Problem with texture on acrylic brushes... driving me craaaazy.

#1

Hi all. I’m having the most insane, frustrating time trying to figure out one of the attributes of brushes in Painter 11. I used to have the free version of Painter that shipped with my Wacom tablet, and, in addition to the bristle pattern, the acrylic brush would put down all these little defects - like little bumps and pits - especially when the area had a lot of strokes applied to it. It added a lot of realism.

I just downloaded the free trail of Painter 11 and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get those little pits and bumps back in the stroke. In Painter 11, the “thick acrylic round 30” brush that I loved in the stripped-down version has none of the texture.

I’ve pored over Corel’s manuals and explored and googled my brains out, but here I am 3 hours later, with a project undone, driving myself crazy…

any ideas? my health and sanity say thanks.

#2

You mean the impasto effect?

#3

In the upper right side of the document window are four icons. The fourth one down is the Toggle Impasto Effect button (looks like a blue star). When the icon looks flat the impasto effect is not on. Click on it to turn it on and see if that helps (the Impasto icon looks more 3D when it’s on).

#4

It’s not the impasto effect alone - it’s that, in addition to seeing the dimensionality of the brush strokes, the paint would kind of clump up or pit. There would be this scattering of random bumps and dots and pits, especially if you overworked an area. It was just the default setting on the acrylic brushes… and it really looked cool. ideas?

#5

No, not crazy :argh:

I used to refer to those defects as blow holes (although they could sometimes appear as small lumps in the brush stroke). They are certainly present in Painter 8 (Mac), and maybe some later versions, but I believe they were considered to be unwanted rendering defects in the impasto brush stroke, which appear to have been ironed out in Painter 11 with improvements to the brush engine.

It sounds like a case of one man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure :shrug:

Check out my custom Texture Acrylic and Impastoso brushes. They won’t give the exact same effect, but may give you some additional diversity in the strokes.

David

#6

Wow, thanks for that reply - you nailed it. I’ll try to dig up my old Essentials CD. I thought they were fantastic - really added some randomness and life to the otherwise “Photoshop filter-y” look of all those uniform strokes.

#7

There is actually another approach in Painter, but be prepared to experiment, and the possibility of slow stroke rendering; that is to use Liquid Ink variants.

If you first apply say the default Liquid Ink- Coarse Airbrush Resist (the applied media will be invisible), then paint over the previously sprayed area with something like the Liquid Ink category, Depth Camel variant, you may get some interesting results.

To add the impasto depth, double click on the Liquid Ink layer in the Layers palette, then set the Amount slider to around 8 percent in the Liquid Ink Layer Attributes dialog.

David

#8

Mess with the paper texture and lighting as well as the impasto setting. This took a llong time for me to figure it out but I finally nailed it
DK’sDestiny

#9

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