Experimenting with Digital Art
Nov. 24th, 2012 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnI whipped up a quick landscape - entirely, shock horror, in pixels!
I could have painted it faster on canvas, and the interface (virtual palette, mouse or pen tablet) just feels kind of clunky and fiddly. I feel like I have far less fine control using the mouse and I still can't quite get my head around the idea that I use the pen in one place and colour appears somewhere else. I feel a bit RSI-ish after painting this very simple land/skyscape, which would not be at all taxing on paper!
However, I am interested that I can apparently 'paint' in what is recognisably my style, via the laptop. This could open up some interesting new ideas... Click for bigger...
I could have painted it faster on canvas, and the interface (virtual palette, mouse or pen tablet) just feels kind of clunky and fiddly. I feel like I have far less fine control using the mouse and I still can't quite get my head around the idea that I use the pen in one place and colour appears somewhere else. I feel a bit RSI-ish after painting this very simple land/skyscape, which would not be at all taxing on paper!
However, I am interested that I can apparently 'paint' in what is recognisably my style, via the laptop. This could open up some interesting new ideas... Click for bigger...
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Date: 2012-12-03 12:43 pm (UTC)It does have chalk, pastel, crayon, coloured pencil, marker and 'finger smear' but I don't think they are as good as the oil simulator... I suspect that painting software that was just focussed on the painting side of things would have more options.
I don't think I can really justify buying Corel Painter 12 at a hundred quid to experiment further, but I am quite tempted by the cut-down Corel Painter Essentials at £27...