Painter and Photoshop Basic Skin Palettes

December 22, 2008 by jgarcia  
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Since I re-created my website, people had been asking where my skin palettes are. So, I’ve decided to make them available again here.

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!

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Using a Computer Graphics Tablet with Corel Painter

September 16, 2008 by jgarcia  
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Wacom Tablet

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.

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Solitude II Digital Portrait Demonstration

September 15, 2008 by jgarcia  
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2 DVD Set – 4 Hours of Video and Free Brushes!

In this video, you will see how you can achieve the look of traditional painting using Painter program. My approach of painting digitally is similar to how I paint traditionally. I apply all my knowledge as a traditional artist to my digital art as well. Read more

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Solitude I Digital Portrait Demonstration

September 14, 2008 by jgarcia  
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1 DVD – 1.5 Hours of Video

In this video, you will see how you can achieve the look of traditional Pastel painting using Corel Painter program. My approach of painting digitally is similar to how I paint traditionally. I apply all my knowledge as a traditional artist to my digital art as well.

In this portrait demonstration, I’ll show you how I painted Solitude I from start to finish.  I also explained how I used each particular brush to achieve the look I desired.

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Photograph by Janet M Garcia

Photograph by Janet M Garcia

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Drawing, Oil and Acrylic Painting Videos

August 29, 2008 by jgarcia  
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I’ve compiled an Oil, Acrylics, and Drawing Video Compilations sites. Now you can watch many artists painting with oils or acrylics, and drawing without having to search around the web to view them.

Here are the links to the sites:

Oil Painting Video Compilation:
http://paintercreations.com/oil-painting-videos/

Acrylic Painting Video Compilation:
http://paintercreations.com/acrylic-painting-videos/

Drawing Video Compilation:
http://paintercreations.com/drawing-videos/

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