Another Corel Painter X piece. I’m still teaching myself all the techniques to go along with this app as well as trying to bring as much of my own paint style to it as possible. It’s all a big experiment.

Anyway, the photograph/painting is of my wife. This time I wanted to go with a darker color theme and tone down the brightness of the original photograph. I will include a before and after…

I played around with a directional light filter that I thought worked way better than the overhead light that’s in the original.

Corel Painter X allows me to paint when I want and without a mess.

Look at this painting. If I actually painted that there would be a mess.

Beautiful. I love technology.

Shot the original photograph a few years ago during school. Found the photograph a few days ago and painted a few days ago. I have a few of these to show but you must wait.

Don’t hate me?

I finally feel like my digital painting style is being nailed down.

This will be a brilliant journey.

Recently I have been working a lot in Corel Painter X once again. Sometimes I cannot bring myself to spend a lot of time on something that I will never be able to “touch” but digital art is starting to grow on me especially since I am fresh out of canvas. For those that do not know, Corel Painter allows you to “clone” an image and make it into a painting which you can make into your own style. I took an photo of an aztec statue for this one and changed the colors a bit while adding splatter and outlines and all that junk.

Definitely going to be doing more of these.

Click the photograph to view larger image.

Corel Painter X is very fun but it’s even more fun when you add a Wacom tablet to the mix. Too bad I do not own one currently. Although, I’ve had the pleasure of using a Wacom with Corel Painter and it gives you more of a “realistic” paint feel since you’re able to actually “stroke” with the pen rather than clicking a millions times and dragging with a mouse.

To each their own I guess.