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Master Class - Line Art and Digital Watercolor
This tutorial is designed for the serious digital artist who wants to obtain the true look and feel of Charcoal Drawing and Watercolor 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.

Contents

  • Understanding the Qualitative differences between photographs and Paintings
    Examining the qualities of genuine Watercolor Art work and charcoal drawings art 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 pastel looks and detail in depth demonstration on how to create your own custom effects brushes.

  • Understanding the difference between the Digital and Standard watercolor brushes in Corel Painter, and how changing settings changes the look of the brush stroke.

  • How to create realistic watercolor and pencil and charcoal looks using Digital Image Pro effects and custom brushes.

  • How to create a variety of outline renderings from starting from photos.

  • How to use watercolor overlay to create more realistic digital watercolor renderings

  • An much, much more!

  • Step by step narrated demos that take you through each step of the processes used to create different artistic medium looks from an initial photograph.

    Each of the Custom "Brush templates" in Digital Image Pro used in these demos are also included.
Demo 1 - Charcoal Portrait
Starting Portrait
In this demo I'll take you the steps to change the photo on the left into the digital charcoal drawing 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 looking charcoal drawing look.
Demo 2 - Italian Fishing Harbor
In the next demo I'll Show you how to create a digital watercolor with ink outline that will fool even watercolor painters.
Demo 3- Mardi Gras Masks

In this demo I'll show you how to create an  abstract rendering that combines abstract line artwork with digital watercolor to produce this stunning image
Demo 4 - Watercolor Nude

In this demo I'll pull out all the stops and show you how I created this realistic watercolor portrait from the photograph on the left which captures all the subtle nuances of a true watercolor portrait.
Cost $75 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 10
Corel Painter version 6.x or greater (version 9 preferred).
Cost: $75 US
 
**MS Digital Image Pro requires Windows XP or Windows XP emulation software on the Macintosh