Digital Painting: Learn To Paint Digitally Today!

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VOLUME THREE

Learn to paint digitally today!

IN-DEPTH GUIDES FOR…

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This is the third volume in the popular The Complete Guide to Digital Painting series, packed with expert advice and tips

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68 Complete guide to concept art Sketch and draw anything you can imagine with our guide to concept drawings

76 The secrets of matte painting

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Matte painting it a skill used in the film and games industry, and now you can master it too

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82 Paint a sci-fi scene In the first in a double-whammy of sci-fi tutorials, master the art of scene setting

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88 Create a sci-fi character

Top tips from Painter experts to help improve your paintings

Bring your characters into the space age with our guide to sci-fi art

14 Clone a portrait in oils

94 Paint steampunk

Learn how to make your portraits look like real oil paintings

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20 Improve your portraits Portraits are a key skill in digital painting, so learn to get them right here

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Go underwater to create a scene with plenty of depth and mystery

Master your use of colour and all your artworks will start to benefit

Don’t forget about what’s behind your subject – it can make or break an image

120 Pen and wash studies

34 Custom brushes for landscapes

This traditional Japanese skill is yours to master with this in-depth workshop

Perfect your landscape artworks with this in-depth guide

Five-page expert tutorial on cloning a landscape image

Vibrant comic-like scenes let you have a bit of fun in Painter

112 Colour control

28 Draw focus with backgrounds

44 Create a stunning landscape

100 Anime creations

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106 Create an underwater scene

24 Paint skin texture Get your skin texture right and your images will look much more realistic

Create artwork with classic steampunk elements and colours

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50 Complete guide to oil brushes We explore the different brushes available and what to use them for

56 Paint a cityscape from photos City-based landscapes have a lot of detail to capture. Find out more here

62 Paint dramatic night scenes Use night-time tones and good lighting to bring darker scenes to life

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126 Paint a vintage portrait

Use photo references and line art to create a vintage look

132 Use a limited colour palette You don’t have to use lots of colour to create impact, as we show you

138 How to use liquid inks Create a fun and colourful scene by learning how to use this brush option

144 Create metallic effects Make your paintings shine with our guide to going metallic

150 Cloner’s guide to composition

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How to get your composition spot on when using cloning techniques

158 Paint like: Pablo Picasso Channel your inner Master and re-create the famous style of Picasso

164 Paint like: Monet Create traditional landscapes in this amazing painter’s style

170 Paint like: Rococo Rococo painters are known for their portraits and distinct style

176 Paint like: Rackham

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Create illustrations in the style of Rackham over this tutorial

182 Paint like: MC Escher Surreal but brilliant, chanel the Escher style here

188 Paint like: Baroque

#TVUMKNNU UGEVKQP 212 Introduction Your guide to the art skills section

214 From pencil to Painter Take traditional skills to the digital age

222 Guide to coloured pencils An in-depth look at how these tools aren’t just for kids

226 Guide to charcoal Master a real-life charcoal effect for amazing portraits

230 Guide to watercolours Create stunning landscapes by understanding how watercolours work

234 Guide to using real oils Oils work great for some many types of art – find out more here

238 Guide to gouache Get to grips with gouache and how to use it to the best effect

242 How to paint reflections Master the art of reflections – get them right to add realism

246 How to paint water Water is a difficult subject matter, but we put you on the right track

250 How to paint light Create amazing lighting in your digital paintings

Create ornate and inventive paintings with this guide

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194 Paint like: Pop Art Block colours and abstract ideas create pop-art designs

200 Paint like: Classicism Step back in time and get some classic painting advice

206 Paint like: Modern realism Our final guide to emulating past styles over this six-page tutorial

258 Disc pages Take a look at the tutorial files, stock photos and resources on the free disc

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CHEAT GUIDE EXPERTS Our experts share their top tips and timesaving workarounds to help you speed up your workflow and create fantastic effects Our Painter experts are here to help you with a range of Painter cheats. Here we tell you a bit more about the talented artists who have opened their Painter tip box.

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Cat Bounds Cat is an expert at all things Painter, turning her hand to almost any function in the program. Here she shares cloning and texturising tips.

Jim Scullion A leading sports artist and regular contributor to our Q&A Art Class pages, Jim shares some texturising and compositing tips.

Odwin Rensen

Wen-Xi Chen

Jeremy Sutton

Odwin specialises in photo painting and portraits. Here he shares tricks for creating perfect skin texture and making your own brushes.

Wen-Xi is a talented digital artist who creates art in a wide range of styles and formats. She shares some advanced techniques here.

Jeremy sent us two great tips to share, including the answer to the one question we all ask – "How can I fix my impasto paintings?"

The complete guide to

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CLONING AND COLOUR

Create perfect photo paintings with these top tips! F-X Glow

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The complete guide to

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“Some of the most interesting collages begin with images having no pre-conceived associations”

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BRUSHES AND PAPER

You may find one or two surprises in this section…

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02 Save your new variant

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The complete guide to

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“It is important to use a grainy brush to pick up the texture as you paint”

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Tutorial Clone a portrait in oils

Clone CRQTVTCKVKPQKNU Use the Clone and Blender brushes to change a photo into a beautiful oil painting. It’s that easy! Tutorial info Artist

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%NQPGCPFDNGPFEQNQWTU With the use of Clone and Blender brushes you can create this oil painting effect the hair 05 Blend

04 Blend the skin

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06 Eyes and mouth

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Hair Blender

How to clone the effect of an oil painting

Digital Airbrush

Below you will find an overview of all the brushes that are used for this painting: 01 The Hair Blender brush is based on the Captured Bristle brush. Use this to blend hair and create wisps. 02 The Digital Airbrush paints soft highlights and shadows. 03 The Small Highlights brush is based on the Charcoal brush and is used for small reflections on the lips, eyes and skin. 04 We used the Impressionists Blender brush in order to fill in the background.

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05 The Background Mixer brush mixes colours and creates a marbling effect. 06 The Cloud Color brush from the Sponges category creates painterly dabs. 07 The Grainy Water brush is used for blending the skin and blurring the background. 08 The Oils Opaque Round brush is used to create the painterly reflections in the eyes. You can find the instructions for creating all of these brushes on the disc.

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09 Small highlights

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During the process of making the oilpainted portrait, many brushstrokes and layers are added and many changes made. To keep control over your workflow it can be very useful to insert several save points. This way, you can keep different copies of your work during the process and you have more control over your work. You can go back to earlier versions in case you decide something needs to be changed.

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When blending hair and painting wisps and strands of hair, it can sometimes be difficult to get control over your brushstrokes. To make it easier, you can select the Rotation tool from the Toolbox and rotate your painting to an angle that makes it easier for you to paint.

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Tutorial Clone a portrait in oils

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Brush Tracking Brush Tracking is a great tool that enables you to adjust the intensity and resistance of your brush. When you go to Edit>Brush Tracking, a scratch pad will appear. Making a scribble with much pen pressure gives more resistance when painting, and less paint will appear on the canvas.

16 Paint the background

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18 Mask the background

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19 Dodge and burn

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20 Details

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Composition When changing a photo into a painting, keep in mind that it can be necessary to alter the composition. Maybe the photo itself isn’t taken in the best way or there is not enough space around the subject. Getting the composition right from the start will be of great importance for the end result. A good way to check the composition is by flipping the image horizontally.

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21 More depth

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22 The final step

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Tutorial Improve your portraits

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If you want to make sure your portraits sparkle, you have to get the eyes right. Here’s our guide to the skills you need GCNNMPQYVJGUC[KPIµ'[GUCTGVJGYKPFQYVQVJG UQWN¶#PFCUENKEJoFCUKVUQWPFUKV¶UWPFGPKCDN[C RQKIPCPVSWQVG9JGPRCKPVKPICRQTVTCKVVJGG[GU VGNNCPGPVKTGUVQT[VQVJGXKGYGTCPFIKXGVJGYJQNG RKEVWTGCXKVCNNKXGNKPGUUVJCVGPVKEGUVJQUGYJQNQQMCVKV6JGG[GU CTGYJCVOQUVRGQRNGYKNN¿TUVPQVKEGYJGPNQQMKPICVCRQTVTCKV CPFUQKV¶UXGT[KORQTVCPVVQOCUVGTVJGVGEJPKSWGQHRCKPVKPI VJGO#YJQNGCTTC[QHGOQVKQPUKUEQPXG[GFVJTQWIJVJGOCPF CUWDVNGEJCPIGECPCHHGEVVJGGPVKTGOQQFQHVJGRCKPVKPI+UVJG EJCTCEVGTJCRR[QTUCF!#TGVJG[CNGTVQTCTGVJG[QHHKPVJGKTQYP FTGCOYQTNF!

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6JGDCUKEU Start off on the right track with shape and position

01 The sketch

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02 The eyebal

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03 Pupils and iris

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.GVVJGTGDGEQNQWT Now that the sketch is done, it’s time to move on to the fun part

Make it glamorous Want to add some eyeshadow? Create a layer on top of your eye painting and set the Blending Mode to Colorize. Now pick some colour and get creative! When set to Colorize, only the colour properties of this layer are imposed on the picture below and you don’t lose any detail. This means that you’ll no longer have to dodge between each individual eyelash!

What’s that coming over the hill? Whether you’re trying to make your viewer laugh, cry, think or just look more carefully, try adding an extra twist to your painting by elaborating on the reflection in the eyes. A space ship, zombie attack or perhaps just some windows – make the most of what you have in order to tell the story.

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04 Skin colour

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05 Shadows and highlights

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07 Iris

08 Catchlight

09 The fleshy bits

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06 What’s your eye colour?

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11 Bottom lid

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Improve your portraits

Those pesky eyelashes – they’re there to do you a good deed by keeping dust out of your eyes, but they sure are tricky to paint. Here are some tips to help you along

13 Shadows? Here? 12 Bottom lashes

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01 Brush creator

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14 Upper lashes

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15 Eyebrows say it

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02 Painting

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16 Skin folds

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Learn how to bring life to skin tones, and use a combination of painting, drawing and cloning techniques to make your portraits shine…

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%NQPGVJGRJQVQ Start off with skin tones by cloning a favourite family photo

02 Colour correction

01 Prepare the photo

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03 Let the cloning begin

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5VCTVRCKPVKPIUMKPVQPGU Get into the tones and textures

Translucent skin To show translucent skin you should use bright tones. For instance, ears in Caucasian people will have red hues since the light shines through it. To show translucent nostrils, make use of bright pinks and oranges. And if a skin is so translucent that you can see the veins through it, paint them gently on another layer with a low opacity to show some realism. Also, a very light cyan is really effective for indicating pale and translucent skin.

04 The colour palette

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05 Paint the skin tone

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06 Shadows and light

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In order to achieve warm, non-flat, glowing skin tones, make use of a wide range of dark or light pinks, lilacs, greens, browns and oranges. They will make your skin tone stand out and look more realistic – as long as it’s shaded in the correct areas. The zone from the brows to the bottom of the nose tends to be a warm hue, whereas the forehead and neck are rather neutral. The lower zone of the face tends to be cool.

Paint skin texture

10 Add variety to the skin tones

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The colours of skin tone

Use a variety of tools to make your skin realistic

12 Add details

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Brushes for the skin

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If you are going for a more traditional look, then you can make use of brushes based on oils – like the acrylics or the oils. They are great since they don’t have an airbrushed look and blend very well to mix the different colour tones. If you’re looking to get more texture on your skin, choose a speckled brush with subtle grain, like the Sponges. And if you want elements to pop out, apply subtle touches of glow.

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Reference! If you don’t know how to paint something, search the web for photos that might help you out. No one is omniscient – we learn with every piece we paint. However, use references for what they are: a reference. Don’t try to mimic them, but instead try to analyse what you see – why is this drapery formed in such a way? Why do the colours interact the way they do? This requires more patience, but will greatly benefit you and the acquired knowledge will come in handy in many situations in the future.

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Realism isn’t about painting every last hair strand or blade of grass – it’s about making the viewer think that you did. Getting too detailed can sometimes hurt you much more than being too general as sharp details can drag attention away from the mood of an image, and end up jeopardising the success of your piece. To avoid this danger, do an exercise: paint general shapes when zoomed out, and only zoom in to define the shape and to add detail here and there.

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In general, there is no such thing as a good or bad brush to use. There are some, however, which should be used with extra caution. Some brushes seem to offer quick and effective results, which are not necessarily the best. This will vary with your favoured style of painting, so don’t be afraid to experiment with your brushes.

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#FXCPEGFVGZVWTGUCPFURGEKCNGHHGEVU Pay attention to shadows, light effects and details

Creativity blocks If you feel you have a creativity block or generally lack inspiration, try to do a small exercise. Take a stock photo and give yourself 15 minutes (no more!) to do something with it. Do not use filters, just sketch on top of the reference. There is only one rule: the newly made sketch has to be as different from the original photo as possible.

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Overlapping brushstrokes Apply overlapping brushstrokes from different directions to get pleasing visual effects. Varying the brush size also adds to expressive markings, which allows surrounding paint to mix, creating striking outcomes. Experimenting with brushstrokes is a fun way to develop your own painting style.

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Learning the character of our tools The Oils Smeary Flat brush is the workhorse for this painting. It has the power to move paint in a very expressive way. It also has a lovely blending quality. We will enjoy using it, and it may become one of our favourites. The Oils Fine Camel 10 brush is going to be our best friend, because it will come to our rescue many times during this tutorial. It has the awesome ability to render extremely detailed quality, and depending how it’s stroked it will add expressive markings. The Oils Smeary Round brush has the ability to mix paint with beautiful results. It’s a brush that will let you apply strokes with great delight, producing the most expressive marks on your canvas. Once you experience its qualities, you’ll rely on it more. It is well worth your time to learn how these brushes perform, and it’s a lot of fun. They will deliver rewarding results in your painting.

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Learning shortcuts Painter is such a powerful program, and we can navigate through its many command steps more easily by using shortcuts. The easiest way to learn them and apply them is to take a visit to the Menu bar tabs and you’ll find them listed on the right side of each command category. Memorise the ones you use the most.

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The brush feature When you feel that a brush is particularly slow when used in a large size, try changing the Feature level to a larger number. The Feature of a brush (located in the Size Dab tab) is synonymous with hair density – it simulates a render-based dab. This control is so important that it is included on the Brush Property bar. Many times the sluggishness of a brush is related to the current setting of a Feature Size, so the higher the number is the less hairy the brush will be.

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04 Clone elements

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When adding details to an almost-finished painting you may want to look for high Opacity brushes with hard edges and no texture. Although the Detail Oil was created for this purpose, you can choose from a wider range and change the size to a smaller one if you wish. Other brushes that can be used for details are the Fine Camel and brushes from the Opaque series.

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Every oil brush is so unique that it is hard to come up with the most important ones. However, since the subject matter was a landscape, we are going to focus on the brushes that made the fog in the distance, the cotton texture of the clouds, the ripples of the tranquil water, the far distant trunks, the rocky texture of the mountains and the abundant foliage – all of which are unique elements that add up to the realism of the painting. Whether they’re round or flat, applied dry or with blending properties, or with no texture or impasto texture, Corel Painter Oil brushes are so versatile that they can re-create almost every aspect that depicts a dreamy landscape – just like their traditional counterparts can.

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As the name explains, this opaque brush works brilliantly for adding little details like distant leaves, and it’s usually used in a size smaller than 15 pixels. It offers very heavy colour in its default settings, so it’s good for defining outlines and depicting strong, visible detail.

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As explained before, the Round Camelhair has two behaviours depending on the pressure applied with the stylus. With high pressure the brush is at its largest size, whereas applied with low pressure it becomes a fine brush perfect for smudging with the contiguous colours – just like painting on a wet surface. It’s perfect for both clouds and hair.

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This brush, like the rest of the Thick series, creates an impasto look. An impasto look is a thick layer of paint on the canvas, which is perfect for making that tridimensional look given by the strands of a brush. Use it to work up texture and to leave visible ‘paint’ marks to add to the painterly look of an image.

Flat Oils brush The Flat Oils brush is perfect for short strokes. It works fantastically for rocks and other heavy surfaces, and if used with vertical strokes it can create sharp edges – just like a flat brush. Use it in short choppy strokes to create texture or longer, dragging strokes to create thick flat lines.

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Tutorial Paint night scenes

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Shadows Colour and detail become lost in shadow. Saturation or intensity is reduced in shadow, as colour is dulled by its complementary colour. Try making shadows more transparent, as opposed to solid black coloured shapes.

01 Sketch

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02 Block in the structures

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04 Add a light

03 Background buildings

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06 Keep adding

07 What time is it?

05 A little morelight

Light source Light from the night sky is diffused and soft. However, if there is any moonlight it will be hard. When there are several sources of light – as in a street scene at night – each light affects everything differently, and every object has as many shadows as the number of lights that hit it.

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08 Glass houses

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10 Bring it together

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13 Little windows

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One thing to remember about the night sky when painting a night scene is that, until any artificial light is introduced, the landscape element of the painting should always be darker than the sky.

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Red and yellow make blue? Not necessarily! Many people, when thinking about the colours they should use in their night skies, will lean towards near-black or dark blue. But if you want to convey a certain mood or effect, you could do so by adding more colour to your night sky. Effects both natural and man-made allow you to paint your night skies in a variety of colours – which instantly makes your night scenes more dramatic. Natural occurrences such as stormy weather and cloud reflections can change the colour of a night sky – as can the man-made effects of artificial light. In most populated areas of the world, the use of artificial light emitted from buildings, factories, street lamps and signage creates light pollution, illuminating the night sky. In this image, colours picked from the sky and background structures appear almost black, but they are in fact blues and greens. Colours from the middle part of the image (the lit, reflective buildings) emit much brighter, saturated tones. Foreground colours are mostly complementary warm hues.

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Reflections To create effective reflections, copy the part of the image you want to have reflected on a new layer. Then flip it, either horizontally or vertically, and lower the opacity. Manually manipulate the layer into place.

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Points of light To create small points of light, such as windows and stars, you can use whatever brush works. Airbrushes are great for stars, whereas simple pattern pen brushes are good for creating repetitive shapes such as windows on a large building. When painting stars and small windows, make sure to vary both the colour and brightness in order to make them more interesting.

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The signage in the painting is an example of how to suggest detail. The first one or two signs have some detail, so our brains are tricked into thinking that all of them have that level of detail, when in fact the further they go back in the scene the less detail they have.

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When using silhouetted shapes in the foreground and background, remember that any objects which are backlit will become silhouettes. Make sure that there is sufficient light behind the placement of your silhouette in order for it to stand out and not get lost in the background.

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Take care in evaluating the contrast of the photo you are blending with what’s underneath. This can be quite tricky, as you will only be able to do this when they are next to each other. Sometimes it’s surprising how low you have to take the contrast of a photo to make it merge with the existing painting. If you do this successfully you’ll obtain consistency throughout the painting, and more importantly, depth. Depending on the amount of atmosphere between the object and the viewer’s eyes, the object will have more or less contrast. Objects further away have less contrast since they are behind thicker layers of atmosphere than nearer objects. Also, misty days or areas (like swamps) will have less contrast than clear days or areas. Never forget this, as depth is one of matte paintings’ key aspects.

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Detail in high/ low contrast areas Our eyes tend to adapt to the lighting situations. If it’s very bright our pupils close, letting in less light. If it’s very dark they open, letting in more light. You can simulate this in the painting without the presence of actual light. In large bright areas, smaller dark areas look flat because the pupil is closing, not letting in enough light to discern detail in dark areas. In large dark areas, bright areas look flat because the pupil is letting in more light, ‘burning’ detail in light areas. You can also use this to your advantage as we did in the darker foreground area. If this area were fully detailed it would look dull and boring, but since there’s a bright sunset in front, we can reduce its presence by minimising its contrast/detail.

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Use the rule of thirds to help your composition

One of the handiest guidelines to aid in composition is known as the rule of thirds. By dividing an image into thirds, first vertically then horizontally, we end up with four intersecting points. We could call these points of a painting the ‘points of interest’. By placing an object or

subject on one of the four points of interest it tends to help in the creation of a more harmonious composition. In our example, the ship falls on one of the points (point), as does the open bay of the spaceport (counter point). By having them fall on opposite points of the grid, a sense

of balance is achieved. The vanishing point is on a point of interest too, and the horizon line runs along the lower third line. And don’t forget, you could always try out Painter’s built-in rule of thirds by using the Layout Grid. Just go to Window>Show Layout Grid.

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A really easy and quick way to create hundreds of window faces on buildings and skyscrapers is to use the Eraser tool. Create a coloured box or rectangle (which will act as the glass) over the base colour of the building to be windowed. Then use the Eraser tool to erase out in straight lines, vertically and/or horizontally from the glass layer. Now you have glass windows!

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23 Flame on

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To create the illusion of depth and distance, make use of Atmospheric Perspective. The greater the distance between viewer and object, the less the contrast will be. In addition, the object becomes less saturated, and slowly becomes closer in colour to the background the farther away the object gets.

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5MKPVQPGU CPFVGZVWTGU Texture overlay Trying to paint all the texture in skin can be a time-consuming task. Why not look around on the internet for some textures you can throw over your picture in Overlay mode to add instant vitality? Alternatively, you can take your own photos: your own skin, foliage, the pavement… it’s all fair game.

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Maybe only skin deep, but incredibly important Painter’s functions let you create textures with ease. Use Paper Textures in the toolbar for simple, quick alien skin textures. Use a brush that picks up on the paper grain, like Sponges, to bring out the patterns. The F-X brushes also have useful tools. The Furry brush creates instant fur, and you can adjust the length by changing the brush size. Take advantage of textures and stock photos on the internet to create your own patterns. Sites include www.3dplace.net, www. cgtextures.com, http://mayang.com/textures and www.textureking.com. Use the Pattern Pens and Cloners to utilise captured patterns. If your character has green blood, all the skin areas that normally flush red will be green instead!

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The shape, colour, structure and even quantity of an alien character’s eyes can tell the viewer a lot about its personality, creating a narrative in your image.

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Expression If your alien creature has features that are recognisable as a mouth, eyes or nose, then it’s possible to give them expressions to animate the entire picture. We associate ugly aliens with being bad, but try giving your ugly alien a huge friendly smile to juxtapose the conflicting ideas and give your audience a surprise!

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Clothing can tell an audience a ` lot about a civilization: armourplated clothes will suggest a war-like race – while soft, flowing fabrics can indicate a more peaceful existence. Our alien lady is wearing loose material, which, along with her smile, tells us this is a non-threatening race, and the environment in which they live is probably warm or hot. Uniforms are a common feature in sci-fi, as are weapons, robots and levitating transporters. For

example, the Star Wars films showcase a wide variety of outfits that tell you instantly about the characters – whether they are Jedi, Storm Trooper or Queen. You can take inspiration from our own civilizations. If you are painting a desert race (think of Frank Herbert’s Dune), then why not look at what people living in and around deserts on Earth usually wear? If you’re painting a water-dwelling species, consult photographs of fish and other sea creatures for ideas.

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Every artist who uses a particular software program for long enough starts to develop particular tools and functions that they are fond of. To access your favourite features more quickly and speed up your workflow, navigate to Preferences> Customize keys in order to set some hotkeys for frequently used commands.

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2CKPV5VGCORWPM Create a Steampunk fantasy piece that incorporates elements from the Victorian era and references from machinery for a steam-powered sci-fi look with period charm Tutorial info Artist

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The importance of reference Reference is an indispensable tool, and access to the internet makes it easier than ever. Many stock photography websites sell royaltyfree images. To name a few: www. jupiterunlimited. com, www. shutterstock.com, www.istockphoto. com. Search for machine engine parts, gears and steam engines, and see what wonderful things you’ll discover. When you are not sure what something looks like, use reference!

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Paint clouds and smoke Observe cumulus shapes and smoke in reality or in photographs. Clouds appear weighted on the bottom and are usually lit around the edges. Use the Soft Airbrush and the Soft Blender Stump. However, don’t blend too much or you’ll have an overly amorphous shape.

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Flip your artwork! Sometimes you focus so much on a part of a painting that you lose sight of the overall composition. Zoom out and stand back. Is there good contrast? Are the lights and darks balancing one another? Go back and adjust. It also helps to flip the image horizontally. Westerners read from left to right, so an image may look okay, but reverse it and errors in proportion may pop out!

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5VGCORQYGTGF Painting textures on the machinery What makes depicting metal unique is the sharp contrast between lights and darks. Reflections play an important part, as well as bright white highlights and a saturated middle colour. Paint the general form first. Add an area where the colour of the metal would be most saturated. Add the bright white highlight. Do not blend this in too much. Along the edges of your object, paint parallel lines that follow the contour. This is the reflection of a neighbouring object. Do not overdo this technique. In the shadowed

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The Japanese art of anime dates back to the early 20th Century and has gained in popularity East and West ever since, thanks to cartoons for both kids and grown-ups. Here’s how it’s done Tutorial info Artist

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Do your own research into the artists you like most. Look at the key features that define their style, study how they draw and paint the eyes, nose, mouth and hair, and even facial expressions. Don’t rush things, as this might lead to frustration. Take time to practise and improve, ask for feedback as much as possible and be ready to receive criticism.

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#PKOGXGTUWUOCPIC Spot the difference In general, most people assume that manga and anime are the same thing and that they come only from Japan. But there are various aspects that differentiate them clearly. Manga is used in Japanese comics and is drawn from top to bottom, right to left. It’s done entirely in black and white, using multiple screen tones to create basic tonal effects and shading. It’s printed on recycled and cheap paper, due to the amount of work involved and cost of producing it on a weekly and monthly basis. Anime art is a more detailed and colourful medium, full of movement and action. Because the

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characters are animated, the use of backgrounds is essential. These are always painted beautifully and in a realistic way to contrast with the characters, which are painted using a limited range of colours. Nowadays the anime/manga phenomenon has extended around the world, giving artists the chance to explore these mediums and have their own views about what anime and manga truly represent.

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05 Setting your brushes

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In the world of anime the hair colour of your character influences a lot of its personality and attitude. White and grey are usually used for villains, as they are often related to evil and death in Japan. Blue is used for shy, sweet, smart and funny characters, pink and purple for cheerfully cute and childish characters, orange for wild and adventurous characters, and green for down-toearth and goodhearted characters.

08 Working the background

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Kawaii creatures There is no doubt that the creatures have to be cute and lively. Try to base your design on your favourite animals. Keep them simple: they could be cute little blobs with funny ears and small eyes, or they can be fully clothed to give them more personality and a friendlier look.

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One of the aspects that makes anime and manga art unique is the wide range of facial expressions. Some are standard, but others rely on exaggeration and are fun to draw.

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Surprise Even though this is the same character, we can see big changes in the size of her eyes. The smaller the irises, the more shocked the expression will be; the eyebrows are raised and also the shape of the eyelash. Note how she’s leaning back, indicating the action has just happened.

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in terms of lines and colouring. The mouth is wide open and exaggerated; the face is more rounded, adding a cute, childish look; the eyebrows are raised but simplified. Don’t be afraid to add elements around characters to convey a convincing expression.

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Realism versus fantasy Don’t worry about being slavishly realistic in your first underwater scene. Some kinds of fish are downright ugly, while some of the prettier kinds live in shoals and ecosystems so vast it would be impossible to paint everything that’s in there. Instead, choose a couple of favourites to experiment with – tropical fish are colourful and varied.

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Designing a mermaid

Many people feel at a loss when faced with painting coral and other things that grow underwater. Coral isn’t something we see too often, since it’s part of a world we don’t live in, but we can observe its basic shape and structure. Pick a Bristle brush and paint treelike shapes that look like coral when seen from a distance. We can treat them like colourful rocks which have fuzzy extensions here and there that are enhanced with bright little dots to make them shine and seem organic. Once the basic shape is applied with a darker colour, many little bright strokes can add a lot of detail to that shape. To give the dots and strands some texture, fuzzy brushes like the FX Furry brush work best. Airbrushes can then be used for highlights, which are supposed to differ a bit from the overall form to suggest that some tiny creatures are floating in the water.

To paint a good mermaid that differs from the red-haired Disney standard, look at different kinds of fish. Lionfish and Japanese fighting fish can be very helpful. They offer great inspiration for how a tail could be designed, and show that it doesn’t always have to be in a greenish or greyish colour – which makes it look quite boring. Look at bioluminescent creatures such as jellyfish too.

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Find inspiration for the fish To find good inspiration for the fish it’s useful to search using keywords such as ‘tropical’ or ‘exotic fish’. This way it’s much easier to find colourful, interesting examples of all kinds of fish which aren’t ordinary goldfish or clownfish.

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Coral and algae Coral and algae can grow on almost any solid structure in the water. There could be some left-over ancient ruins, or something that got wrecked in the sea. This doesn’t always have to be a ship. Alternative interesting structures could be aeroplanes or other vehicles that are overgrown with algae and coral.

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When painting underwater scenes it’s very important to not get lost. Underwater worlds can be highly colourful because there are a lot of interesting things going on in the scenery, with all kinds of fish and floral elements. Therefore, we

can cheat a lot and spare ourselves some work by utilising certain brushes, colours and light effects. Adding the colour of the water with a 300px 5% Opacity Airbrush, is an easy way to make the elements look unified with their environment.

2CKPVKPIUJCRGU Brushes for basic shapes and sketches Here we have the first selection of brushes. It shows the Acrylics Bristle from the Acrylics palette, the Real Tapered Bristle from the RealBristle Brushes and the 2B Pencil from the Pencils collection. All three are very useful when used in combination. With the Pencil, things can be easily sketched out, and fine elements like the mermaid’s dark blue seaweed top can be accentuated with lovely thin outlines and highlights. The Real Tapered Bristle blends well.

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19 Give the top more shape

This selection shows two brushes which are a bit more special when we talk about underwater scenes. The Real Fan Short from the RealBristle Brushes palette is a pretty fine brush that can be used to add fins to mermaid tails or add little accents to the scales of the fish. The Fine Tip Soft Air from the Airbrushes palette was used to blend the mermaid’s skin. It’s not a good idea to use this one for the fish, because it will make them seem too blurred and look like plastic. The Airbrushes also do a perfect job of creating blurry or highlighted water effects. Use these sparingly in the background so that you don’t blur details.

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7UKPINKIJVGHHGEVKXGN[ Painting with light is a good way to lead the viewer’s eye This example shows how darkening certain areas can draw the eye of the viewer from one point to another, and so help to focus the eye. It’s called painting with light. When the coral effects in the foreground are darkened, it will draw the eye further into the image. Creating more contrast around the mermaid and fish also helps the viewer to find important elements quickly. The turtle is at a high contrast here to make it a point of interest. Painting some soft white dots on top of everything on a new layer and pushing them back with the Eraser wherever they are too bright, also helps to create the effect of moving water being hit by light. For this composition, yellow areas shouldn’t be in places that aren’t of any interest, because they draw the eye too much and so will quickly drag the viewer’s attention away from what is really important.

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Changing paper colour Set your painting’s mood One of the main things that is most frustrating in painting both digitally and traditionally is starting with a blank white canvas. Starting with a toned paper surface can help to set the mood of your painting, and also get the colour in the direction you want it to proceed.

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Start with a value study When you are doing a black-and-white value study of an image, you need to decide where you want your lights and darks. You are just working with value at this point and it will make it easier to add colour to later. Use the Digital Watercolor>New Simple Water brush, at an Opacity of 25 per cent. After the value study is done, perform the Dry Digital Watercolor function.

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After a value study is completed, use this time to decide what details need to pop more. Where do you want your audience to look, what are the important details and what is less significant? All the little details and nuisances, this is where you have to be direct and you can muck around and have fun.

After a value study is completed, use the New Simple Water brush and lay in all your colour. When the colour is where you like it, use the Dry Digital Watercolor command. Then apply another cool tone with Digital Watercolor over that. Start to pull detail out by changing the value on the Color Wheel. This will unify the shadows and the picture. You can even be more direct and just add the cool tone to all the shadows and a warm tone to the light side.

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Using the Color Sets The Color Sets have two exciting features to help finding a colour: By Name and Closest To Current Color. This is nice because if you want to find a certain colour that you want to use, like Alizarin crimson, you can type it in under By Name, click Begin and OK, then the Color Wheel will go exactly to that colour.

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Another aspect to creating a visually appealing image is a good use of lights and darks and the connecting of shadows. American illustrator Frank Schoonover would use lights and darks to direct the viewer’s eye. Using lights against darks and shadows against sunlit areas make for an engaging image. Having knowledge of composition is helpful to make aspects work in the final piece, like when you use some other programs to add text and design work.

Using shadows is a good way to help the viewer look where you want them to look. Just the opposite applies also; you can use shadows to make the viewer look at something more important. Use colour in your shadows also. In Edward Hopper’s Room in Brooklyn, there is a small corner of the windowsill that is in shadow, and it is a rich, vibrant blue.

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The pen really is mightier than the sword! We demonstrate how to recreate a classic pen and wash study in Corel Painter

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$WKNFKPICHTCOGYQTM Every pen drawing starts with a sketch. Use ours or create your own!

Play safe with layers A lot of work goes into a pen drawing, and you can spend a long time adding more detail. If you want to add some more pen work to your drawing, it’s best to add a new layer first, and then add your new line work to that layer. If things don’t work out, simply erase or delete the layer and start again.

03 Choose a pen

01 Guiding sketch

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04 First marks

02 Sketch with line

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05 Fluid outlines

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A little practice If it’s your first time with pen drawing, why not start with a little bit of practice? As you can see here, it’s usual to limber up with a few thumbnail sketches before you begin work on the main drawing. Try it – it really helps to free up your hand!

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06 Lost and found

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There are vital techniques you need to know when using a pen. Here’s the lowdown on shading and detail

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$WKNFKPIQPVJGHQWPFCVKQPU Bolster the foundations with careful shading, detail and colour washes

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Using the Real Variable Width Pen in Painter 11, you can take advantage of Stylus Tilt to make your pen lines much more expressive. Vary both the tilt of your stylus and the pressure that you apply as you draw to create fluid, lively strokes.

13 Tiny textures

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%QPVTQNNKPIRGPCPFYCUJ How to avoid accidents – or deliberately create a ‘happy accident’ The great thing about digital pen and wash is the fact that it’s actually much more controllable than its traditional real-world equivalent. This is simply because we can separate the inked pen line layers from the watercolour layers. In fact, as soon as you start adding the colour washes in the project above, you’ll be working on an entirely independent Watercolor layer, completely separate from the layers that contain your pen lines.

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However, sometimes the ‘happy accidents’ that can happen with traditional pen and wash techniques, such as ink running into your colour washes, can be really effective and actually add to the finished painting rather than detract from it. Thankfully, we can also replicate these accidents digitally in Painter. When you’ve finished your drawing, drop all the layers and use the Water Rake from the Blenders variants to gently create these areas of ink bleed.

17 Watercolor brush

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18 Subtle colour

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Even once your drawing is completed, you can adjust the tone of your ink lines. To do this Shift-click all of your pen layers and go to Layers>Collapse Layers. Now go to Effects>Tonal Control>Equalize. Drag on the Brightness slider to make the ink lines lighter or darker.

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CXKPVCIGRQTVTCKV Learn to work from a photo to create a vintage-style pin-up. Greg Banning shows us how Tutorial info Artist

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Saving and Iterative Save We constantly save our work. As we were working on this tutorial there was a power failure, and we would have lost a couple of hours of work if it weren’t for Cmd/Ctrl+S. Iterative Save gives the freedom to save the work at a stage where we can move along to a different step. This way, if we take it in the wrong direction, we can go back to an earlier save and try again.

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Sometimes the final illustration can become too soft. To correct this, duplicate your canvas by selecting, floating and duplicating the layer. Drop one back to the canvas. Go to Effects> Focus>Sharpen. Set Amount anywhere between 2.50 and 3.00, Aperture Gaussian. Erase out to keep some areas soft.

06 Add background

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Selecting Clone Color with an Oil brush such as a Variable Round can add painterly strokes. Then if you use a Soft Cloner set to a low opacity, you can bring back the detail. Using it on a default layer and erasing out can help your painting to look loose.

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The brushes that we use in this project are all basically fine at their default settings, but lower the Opacity and Grain values, so that we can slowly build up the drawing. For the drawing we make use of the modified Color Pencil, the Cover

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Cloning is a good way to add painterly strokes to the illustration. For example, after finalising the illustration we wanted to come back in and add more brushstrokes. Softening the hair is a good start. We used a clone source of our final piece with a Variable Oil brush on a default layer. We lightly followed the contour of the hair, then came back in with either a Soft Cloner or an Eraser to blend back to the canvas. When cloning a large area, increase your brush size. Decrease and lower the opacity as you begin to add detail.

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“Now the painting’s blocked in, we can add sharpness to the details” Pencil and Airbrush with a Basic Paper. Set the Paper Scale to 120%. For cloning, set the Smeary Round, Round Camelhair and the Variable Round Oil brushes to Clone Color on the Colour palette.

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Because we’re using the photo as a reference, we’re basically using it as our palette. However, we are trying to stay true to the look of a Gil Elvgren pin-up. We’re taking into consideration our reference of his work. Keep her skin tone warm, accented with nice soft pinks. The background stays true to our reference. Again, try to keep the colours soft. You can desaturate the colour slightly to give her more of a vintage look. This is, of course, a personal preference.

For rendering a great tonal drawing we use a modified Color Pencil brush. Set Opacity to 20%, Grain to 20%, Dab Type to Circular. What makes the difference is setting the Subcategory to Grainy Flat Cover. To replicate a real textural, tactile feel, combine it with Basic Paper

from the Paper Selector. We move the Paper Scale around when we work. Try 50% for small detail areas, and 120% for larger areas. We find it fun to draw this way and easy to build up tone when the opacity is set low. If you need to add true blacks, just use the Cover Pencil or Airbrush.

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Red and yellow make blue? Not necessarily!

Mixing colour will help to add life to you painting

How to avoid mixing muddy and dull colours

The primary colours (red, yellow and blue) are the staple for mixing colour. You can create any secondary or tertiary colour with these three combinations. The Old Masters would mix equal parts of the three – this way they would get a neutral dark colour that worked well for shadows since it has the primary colours in it.

The secondary colours (purple, green and orange) are a mixture of two of the primary colours. So if you mix blue and red you will get purple (see the example above). This can also be done simply in the Mixer, which is found under the Color palette. Secondary colours are also utilised in the tertiary colours.

A tertiary colour is created by mixing a primary and secondary colour. If the primary and secondary colours are opposite each other on the Color Wheel then the mix of the two should come out brown, or even a sort of neutral colour. If you try and mix a brown using loads of colours, you will end up with a dull and muddy result.

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Salvaging colours You can use the same colour for an illustration that makes use of limited colour. The beigebrown that is in the coat on the man is also used in the street and in the clouds. This is useful when economy of colour is being employed. Make wise decisions on what colours to use where.

01 Sketch time

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03 Block in tones

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For the highlights we still used the brown-beige at its lowest value. It’s not quite white, but it still has colour in it. We also used it for the highlights on the lady’s dress. This method is useful because it is good to use colour in the shadows and in the highlights.

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Directional colour helps your eye move throughout the image. The red in the lady’s dress, the man’s tie, and the fire hydrant will bounce you across the image. Even the blue in the shadows juxtaposed against a complementary colour moves the eye.

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Limited detail Using limited colour for an artist can be a challenge; everything needs to be planned out. But this will help for a more unified and appealing image. Using just blue and beige-brown to do the skin can be hard, so an under-painting will be useful to help establish the values.

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Detail with colour Using colour to suggest detail is exciting. It gets your brain to think in a different way than in might have in the past, and it’s actually fairly easy – you just need to know the colours you want. Complementary colours are good since they complement each other!

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How to use .KSWKF+PMU Discover how to use the unique functions of the Liquid Ink brushes and layer types to create perfect poster art

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Filling larger areas If we raise the Feature in the Liquid Ink controls, we can quickly fill in large areas with some brushes. Try doing this when you have big areas like the sky and sea. It helps, because some of the Liquid Inks, depending on the size of the document and brush, may take a while to fill in those areas, and the Bucket tool changes the Liquid Ink properties.

01 Dissecting colour

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The Color Sets palette One helpful tool to use is the Color Sets palette to upload the colours of an image or mixer pad that inspires you. To do so, just open up your Color Sets palette and click the right arrow at the top to open the dialog box, then select New Color Set From Image or New Color Set From Mixer Pad. This will grab all those colours and set them up in the Color Sets palette.

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When you’re working on multiple layers and are happy with results, drop all the layers. In most painting projects it’s not necessary to have a ton of layers opened – it can slow down the machine a lot. Also, using Iterative Save will save duplicates with a sequential number attached, giving you a progressive history of the file. Leave one with all the layers and drop all on the current one.

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9QTMKPIQPVJGHKIWTGU It’s time to move on to the main narrative elements

Selecting and deleting in Liquid Inks Sometimes in larger files, selecting an area and then deleting it in a Liquid layer may take longer than normal. To save time, try using the Eraser or Liquid Ink Eraser. From our experience, the Liquid Ink Eraser works better than the regular Eraser.

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.KSWKF+PM DTWUJGU Spot the difference One of the first things you should do when you start any project is take about 15 to 30 minutes to play with all the brushes. This familiarises you with certain brushes, because most projects will have something different in them – whether it’s the subject matter, the lighting or the colour. There are new things to find each time you doodle with Liquid Inks, which can easily result in your having a new favourite brush.

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Do not confuse the two. Resist is like laying down some invisible acid on your canvas which, when you run some paint on it, will appear to skip the area where the Resist mark was placed. Erasers take out completely what you have laid down, including the Resist mark.

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19 Using Soften brushes

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We like to create posters and prints from artwork, so our finals tend to be really big. Liquid Inks are saturated with many features that can cause some slower reacting brushes. We like to work at half the size we plan to do the final on. We don’t work any details, just solid shapes. We then upsize the art and start working with smaller, finer brushes.

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OGVCNNKEGHHGEVU Kirsi Salonen introduces her way of creating striking lights and dramatic metal effects with Corel Painter Artist

Kirsi Salonen Time needed Tutorial 8 hours info Skill level

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03 Preliminary background 7UG

01 Visualise the result

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6QPGCPFEQNQWT Block in strong tones to create a dramatic base

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Choose your 08 shadow tone

Rotate the canvas freely When painting with Palette Knives it’s very convenient to be able to turn the image around as you work it through. By pressing Alt and the spacebar simultaneously, you can rotate the image as you wish.

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10 Multiple colour adjustments

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Create metallic effects

We are often encouraged not to use pure black or white in paintings, but with metal they’re sometimes necessary. Shadows on both gold and silver will go a deep black when there is no light, while all metals display white highlights at their lightest points. Use borrowed colour from surrounding objects to complete the effect of realistic reflections.

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Black and white

13 Construct the metallic wings

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9JGPOGVCNOGGVUNKIJV Highlights and glowing edges add magic to almost everything

Colour variations using gradients We use gradients a lot to complete the painting. Make selections of the desired areas to create subtle colour shifts. Since they’re masks, you can easily erase them. For metallic shine it’s especially handy to add high contrasts and brightness to multiple areas so the result is consistent.

Metallic shine 15 with Dodge

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cloth and details 19 Paint

Vary colours with masks This is good at the refining stage to see that your painting is harmonious. After reducing colours or special colour channels, just create a mask of the upper image and make stronger shades and colour variations over it, then once you’ve erased the parts you don’t need, flatten the image.

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Refine the metallic 21 objects

22 Refine everything bit by bit

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The final challenge is the magical glow behind the head and shiny wings against the sky. Create a new layer and add a transparent gradient in Overlay mode, then shift the layer mode to Soft Light and modify Color Balance. Erase the excessive parts. With strong backlight it looks good when the image edges are dark, as it gives the piece dimension and power.

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the hair 23 Create

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24 Finish the wings

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25 Finish the clothes and patterns

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The cloner’s guide to EQORQUKVKQP The rules of composition are just as applicable to cloning photos as they are to traditional painting. We explain how you can use them to create winning images

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In this painting, there are many diagonal lines creating triangular shapes. Your eye looks for shapes that are alike

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Your eye will naturally follow the movement of line and take you through the painting and back again

In this photograph the subject’s face is in the upper left intersection. This position also allows space for her to look into

Colour theory and tonal value Use colour to add drama or softness

Orange and blue are the complementary colours used in this painting

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Take your start photos, adjust them and start cloning

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During your composing process, you may be trying to decide if an element stays or goes. Go ahead and put it in there – it will create its own layer. While looking at your painting, simply turn the eye on and off on that layer to see your painting with and without that element, to help you decide if it stays or goes.

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Pay special attention to the body language of the people you are considering putting into your composition. Their expressions, hands, feet, etc are all factors in determining whether or not they will work with other elements you’ve chosen, and whether they’ll support the mood of your story. Images of people are an excellent starting point to use as inspiration for your story.

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4GHKPKPI[QWTEQORQUKVKQP Bring your painting to life

When choosing which layer you want to work on, just clicking on the element will automatically highlight the layer that the element is on. This is very useful when you’re working with many layers, since it saves you from having to search through all the layers to find the one you want.

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11 Adding directional movement

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$WKNFHCEKCNHQTOU Establish the geometric shapes for your painting

Fun with Picasso If you feel like a little Cubist fun before you get down to the real business of painting, point your browser to www.mrpicassohead. com/create.html. This is a Picasso based, pick-and-mix style Cubist exercise where you can make a face up from common components used in the great man’s portraits. You can choose each component, scale and position them, and choose various fills. Cubism doesn’t have to be serious!

01 Establish the eye shapes

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03 Layer Adjuster The importance of study It’s a good idea before you start this project to take your time to study Picasso’s work. Simply Google search Picasso and Cubism and you’ll find a wealth of images. Take your time to study the shapes in the paintings, and look at the way he flattened out perspective within the head. It’s even worth making a couple of sketches from the paintings to help you understand better the geometric devices he often included again and again.

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07 More simple shapes

09 Simple blocks

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Paul Cezanne explains that, “Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder”. This was something that Picasso was very conscious of during his Cubist experiments. The vital point to remember when dealing with Cubist imagery is the use of many different points of perspective that are used in the depiction of a single object or scene. You may find it useful to take photographs of your subject from many different angles, and then take parts from each image to draw from. Your mind will try to introduce some perspective as you draw, so it’s easier to start with very basic shapes. It’s all about distillation; reducing complicated components to their very simplest geometric forms.

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Paint matters Unusually for a tutorial in Painter, you’ll notice that we haven’t mentioned much about specific brushes or painting techniques. That’s because in terms of Cubism, the way the paint is applied is fairly unimportant. Although Impasto plays a big role here, we don’t need to concentrate on blending colour and careful tone modelling.

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The bedrock that the Cubist movement was built upon was that, regardless of subject, the painting should work in its own right as a piece of art. This depended very much on pattern, shape and colour, which is why the actual surface plane of a Cubist portrait plays such a vital role in its success. It can be difficult for a figurative artist to see in such abstract terms, but that’s exactly what Picasso was doing here. First and foremost, the shapes and colours in this portrait should please and interest the viewer’s eye. As a result of this, every now and then it’s worth flipping your painting by 180 degrees so you’re not distracted by your eye creating a conventional portrait from the shapes. Picasso was searching during these years for a release from the accepted ways of expressing the world around him. Here Get used to rotating your artwork so you are the shapes from a famous Picasso portrait, showing can see it as shapes, rather than a face. Any the decorative quality of the pure geometry. realism will ruin your Cubist quest!

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Take your time to experiment by using different surfaces to paint on for this project. By carefully selecting a different paper from the Papers Selector, you can make the surface of the paint look very different and introduce lots of nice textures. The Grain value for the brush itself plays a big role here too, so experiment with different settings as you work.

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Tim Shelbourne Time needed

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Paint like Monet

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'UVCDNKUJVJGVQPCNUEJGOG First create a sketch to guide you, then begin to establish the overall tonal values and underpainting

Monet’s colours You may like to mix the colours you use from Monet’s own palette of colours. These are available in a Painter colour set. Hit the small arrow at the top right of the Color Set’s palette. Choose Open Color Set. From the available colour sets choose Artists’ Oil Colors. Click the small arrow again and choose Display Name. Here is Monet’s palette: Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow, Viridian Green, Emerald Green, French Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Alizarin Crimson and Vermillion.

the tones 02 Mapping

01 Canvas and outline

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Mixing colours To mix colours from the Monet palette, in the Mixer palette choose the Apply Color brush. Now click the appropriate colour from the colour set and brush a little onto the Mixer Pad. Mix in your next colour in the same way. To mix two colours placed closely together, use the Mix Color tool in the Mixer palette. To choose a colour to paint with from your mixed colours, use the Sample Color Eyedropper from the Mixer.

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04 Underpainting

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variations 07 Tonal

06 Establishing the lily pads

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05 Base colours

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variability 08 Colour

09 Broken colour

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If you’re not confident about choosing your colours from the colour wheel or mixing them, you can always borrow the colours from Monet himself. Locate one of the water lily paintings on the internet and open it in Painter. Hit the small arrow in the top right of the Color Sets palette and then choose New Color Set From Image.

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Gathering colours

setup 11 Brush

10 Blending with the brush

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Colour variability The Color Variability palette (Window>Show Color Variability) is vital when it comes to recreating Monet’s broken colour technique. By increasing the +-H value in the palette, each time you make a stroke with the brush, the colours applied will automatically flip either side of the base colour you choose, based on the colour wheel.

15 Adding detail

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16 Gestural strokes

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Moving paint around To give areas of paint a little more dynamism, try using one of the Blender variants. The Coarse Oily Blender is ideal for this. Set the Opacity to 10% and the Pull to around 50%. Now use this brush at a fairly small size to break up any hard areas of paint. Make sure to brush ‘out’ from any hard edges to break them up a little.

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Colour in the 18 shadows

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For this painting to work properly and to reflect the way Monet himself worked, it’s important that you paint from dark to light. Although it’s tempting, make sure that you leave the absolute highlights until the very end of the process. It’s also useful to place all the lighter areas on a separate layer so that you can adjust the lightness via Effects>Tonal Control>Equalize.

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Tutorial Paint like Rococo

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Anne Pogoda demonstrates how to re-imagine a classic 18th Century painting and re-create the decorative Rococo style Tutorial info Artist

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Rococo colours When you plan to paint in the style of Rococo, there are a few things to keep in mind. The overall look and feel of the colours appears to be bright and friendly, sometimes with a lot of fleshy tones to be provocative, but never too dark in style. Figures are worked in soft, bright, reddish colours on a darker background, which is often enriched by dark greens that keep the painting from looking too melancholy.

01 The sketch

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05 Shoes!

02 The top

Rococo contrasts the Industrial Revolution with romantic Arcadian landscapes idealised by painters of the time. Arcadia was a place in ancient Greece, but the term was used in the 18th Century to denote an idealised rural setting. Most Rococo paintings are set in nature, with romantic backgrounds. The only ornate elements are statues, or dresses the figures wear. Indoors, they rest on ornate furniture, and often porcelain or books match the style, seen in these pictures referenced from GothicBohemianStock.

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06 More folds

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In Rococo you won’t usually find strong shadows – they wouldn’t match the soft and bright appearance of the figures. Study Rococo paintings by artists such as Boucher and Chardin to find out what sort of shadowing you would like to apply to your figures and surroundings.

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Art Nouveau Art Nouveau was much influenced by the ornamental style and soft shadows of Rococo. So when you plan to paint a modern version of a Rococo painting, have a look at and combine it with elements of Art Nouveau to find new and interesting ways for giving it a modern touch!

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Sexuality Rococo often pictures and disguises sexual motives in a naïve kind of happiness. To apply this to modern painting, you need to look at the subject in an innocent way, so what you create differs from what we think of today as sexy or dealing with sexuality. For this setting, in which things happen by accident and the figures aren’t shown in an overtly sexual way, we need to use suggestion rather than be obvious.

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Paint rich cloth Women pictured in this period wore rich dresses and wonderful shoes on their little feet. The dresses and shoes are often enriched with floral designs, and the colours are bright, rich and happy. The unity of the shoes and dresses, as well as their hats, almost creates a sort of corporate identity – a ‘brand’ – as everything the woman wears, the whole styling, fits together as though it was meant to belong.

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Take a look at images that show dresses and interiors from the Rococo period. Since the dresses were overly pretty and detailed, this will give you a good idea of what’s possible with your own rococo paintings. Combine these with pin-ups and Art Nouveau graphics, and you’ll have a lot of ideas on how to work on your own creations. Visit the Wallace Collection (www. wallacecollection. org), the world’s most complete collection of Rococo art, architecture and interior design.

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When working in this style, it’s a very good idea to bear the overall image in mind at all times. It’s very easy to get carried away with detail and forget that it’s actually going to finish up as a colour image. Try to leave a fair amount of space within the image for a body of colour, a sort of ‘yin-yang’ approach. This will ensure a nice, balanced image and ultimately be more pleasing to the eye. Too much detail may show off some great techniques, but miss the point the image is there to convey. It’s about balance.

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03 Let the inking commence

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Design your image first It’s an important fact that poorly designed plans house poorly executed paintings. Ensure that enough attention is paid from the offset to the composition of the piece. Remember to think about leading the viewer’s eyes through the image to the centre of interest. Good planning is a must, as all elements within an image must harmonise with each other – an orchestra is only as good as each individual musician.

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08 Hair

A chaotic image with no depth of field will send viewers elsewhere. Depth of field (with line art) can be obtained by observing a couple of very simple rules. Use thin pen marks in the background, thick pen marks in the foreground. It can also be achieved by keeping detail in the background minimal to the amount of detail in the foreground. Observing these few simple rules will improve your work immensely.

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Think like a watercolourist Arthur Rackham was a watercolourist, so we need to think like that when we paint images in this way. Watercolour is a tricky medium, so study a book on the subject or look at originals. Rackham used paints very loosely but was a master at controlling them. So loosen up, don’t think too much about application and don’t over-detail your images too much.

15 Back to front

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16 Large blocks of colour

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22 Dodging highlights

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For this example the scene was set in a natural environment, so the chosen colours complemented each other. The image has been painted with earthy tones. It’s best to have some kind of colour scheme in mind before you begin. Of course, many great works of art do evolve during the creative process, but why leave things to chance?

23 Finishing up

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Tips and techniques to help you bring your fantasy forest to life

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It’s important that you position the guide rectangle for the outer edge of the drawing surface beneath the hands accurately. Make sure that it intersects the wrists at the correct points by scaling it via the Free Transform handles. Use the finished image as a guide for this.

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05 Careful tracing

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Hard copy Once you’ve completed the initial outline tracing from the pasted layers, it’s worthwhile printing both of the original hand images so that you have them to work from as you complete the drawing. It’s likely that Escher actually made this drawing from observation using his own hands and a mirror.

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06 Stroked shape

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07 Rectangular guide

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Style points for the ultimate Escher look By following these key elements to Escher’s style, you’ll be able to bring the Escher touch to your own compositions

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10 No overlaps

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08 Define lines

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09 Sharpen up

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11 Establish the shadows

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13 Add definition

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Greyscale values If you’re having difficulty judging the greyscale values to use within the hands, try converting the reference photos to greyscale first. Open one of the hand images and go to Effects>Tonal Control>Adjust Colors. Grab the Saturation slider and drag it all the way to the left. Now go to Effects>Tonal Control>Bright And Contrast. Increase the Contrast slider to separate the individual tones more.

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16 Shadow, midtone and highlight

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Pen or pencil? You’ll see in the finished version that one hand uses a stylus and one uses a pencil. You can copy the pencil from Escher’s original image. If you’re not confident about drawing this by eye alone, you can copy and paste the pencil from the original image, reducing its opacity so you can trace over it. Use the Free Transform routine to position, rotate and scale the pencil.

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15 Tone and contour

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17 Sharp as a tack

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19 Define the surface

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21 Simple shading

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22 Crosshatching

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20 Tracing template

Even once you’ve completed the drawing, you can still adjust the greyscale values within it. To do this, target one of the drawing layers and go to Effects>Tonal Controls>Equalize. To darken the values, grab the Black Point slider and drag it to the right. To lighten the values, grab the Brightness slider and drag it carefully to the right.

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23 Enclosed area

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24 Evaluate and refine

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As this piece is created by overlaying many areas of shading, it’s best to add new layers to the image as you progress. By doing this you can isolate particular areas of shading and line work. This will give you more flexibility when it comes to erasing and correcting specific areas. You can also control the tone of the shading by adjusting the opacity of a specific layer.

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5VCTVVJGDCUG Take the sketch and shade in the basic colours

01 The sketch

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02 Pick your colours

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05 Skin base

03 The brushes

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04 Block in the colours

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07 The dress

06 Start the clothing

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$CTQSWGTGUQWTEGU Always use reference when painting elements In order to paint realistic elements, your best bet is to refer to the websites of the online experts and explore the fashions, costumes and forms of the time for accurate period style results.

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Composite methods To help add depth to your paintings, you might want to make use of composite methods. For instance, if you want to add deeper shadows to a layer, you could create another one on top of it and paint with the composite method Multiply. If you want to apply glazing, the best composite method to use would be Gel, otherwise the Glazing brush will not create the desired effect. Use composite methods to help you change the colours and overall look of your artwork.

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If your painting looks too sharp, you might want to soften the contour of a figure. Using a soft-edged eraser, carefully go over the contours so it will look as though the figure and the underlying background are part of the same painting. Use this for the hair as well, since hair is made of a soft material, in order to make it look more appealing and realistic. Hair with hard edges will look rather unnatural.

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Key Baroque elements Take a look at the most important Baroque elements in a painting When painting in a given style, you may want to research how the painters used to do it. For instance, faces in Baroque paintings are pleasant looking, with stylised and idealised proportions. This was done in order to flatter the person to be portrayed. Apply the same canons to your painting to get the desired look. Pay special attention to the proportions and compare them to the way people are portrayed today.

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2QR#TVHTQORJQVQU Make photos pop quickly and easily

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For beginners it’s really easy to transform a photo into a piece of Pop Art. Make use of Painter’s Pop Art Fill tool to quickly and easily reproduce Lichtenstein’s signature look.

01 Rough out the composition

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Other Pop Art styles Andy Warhol As one of the most famous artists of the 20th Century, Andy Warhol’s pop art consisted of painted and silk-screened images taken directly from American pop culture: Campbell’s soup cans, Coca Cola bottles and other products, as well as the most famous faces of the time, like Marilyn Monroe. His style was immaculate, bold, minimalist, and immediately original. There is an Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, or you can visit its website at www. warhol.org and learn how to make your own silkprint.

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A master of the delicate art of collage, English artist Richard Hamilton was at the forefront of the Pop Art movement. His style, influenced by many yet still entirely personal, was unmistakable in its thorough understanding of design and balance, and his images were instantly thought provoking and visually challenging. His most notable work, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different? So Appealing? is an icon of Pop Art. It is considered by many to be one of the first works of Pop Art. You can discover more about Hamilton and his life at the Tate Online (www.tate.org.uk).

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Draw outlines and fill in blacks A trick we used in this image is a trick that we frequently employ in other illustration work. For a line that varies in width from thin to very thick, we cannot always rely on the pressure sensitivity of our drawing tablet to perform as we would like it to when using an extremely large Thick ‘n Thin pen. So instead, we draw outlines and use the Paint Bucket to fill in between these lines to create heavy line work (in this tutorial, this was handy for most of the line work – since it had to be extra thick and bold).

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A great way to get a more successful outcome when it comes to colour is to try and limit your palette. Colours that appear in numerous locations in your composition will have a unifying effect and will make for a more balanced design. The computer offers us far too many colours, so try imagining you only have a few tubes of paint and it will help you to make careful decisions with your colour choices. We always set a personal limit of six to ten colours (and values of these colours) in any one illustration.

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Make your image pop with colour and effects

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Kelley Harris leads us through the fascinating process of creating a scene with a classical approach and concept Tutorial info Artist

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Rest up If you find yourself bogged down in a problem part of your painting, walk away from it. You can get frustrated trying to over-correct what doesn’t look right, and possibly cause yourself more work in the end. Take a step back or do something else entirely. You can return later with a clear mind and perhaps have a better solution to your problem.

03 Colour layout

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If you’d like to take a classical approach to another painting or add depth to a story, there are elements of Classicism you can use. Some are more subtle or obvious than others. Symbolic props can be placed around a figure in the foreground as a tool or for aesthetic purposes. Architecture can be inspired by or designed around classical elements. Stone or gilt work, open airy verandas and farreaching fields can broaden an environment. Character interaction can change the mood or direction of a painting. Strength can be conveyed by strong postures and expressions rather than movement and force. And using iconography from historical myths and figures can add an air of power or a certain period of time to characters.

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In deeper shadows, using straight and hard-edged strokes can help bring out the shape of the form being obscured. The bends of the arms, nasal and ear cavities can be accented with a simple stroke or point in the darkest areas. Surround these strokes with softer colours to keep them from standing out too much, or else the outline will flatten the surrounding forms you might wish to be foreshortened.

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06 Hair elements

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As an alternative to adding texture to your painting using various brushes, you can simply add texture by changing your brushstroke pattern. Close inspection of the cloth and parts of the skin will reveal that small, quick, scratchlike strokes were made in horizontal patterns. Crosshatch or steeple blemishes on skin and clothing to add variation to similar surfaces.

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Mythology Classical paintings were designed for high class, wealthy, educated patrons, so they often alluded to less well-known myths than we’re familiar with. The people who bought these paintings had often spent years learning Latin and so understood the mythological references used - which made them look even cleverer!

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You don’t have to sit and paint for hours on end. Venture outside! Examine stonework, grass, trees. Observe the sun whether in clear or overcast weather, and notice how it interacts with foliage and nearby structures. Make an image catalogue in your head to bring back with you when you finish up your painting. Or take a sketchbook with you on your adventure. It will help you get a feel of what you’re trying to convey when you’re painting digitally.

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Fine ageing If at this stage your colour harmony has gone astray and you would like to add a general sense of age or warmth to your painting, a new colour layer can be added. Using the Composite mode Overlay, paint a saturated orange over the majority of the image. Lower the opacity as needed and make any additional adjustments in brightness and contrast once the layer is merged.

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Flip the canvas When sketching out your image it’s a good idea to flip your canvas horizontally and back again at regular intervals. This will give you a new perspective, and any mistakes in your composition that you may have overlooked will make themselves obvious. We recommend assigning a shortcut for this function to speed things up a bit.

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It’s very handy, especially when painting with black and white, to be able to switch between your foreground and background colours quickly. Pressing Shift+S will achieve this. For even more efficiency from this function, set its shortcut to the ‘P’ key so it sits next to the shortcuts for increasing and decreasing brush size, which are ‘[‘ and ‘]’.

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Make it bolder A good way to make areas of your image bolder in colour and brightness without having to repaint or lose texture detail is to create a new layer and set it to Overlay mode. Use the Dropper tool (hold Opt/Alt) to pick the underlying colour of the area you want to make brighter, then use a large soft brush to paint over that area on your Overlay layer.

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Impasto effect To give the illusion of thicker paint on your canvas, experiment with Impasto brushes. They can be very useful when trying to mimic real paintstrokes, but be careful to use the Impasto effect sparingly or you run the risk of raising the paint too much and it will then look unrealistic.

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$GHQTGCFFKPIEQNQWTª Get your values right Because Edward Hopper’s use of light and shadow is so distinctive, it was important to get our values correct first if we wanted the final painting to represent his style convincingly. To give myself a decent guide to work from for this stage, we took the Chop Suey painting and desaturated it completely so we could see just the light and shade without being distracted by colour. We placed this next to our line sketch to use as a reference while painting in our values. Establishing values before the colouring process begins can save a lot of time in the long run. It’s often easier to see if your composition is balanced well when it’s in greyscale rather than colour. Once your values are looking right, you can add your first colour wash on an Overlay layer without having to worry about disturbing what you’ve already painted.

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222 Guide to coloured pencils An in-depth look at how these tools aren’t just for kids

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230 Guide to watercolours Create stunning landscapes by understanding how watercolours work

234 Guide to using real oils Oils work great for some many types of art – find out more here

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242 How to paint reflections Master the art of reflections – get them right to add realism

246 How to paint water Water is a difficult subject matter, but we put you on the right track

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Over previous issues, we have spent a good deal of time looking at using pencils in a very controlled and realistic way – now it’s time to explore the potential of the pencil point. This rock pool is a great example of how adaptable and transportable pencils can be. They are the ideal material to take on holiday or to a museum to capture first hand the shape, colour and tone of what you see. These can then be used at home to inspire artwork of all shapes and sizes.

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The coloured pencil lends itself to reproducing textures. This is especially useful for soft, flowing textures like fabrics, fur and hair. The pressure, direction and layers of different colour should all be applied with thought to convey the shape, weight and texture. We chose this rainbow coloured dye job to emphasise the importance of following the direction of the hair as it falls. Press firmly to intensify the tone and colour as necessary.

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BLACK CARTRIDGE PAPER

The tone and texture of this paper lends itself to images that are full of reflections of highlights. It accentuates the grain of the wood on this sculpture, and the white crayon subtly renders the highlights. Use the white crayon to sketch in the initial drawing, though, so you can see it!

SMOOTH WHITE PAPER OR BRISTOL BOARD

This is an excellent vehicle to help your crayons produce a smooth finish. Experiment with waxier pencils to achieve more intensity of colour. Some crayons find it hard to get a purchase, and slip and slide their way over the even surface, leading to delicate quality that can appear wishy-washy.

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Use this heavily textured absorbent paper with watercolour pencils. This method also produces a very delicate effect and low level of colour intensity. Outline your image and scribble firmly over the bumpy surface, then use a wet brush to busily merge and disperse the colour.

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This classic still-life features objects of different textures and tones. The near absence of colour creates a cool, even cold atmosphere, which is heightened by the use of black paper. The highlights are muted, and the grainy texture of the paper adds to the energy of the execution. The only change in principal is that you will need to do your outline sketch in white coloured pencil rather than ordinary pencil.

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Now you can really go to town with colour and slightly more expressive marks. This sunset is very useful because of the silhouetted trees at the base. This allows you to structure your composition and focus completely on the incredible colours in the sky. Try to get a feeling for the movement of the colours and how they merge together, and freely express this with directional, swift, sweeping pencil marks.

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This colourful collection of jewels lends itself to an illustrative approach, or realistic graphic approach. We used watercolour pencils, and created several layers to build up this speedy expressive image. Ensuring each one had dried properly, we then used normal pencil crayons to create a dramatic contrast and reflect the sharp, shiny nature of the jewels.

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Create an atmospherically powerful, silhouette effect. For the background, gently lay down tone in the darker area and smudge in to reduce the white paper. Lessen the tone in this manner to maintain the effect of lightness. On top of this, put pressure on the stick to encourage it to produce deep, dark shadows.

SWEEPING DIRECTIONAL MARKS

Achieve a real sense of sweeping movement with blurred marks. First, describe the general direction of the marks. A pattern of straight or curved lines should sit before you. Now sweep the excess in the direction you require to create a motion blur effect. You can leave it at this point to continue intensifying layers of depth and control.

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Create a varied and rich tapestry of textures to represent fluid and watery effects. Lay down a base of light grey and smudge all over with your fingers. Use your charcoal instinctively to record the detailed areas of vegetation and choppy water at the front. Distant reflections can be delicately shown with the sharp, clean eraser.

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Shading can really accentuate and enhance or induce an emotion in the viewer. This type of shading is gently subtle and peaceful. The variation between tone is smooth and subtle. The controlled and intentional use of fingers and eraser is steady and thoughtfully rendered. Smooth the shadows and make sure you blend gently.

DOTTED AND FRAGMENTED SHADING

This sort of shading in contrast is beginning to get a little more energetic. The smoothly suave blocks of tone are pock marked with finger prints so the viewer can see the artist’s hand at work. The eraser starts to take responsibility for serious mark making, and the highlights glow with life.

DIRECTIONAL AND EXPRESSIVE SHADING

This is vivacious and vibrant shading that heightens the drama and expressiveness charcoal is capable of. It is the sort of mark making that takes courage and forces you to represent what you feel, rather than what might be there realistically. Describe the form gesturally with gut instinct.

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“Use your charcoal to pick out the really darkest details of eyelashes, lips and nostrils”

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Correction protection Imagine feeling very pleased with yourself. You have worked steadily with expression and created a beautiful, thoroughly effective and enticing landscape. Then, horror of horrors, a tragic accident occurs, out of nowhere and totally unexpected! A splash, a splatter, a spray or a spill occurs, usually of some hideously inappropriate colour. This happened to us just as we were getting ready to complete step five! Deep, dark brown stains shattered the perfection of the all-green landscape, so carefully engineered and spoiled by this brown muck! Thankfully, your work is eminently salvageable, use the lifting-out technique on page 233, with a clean, wet brush and tissue to mop up the mess.

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ROUGH WATERCOLOUR PAPER

This is the thickest and most textural sort of paper. Sometimes the texture appears like ripples and the colour sinks in to reveal the texture quite clearly. It is very good for chunky, spontaneous, big brushes, bright colours and watery washes; for example, the sturdy, exciting intensity of the salt-textured pictures.

WET-IN-WET PROCESS

This is a very spontaneous and expressive method that works well for watery or airy spaces. Avoid using it for specific detail or small areas; it is immediate, impressionistic and immensely fun. The main principle is to layer colour next to or on top of each other when both layers are wet. This means that they merge softly and bleed into one another to give a soft focus mark. This is very effective for many surfaces but the main pitfall is that the colours can mix and create an unwanted green, for example.

COLD PRESSED PAPER

This is a much more gentle and subtle textured paper, but it is still solid enough to bear the wrinkling effect that water and subsequently watercolour can have on it. We have used it in this instance to support the more subtle washes and wet-on-wet effect. It works better for delicate, small-scale work.

ORDINARY PAPER

This paper is almost completely flat, with an entirely smooth surface. It reveals the really delicate and sensitive capacity watercolour has to make really nuanced marks and intense or muted ranges of colour. Hot pressed watercolour paper has a similarly smooth surface but is comparatively thicker.

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MASKING FLUID TECHNIQUE

Masking fluid that you might find in most art suppliers is usually pale yellow to differentiate from the whiteness of the paper, and has an acrid rubbery smell. Read the directions on the back of the bottle carefully and choose an image in which you anticipate troublesome white areas, for example, a field of daises. The fluid protects the paper from the staining paint that you apply once your mask has dried. Remove when it is entirely dry, using an eraser softly.

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This is both a corrective and effective technique. One of the challenges watercolour pushes you towards is to set white in stone. Because it pays to work from white (or light) towards layers of dark, it means that your first layer of colour has to be just right; if you obliterate too much white paper, that highlight or cloud could be lost without hope. However, by using a wet, clean brush and wiping it over the surface of the paint, you can remove colour to reveal the white paper beneath. Use a clean cloth or tissue to wipe away the excess.

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WATERCOLOUR SALT EFFECT

This is a technique that allows for lots of happy accidents and spontaneous effects. This natural phenomenon is best produced on the heavier rough paper. To begin with, saturate the paper with deep, intense colour – watery is pretty ineffective – and while the paper is still shiny with moisture, sparingly sprinkle crystals of salt over the top. This should allow the salt to suck up the pigment. Feel free to experiment with table, crushed and rock salt. It can take a few goes to get the exact right ratio of colour to water to salt, but persevere and the results will be worth it.

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WATERCOLOUR GRADUATED WASHES

The wash image that we have used is brightly coloured with separately distinguishable washes. The best way to create smooth graduated washes is to use the paper itself. We began this painting halfway down. The sky begins with an orange and yellow hue and merges into purple. Use a large brush to paint a watery yellow wash along the horizon and then tip the paper at 90 degrees so that the entire watery wash travels down to the top edge. At intervals, add more water or colour as desired to ensure it travels down a level.

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07 Blended midtones

Although you can buy a whole host of colours in oil paints, limit yourself to the primaries: red, yellow and blue. Choose Titanium White and Ivory Black, and also a couple of earth colours such as Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber. You’ll be able to mix the vast majority of the colour you need from the three primaries plus black and white when mixing lighter tones and highlights. Always start with white, and then darken it with other colours.

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Make sure you use quite a large palette to mix on, so that you can leave colours on there that you mixed earlier and pick them up on your brush later on. Oil paints stay wet for a long time, and using colours that were used in an earlier stage of the painting can help colour harmony in a painting, and save you the trouble of mixing the same colour again.

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The oranges, yellows and reds of the sun penetrate this intensely colourful sunset, with its heavily purple-blue clouds mirrored by the deep dark silhouette of the mountains. We are tempted to just let you go for it in response to the image, but here are a few words of advice first. You will need three raw colours and white, no underdrawing, flat-ended Sable brushes (large and small), a decent piece of watercolour paper and about ten minutes. Lay down a wash of lemon yellow and dash a few streaks of orange into it about a quarter of the way up. Let it dry and then use the brushes to portray the intense darks and colours with thick impasto paint to express the clouds and mountains, and the small marks with the edge of either brush. Once dry, correct any errors with a light wash to prevent disturbing the surface.

Although gouache competently covers the layer below it, there could be the odd incident where a particularly strong layer of colour may reappear – particularly lakes, magentas and violets – so put an extra layer of white between each layer. A simple palette is emerald green, ultramarine, carmine red, vermillion, burnt sienna and yellow. We used all of these colours, along with black and white, to create the images in this tutorial. Bear in mind that in general the light colours will dry slightly darker than at application, and the dark colours will be lighter, hence gouache’s chalky reputation.

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FLAT BODY COLOUR

This formal, controlled pastel image needs planning. One of the commendable abilities of gouache is that, due to the heavy pigmentation, it mixes like a dream. And you can add a white to create a beautiful tint from the raw colour. But a word of warning: you must mix up the amount you are going to need. To achieve a clean, flat area you have to mix it all in one go – running out of paint is disastrous, and it is impossible to mix the exact hue again. The resulting change in tone is crushingly obvious. Also remember that gouache dries deceptive quickly (although we have a rescue remedy for that later). We recommend an under drawing, so all you have to worry about is the flat application with a large flat-ended brush. Do not add water to enable it to run smoothly, as this could disturb the flatness. Just generously load your brush with colour.

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For this study, you will need to utilise the painterly quality of gouache that allows you to pick out the most delicate of highlights. This allows us to draw your attention, once again, to its opacity or ‘chalky solidity’, in contrast to watercolour’s light filled soluble layers. You can apply gouache to all sorts of coloured papers, and even the most delicately applied brushmarks are powerfully opaque enough to stand out and overpower the colour below. So, begin to express these fine smoky trails of fireworks by laying down a flat coat of orange-red. Allow it to dry to prevent the next layer disturbing it. Next, mix up the pastel tones for the highlights and use the control and poise of a dancer to manipulate the tip of your finest brush to create a delicate yet energetic line.

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Surfaces that are recommended for gouache are robust. Supportive surfaces prevent flexing and rippling under watery washes or cracking impasto brushmarks. Supersmooth Bristol Board is excellent for flat, smooth work. However, one of the lovely things about gouache is that you can use coloured papers, as in the finely detailed image we did. Avoid sugar paper and opt for pastel papers, such as Ingres or Michallet.

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01 Quick draw

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02 Sketchy mid-tones

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Gel retarder One modern invention that helps to reduce the small sense of panic that can be created by gouache’s uncanny ability to run out or dry up, despite your best efforts, is to use the medium developed to steady and slow down the drying process of acrylic paint. Mix a hazelnut sized splodge of Slow Drying Gel with a hazelnut splodge of gouache, and this will allow you to relax and paint at your pace rather than the gouache’s.

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All you need to start using Corel Painter to create art

We support Windows XP and higher unless otherwise stated. The CD-ROM should autorun once placed into your disc drive. If not, follow the instructions below. 1. Browse to My Computer. 2. Right-click on your CD drive and select Open from the drop-down list. 3. Read the ‘readme. txt’ if there’s one present to find out which files you need to launch to run the interface.

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Tutorial resource files Most of the tutorials in this book have accompanying files on the disc that you can use to follow the guides step by step. This might be photo references, sketches or details of brush setups. Open the disc, navigate to the Tutorials section, then click the right folder to open the files.

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Quick Start guide On the disc you will find a ten-page Quick Start guide, which helps you open a new document in Corel Painter and set it up to begin your first digital painting. There is an interactive version so you can find what you need to know fast, as well as a print-ready version.

2. Read the ‘readme’ file if there’s one present to find out which file you need to launch to successfully run the interface.

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