TENTATIVE Sketchbook of eyrebrush

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Yoohooo… Ron! awesome progress with Painter! :bounce:

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Thank you, anandpg, for your encouragement. :slight_smile: Much appreciated. However, I’m still struggling. I wanted to create more space round the portrait - in other words place it onto a bigger canvass. Couldn’t find a way of doing it with Painter. I have now got into the habit of always saving my work at each stage as a JPG, so that I can bring it up in Coral Photo Paint, so that I can enlarge the canvass or paper without enlarging the painting or drawing with it - also to RESAMPLE it down to a smaller size and compress it for ease of transmission to my web space and for other sites (like CGSociety) to down load it. Lot of work. Can you, or anybody, tell me if it is possible to do these things directly with Coral Painter? I have studied the manual, (partly - lol), but haven’t found answers to this yet.

I found time today to do some more work on this face. I’ve worked some of the colours across each other, using a dry palette knife, added some cool colours into the darker areas, and then increased the size of the canass. Here is my third effort: not happy with it a the moment.

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This is later in the day - after many other diversions! (lol).

I’ve filled in the outer parts of the canvass, and tried to work the colours into each other, TRYING to acheive a better likeness!

STILL not happy with the way it is going. Even with my “so called” experience with oil painting I’m still on a learning curve!

#84

Hey Ron

you’re doing absolutely great with Painter!
just keep experimenting to get to know all the tools in there…

To change the size of the canvas in Painter (I’m doing this by heart from my office at work, so things might be named slightly different, I’ll correct tonight if needed):

make sure the canvas layer (first layer) is selected in the layers dialog.
In top top menu go to:

[Canvas][Canvas Size]

and a popup menu will appear, allowing you to add a certain amount of space as follows:

add … to top
add … to left
add … to bottom
add … to right

Just add the amount of pixels you want in each direction and click ok

If you want to remove space from the canvas you can use a negative amount

Hope this gets you on your way with this lil issue…

EDIT: the struggling you mention… it might be a pen pressure issue…
you could (and you should) experiment with this a bit to setup your brush according to the pressure you usually work with on traditional canvas.
You can read about it in Painter’s excellent help files if this is of your interest and then try it by going [Edit][Preferences][Pen Pressure] in the top menu.

The reason why I’m saying this is that once you set the pressure for your pen (for the particular brush you are using) you will get a much more comfortable feeling when making the actual brush stroke

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Thanks, Johan. I shall be investigating this concept of layering. This is something I have not really understood yet. I shall also look into pen preasure.

In the meantime, Here is the result of my latest session with this Zhuzhu portrait. I really enjoyed it. This is probably as far as I’m going to take it. I’d like to get back to the portrait of little Ellie now.

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That’s lovely and really has a lot of feeling to it Ronnie - looking forward to more. :slight_smile:

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Thank you, Rebecca.

I’m afraid I have not been doing much in the way of drawing and painting this past two or three weeks. I’ve been suffering with back problems and have found it too uncomfortable to sit at the computer. We also have problems here at home, with mum now 91. Some of my time has been taken up with bookbinding! Had three books to repair for our local church; that is not a job I can do sitting down. I think it was the leaning over the work on the bench that aggrivated my back problems.
I’ll try to get back to art work soon. Still waiting for my new computer swivel chair to arrive. It will have arm rests on it that can fold down out of the way when I’m using the Wacom tablet.

Thanks for dropping by.
Ronnie.

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