Painter Tutorials

[ilasolomon]

I hope this is worthy this time, Shade. :

http://www.anry.ru/gallery/joker/joker_painting_steps.jpg

from the site: http://www.anry.ru

[BartW]

One of my favorites:
http://www.sumaleth.com/links/index.shtml


This site has both painter and 'real' (non-digital) art tutorials.
http://www.tutorialhunt.com/

Again, non painter, but works extremely well within painter - some reallife water coloring classes.
http://www.johnlovett.com/class.htm

[Stryker]

Nice painting tutorial shows how to draw the woman body.

http://www.3dm-mc.com/tutorials/painter/nude/

[spm]

i would like to see tutorials that arent so theoritical. if i allready "know" how to paint, but dont know how to handle a program. get it? :)

[frey]

This might be early to suggest but how about making a sticky thread for tuts and tips/tricks.

Thanks for the links.

[setik]

Here are a couple for fantasy style painting, and general painter use..

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/realism/ursularealism.html

http://www.metalandmagic.com/Pages/Galleries/ramblings/tutorialone.html

[Jinbrown]

Edited on Thursday, May 25, 2006 as the information originally posted here is long out of date and no longer relevant.... Jinny Brown

[PaulSchoeni]

Too bad Don Seegmiller shut down his tutorials on his website....He had some great stuff there. Still though, I definately have to plug his book "Digital Character Design and Painting" and his website http://www.seegmillerart.com/

He has a lot of Painter images that are well worth your time browsing through.

Paul

[jbw]

PaulSchoeni - I was considering buying "Digital Character Design and Painting" but opted for Painter 8 WOW so I can grasp the general program first. Now I'm starting to understand the program I was wondering, is this character design & painting book any good?

ta,
jbw

[adeptus minor]

Hell yah its good lots of custom brushes and textures. I did a workshop with him at Cal State good guy amazing artist the stuff he showed us was amazing the art work that hadnt been published was some of the best stuff I have seen. Go get the book. The painter 8 wow book bites big time to me you will learn more from his book then the wow book for sure.

[Trickster]

ermm.... here's a chessy one to add

http://tiemdesign.com/HOWTO/Painter.htm

[DigArts]

We have a number of step-by-step tutorials for 2D painting and texturing for 3D using Painter (or PSP). Most involve trees & foliage. Use the tutorials (http://www.gardenhose.com/) link in the menu frame.

Hope to add some for painting game/architectural backgrounds and matte paintings soon.

http://www.gardenhose.com/images/firexampl.jpg

Have fun,
Dennis@DigArts
http://www.gardenhose.com (http://www.gardenhose.com/)

[Athelor]

The tutorial's seegmillerart is down since a long time but you can see this page on epilogue.net

http://www.epilogue.net/art/tech/don_seegmiller/

:drool: :drool: :drool:

[Jarah]

well u can try this great Tutorial by A painter artist Robertocampus
http://www.robertocampus.com/

check out the Tutorial section ... it's dazzling

:)

[kwilli30]

hi

I'm a painter nube, looking for a tutorial on basic painter setup - ie, any special options that I need to check etc. and any other painter basics

thanks

[Tinny_McFinny]

Edit: Deleted by moderator. Any use of Spam is unacceptable at cgtalk.

[Shade01]

Could someone delete Tinny McFinny's link? It's pure spam and got nothing to do with Painter.

[antongranik]

Another script for Painter 7 from the most famous our russian artist Anry (www.anry.ru): http://www.anry.ru/rus/articles/ring/ring.zip This time he draws a ring. No, not the Ring-From-Orcs-And-Hobbits. Just a very expressive ring. :-)

[kraal]

any way for that to work in painter8????

[antongranik]

Nope.

[Nolita]

Call me nuts but I like these tutorials http://www.ethereality.info/ethereality_website/main_page/home.htm

They seem to be really good for getting your feet wet. Not so good for anyone who's been at this for a long time but then if you've been at this for a long time you probably won't want tutorials.

[shetrom]

hello
i looked at all or most of these tutrials webs and I didnt find a beginer's tutrial of how to paint a pic with shados.
Can someone give me a tutrial plz, that will expline for a Beginner.
thanks

p.s.
sorry for my bad english and i m sorry if there is a tutrial like that and i fifnt notice

[Nolita]

Hey,

Listen, if you go to the goodies section of Lunatique's site (http://www.ethereality.info) you will find some pictures with step by step walkthroughs. And you will find a tips and tricks pdf. As for painting with shadows and highlights, I suggest you not stick to the realm of painter tutorials. Check out tutorials for everything from graphite, to colored pencils, to acrylics, to oils, to photoshop. You want this to come easily, lickity split, one single tutorial, and voila' a professional looking painting.


I wish I could tell you that such a tutorial exists. It doesn't. And the magic wand in any graphics program, is a selection tool and not really a magic wand. You can't take a pill and suddenly start painting amazing pictures. What you can do is practice and learn. From the last post I'm doubting you can draw with shadows. Baby steps. You didn't learn to walk in a day. You didn't learn to talk in a day. You didn't learn to read in a day. You can't expect to paint in a day, or learn everything from a single tutorial.

You have expressed a wish, and willingness to learn. So learn...learn from every book, and tutorial you can find. But sooner or later you will have to pick up a brush, or a pencil, or a mouse. And to get the absolute most from painter you will have to get a wacom, and get the hang of using it.

With art learning is doing. So as much as you want a painter tutorial, I suggest you google for a tutorial in patience. You will have many more failed paintings than succesful ones in the beginning. But those failed paintings will only serve as learning experiences. You are only a failure if you give up learning how to do something you really want to do, because it's too hard, or takes too long.

Almost everyone I know who paints digitally started expressing themselves through art, long before he or she even owned a computer. It starts with doodles and pictures you copy from comic books and magazines when you're a little kid, and slowly it progresses to being a painter or any other form of artist, who is willing to take the time to fully render an image from start to finish.

And yes I have many more unfinished works than finished ones. I finished a lot more pictures before I decided to learn to become a technically better artist, with a technique and some finesse. Still that was my decision. I can't make your decision for you. You must decide for yourself if the long road of lessons, either self taught or through classes, is the road for you. I can tell you it's a fun road to take. It's one of few where even your failures are successes.

Good Luck,

Don't get discouraged, just be willing to put in the time.

[shetrom]

thanks for your replay

but I thought that there is a tutrial who wont explain how to color a specific pic or how to paint like an expert. I ment to a tutrial that explain in a pic how to know where it suppose to be light and where dark.
any way I will keep trying to color some pictures
thanks again and if you know that kind of tutrial i will happy if u shere it.

[Nolita]

Oh I can explain that without a tutorial

It's really simple

At first you pick a light source(such as the sun)

decide a place for it

then write the word light source where you want it to be

simply draw lines radiating from the source to your subject

where the lines hit the subject is where the light would hit it

on the other side is dark

practice with that first

then we can get into things like relfected light

and cast shadows

[shetrom]

thanks
this is very helpful tutrial
i will try that
thanks again

[Nolita]

Hi,

No problem, I thought I got from your first post that you are really new to art. It's not really a tutorial though, just helpful hints. What I can try to do though(don't hold your breath, I'm currently working on a picture myself), is make a script. I'll try to save it as a quicktime, or .avi file. I'll paint some simple shapes, such as a sphere, a cone, and a cylinder. I'll use the above listed tips, and include things like light, shading, shadows, cast shadow, and reflected light. If I have enough time, I'll even throw in a bit of a tutorial on how to use the perspective grid. If this interrests you, let me know. That way I'll know to get to work on it.

The biggest problem may be in finding a place to put it for you to download. Still it should be better than trying to figure out everything on your own. I meant it when I told you to check out Lunatique's site, just click the link in the earlier post, there's a lot of help there for finding your way around painter. In the mean time just have fun playing with painter, and getting your bearings.

Good Luck, and let me know, either answer this post in the thread, or PM me.

[shetrom]

yes this is very intresting me
by the way i sent you a Private Message

[MDurante]

I came across this on wetcanvas. Professional portrait artist (Lisa Ober) using Painter:
http://www.oberfinearts.com/Steps.html

- Matthew Durante

[Nolita]

Okay,

First of all I still need to make the script for different shapes, etc. But someone in a chat wanted to know how to draw and shade lips, perfect, as I had never made a script before(intentionally, Painter saves your projects as scripts, automatically and saves them for 24 hours or the period of time you specify in preferences), this was the perfect excuse to learn how to make a script and save it as a movie. If you want to check it out to get some ideas(it's really simple and doesn't have a ton of detail/photorealism) you can check it out here: drawing and shading lips (http://angelfire.com/art2/nolita/index.html)

[robin3d]

Hi im new to painter and this may be wery simple but i cant seem to find out how to do :(
Q1. How do i make a custom palette with my favorite brushes in painter 8?

Q2. what ver. of painter are u guys using, anyone has any invention why a older version may be better? Feng said he used ver.6 because some changed fetures is this common opinion or...?

Thanks for all tutorials :)

[evo_supra]

Really kool, tutorials! keep em coming!

[Jinbrown]

robin3d,

Since this thread was initiated to ask people to share their tutorials, it might be better to post your questions in a new non-Sticky thread.

[ElenaLauder]

Welcome, i found something special Digital Painting Tutorials...

http://67.15.36.49/ffa/tutorials/tutorialsdigipaint.asp

Greetz

-Elena

[ElenaLauder]

Welcome, i found some Digital Painting Tutorials 4 you...

http://67.15.36.49/ffa/tutorials/tutorialsdigipaint.asp
http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/development1.htm

Greetz

-Elena

[choptider]

My web site whith video tutorial:

http://jeremymariez.free.fr/tutorial.htm

[ElenaLauder]

@choptider

Very, very nice, thanx for sharing!

[Jolene]

How about a tutorial on painting hair. I find hair painting a hassle for me.

[GoldCoin]

Grab your favorite brushes and a deep cup of coffee, we're off to somewhere in Sweden to visit with Rene' Blom, a fabulous artist, who uses & loves Painter.

There are two stops...first is her forum filled with many Painter tutorials. She shows her technique for painting a nose, hair mouth, fur, apple & many other tips. Wait until you meet "Tiger Baby."

For Photoshop, she has some great brushes to download.

Please.. be sure to say "Hi"....Rene' has shared so much without a price tag.

http://www.reneblom.com/forumadv/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=3 (http://www.reneblom.com/forumadv/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=3)


The second stop is her new Web site...here you can view her wonderful work...
Rene' has a couple of tutorials here, that aren't in the "Secret Room." "The Drawing of the Hand" is very informative.

http://www.reneblom.com/portfolio1/default.asp (http://www.reneblom.com/portfolio1/default.asp)

Click on the first key for the tutorials...

Enjoy....

[Gord-MacDonald]

there are a number of tutorials offered right out of the help menu in painter 8. These tutorials in turn have links to other tutorials - which have links to other tutorials - you get the idea ;-)

The core tutorials cover the essential topics, and appear to have enough meat on thier bones to merit attention. Quite a few of them are in pdf format - nice.


Gord MacDonald

[Alex Mateo]

very helpful , this is great :D

goood.

[Panda89]

I am new to Painter IX, but i have already tried to create a tutorial:
www.deviantart.com/deviation/17686295/

I hope this helps.

[DigArts]

Oops! Duplicate post.

[Aleks Dragon]

hi, i am new and i tried out the links to find some good painter-tutorials. but there was'nt any for my interests, maybe i am blind. so i think that i have to buy painter-tutorial-dvds. are there any? and where i can find them? the gnomon workshops are very good, but only concentrated in one topic not in the whole power of painter. what i want to learn is, how i do organize and create my own brushes, how i make a painting by using a photo, how i make lightning and atmosphere, how i make 3d-textures, how i can create my own paper...a.s.o.
thank you.

after searching and reading in this board, i have found some good tutorials, especially tutorial-links from mr. jinbrown. thnak you. and thank you luna. we need more people like you in this board.

i am a painter-rookie. and i am interested in to learn to use the powerful painter-tool. at this time i am reading Cher's "Painter IX WoW-Book". the more i read the more i want to ask: i using the painter ix trial (i bought the IX-Version at ebay...and now i am waiting and waiting...) and i saw Scott Robertsons workshop "Create Unique Environments". he made loss handdrawings by wide COPICmarkers, who draw very very liquid. Robertson scanned the eight sketches and layered them in one photoshop-file. after that he played with the opacity and colors. then he looked for some interesting shapes, copied the interesting shapes into a new file and arranged them.
I think, it is an good way to work with "accidents". Are there other interesting and experimental techniques who somebody did?

[Aleks Dragon]

I have found an interesting article by Jeremy Sutton at http://www.rangefindermag.com/magazine/Oct05/harness.tml:

[...] San Francisco Chronicle art critic Kenneth Baker fears that “there’s too much freedom (in digital media) to give the right kind of friction to give artistic results. Art requires resistance to give results… Resistance is essential.” Artist Dawn Meson agrees with Baker in that the digital medium can make it harder for the artist to let accidents be, since “it is too tempting for many artists to correct and make perfect.”
Trillium Press’ Salgado sees the artist as a boxer wherein the medium (the “punch”), digital or otherwise, invites a reaction (the “counterpunch”) from the artist. An example of punch/counter-punch in digital media is the way artist Hung Liu used the water solubility of the Iris dye inks (“punch”) to create dripping effects (“counter-punch”) by running water down the prints. Farnsworth echoes Salgado’s sentiment by explaining, “Everything I’ve ever invented began with a mistake, and you only make mistakes by doing.” In other words, treat digital media like any other: Dive in, try things out, and react to what emerges. I encourage my students to take risks on the canvas, to be committed to their brush strokes and the creative process. Building up history on your canvas, embracing and working with serendipity and “mistakes,” whether working digitally or traditionally, is what brings your canvas to life and adds nuances and depth.

To find more tutorials for painter visit:
http://www.paintercreativity.com/articles/index.html (http://www.paintercreativity.com/articles/index.html) (Homepage of Jeremy Sutton)

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Content&pid=1047022702185&cid=1047022737328 (http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Content&pid=1047022702185&cid=1047022737328) (Corel)

I hope, someone will find it helpful.

peace!

[Jinbrown]

after searching and reading in this board, i have found some good tutorials, especially tutorial-links from mr. jinbrown. thnak you. and thank you luna. we need more people like you in this board.


You're welcome, but I'm not "Mr. jinbrown". My name is Jin Brown, a shorter version of my nickname, Jinny Brown. Jinny is a woman's name and guess what? I'm a woman! :D

If you haven't already, check the Corel Painter IX website and read the monthly Painter IX newsletter, "The Painter Canvas".

http://www.corel.com/painterix


Happy New Year!

[Aleks Dragon]

UUUPS! Iam so sorry! @->->- @->->- @->->- ! I read "Lord of..." under your nickname and I don't know the name Jinny ('cause I am from Germany). Okay, hope you'll forgive me. What happaint to me! I am a little bit dizzy, while I am waiting for my Painter IX - package, since last week....AAAAARRRRGGGHH!

thanx for the link, miss...ah... misses....ah...miss(es) b...bb..brown? AAAHHHHH!

;-)

happy new year!!

[Jinbrown]

Aleks,

It's not your fault. I'll have to ask Lunatique to change "Lord of the Posts" to something else.

I'm certainly not "Lord" of anything.

Jinny is an unusual nickname, too. It's similar to Jenny which is short for Jennifer but not the same name at all.

Mine is short for Virginia and that's even more confusing since most people spell that nickname Ginny, not Jinny.

So, you're definitely forgiven. It was just funny so thanks for making me laugh.

Happy New Year! :)

[Jinbrown]

Aha!

I've changed it myself!

Lady of the Posts (if I must have a title). ;)

[windboi]

yup ^^

those site are so helpful ^^
thankz a lot

[Aleks Dragon]

Dear Jinbrown-LADY of the posts :bounce: :

Hope, you had a good start in 2006. Next week, on Tuesday, a friend of mine come to Berlin to work with me in texturing a 3d-movie. It should be a 3D-Remake of an Comic. He wants to take the same textures as in the grainy, in different hues pointed comic-paperbook. It should have the look like you would "airbrush" color by using a teethbrush and sieve.

I could realize it by using paperstructur / inverting paperstructur in the paper-palette to paint the "peaks" and "valleys" in different hues. To make it rough I choose a Chalk Brush with a Grain-property of 6%. But I am not satisfied. There are more different hues of an color in the original comic-texture. :banghead:

So I tried the following:
I took the Dropper. Captured one hue from the original texture, paint a less texture, made an automatical selection (current color) and enabled "inverse"-checkbox. Then I captured a new hue from the original and repeat. Thats a good way, but takes too much of time!
So I tried to clone the original texture by using the soft clone-brush. But the texture looked boring, cause it was repeating and repeating the same pixel-and-hue-strucure.
Maybe I can solute this problem in an other way... but i am trying to use Painter IX since a few weeks.

The problem isn't the grain, but the mixture of different hues of different colors.
And what could be the fastes way to clone textures from a scanned comicbook?

[Jinbrown]

Hi Aleks,

"Lady of the Posts"... what a goofy title! I need a better one, don't I? ;)

Try this:

Capture your scan as Paper and save it in the currently loaded Papers library.

Choose a brush variant that splatters small dabs of paint and interacts with Paper texture. If the brush variant doesn't already splatter small dabs of paint, go to the Brush Controls' Random palette and adjust the Jitter slider to the right. You may also need to go to the Size palette and adjust Size and Min Size sliders. If the brush variant doesn't already interact with Paper texture, go to the Brush Controls' General palette and change the Subcategory to one of the options that uses the word "Grainy" in its name. Then adjust the Grain slider to get the effect you want.

To get a variety of color, in the Brush Controls' Color Variability palette, use one of the following methods:


Choose in HSV from the Color Variability Type drop down list, then adjust the HSV sliders until you get the range of colors (H), saturation (S), and value (V) you want.

Or...

Choose from Color Set from the Color Variability Type drop down list. With an appropriately colorful Color Set, you should get the variety of colors you want.



Hope this at least gives you some ideas to work with.

[Aleks Dragon]

hi jin,

maybe "Princess or Queen of the posts" . ;-) is a good name.
thanks for the tipps. will try it tomorrow. cu :wavey:

aleks

[Sweedie]

Lotsa tuts @: http://www.bildsajten.com/



Sweedie

[Jinbrown]

Aleks,

Nope, Princess doesn't fit and Queen is awful. ;)

I changed it to:

A Corel Painter Lover


Hi Sweedie!

Thanks, friend, for your talent and generosity.


Everyone,

Check Sweedie's tutorials out, folks. They're great!

[Terro]

Heres a nice tutorial I received with Painter 7. I ran it through my newly purchased IX and it works perfectly.

This is a nice fantasy foliage tutorial by Don Seegmiller. Enjoy

http://www.gk-concepts.com/tutorials/Foliage.pdf

[MrsB]

hey all..i am a super newbie when it comes to using painter and i am loving all these very impressive tutorials..but i do have a complaint.

out of all the tutorials i clicked (that would be all of them i think) only about 60% of the links worked. a lot are "page not found" things, or they are "you do not have permission to view this page" and then it tells me to sign up with this or that forum..which i'd rather not do just to look at a tutorial.

is there anyway someone can review these links and make an updated list or something like that? sorry to be a pain, but just pointing out something that frustraited me and may frustrate others.

[Jinbrown]

hey all..i am a super newbie when it comes to using painter and i am loving all these very impressive tutorials..but i do have a complaint.

out of all the tutorials i clicked (that would be all of them i think) only about 60% of the links worked. a lot are "page not found" things, or they are "you do not have permission to view this page" and then it tells me to sign up with this or that forum..which i'd rather not do just to look at a tutorial.

is there anyway someone can review these links and make an updated list or something like that? sorry to be a pain, but just pointing out something that frustraited me and may frustrate others.

Prompted by your post, MrsB, I've just edited one of my posts in this thread (and will check the others) to remove outdated information. Though at the time that message was posted, I invited people to join TutorAlley Forums and make use of the free tips and tutorials, and get free help in our general non-Painter class forums, that's changed and here's why:

Way too many people joined (many hundreds) just to "look at tutorials" and pick up free resources like custom brushes, etc. They never bothered to post a message saying thanks or participate in the forums by even asking questions. Some continued to stop by on a fairly regular basis just to check and see if there were any new freebies, still not bothering to contribute to the forums by the tiniest bit of participation.

I can tell you from personal experience, that gets old very fast. It takes a lot of time and energy to run a website and more to run a message board, not to mention the time it takes to write and illustrate tips and tutorials... and... the ongoing expense.

The next step was to be even more thorough screening new registrations, then many inactive (but lurking and freebie hunting) members were deleted from our membership.

Since February 2005, new registrations are only opened briefly to Painter class students and, very rarely by invitation to non-Painter students who are people I know and trust to be active and contributing members.

As to links in this thread that no longer work, consider the fact that some of them were posted here years ago and that people sometimes have to move their websites or even shut them down for one reason or another. At the very least, they probably need to remove files to make room for newer things. When links to their sites have been posted all over the Web over a period of years, it's impossible to notify everyone so the links can be updated. In addition, too many downloads from a site can become a bandwidth problem and an increased expense to the website owner (artist in this case).


With some time spent doing searches on several forums, you'll find many tutorials currently available and also more likely to be relevant to Painter IX. Those, too will eventually fade out of reach for the same reasons explained above.

Start with the tutorials available via the Painter IX Help menu (assuming you have Painter IX), and go to the Corel Painter IX website at:

http://www.corel.com/painterix

Follow all of the links on that site and read everything, including the Painter Masters' Profiles, the Tips and Tutorials, and all of the Corel Painter IX newsletter, The Painter Canvas monthly issues from October 2004 through February 2006.

Just the tips, tutorials, and resources you'll find on the Corel Painter IX website should keep you busy for quite a while, but if you want more, check the Wacom site for more Painter tutorials.

Then maybe you can share some of your own tips and tutorials one day.


Have fun!

[Improv]

Aleks,

A Corel Painter Lover



How about Painter Potentate and Grand Poobah ?

g,d,+ rfc (grinning, ducking and running for cover!)

:-)

[MrsB]

jinbrown:

yeh, i was pretty aware that a lot of these links were old, i just thought someone might want to update them, not trying to be a pain in the bum. :)

thanks for all that info though. the reason you posted about excessive people joining your forum just for tutorials and all that is the reason i didnt join any. :) i dont want to be one of those people. i like CG, and i've only just been here for about 2 days, but it has a real warm sense of community that i've found lacking in some other sites.

anyways, my point is...i didnt mean to offend or anything, i just wanted to let someone know. :)

[Aleks Dragon]

You can find the very very good Tutorial-DVD "Getting Started With Painter IX" (11 hours!!!) on Lynda.com. It's brilliant! You can wath the first chapters on the site. Have fun. And never stop painting. :-)

[Improv]

You can find the very very good Tutorial-DVD "Getting Started With Painter IX" (11 hours!!!) on Lynda.com. It's brilliant! You can wath the first chapters on the site. Have fun. And never stop painting. :-)

I wonder how the tutorial compares to the Painter IX WOW! book?

[Jinbrown]

jinbrown:

yeh, i was pretty aware that a lot of these links were old, i just thought someone might want to update them, not trying to be a pain in the bum. :)

thanks for all that info though. the reason you posted about excessive people joining your forum just for tutorials and all that is the reason i didnt join any. :) i dont want to be one of those people. i like CG, and i've only just been here for about 2 days, but it has a real warm sense of community that i've found lacking in some other sites.

anyways, my point is...i didnt mean to offend or anything, i just wanted to let someone know. :)

Hi MrsB,

I feel like I'm talking to myself when I type your name. ;)

I understand, and want to explain that my message board is a warm and friendly place too, but quite different from other sites in that:

It's a Painter focused site.

The purpose of the site originally was to have a place where I could set up private forums to teach Painter classes.

Later, I decided it would be nice to have other general forums (in addition to private forums accessible only by students who paid for a class), where both student and non-student members could share their work, ask for critiques, ask questions, share their discoveries and techniques, and generally enjoy using Painter together either while waiting for a class to begin or after a class.

It's made clear when people register that the forums are for people who are serious about learning Painter, working and having fun together in our forums, learning in classes... and are willing to abide by the site guidelines and policies (i.e respect copyrights, courtesy and respect for other members, etc.).

TutorAlley Forums, unlike this site and other large sites, is not set up to gather or accommodate a huge number of members since I run the site mostly myself with limited help from one moderator. To date, there's been no paid advertising on the site. So the only income (to date) has been from teaching Painter classes. I may at some point advertise products that I believe in and are directly related to using Painter but even then the advertising will be limited in order to keep the site free of intrusive advertising banners.

Since I do most of the work required to keep the site running, there's no time to spend dealing with people who are not interested in participating or who are not willing to abide by our guidelines and policies.

It's a quiet atmosphere, friendly, relaxed, and people treat each other with kindness, generosity, and respect, a place where I don't mind spending my time and efforts.

I think if you search this forum and other sites' Painter related forums, you'll find that I give a way loads of Painter knowledge for free (it's too much fun helping people to resist the temptation, though I should have better business sense!) ;)

signed... another "Mrs. B",

[MrsB]

lol..it never even occured to me that you are, indeed, another mrs b. mine isnt based on my name though, its based on my hubbys username on an irc we frequent. he has the nickname Bubba..and when i started chatting on there, they all called me Mrs B, so it stuck.

anyways, i love the sound of your forum. if i go there and have a look, will it tell me costs and all that? i am really really interested in learning how to use painter properlly, and every tutorial that i search for seems to be more Photoshop orientated. i just sort of...follow tutorials at the moment, but i want to be able to use the program without going "oh, that looks like rubbish and i cant get this to stop blending with that ect ect." in regards to your classes, is it like...an online thing or do i have to come into somewhere or order a cd of sorts? is it at my own pace or do i have to come in everyday and check it out? i ask because i have a 1yr old and i'm due with no.2 in august, so i honestly dont have time to do stuff everyday..just when i can. plus, i cant go into a classroom or whatever..especially if you live in america and i live in australia or something. :)

i've searched this site a bit and i've seen your name in HEAPS of places with free advice and whatnot, which i will most probably find useful when my tablet arrives and i can actually get into artwork again...sigh.

anways..i'm going to actually look at your forum and see what info it has on it so i can talk to hubby about it. :)

Shoena.

[Jinbrown]

Hi MrsB,

They're online classes so anyone from anywhere can come and go during convenient hours of the day or night.

The rest is in my response to your PM, so (as you pointed out) we don't continue to post off topic stuff in this thread.

Mrs Bubba, eh? ;)

[MrsB]

lol..yeh, i'm mrs bubba.

i've replied to the pm via your email. cheers for that. :)


mrs b.

[rgagnon]

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Graphics/Image_Editing/Painter/FAQs,_Help,_and_Tutorials/

I'm slowing scouring link lists to compile what will hopefully be the most comprehensive set of Painter links on the net. I found a lot of good ones here and am finding a lot of nice stuff elsewhere.

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