Comments | lemonsquid: Painting! It's hard.

lemonsquid

Painting! It's hard.

Jun 27, 2009 22:31

This is a thread for how to become buddies with Painter, since actual acrylic paint has no Undo button. :)

( Not actually DL-related, but related to the purpose of this journal. )

Comments 6

lemonsquid June 28 2009, 06:01:51 UTC

shadeofdusk: Ok, I found an image where I was really picky about having every step on a different layer, but this comment's getting a bit long, so I think I'll break it up.

Would love to see it!

Also:

The way I work with layers tends to be cumulative. So, from the bottom up you have the base layer, background, maybe another background depending on what the space looks like, base figures, optional second figure layer, depending of level of detail, line art, detail that covers the line like highlights, and finally a guides layer that won't be in the final image.

I'mma try this! RIGHT NOW. Brb, will probably come crying back to whine about how it is hard.

lemonsquid June 28 2009, 07:12:43 UTC

ZOMG this is fantastic-- I don't know why I was being such a giant whining sissy before!

Two direct problems to post to a Painter guru:

Is there way to re-orient image after using "E"?

The brushes seem to be very jumpy from super small to FAT with almost no respect for the tablet pressure (relative to photoshop.) This leads to sort of thin-line and the BLOB (using Oils, fine camel 10.) Is there a setting to make brushes have more of a size-gradient relative to pressure?

lemonsquid June 28 2009, 08:30:35 UTC

When using small brush sizes and painting with an intuos, I get this crazy "jump" up and to the left added to my stroke about every 5 strokes:

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shadeofdusk June 29 2009, 01:03:42 UTC

Real quick: Just set the #in the angle box thingy in the upper left--screw it, here's a screenshot--to zero.

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shadeofdusk June 29 2009, 01:09:13 UTC

I'll make a more in depth post here later tonight, so it'll be all nice and organized, with any luck.

One thing you should probably try if you don't like the settings on a particular brush, is to play around with the brush creator window (Window->Show Brush Creator). You can adjust pretty much everything, and it helps a lot. For example, some of the brushes like the markers and the ones that are supposed to glaze have their cover method set to 'buildup'. This means that you end up with really dark colors very quickly. To fix this, set the cover method to 'cover', and the color just gets more opaque.

I cannot believe I can talk about this program this much. shadeofdusk June 29 2009, 04:57:27 UTC

Ok, here goes a walk-through of layer fun. As a warning, this is an older image that I haven't looked at in almost two years, so there are some fairly major drawing issues that I'd never noticed before and are now kind of driving me batty ( ... )