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Master Class - Digital Oils and Acrylics

This tutorial is designed for the serious digital artist who wants to obtain the true look and feel of Oil and Acrylic Paintings starting from photographs. This is not merely re-painting or tracing and re-drawing, nor simply applying a Photoshop filter. The techniques shown here go into un-documented features that are available nowhere else. It uses a fusion of techniques from Corel Painter and Microsoft's Digital Image Pro, and Corel Draw.

Each of the modules contained on this Data DVD is done in narrated movie format so that you learn by seeing and doing. It is exactly as if you were standing over my shoulder watching, and hearing me explain what I am doing. 

This is not meant to replace but augment my initial Digital Artistry tutorial series. Instead it focuses in more detail on obtaining a specific medium look and different styles of that medium. The techniques shown are easy to master and enable you produce a quality of art work you never dreamed possible.

Contents
  • Understanding the Qualitative differences between photographs and Paintings
    Examining the qualities of genuine Oil Painting works in order to better recognize their inherent characteristics.

  • In depth discussion of the effect-brush combination in Digital Image Pro including which effect and custom brush combination produce the best oil and acrylic paint looks and detail in depth demonstration on how to create your own custom effects brushes.

  • A simple to understand discussion and demo on how the Corel Oil Paint Brushes work and are classified, and how to alter them and create your own variants.

  • How to create realistic digital oil and acrylic looks using Digital Image Pro effects and custom brushes that are supplied on this DVD

  • An in depth look at the artistic decision process that went into creating a work of art.

  • How to create a realistic under-painting look and "canvas show-thru" look that beats anything available today!

  • An much, much more!

  • Each module is a step-by-step narrated demo that takes you through each of the processes used to create different artistic medium looks from an initial photograph.

    Each of the Custom "Brush templates" in Digital Image Pro  as well as Paper Textures and some custom Corel Painter Brush variants used in these demos are also included.

Demo 1 - Digital Oil Painting Portrait
Starting Portrait Final Artwork
In this demo I'll take you the steps to change the photo on the left into the digital oil painting rendering on the right. I'll discuss which effects and brushes to use to achieve initial different looks to parts of the image to begin. Then I'll show you how to combine and enhance them to achieve a perfect oil paint look.
Demo 2 - Creating Under-Painting Looks and Canvas Show Thru
Original Photo of Boys on the Beach Final Image boys on the Beach
In the next demo I'll show you how to create a very impressionistic digital oil painting that utilizes an underpainting effect and "canvas show thru" look that will have even true oil painters looking twice to see if it was done in oils on canvas.
Demo 3- Impressionistic Flower Still Life

Flower Photo Original

Final Still Life Flower Painting

In this demo I'll show you how to transform an ordinary still life photo of a flower arrangement into a very impressionistic digital oil paint rendering.
Demo 4 - Impressionistic Digital Acrylic Water Lily

Original Water Lily Photo

Impressionistic Water Lily Painting

In this demo I'll show you how to create a highly textured acrylic like impressionistic painting of a Water lily that would have Monet envious.
Cost $99 US     Pay Pal On Line Order Form Standard Order Form
Tutorial Requirements:
PC or Mac with DVD-ROM or RW drive
Internet Explorer or other HTML Browser
Windows Media Player 9 or above or Quicktime 6.x or above Media Player .

This tutorial shows how to create work using the following software and hardware configurations:
PC running windows XP or 2000 or Mac running Windows Emulation software
Wacom Tablet
Desktop Scanner
Microsoft Digital Image Pro version 9 or greater
Corel Painter version 6.x or greater (version 9 preferred).


Cost: $75
 
**MS Digital Image Pro requires Windows XP or Windows XP emulation software on the Macintosh