Digital Painting Drawing 4
This week, the assignment was to draw a group of three different-sized objects using Oil, Acrylic, Gouache, and Impasto brushes in Corel Painter. For the color scheme, we could choose between any primary/secondary Triad and I chose Secondary Triad (Green, Orange, and Purple.)
I used the following brushes: Coarse Sargent Brush Jitter. Dense Impasto Block Jitter, Clumpy Filbert, Smeary Round, Opaque Acrylic, Glazing Acrylic, Real Dry Flat, Details Oil Brush, Stencil Flow Map - Dynamic Speckle, and Opaque Detail Brush.
I found that I got the best results by using the opaque acrylic brush to block out the silhouette and then locking transparency so I could use the more "messy" oil and impasto brushes while still keeping a clean silhouette. I was going for a stylized, messy, brush stroke effect and I only partially succeeded; I need more practice making things more "artsy" looking. The rock was really difficult to get the right effect; I'm still not completely happy with how it turned out but I think it looks somewhat like a rock at least.
While working on this assignment, I realized that the built-in color wheel in Painter is laid out rather strangely compared to the standard color wheel. I tried to pick colors based on a triangular layout but I wasn't getting the colors I expected so I analyzed the color wheel and realized that the pure hues of the 6 colors were not evenly distributed around the color wheel. It wasn't a big deal; I just picked the colors manually. I thought it was an interesting thing to note and keep in mind for the future though.
