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jang
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| 04/11/2007 2:16 PM |
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| This is a digital painting of some of my garden coneflowers. It's not quite finished but I don't know when I'll be inspired to get back to it. It's all hand painted using Painter IX and a Wacom tablet without the use of cloning or any filters. Normally, when I paint digitally, I paint just as if I were painting in real life. The only difference is that I don't knock over my dirty water onto a freshly finished painting when I paint digitally! lol
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klippie
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| 04/12/2007 2:22 AM |
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Yang,
stunning,
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If at first you dont succeed.........don't ever give up! |
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bluiiz
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| 04/12/2007 11:08 AM |
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| Jang, This is amazing! Wow, it must be so difficult, what program do you use? I also really like your painting in the new forum "flower power" it was so delicate and emotionally spoke to frailty of the flower, wonderful! |
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bluiiz
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| 04/12/2007 11:10 AM |
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| Jang, I am also curious how you put your name on your paintings... can you explain? |
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jang
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| 04/12/2007 12:52 PM |
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Hey, Anna, Thank you for the nice comments. I just posted on the flower power forum thread on making a watermark so I won't repeat it here - gene had also asked about it. However, if you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer if I can.
As for digital software, my favorite is Corel's Painter and I painted this in Painter 1X with some finishing touches done with Corel's Paint Shop Pro. It's not really difficult - if you're already an artist, you can paint digitally. Almost everything you've learned about painting traditionally will transfer over to painting digitally. It is more difficult in that you have to learn the software.
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myrna
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| 04/29/2007 8:39 AM |
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jang........I don't have a clue about digital art, but whatever it is you've got a real handle on it. These are BEAUTIFUL! Must look around this forum more. |
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Anna
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| 05/01/2007 10:29 AM |
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Hi Jang,
This is lovely painting.
I like it.
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Johanna
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| 05/01/2007 5:46 PM |
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This is well done Jang. You have much patience. I did learn more about the watermark off google. It is something that I already parcially did with layering and transparency with other writings on photo art. I just add the embossing to it. Works beautifully. I would like to try the tablet and Painter application to go with it. It must save a lot of time. You have really captured the flower.
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jang
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| 05/02/2007 3:09 PM |
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Thank you all - I really need to get back to it and finish it but sometimes when I stop, I just can't get the "muse" back for a while.
Johanna, glad you found a tutorial that was helpful to you. I love my tablet & a scaled-down version of Painter comes with the Wacom if you decide to purchase that brand. Frankly, since I just paint & don't do much photo-manipulation, the Painter Essentials (that comes with the tablet) is enough software for just about anyone.
As for saving time - yes and no. You save time on the preparation (i.e. getting out supplies, preparing your palette, clearing the kitchen table if you don't have a dedicated space, etc.) but I tend to take more time painting digitally than I do traditionally. I don't know why that's true, but it is. I do save time by doing my sketching for a traditional painting on the computer. It's easier and cleaner since I can erase completely or easily change just one part of a drawing. I like to make my drawing on the computer, print it then trace it onto my good paper. It's so easy to ruin good art paper that I almost always do a preliminary sketch on the computer, print on plain ole printer paper first then use a light box or tracing paper to transfer it to the good stuff. Of course, it's certainly different for different artists and you may not want to work this way.
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jang
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| 05/02/2007 3:22 PM |
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Whoops! Johanna, I think I misunderstood your statement about saving time. I think you're referring to the watermark but I don't apply mine in Painter. I make and apply all of my watermarks in Paint Shop Pro. I make the watermarks and save them as a transparent file in the .psd format. I could save in the native .psp format but one day I hope to get a Mac & would like to be able to use the watermarks I've already done with it also. Anyway, I save all of my watermarks in one folder on my hard-drive (My Documents for PC users) then I open my painting (either from a scan or digital camera or one of my digital paintings) in Paint Shop Pro. I choose a watermark from my folder and open it in Paint Shop Pro also then copy it and paste it AS A NEW LAYER over the painting. Then I adjust the size and position, choose a blend mode if necessary (usually overlay, or hard light or soft light) then adjust the transparency of the layer. When it's to my satisfaction, I merge everything, resize to fit the forum & save as a .jpg for posting. You can do the same thing in any graphics software that allows the use of layers. I could probably do it in Painter but I've never tried it since I'm so comfortable with PSP. I don't have PhotoShop but you could certainly do the same thing in the same way with that software.
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Frank
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| 05/04/2007 5:05 PM |
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Beautifully done
I have not try this new "medium" so here is the question: Do you print it out as if it was a photograph and then matted and frame? must be using a lot of computer ink?
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jang
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| 05/06/2007 5:03 AM |
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Thank you, Frank,
Yes, a digital painting must be printed and then is treated like any other painting. I use an Epson with the archival inks or, for very large paintings, have it professionally printed. And yes, it does take some ink but a painting takes a lot of paint also. I think it all balances out. I like painting on the computer because I don't have a lot of room for painting traditionally and because my "supplies" are always at hand plus No Clean-UP!! lol
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Frank
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| 05/06/2007 7:57 AM |
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Well said, Jang
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