Topic: Digital Painting

[OddBerryCreations]

Thanks so much for this thread and for all of you wonderful people for posting helpful links. Digital painting has always been intimidating to me but as a college student, EVERYTHING is still a little intimidating. I'm still trying but it's very helpful to have as many options as possible. Woohooo!! More stuff to do!! 

 

[MichaelBlackbourn]

Good luck OddBerry.  This isn't something I usually do, I'm trying to leverage my slight drawing talent and what I know from working in visual effects to help my painting skills.  I think practice is a huge part of art, that and not being afraid to make mistakes.  Being prolific in your mistakes is the only way to get better.  I think the best advice is work fast, work on new things.

Mike

[Debbie Ridpath Ohi]

I doodle with Artrage on the iPad as well, though my go-to iPad art app is Sketchbook Pro.

I used to use Corel Painter but switched to Photoshop when S&S gave me the book contract to illustrate I'M BORED because Painter only works in RGB color space, and S&S needed CMYK. When I experimenting with converting Painter RGB -> CMYK, I ran into color conversion problems. I'm sure an expert could get it right, but I didn't want to take the chance that I'd do all my art in Painter and then not be able to get the colors right during conversion.

Debbie

[MichaelBlackbourn]

I still like Artrage better than sketchbook pro, but currently I'm kind of into the messy natural media look.  I just updated my blog with a bunch of my own doodles using the ipad.  http://www.cindercast.com

[Jeff Smith]

I use Illustrator and Photoshop but I am glad you posted here because I want to check out artrage now. I liked your artrage illustrations on your site. Well done.

[MichaelBlackbourn]

I use Illustrator and Photoshop but I am glad you posted here because I want to check out artrage now. I liked your artrage illustrations on your site. Well done.

Thanks, I'm still pretty green with it but I really like how free-form it feels compared to Photoshop.  Nice and messy.

[nightengail]

I'm working on my second digital painting in Photoshop and what I found really helpful when I started was this apple painting tutorial from animator/illustrator Dice Tsutsumi: http://www.simplestroke.com/wp/?page_id=11

I have found in following his technique, I'm much bolder with dark colors in my digital paintings then in traditional media. I don't have any to show yet, since I'm still making minor tweaks to one piece and i'm not even halfway through the other.

[Iceartist]

Quick question--does artrage give you a high res (print useable) file? Anything I have in terms of sketching/painting on my ipad is just 72 dpi. Thanks!

[MichaelBlackbourn]

Quick question--does artrage give you a high res (print useable) file? Anything I have in terms of sketching/painting on my ipad is just 72 dpi. Thanks!

You can set the resolution of your canvas as high as you want.   A cool feature of the ipad app is to set it to record strokes.  Then open the file on the desktop and "repaint" it in hirez by replaying the strokes on a higher resolution canvas.  Then you can add detail work.

[Rungen]

I've been incredibly happy with Corel Painter 12. Started using it 5 months ago. It seems, to me, the most "traditional art technique." Especially for pencils, oils, watercolors. And the tracking window is such a huge convenience.
A friend showed my work to someone the other day, who then ran out to buy a wacom and corel, so I guess she liked what the program could do, haha.
I tend to find Photoshop works great for graphics and digital manipulation, but it's not as intuitive for drawing.
Never tried Artrage, though.

www.joeyelkins.com

[MichaelBlackbourn]

I'm starting to get a decent feel for doing quick sketches with the oils in art rage.  I'm really likeing how ou can build up a painting with blocked in color and refine it with the pallet scraper.

Check out the first page of my blog www.cindercast.com to check it out.  I think I'm at a level with it now that I can move onto finished work for my book, assuming I ever finish editing it...

Mike