Grossman Rhoda Draws. Digital Painting fundamentals with CorelPainter XII

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Digital Painting
Fundamentals
with
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Corel Painter™ 12
Rhoda Grossman Draws
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For my friends and colleagues at the
Industrial Center Building in Sausalito,
where I hang one of my many hats.
Acknowledgments
I’m grateful to publisher Stacy Hiquet and everyone at Cengage
Learning who made this third edition possible. I want to thank Michelle
Arcadipane, Marketing Development Manager and Acquisitions Editor.
Thanks to Kezia Endsley, my project and copy editor, for her patience
and vigilance. A big hug for Barbara Pollak, who earned her day at
the spa for a great technical review. Shawn Morningstar did her usual
fantastic layout design. An apology to proofreader Kelly Talbot, because
I made so few misteaks (sic). A very special thank you goes to Stewart
McKissick, for demonstrating his airbrush cartooning techniques in
Lesson 10.
Thanks to all who donated their photos and likenesses to provide source
images for the projects: my friends, colleagues, family, and the Pakistani
man with the nice smile at the Farmers’ Market.
Special thanks go to Jim McCartney and Doug Little at Wacom
Technologies, for continuing to raise the bar for pressure-sensitive
graphics tablets and for sending me a new tablet every couple of years
even though the old ones never break. Intuos4 rules! Finally, I am very
grateful to Steve Szoczei at Corel Corporation—kudos to the entire Painter
development team for the awesome new features and refinements in
Painter 12.
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About the Author
Rhoda Draws, the artist formerly known as Rhoda Grossman, is
the author of numerous books and video tutorials on the creative uses
of Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop. She began to transfer her
traditional fine art, illustration, and cartooning skills to the computer
20 years ago. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Rhoda draws
and paints in a studio in Sausalito’s historic Industrial Center Building
(ICB), where she works in both digital and “messy” media. She uses
a MacBook Pro and Wacom tablet in live sessions with a nude model,
where she specializes in quick gesture drawings. Many of these
sketches are then combined into more complex images that are
printed on archival papers. Some will inspire work in acrylic, oil,
or mixed media collage. Rhoda accepts portrait commissions in both
pixels and pigment. Doing business as Rhoda Draws A Crowd, she
creates live digital caricature entertainment for trade shows and
corporate events. Visit her website at www.rhodadraws.com.
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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................xi
Part I The Basics
1 Welcome to Painter 12.........................3
Getting Acquainted with Painter ..............................................5
Let’s Doodle......................................................................9
I Love the Pressure!..........................................................11
Get Real ........................................................................12
So Many Choices!...............................................................13
Custom Palettes...............................................................14
Back to the Drawing Board...............................................15
Scribble a Sampler..........................................................16
Control Yourself...................................................................18
Crosshatching.................................................................18
Pressure Practice.............................................................19
What’s Next?......................................................................19
2 Draw What You See...........................21
An Apple a Day ..................................................................22
Clone-and-Trace .............................................................23
Tonal Drawing................................................................25
Crosshatch Contours........................................................27
Clone College.....................................................................29
Another Bite at the Apple.................................................29
Starter Still Life ...............................................................30
Clone with Style..............................................................33
What’s Next?......................................................................37
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Have Another Layer...........................39
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Comfortable Shoes...............................................................40
Add a Color Layer ..........................................................43
Shoes for Industry............................................................45
Papers, Please!...............................................................47
Age of Aquariums................................................................49
Blending Layers...............................................................50
Clone Fish......................................................................52
What’s Next?......................................................................57
4 The Great ‘scape ...............................59
Classic Western...................................................................60
Plants and Transplants......................................................60
Settings and Sets.............................................................62
Line, Shape, and Tone.....................................................65
Tool Marks .....................................................................66
Imaginary Landscape...........................................................70
Air Apparent..................................................................71
Prepare to Pretend...........................................................74
Mythical Mastery Tour .....................................................75
What’s Next?......................................................................81
Be a People Person............................83
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Warm-Up Pose ....................................................................84
Source Material..............................................................85
Trouser Material..............................................................87
Face Time...........................................................................89
The Best Layered Plans.....................................................90
Color Scheming..............................................................92
Freestyle Cloning ............................................................95
Funny Features.....................................................................97
What’s Next?....................................................................100
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Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter 12
Part II Beyond the Basics
Customize Me!.................................103
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What’s Your Preference?.....................................................104
Pals and Libs ....................................................................107
Iconography.................................................................108
Movers and Removers....................................................109
Media Makers..............................................................110
Gimme Some Space......................................................112
Brush Controls...................................................................112
Custom Brushes.............................................................114
A Stitch in Time.............................................................115
Check Your Oils............................................................118
What’s Next?....................................................................121
Getting Graphic...............................123
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Just My Type .....................................................................124
Magazine Logo.................................................................126
Got Fonts?....................................................................127
What’s Your Pleasure?...................................................130
More Text Tricks ................................................................131
Let Us Spray.................................................................133
Once More with Filling .................................................134
Pattern Recognition........................................................136
A Cocoa Logo .............................................................137
What’s Next?....................................................................121
Drawn from Life...............................141
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Gesture Drawing ..............................................................142
A Quick Study..............................................................143
Ten Sketches in Ten Minutes............................................145
All Hands on Deck.............................................................146
Animated Hands...........................................................147
Rotoscoping .................................................................149
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Contents
Heads Up.........................................................................151
The Eyes Have It ...........................................................151
Pick a Nose..................................................................154
Lip Service ...................................................................156
Altogether Now............................................................157
What’s Next?....................................................................161
Fine Art Explorations .......................163
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Water World.....................................................................164
Wade in the Water........................................................165
Deep Water..................................................................170
Abstract Painting................................................................174
Grounded in Reality ......................................................174
Drawing a Blank...........................................................179
What’s Next?....................................................................183
Special Projects................................185
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Presidents’ Day Cartoon (by Stewart McKissick).....................186
Pencil Drawing .............................................................187
Creating Shapes ..........................................................187
Selections and Layers.....................................................189
Shading ......................................................................190
Details, Details!.............................................................191
Drop Everything!...........................................................194
Automated Portraiture.........................................................194
Get Smart ....................................................................195
Semi-Automatic.............................................................196
When Worlds Kaleid..........................................................198
What’s Next?....................................................................203
Fundamentals and Beyond...............205
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Pixels versus Vectors...........................................................206
Nice Save!........................................................................208
Running the Gamuts...........................................................209
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