

#Corel painter 11 custom palette professional#
With its ability to adapt and imitate most traditional mediums without the mess and expense that comes from working with paints and pastels, digital art is quickly gaining a foothold among professional artists. If Leonardo DaVinci were alive today, you can bet money that he would be at the forefront of the digital art revolution.

Step 13 Still using this brush bring out more detail in the petals, especially the veins and folds. Step 12 Change back to the Artist Pastel brush size 6.4, opacity 100%, go around the flower and carefully bring out the edges without straying into the background. Step 11 Using the Blender brush paint out the background until it is smooth, you may need to increase the brush size to get it very smooth. If you need to delete the palette later this can be done in the Window> Custom palette menu. When you need to change brushes you can now simply click on the one you need. Drag the brush icon into the custom palette you have just made and the result should look like the palette in Figure 8.41. Now change the brush to the Blenders> Soft Blender Stump. This will automatically make a custom palette. Step 10 We are about to change the brush and from now on will interchange regularly between the two so it is useful to make a custom palette to make it quicker to change brushes.Ĭlick on the brush variant in the Brush Selector menu and drag it out into the screen area. The stamens should come out very clearly and make a strong focal point for the picture. Step 9 Reduce the brush further to 6.4 and go over the individual stamens and some of the lines in the petals. Keep flipping the Tracing Paper on and off to see what your painting looks like. Step 8 Reduce the brush size to 15.0, increase the opacity to 65% and then to 100% and add more definite detail into the petals and centre. Step 7 Go over the petals again with brush size 99.6 and opacity 32%, this will help to smooth the differences between the detailed and less detailed areas. At this size the brush becomes much smoother and much of the texture is blended out. Step 6 Change the brush size to 37.8 and opacity 32% and start to put more detail in the petals. Step 5 The first stage is to paint over all the picture with the brush to get a base color on which to add detail. Click the Clone color option in the Colors palette. Step 4 Select the Artists Pastel Chalk Brush size 161.0, opacity 12% and grain 23%. Step 3 In the Papers palette select Sandy Pastel Paper. Step 1 File> Open> DVD> Step-by-step files> '08 Peony'.

One of my favorite pastel brushes is the Artists Pastel Chalk which you will be using in this example. The choice of pastel brush is critical as they vary considerably, hard pastels emphasize the paper texture while the soft ones blend into the paper but still have the texture present, particularly on the edges of the brush strokes. Pastel pictures have a very distinctive texture as the pastel interacts strongly with a textured paper.
