01/19/10 - Digital - Painter 11

Two really quick and loose sketches from a new install of the trial version of painter 11. Sometimes a program just clicks on the first take. The tool was the "6B real pencil" it senses tilt with your stylus to the tablet. So you can approximate the the thick and thin lines you get with a real pencil. Nice, when it works. It is still a little buggy...

05/30/08 - Digital - Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro and Painter

Some digital drawings from the last couple of months. Photoshop CS2 , Sketchbook Pro 2 and Painter X. These are all drawn without reference - just from memory and imagination.

07/24/07 - Digtial - Painter X (Rocks!)

Just installed the trial version of Corel Painter X on my home machine and I have to say it quickly sold me on the need to upgrade from version IX!
Here's a quick little piece (Note: I used auto-clone and the pencil tool to trace a photo reference) to look at - boy, is this easier than Photoshop (much more intuitive - you can take your knowledge of real art media and translate to this program)!

06/27/06 - Comic - Digital - Painter IX

Believe it or not I taught a class on cartooning for high school students last summer (2006) at Berea College for a college prep program called Upward Bound. I guess if you do something long enough someone will eventually take you as some kind of expert (or as a wise friend said to me years ago: "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king." Quite true Hemang, God rest your soul.)

They were a rowdy bunch and shook my confidence in my ability to teach the class - I won't do it again without a fixed computer lab (try handing out and taking up laptops every class, ughh!!). We created a blog and used Photoshop to computer color their hand drawn original comic strips.

As a demo for the class I created this little comic strip completely digitally using Corel Painter IX.

09/10/06 Digital - Painter IX.5

Some more digital work, drawn from my imagination, done last month, this time done in Corel's Painter IX.5. I read a quote recently that said you don't sketch anything you haven't really looked at...I guess you can see what I pay attention to. Here's the link to get the trial version.

Watch here for a link to the Painter native format source file (.riff)