph Schaller for the terrific photos of Gypsy Roz in her belly dancing outfit, and for helping me celebrate completion of the book by taking me to see Spider-Man at an IMAX theatre I want to thank the folks at Corel Corporation for continuing to develop and improve Painter, the Natural Media software of choice for digital artists A very special thank you goes to Wacom Company for setting the bar so high with regard to pressure-sensitive graphics tablets and for giving me so many freebies over the years Finally, I’m deeply grateful to Carole McClendon, my agent at Waterside Productions Thanks for believing in me and for all your work behind the scenes iv About the Author Rhoda Grossman is the author of numerous books and tutorials on the creative uses of Painter and Photoshop, most recently Fun with Photoshop Elements She has taught basic drawing as well as computer graphics techniques at several schools in the San Francisco Bay area and has earned a reputation for lively and humorous presentations Rhoda became a “pixel-packin’ mama” in 1990 and uses pixel-based software for commercial illustration and cartooning, as well as fine art projects She has successfully transferred traditional figure drawing skills to the computer, and brings her Mac PowerBook and Wacom tablet along to life drawing workshops where she specializes in quick gesture drawings As “Rhoda Draws a Crowd,” she creates digital caricature entertainment for trade shows and conventions A member of the National Caricaturist Network (NCN), Rhoda is a pioneer in using digital media for live caricature at events, and she has won several awards from her professional colleagues Visit her Web site at www.digitalpainting.com v Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X Contents Part I The Basics vi Welcome to Painter Basic Drawing 21 Getting Acquainted Let’s Scribble I Love the Pressure! Meanwhile, Back at the Palettes Pencils and Markers and Chalk—Oh My! 10 Real Brushes (Almost) .12 So Many Choices! .13 Keeping Track 13 Custom Palettes .14 Back to the Drawing Board 15 Control Yourself .16 Crosshatched Scribbles 16 Make a Warm-Up Palette 19 What’s Next? 19 The Pear 22 Clone-and-Trace .23 Tonal Drawing 25 Crosshatch Contours 28 Send In the Clones .30 Pick a Pepper 31 Repetitive Pepper 34 What’s Next? 35 Contents Working with Layers 37 The Great Outdoors 55 Drawing People .75 The Chair 38 Add a Color Layer 39 Add Tone and Texture 41 More Furniture 44 Scheming and Smearing 45 A Clone Painting Layer 47 An Impasto Layer 48 Finishing Touches 51 What’s Next? 52 Landscape 56 The Big Picture 56 Color Settings 56 Tool Marks .58 Artistic License 60 Spring Flowers 61 Layout Layers 62 Drawing the Line .64 Just Add Watercolor 65 Variations .66 Bayside Scene .66 Prepare! .67 Simplify! 69 Clarify! 70 Decisions, Decisions! .72 What’s Next? 73 Portrait .76 Two Heads Are Better Than One .77 Be Prepared 77 The Shadows Know! 80 vii Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X Self-Portrait 84 Be Yourself .85 Mix and Match .87 Let Yourself Go 90 People in a Scene 93 Image Manipulation 94 Saltwatercolor .96 What’s Next? 99 Part II Beyond the Basics viii Graphic Techniques 103 Mixed-Up Media 123 Fine Art Printmaking 104 What a Relief! 104 Faux Silkscreen .107 Vector Values 109 Paths to Enlightenment 110 Paths for Alignment .112 It’s Only a Mask 114 Fancy Schmancy 115 Airless Airbrush 117 What’s Next? 121 Isn’t That Special! .124 Anatomy of a Brush .125 Spraying Color—or Candy 128 Digital Caricature 130 Exaggerate and Simplify 131 The Eyes Have It 134 Plug In That Earring .138 Painting with Chocolate 140 Consider the Source 140 Blobs for the Masses 143 What’s Next? 145 Contents Fine Art Challenges 147 Pixel-Based Animation .171 10 Illustration Projects 195 Figure Drawing 148 Quick Study 148 Proportional Response 153 Abstract Painting 158 Crop and Flop Method 159 Variations on a Theme 161 What’s Next? 169 Digital Cel Basics .172 Start with a Worm 173 Automating Animating 175 Working with Layers .178 Movie Scripts 180 Royalty-Free Characters 181 Smudge-o-matic 183 Rotoscope Cloning .185 Keep Dancing .185 Dancing Backwards .188 Dance Marathon .190 What’s Next? 192 Working with Type .196 Typography 101 196 Rasterize Me! .198 Album Cover .204 Preliminary Sketches 204 An Art Background .207 To Smear, Perhaps to Clone 211 What’s Next? 213 ix Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X A Fundamentals and Beyond .215 Pixels versus Vectors 216 Take Two Tablets, and Call Me in the Morning 217 What’s Your Preference? .220 Different Strokes .222 Get Off My Intellectual Property! .222 Resources 224 Finding Images .225 Printing 226 Fonts 227 Index 228 x Appendix A Fundamentals and Beyond Finding Images If you enjoyed working with the stop-motion photos by Muybridge in Lesson 9, you might want to buy the entire collection from Dover Publications There are two slim volumes, Muybridge’s Animals in Motion and Muybridge’s Human Figure in Motion, that provide not only a printed catalog showing each photo sequence but all images on a CD as electronic clip art For only $14.95 ($22.50 Canadian), you get enough raw material to keep rotoscoping for years Are these images royalty-free and in the public domain? You betcha—Muybridge died in 1904 Way Beyond Disney I mentioned the dancing hippos from Disney’s 1940 film Fantasia when I introduced rotoscope animation There are more recent and much more exciting examples The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine (1968) used the rotoscope technique in the “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” sequence Brilliant colors and brush work change every few frames for a gorgeous, splashy effect that’s breathtaking even if you’re not taking a psychedelic substance A much darker, gothic style is used in the rotoscoped portions of Ralph Bakshi’s highly original Wizards (1977) Finally, Richard Linklater’s sci-fi thriller, A Scanner Darkly (2006), is a rotoscope tour de force—every frame was drawn and painted from live action footage, yielding effects that would be impossible any other way You’ll probably want to shoot most of your own source photos, but when you need a variety of images or something unusual in a hurry, use the Internet If you don’t mind low resolution and are careful about possible copyright issues, use Google’s search engine When you get to the Google home page at www.google.com, click on Images instead of Web and type in what you’re looking for This is a great way to get visual references for accuracy or just browse for ideas There are commercial online sources for high-quality stock photography They generally require payment of fees for specified usage, and their target market is professional designers and illustrators 225 Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X If you want a lot of images, those fees can really add up For stock images with a liberal licensing agreement at bargain prices, my vote goes to ShutterStock.com It’s easy to use their Boolean search engine to find what you need quickly, and best of all, you can subscribe for a relatively small fee, considering the volume of images you’ll get One month of this service costs $200 last time I checked, and it allows you 25 images per day or a total of 750 photos for the month That’s less than 26 cents per image Other companies can charge $200 for a single photo! Check it out at www.shutterstock.com Consider using your older (analog) photos Take old snapshots out of the family album or the shoebox and digitize them A basic scanner is pretty cheap and is a handy device to have around If you want to digitize images found in books or magazine, your scanner should have a Descreen feature This is needed to prevent an unsightly moiré pattern from the halftone dots used in process printing Published images are almost certainly copyright protected (not a problem if you’re just using them in the privacy of your own home and with consenting adults) Printing I’ve got an inexpensive Canon PIXMA ip1600 inkjet printer that I use for most of my letter-size printing I can get spectacular results as long as I use high-quality paper or other media to print on Ordinary paper is too porous, letting ink spread into the fibers, so images get blurry or muddy looking This is as good a place as any to mention that it’s practically impossible to print all the vibrant, saturated color that you see on your monitor The colors on your screen have a wider gamut (range) than you can achieve with ink on paper Given the gamut limitations that come with the territory, my choice for crisp rich color is glossy photo paper Epson and HP make it, among others It comes in various weights and can be glossy on both sides For wearable art, consider printing your images on iron-on transfers that can be applied to clothing, hats, or what-have-you Avery makes inkjet magnet sheets, which I print with several small images (like the gesture drawings I showed you in Lesson 8) Then I trim them into shapes for some unique refrigerator magnets Archival-quality media are available for fine art printing from your desktop A great resource is www.inkjetart.com, where you can find letter-size or larger canvas (glossy or matte), watercolor paper, and printable fabrics If you know you’ll print on canvas, you won’t need to add an optical canvas texture to the artwork 226 Appendix A Fundamentals and Beyond If you want to print BIG but don’t want to invest in a large format printer, order from an outfit like Imagers (www.imagers.com/ poster.html) Visit their Web site for a price list of poster sizes from 18" x 24" to 59" x 96" printed on photo paper, film, vinyl, or canvas Another company, youHuge.com, offers poster-size prints that can be mounted on foam core or other boards Check them out at www.youhuge.com/large_format_posters.htm Fonts After using the Text tool for a while, you might get a hankering for more exciting typefaces than just the ones factory installed on your computer Lots of fonts are available free for personal (non-commercial) use They can be downloaded from sites like Larabie Fonts (www.larabiefonts.com) or Blue Vinyl fonts (www.bvfonts.com) Use your favorite search engine to find more font resources on the Web When I entered “free fonts” in a Google search and clicked the I’m Feeling Lucky button, what came up was the site The Ultimate Font Download (www.1001 freefonts.com) This is a collection of 6,000 “quality fonts from award winning font designers” for both Windows and Mac OS X You can download them all with one click Okay, they’re not quite free, but at $14.95, that’s a sweet deal! If you need a special font and are willing to pay a little more for it, there are quite a few possibilities LetterHead Fonts specializes in rare and unique fonts for artists and designers, and it charges about $30 per font (www.letterheadfonts.com) The P22 Foundry (www.p22.com) proudly announces that it “creates computer typefaces inspired by Art, History, and sometimes Science renowned for its work with museums and foundations to ensure the development of accurate historical typefaces ” Pretty impressive; and P22 fonts are available for as low as $19.95 Incidentally, many type houses still call themselves foundries, even though they hardly ever need to pour molten metal into molds anymore Fonthead Design (http://fonthead.com), sells distinctive display fonts in sets of about a dozen in volumes for $34 each That’s less than three bucks a font Pretty good for such delights as LogJam, Shoestring, CatScratch, Cyber Monkey, and Croissant Fonthead also offers a few freebies, including some whimsical fonts like Good Dog and SpillMilk, and a set of cartoon face dingbats (small decorative images or symbols) called Font Heads 227 Index Numerics B 3D effect, 161 72 dpi, 4, 172 background effects, self-portraits, 90–91 balance, abstract painting, 159 Ball Point Pen 1.5, 16 Bamboo brushes, 150–151 Barbed Wire strokes, 133 bayside scene example, 66–72 beach scene example, people drawings, 93–99 bevel effects, 142, 200 blank canvas, Bleed values, 50, 90 Blenders brushes, 46 blind contour drawing, 148–149 blind gesture drawing, 149–150 blob effects, 143–144 blobs and streaks of color, 65 Bluetooth capable tablet, 219 blurred effects, 46–47, 204 bolts, 129 borders, 52, 165 Bristle Oils 20, 12 bristle-type brushes, 12 Brush Category section, 6–7 Brush Ghosting, 40 Brush Selector Bar, 6, Brush tool, Brush Tracking command (Preferences), A abstract painting balance, 159 contrast, 159 focal point, 159 line considerations, 158 repetition, 159 shape considerations, 158 texture, 159 tone, 159 variations on theme, 161–168 acceleration, pixel-based animation, 177 Acrylic brushes, 12 airbrushing, 116 album cover, illustration project example, 204–210 Align to Path option, 112–113 anchor points, 110–111 animation See pixel-based animation Apply Script to Movie command, 180 archives, 224 Artists’ Oils variant, 88 automatic brush tracking, 13 automation, pixel-based animation, 175–177 229 Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X brushes Acrylic, 12 adding to palette, 14 automatic brush tracking, 13 Bamboo, 150–151 Blenders, 46 bristle-type, 12 categories and variants, 15 clearing from Tracker, 13 Clumpy Brush variant, 89 Coarse Dry Brush variant, 98–99 Dirty Brush mode, 88 Dry Clumpy Impasto, 12 Dry Ink, 18, 85 Fine Tip Water variant, 98–99 Gentle Wet Eraser variant, 98 Impasto, 12, 48 moving/repositioning, 14 Oils, 12 previous used, finding, 13 RealBristle, 12 removing from palette, 14 Restore Default variant command, 50 Salt variant, 98 Save Variant command, 50 Smart Stroke Brush category, 30 testing, 89 Wash Brush variant, 98 watercolor, 15 burn effects, 142, 199 C Calligraphy category, 18, 85 candy, Image Hose category, 129 canvassing, 212 caricatures exaggeration, 131–134 examples, 130 eyes, 134–137 metallic brushstrokes, 138–139 chain-like fence effect, 17 chalk Chalk Drawing Scheme, 45 chalk/pastel drawing, 31–33 overlapping strokes, 10 pressure changes with variation in opacity, 10 Square Chalk 35, 10 Square Chalk variant, 68 Channels Palette, 209 230 charcoal drawings people drawings, 78 shadow effects, 28 chiaroscuro, 80 chocolate effects, 140–142 Circular Dab Type, 128 Classical color scheme, 56 click functions, pen, Clone command (File menu), 46 Clone Source command (File menu), 24 cloning Clone Color check box, 30 Cloner tool, 31 pastel clone drawing, 31 pencil sketch, 34 point-to-point, 31 Quick Clone command, 23, 25, 31 Tracing Paper function, 23 closing palettes, 10 Clumpy Brush variant, 89 Coarse Dry Brush variant, 98–99 Coarse Spray airbrush variant, 118 collapsing layers, 63 color blobs and streaks, 65 Classical color scheme, 56 flowers, landscape drawings, 63 furniture drawing example, 45 Impressionist Scheme, 45 Intense Color option, 67 landscape drawing example, 56–58 layers, 39–40 people drawings, 79, 87–90 pixel-based animation, 182 primary, 16 rich color overlays, 99 secondary, 16 selecting, text, 197 Vivid Spring Colors option, 63 Color Mixer Palette, 87–88 color picker, Color Scheme menu (Underpainting Palette), 45 color sets, 9, 41 comparative measurements, figure drawing, 154 composite method, 39 Conte stick, 25, 28 Continuous time Deposition feature, 128 continuous tone, 216 contrast, abstract painting, 159 Index Copy command (Edit menu), 41 copyright, 208, 222 Cover and Buildup, 10 Create New Document command (Welcome screen), crop and flop method, 159–161 Crop tool, 67 crosshatch contours, 28–29 crosshatched scribble exercises, 16–17 curved text, 198 custom palettes, 14 D Dab Type, 128 dabbing, 63, 70, 80 dabs, space between, 127 dancing backwards, pixel-based animation, 188–189 darkened areas, overlapping strokes, 29 Delete Frame command, 173 delicate effects, floral drawing example, 66 depth how to manage, 48 illusion of, 25 testing, 49–50 Depth Equalizer tool, 48 Desaturate (Photo Enhance option), 41 Design Marker (Felt Pens category), dialog boxes Edit Gradient, 164 New, Paper Mover, 43 Resize, 22 Sharpen, 76 Difference method, 51 Digital Watercolor category, 96–98 directional lighting, people drawings, 76 Dirty Brush mode, 88 distortion, 92, 125, 160, 202 distress effects, 204 Double Helix strokes, 116 drawing versus painting, 35 Drop All command, 42 drop shadow effects, 141 Dry Clumpy Impasto brush, 12 Dry Ink brush variant, 18, 85 Dynamic Plugins popup list, 138 E Edge Effects feature, 52, 60 Edit Gradient command, 164 Edit Gradient dialog box, 164 Edit menu commands Copy, 41 Fade, 48 Paste in New Image, 41 Paste in Place, 70 editing images, 94–95 effects 3D, 161 bevel, 142, 200 blob, 143–144 blurred, 204 burn, 142, 199 chain-like fence, 17 chocolate, 140–142 distortion, 92, 125, 160, 202 distress, 204 drop shadow, 141 esoterica, 143–144 feathered, 204 Furry Brush, 128 icicle, 202 lava lamp, 144 liquid metal, 138–140 marble eye, 136–137 marbling, 145 melted, 202 metallic, 138–139 monochromic, 207 pebble board, 205 Piano Keys, 125–127 ripple, 145 shower door, 201 smear, 46–47, 81–83, 166, 183–184, 211 smudged, 46–47, 168, 183 speckled, 213 stone pattern, 144 tear, 142 warped text, 202 Erase Frame command, 173 Eraser variant, 65 esoterica effects, 143–144 exaggeration, caricatures, 131–134 exposed flesh, figure drawing, 152 Extra Content tab, 224 Eyedropper tool, 24, 88 eyes, caricatures, 134–137 231 Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X F fabric patterns, furniture drawings, 41 face details, people drawings, 78 facial structure, figure drawing, 157 Fade command (Edit menu), 48 fair use, copyright protection, 222 feathered effects, 204 Felt Pens category, figure drawing basic technique, 155 blind gesture drawing, 149–150 comparative measurements, 154 exposed flesh, 152 facial structure, 157 gesture sketch, 148–149 gridlines and guides, 154 guidelines, 151 gypsy gesture, 152 judging angles, 154 natural media categories, 150 proportional response, 153 roughed out, 156 smoothed out, 157 tonal drawing, 156 upper-body development, 156 Vitruvian Man, 153 File menu commands Clone, 46 Clone Source, 24 Iterative Save, 26 New, Quick Clone, 23, 25, 31 fills, 110–111, 115 finding images, 225–226 fine art printmaking, 104–107 Fine Tip Water variant, 98–99 flared shapes, 64 Flat Color pen variant, 39–40 Flattened Pencil variant, 62 Flip Vertical effect, 160 flowers, landscape drawings color, 63 delicate effects, 66 flared shapes, 64 layout layers, 62–64 loose and layered, 64–65 watercolors, 65–66 focal point, abstract painting, 159 Font Heads, 227 Fonthead Design Web site, 227 fonts, 201, 227 232 frame stacks, pixel-based animation, 172–175, 179 Freehand strokes, 112 fringed shadow effects, 98 furniture drawings color layer, 37 colors, 45 depth control, 48 fabric patterns, 41 smudged, smeary, blurred effects, 46–47 tone and texture, 41–42 visibility adjustment, 39 Furry Brush effects, 128 G Gel mode, 63 General Preferences panel, 220 Gentle Wet Eraser variant, 98 gesture sketch, figure drawing, 148–149 Gradients Palette, 164 Grainy Pencil 5, 10 grainy texture, 11 graphic techniques fine art printmaking, 104–107 silkscreen prints, 107–109 vector values, 109–110, 112 woodcut effect, 104–106 Graphire tablet, 219–220 grass, landscape drawings, 59 Greasy Pencil variant, 17 gridlines and guides, figure drawing, 154 grouping layers, 63 guides and gridlines, figure drawing, 154 H hand-painted effect, 113 height settings, hiding palettes, 9, 25 highlighted text, 196 I icicle effects, 202 illustration projects album cover example, 204–210 text beveled, 200 burn effects, 199 color, 197 curved, 198 distortion, 202 Index fonts, 201 highlighted, 196 icicle effects, 202 leading, 198 melted effects, 202 rough and rugged, 200 seashell images, 201 shadows, 197 shower door effects, 201 spacing between, 198 warped, 202 Image Hose category, 129 image manipulation, 94–95 Imagers Web site, 227 Impasto brushes, 12, 48 imperfections, 65 Impressionist color scheme, 45 ink Dry Ink brush variant, 85 liquid, 15, 112 Intuos tablet series, 220 Iterative Save command(File menu), 26 J Jagged Vignette (Underpainting Palette), 60 JPEG format, 66 K keyboard shortcuts, 222–223 koi, Image Hose category, 129 L landscape drawings bayside scene example, 66–72 flowers color, 63 delicate effects, 66 flared shapes, 64 layout layers, 62–64 loose and layered, 64–65 watercolors, 65–66 sky, 60 trees backgrounds, 59 color, 56–58 grass, 59 tool marks, 58–59 Lasso tool, 114, 119–120 lava lamp effects, 144 Layer Mask, 164 layers adding tone and texture, 41–42 collapsing, 63 color, 39–40 Difference method, 51 Drop All command, 42 grouping, 63 Impasto category, 48 naming, 48 pixel-based animation, 178–179 renaming, 63 Reverse Out method, 51 Layers Palette, 39 leading text, 198 less is more concept, 69 LetterHead Fonts Web site, 227 Lightness, Hue, Saturation (LSH), 57 line considerations, abstract painting, 158 line width, smooth transitions in, 18 liquid ink, 15, 112 liquid metal effects, 138–140 LSH (Lightness, Hue, Saturation), 57 M Magenta swirl, 81 Magic Wand tool, 114, 162 Magnifier tool, 60 mapping settings, tablet, 218 marble eye effects, 136–137 marbling effects, 145 marching ants, 114, 183 markers, pressure changes with variation in opacity, 10 melted effects, 202 metallic effects, 138–139 midtones, people drawings, 77–78 mixed media, 35 monochromic effects, 207 Move tool, 110 Mover utility, 43 movie scripts, pixel-based animation, 180–184 moving brushes, 14 shapes, 110 Multiply mode, 63 muted tones, 67 Muybridge, E., 181 233 Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X N naming layers, 48 natural media categories, figure drawing, 150 Nervous Pen strokes, 133 New command (File menu), New dialog box, nuts and bolts, 129 O Oil Pastel variants, 58–59 Oils brushes, 12 onion skinning, 177, 179 opacity pressure changes with variation in, 10 Tracing Paper function, 24 Open Library command, 43 opening palettes, 10 organizing papers, 43 Oval Selection tool, 114 Oval Shape tool, 110 overlapping strokes, 10, 29 P Paint Bucket tool, 81, 115, 125 painting versus drawing, 35 palettes adding brushes to, 14 arranging, 52–53 Channels, 209 Color Mixer, 87–88 color picker, custom, 14 Gradients, 164 hiding, 9, 25 Intense Color option, 67 Layers, 39 location of, opening and closing, 10 Papers, 11 removing brushes from, 14 renaming, 19 Underpainting, 32 Classical color scheme, 56–57 Color Scheme menu, 45 Edge Effects feature, 52 Jagged Vignette, 60 Watercolor Sketch, 62 234 paper collections, 43–44 Paper Mover dialog box, 43 Paper Selector, 11 paper trail, 41 papers, organizing, 43 Papers Palette, 11 Paste Buffer command, 143–144 Paste in New Image command (Edit menu), 41 Paste in Place command (Edit menu), 70 Paste Into New Image command, 162 pastel clone drawing, 31 pastels chalk/pastel drawing, 31–33 Oil Pastel variants, 58–59 path alignment, 112–113 Pattern Mover utility, 116 Pattern Pen category, 116 pebble board effects, 205 Pebble Board paper, 70 pencils clone sketch, 34 Flattened Pencil variant, 62 Grainy Pencil 5, 10 Greasy Pencil variant, 17 overlapping strokes, 10 pressure changes with variation in opacity, 10 pens Ball Point 1.5, 16 Barbed Wire strokes, 133 click functions, Flat Color variant, 39–40 how to use, Nervous Pen strokes, 133 pressure and speed, customizing, pressure sensitivity, 5–8 Scratchboard Tool, 6–7 Wacom, 5-6 Pens (Brush Category section), people drawings beach scene, 93–99 charcoal drawings, 78 color options, 79 directional lighting, 76 face details, 78 image manipulation, 94–95 photo selection considerations, 76 self-portraits background effects, 90–91 be yourself, 85 cartoon and comic book style, 97 Index color selections, 87–90 discussed, 84 distortion, 92 layered look, 86 photo selection considerations, 85 shadows, 80–83 shadows and midtones, 77–78 soft focus, 76 Pepper Spray airbrush variant, 118 photo selection considerations people drawings, 76 self-portraits, 85 Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, 94, 163 Piano Keys effect, 125–127 pixel-based animation acceleration, 177 automation, 175–177 color mapping, 182 dancing backwards, 188–189 experimentation, 180 frame stacks, 172–175, 179 layers, 178–179 movie scripts, 180–184 rotoscoping, 185–188 smear effects, 183–184 smudge effects, 183 stopped motion photography, 181 pixels versus vectors, 216 Playback Script command, 180 Playback Stroke command, 176–177 Pointed Simple Water variant, 62 point-to-point cloning, 31 portraits See people drawings preferences, 220–221 pressure sensitivity pen use, 5–8 practice exercises, 18 pressure changes with variation in opacity, 10 thickness, extreme variation and, 18 primary color, 16 printing high-gloss heavy-weight photo paper, 34 resources, 226–227 proportional response, figure drawing, 153 public domain, 222 Q Quick Clone command (File menu), 23, 25, 31 Quick Curve tool, 110 Quick Tips, 224 R rasterize images, 112, 198 RealBristle brushes, 12 real-life effects, 98 Record Stroke command, 175–177 Rectangular Selection tool, 41, 114 Rectangular tool, 110 renaming layers, 63 palettes, 19 repetition, abstract painting, 159 repositioning brushes, 14 Resat (resaturation) values, 50, 81 resaturation (Resat) values, 50, 81 Resize dialog box, 22 resizing images, 22, 38 shapes, 110 resolution settings, resources archives, 224 Extra Content tab, 224 finding images, 225–226 fonts, 227 printing, 226–227 Quick Tips, 224 Restore Default variant command, 50 Reverse Out method, 51 RIFF format, 66 right of publicity, 222 ripple effects, 145 Rotate Page tool, 29, 208 rotoscoping, 185–188 rough and rugged text effects, 200 rough texture, 71 Rubber Stamp tool, 31, 94 S Salt brush variant, 98 Save Variant command, 50 scales, 17 Schaller, Joseph, 84 Scratchboard Tool, 6–7, 38, 62, 95 seashell images, text effects, 201 seashells, Image Hose category, 129 secondary color, 16 Selection Adjuster tool, 119 selections, 114–115 235 Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X self-portraits background effects, 90–91 be yourself, 85 cartoon and comic book style, 97 color selections, 87–90 discussed, 84 distortion, 92 layered look, 86 photo selection considerations, 85 serigraphs, 107–109 shadow effects, 77–78, 197 charcoal drawings, 28 fringed, 98 people drawings, 80–83 Shape Selection tool, 110–111, 113 Shape tool, 110 shapes abstract painting, 158 anchor points, 110–111 attributes, 111 fills, 110–111 moving, 110 resizing, 110 selections, 114–115 Sharpen dialog box, 76 shortcut keys, 222–223 Show Grid command, 87 shower door effects, 201 silkscreen prints, 107–109 size, image, 22 sky, landscape drawings, 60 Smart Stroke Brush category, 30 smear effects, 46–47, 81–83, 166, 183–184, 211 smudged effects, 46–47, 168, 183 Soft Airbrush variants, 118 soft focus, people drawings, 76 softened edges, 60, 72 spacing between dabs, 127 speckled effects, 213 Square Chalk 35, 10 Square Chalk variant, 68 squinting, 56 stone pattern effects, 144 stopped motion photography, pixel-based animation, 181 Straight Line strokes, 112 streaks of color, 65 strokes Nervous Pen, 133 thickness, extreme variation in, 18 236 Surface Control menu, 162 sushi, Image Hose category, 129 T tablet Bluetooth capable, 219 Graphire, 219–220 Intuos series, 220 mapping settings, 218 pen settings, 219 two-point test, Wacom, 5-6 tangledness, 134 tear effects, 142 text beveled, 200 burn effects, 199 color, 197 curved, 198 distortion, 202 fonts, 201 highlighted, 196 icicle effects, 202 leading, 198 melted effects, 202 rough and rugged, 200 seashell images, 201 shadows, 197 shower door effects, 201 spacing between, 198 warped, 202 texture abstract drawing, 159 furniture drawing example, 41–42 grainy, 11 rough, 71 in tonal drawings, 26–27 thick lines, Thick Tapered Flat variant, 48 thickness variation, 18 thin lines, TIFF format, 66 Tiny Spattery Airbrush variant, 118 tonal drawing, 25–28, 156 tone abstract painting, 159 continuous, 216 furniture drawing example, 41–42 Index tools Brush, Cloner, 31 Crop, 67 Depth Equalizer, 48 Eyedropper, 24, 88 Lasso, 114, 119–120 Magic Wand, 114, 162 Magnifier, 60 Move, 110 Oval Selection, 114 Oval Shape, 110 Paint Bucket, 81, 115, 125 Quick Curve, 110 Rectangular, 110 Rectangular Selection, 41, 114 Rotate Page, 29, 208 Rubber Stamp, 31, 94 Scratchboard, 6–7, 38, 62, 95 Selection Adjuster, 119 Shape, 110 Shape Selection, 110–111, 113 Tracing Paper function, 23 Tracker, automatic brush tracking, 13 trailing off, 12 trees, landscape drawings backgrounds, 59 color, 56–58 grass, 59 tool marks, 58–59 two-point test, tablet, V variations on theme, abstract painting, 161–168 vector values path alignment, 112 tools for, 109 visibility adjustment, 38 Vitruvian Man, figure drawing, 153 Vivid Colored Stripes variant, 125 Vivid Spring Colors option, 63 W Wacom pen See pens Wacom tablet See tablet Wacom Web site, 220 warped text effects, 202 Wash Brush variant, 98 watercolor brushes, 15 Watercolor Sketch Palette, 62 watercolors Digital Watercolor category, 96–98 floral drawing example, 65–66 Welcome screen, width settings, woodcut effect, 104–106 workspaces, importing/exporting, 52–53 Z zooming, 60 U Underpainting Palette, 32 Classical color scheme, 56–57 Color Scheme menu, 45 Edge Effects feature, 52 Intense Color option, 67 Jagged Vignette, 60 upper-body development, figure drawing, 156 237 put ad here www.hungraphics.blogspot.com put ad here ... 227 Index 228 x Introduction Welcome to Digital Drawing and Painting Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X will get you started with Painter X or the two previous versions It provides... professional colleagues Visit her Web site at www.digitalpainting.com v Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X Contents Part I The Basics vi Welcome to Painter Basic Drawing 21 Getting... produced “naturally.”) xi Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter X When Painter was released, I was in the right place at the right time (for a change), creating digital caricatures as