Painter Skin Palette

In this zip file, you will find four basic skin palettes: one for light skin, medium tone skin, medium to dark, and the other one for dark skin tones.

Download: Painter_Skin_Palette.zip

Photoshop Basic Skin Palette

In this zip file, you will find a basic skin tone palette and its corresponding grayscale equivalent.

Download: Photoshop_Skin_Palette_Basic.zip

Don’t forget to leave your comments below about these palettes.

Enjoy!

Wacom Tablet

One of the most essential tools to use when working with Corel Painter is something that every digital artist should have. And this is the computer graphics tablet. The tablet is used as a computer input device so that hand drawn images can appear on the computer. This is useful for Corel Painter and other graphics applications, but there are a few things to consider about a tablet.

The type of tablet should be considered when looking for something to use with Corel Painter. There are both passive and active kinds of tablets. A passive tablet is one in which horizontal and vertical wires in the tablet work to transmit and receive the data the stylus pen transmits to it.  LC circuits in the pen are used to help with getting the data to be read. This means that the pen will have to be charged so that the tablet will be able to read it.

Active tablets work differently than passive ones. The stylus pen that is used here works to generate and transmit energy signals on its own to the tablet. The pen has an internal battery in this case and will be able to transmit its own power without having to rely on the tablet for its power source. In fact, with this, the tablet will not have to keep switching between transmit and receive modes, so it will be easier to get the tablet to work.

Another of the things to use for a computer graphics tablet for Corel Painter is to use the right accessories with the tool. For example, some stylus pens have erasers that can be used when turning the pen upside down and using it on the tablet. An airbrush can also be used in the tablet. This is a stylus that is used to simulate airbrush effects. Some unique effects can be used on the pen, including controls on the paint flow and the shape of the nozzle that the paint will come from.

One of the most unique parts of the tablet to use is a graphics tablet screen. Corel Painter and various other tools for digital painting can use these unique tools. This tablet is a sort of screen that will put an LCD screen over the computer screen. This makes it so that the artist can easily draw on the display surface. This can make the process of drawing incredibly easy. A good example of such a graphic table screen is the Wacom Cintiq Pen Display.

A computer graphics tablet is one of the most important tools for using Corel Painter and other programs like Photoshop for digital painting. The tablet will be needed so that it can be easy to get the right strokes into the computer.

To learn more about the different input devices to use wiht Corel Painter, Photoshop, Artrage, and any other graphics application, view this demonstration.

Feel free to leave your comments about this presentation.

No matter how many portraits for painting you are going to be using for a particular subject, you will need to make sure that you have enough perspective for your painting. Having reference photos in portrait painting is important, and you should take into consideration a few things for your photos.

First, you will need to have photos that are especially up to date and are all from around the same time. Over time people will grow up and as they get older they can have more effects on their faces. No one is perfect, but it is important to have plenty of photos from the same time period so that you will be able to have at least a good amount of accuracy in your painting.

Having multiple angles for your reference photos is important too. The portraits for painting that you will be using should be able to give you a good amount of perspective involving the figure that you will be working on. This includes the ability to help with figuring out how different parts of the face or body will look from different angles. By having this it will be better to get an idea with how to design the portrait you are working on.

Having a good amount of reference photos will be important, but it will be even better if the photos are ones that are in a good light. The lighting quality of your source photos will be important in that these portraits for painting are going to be your reference points. In fact, it can be good to have multiple reference photos taken at different lighting qualities so that you will get a better idea of how your portrait should look like in certain lighting qualities.

The last thing involving portraits for painting involves the expressions that are going to be used.  You may want to ask the subject of your portrait about how you want to have that person portrayed, whether it be a smiling look, or a neutral look. This is with the intention of being able to get accurate photos that will have the same expression on them.  Remember, in some cases different facial qualities can appear when a person is smiling.

Reference photos in portrait painting are important in that you will need to use them to make your portrait painting the most impressive and accurate when a model is not available. As I mentioned before, having various angles, lighting qualities and up to date reference photos is very important.  It also helps to have a good idea of the expressions that will be used in these photos.

By using these tips you can get your painting to be its best.