CGTalk - Brush size texture

ftb

08-07-2008, 07:24 PM

Hello!!!

i am starting to use painter.

i normally paint with oils so am trying to recreate this with painter.

i have found that the Artists' oils > dry clumpy impasto works the best and looks like oil painting

however the brush is always a wide flat brush, when i come to a corner or a point i cant get into it. so i make the brush smaller.

but when i do this the brush texture also gets smaller so doesn't look right.

what i am wanting when i make the brush smaller and the hairs on the brush to stay the same size but the actual brush to be a smaller one. does that make sense?

the realbristle brushes seem to do it. but i dont like the look of them as much as the Artists' oils > dry clumpy impasto. :(

or am i using the wrong brush? which would be best for oil painting? something that i can make bigger and smaller but the hairs stay the same size. also i don't like the tilt. i want to paint as if i am always holding the paint brush straight up and down
(like in photoshop the brushes are round) how can i turn tilt off in painter?

thanks!

Lunatique

08-08-2008, 07:32 AM

Without booting up Painter to verify if this works on the brushes you mentioned, I would suggest you make sure the size of the brush is controlled by your tablet's pressure sensitivity, so if you use less pressure the brush will be smaller. I'm pretty sure the bristles won't get smaller in that situation--only the radius of the brush.

BaronImpossible

08-08-2008, 08:23 PM

And just to add to that, in the Size section of your Stroke Designer, make sure your Min Size is low, maybe 5 - 20%, otherwise even with pressure sensitivity you might not notice a difference

CybrGfx

08-09-2008, 05:09 PM

You'll still see some losing of the effect with pressure sensitivity.

My suggestion is to make a selection around the corners, and encircling the larger area you can paint easily (Just a piece of it with the corner).

Then paint as normal. The selection will prevent you from being able to paint "outside the lines."

Your other workaround is to create a new layer, paint as normal, then erase whatever extends past the corner. You can then drop the layer down to the canvas.

~C

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