Corel Painter 9.5 experiments

More Corel Painter 9.5 experiments.

Above: My first attempt at using Corel Painter 9.5's "paint on photograph" tools. Interesting idea...you start with a photograph, but then paint over top of the photograph using the original colours, but with brushes of your choice. Depending on the size and type of brush, you can make the photograph look as "painterly" as you'd like. The picture above still looks a bit too much like a photograph, I think, but I found it time-consuming to go over every pixel. I may give this another go at some point in the future.

Although it's not nearly as creative as drawing from scratch, I can see the appeal for certain types of projects. It would be an interesting project to take a regular portrait, for example, and then "paint" the figures into a fantasy scene. I could have put Michelle and Tony in medieval clothes, for example, added flowers to Michelle's hair, etc. Hm...I may still try this.

Below: A combination of the Image Hose and Artists' Oils. I still suck at drawing pictures without doing an ink outline first (e.g. cartoon-style is far easier for me) so figure it's something worth practising. Plus I LOVE the feel of the Artists' Oils in Corel Painter 9.5 and am highly motivated to learn how to use them properly.



Also, I keep forgetting to mention that I have a poem in the current (short verse) issue of Snakeskin, a UK-based poetry Webzine which I first read about here. I've only recently started to submit poetry. So far, I've had poems published in PKA's Advocate (print magazine), Ideals (print magazine) and now Snakeskin.

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