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Poster design for an upcoming show presented and hosted by The Violet Vixxxen and iList.com
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Another reason Artrage is a cool digital painting and drawing program…you can ‘pin’ a photo ref right beside your WIP! (get permission from the photog or buy a stock image of course) Artrage has a trace option which I personally feel is lame and icky-yuck! but the ref is a great way to get the feeling of what you want down close at hand. Why do I like refs and not tracing? Tracing feels like copying someone else’s work, the photogs angle, sweat, lighting, etc etc. Refs are just that -references- and your drawing n’ blocking and processing images through your style-changing things, altering mood light etc….in my opinion. Disclaimer: Obviously I am NOT speaking of inkers in any way in this comment lol, I know they do not trace either,they “add depth and shading and give the image definition”. I do not know if any inkers use Artrage, and maybe for them the trace option would be awesome. For my painting purposes not so much. I like my artwork to be from scratch, to know it was all mine. Now I know some folks feel like refs are in the same category as tracing- that pure art ideas should only come from ones own brain. I think a ref, not a completely leaned on photo mind you, brings a sophistication and maturity to flesh out the idea in your brain. I just see fewer anatomical oddities in work that uses refs vs work that does not. And of course some art oddities are certainly meant to be there- some less mature work gets kinda defensive after not using refs and they do the old Pee Wee Herman ” I meant to do that” with missing appendages and oddly angled necks…well heck I am just babbling now. Off to make more art and less talking type stuff!
This image is an ‘Atomic Girl’ for an upcoming Paducah show poster.
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Digital Painting (no tracing, no drawing over, no cheating, photo ref only) for new Zine “Chit CHat”
Doodling with Artrage Studio is pretty sweet- first time trying it out today. It is a reactive brushes program, so as in traditional oil or acrylic paintings you can lay down paint, lay down more, and mix it, swirl it, blend it together. Vs Photoshop where you can lay colors over others and build up similar to dry traditional mediums. It is faster, much smoother and efficient than Corel Painter…just sayin. I love the Corel Painter ‘Wet Oily Brush” (reactive) and there is nothing to compare to it in ANY program. That is the only tool I use on Corel however. More experiments necessary :) YAY!! Image prints out TRUE in color etc etc to what you see WYSIWYG for REAL. Corel and Photoshop both require a bunch of tweaking in my opinion to get what you see on the monitor….as I am trying the demo I am not able to save as a jpeg ( one may save and edit and even print in demo mode, not all features available on demo) so behold the humble screen grab- I hope when I purchase I WILL be able to save as tiff or jpeg?? 7 min aprox doodle btw
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