BrushTalk

Continuing from part 1, I firstly want to introduce the third brush variant, again created in Painter IX. This variant also uses the luminosity of the current selected pattern to control the angle in the brush stroke, but this time the brush is a captured dab. While experimenting with the settings, I discovered an interesting artifact effect in the stroke rendering by increasing the Wet Fringe value. Although I was more interested in the shape of the resulting brush strokes rather than texture, I liked the effect and decided to keep it. As this is Digital Watercolor media, don’t forget to use the Dry Digital Watercolor command after you have finished.
Again, I used mainly short brush strokes, letting the angular twisting of the brush suggest the form;

Focusing on Detail

Having a lot of different shapes and imagery on a canvas can be overwhelming when one wishes to search for or focus on a specific/interesting shape or design. A neat way to do this is to use a lens to highlight a specific area of interest.

Corel Painter provides a very cool feature which allows images added to an Image Portfolio library to be saved along with the selected layer blending mode applied at time of saving. My Focal Point Lenses image portfolio objects utilise this feature, and support drag and drop, repositioning over the underlying imagery, as well as resizing.

Below is an image demonstrating my version of Rob’s design theory brush, with the Negative Lens Round positioned over the shape on the right. Don’t forget about using negative space as well - two shapes for the price of one.

Related Links

Design Theory 02 - the second video in the series by Sinix (Rob Stacy).

Staying Motivated - an article by Kevin Cornell

Creating Fashion Illustrations with Corel Painter by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis

Thumbnailing for Quick Concept Creation by Raymond Brugman.

Concept Art/Prismacolor Brushes for Painter IX and above - converted by Juan C. Negron (originally created by Shane Caudle).

Custom Design Resources (for Corel Painter 8 and upwards);

The following download folders contain a brush library of 5 custom variants, along with the patterns and image portfolio libraries used in Creativity and Inspiration parts 1 and 2.

Download Inspiration_pc.zip (316 kb for Windows platform)

Download Inspiration_mac.dmg.gz (300 kb for Mac platform)

Edit;

My thanks to Jinny Brown for bringing to my attention the incorrect Windows file extension originally assigned to the PC version of the Fractals_01 pattern library. The correct file name should be Fractals_01.PTL. This error has been corrected in the respective download folder, and the ReadMe instructions now also include information on locating the Inspire me brush library in Painter X.

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