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After the Rain - a digitally painted watercolour tutorial.
I haven't had a chance to do a painting from start to finish for awhile. This one didn't turn out quite the way I envisioned, but since I went to all the trouble of doing screen captures and explanations I decided to post it anyway. That happens eh!
- started with a sketch because I need something to go on when I am applying washes and colour.
- apply a wash with Cool Spring 6 keeping the Pause Diffusion ON until you have applied all the colours. This keeps it from making a line or edge where you don't want one. There are other ways to do gradated wahses, but this works, so try Skip Allen's Cool Spring brushes. (I think they are called Cool Srpring because they are such 'cool' brushes! lol! I must ask him!) They do take some time to get used to though.
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- on a new WC layer using Square Damp brush from Splashing Water set and top to bottom strokes paint some green in the tree and grass area.
- note the colour is fairly light
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- on a new WC layer using a Soft Grainy Wash (mine) paint a little of the same green to tie the areas together and smooth out a bit.
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- with the Dig Square Pool Blender paint some mid value bluey green over this area and blend slightly with the DWC WIW blender (these custom brushes have the brush settings available in another post Custom Brushes )
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- this is what it looks like with all the layers turned on.
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- more darker blue added to these areas
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- Digital Watercolour Fine tip - see property bar for settings used
- When painting trees try to make the branches longer than you think you need to. I guarantee they still won't be long enough. Mine never are! Remember that the tips have to be thinner!
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- it's difficult when painting trees to decide how many branches is enough.
- I always leave the option open to add more by keeping my layers open and separate. I'm sure I'll need more here, but am moving on for now!
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- If you turn the Preserve Transparency on you will be able to darken and or lighten your branches with the Fine Tip DWC without going outside of the original area you painted.
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- a couple more trees added,remembering that the ones in the distance are smaller and usually lighter in colour.
- posts painted in keeping in mind that they get smaller further away.
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- I used Real Watercolour Fractal Grainy for the road with the Pause Diffusion OFF (I let it diffuse and added 5-6 layers in a curving stroke. More near the right edge of the road.
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- I used Real Watercolour Fractal Grainy to build up the darker colour on the road
- Note I have the Grain set to 100%
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- Told you I would need more branches!
- I also did some shaping of the tree limbs and branches to make them taper nicely.
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- You don't want to know how many bad words I said when this happened. Fortunately I had been saving regularly and didn't lose much!
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- I wanted something that would just suggest smaller branches and decided that a Wet Sponge with the maximum spacing set to 100 % to try to get a grainier look was fairly satisfactory
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- I like to save all my layers and Clone at this point in case I want to go back
- It has the effect of dropping and drying all the layers. Don't forget to name and save this one too! (P11 used to name the clones better.)
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- The cloned canvas lifted to a watercolour layer so I can see exactly how much Gel Airbrush I am putting on to do the mist.
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- This is a good way to add mist because you can control it better than erasing.
- Note the brush settings for the Gel Airbrush
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- I wanted to make the puddle by selecting an irregular area with the Lasso Tool, and then using the Bightness/Contrast Effects move the sliders up to remove some of the colour. Since that trick crashed Corel Painter earlier today I thought I'd better not risk it. So, I erased very lightly instead.
- Then I used a brush of Skip's that has a very light edge on it to paint around the puddles.
- Added the suggestion of fence wire with a Fine Tip DWC on a new layer and reduced the opacity of that layer
- Used a Real WC squeezed horizontal brush to make some faint streaky lines in the distanttrees to suggest branches
- Removed a little colour from one side of all the visible fence posts
- Added a little more colour to the lower sky and used a Glow Brush at 3 % to remove colour in a few places
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- From Effects Menu chose apply Surface Texture, make sure your paper is WC Soft Press and apply paper texture according to the controls pictured
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- Final painting...oops, forgot ... I used Wet Pencil Blender on the edge of the grass on the right side and a little bit on the big tree to suggest some texture.
Posted in Demonstration of Painting Digital Watercolours Technique. Updated November 6th, 2011. 2 comments so far.
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John P Garrett said:
Very cool Joan. Thanks for sharing.
I like the atmospheric perspective.