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Wish I had more time to play on this today. Digital watercolour - Artrage3

Playing with Artrage

Playing with some watercolour brushes in Artrage. I have a book to work on where I want to use digital water colour and in the past when I have wanted to use Painter it kept crashing in the middle of painting and my pc is not powerful enough to use the watercolours without serious lag time - like go and make a cup of coffee lag time between each stroke, so I have been opting to use photoshop. But alas as for me photoshop does not create great watercolour work :( . So I dusted off my Artrage, watch some tutorials and began to play. This weekend I will start the first illustration in the book project and will see if my pc will be able to handle the 8.5 x 8.5" 300dpi illos  without too many coffee breaks or head banging.
Artrage can be found here http://www.artrage.com/artrage-studiopro.html
Some tuts can be found here http://www.artrage.com/artrage-tutorials.html
A good additional tutorial ( which I am working my way through) can be found here ( also the textures talked about in the artrage tutorials) http://www.digitalartacademy.com/courses/artrage-pro-watercolor-and-mixed-media/
cheers and have a peaceful Good Friday

a rabbit on Sunday

Ahh I final got something done on a Sunday - yeah !  So I get play on  Sophia's  Sunday Sketches. Hope you all have a great day.

PB Dummy Challege

I have not for years set a goal but this year I have decided to try and do one complete picture dummy book. So I have applied to join the unoffical PB Dummy Challenge - I am crossing my fingers I am not too late in the game to play.  Either way I will follow the guides and do a book of my own -yeah !  So the first thing to do is to pick a project. Hmm that is hard I am between Peep and turt and my  little ghoul boy. I think I might be leaning towards Peep and turt as they might be easier to deal with..hmmm...

ghoul boy

peep and turt

Till next time :)

A birthday sample

copyright Jehanne Silva-Freimane

A reject job sample to show I can draw and paint,  which I decided to finish as I wanted to play more with Painter.   A number of things need moving to make it more balance, but ....  The words are not the original ones that come with story  but are mine and tell the situation (Oh my I see  typOs LOL) .
Used Painter 12 - colour pencil, watercolour and blenders.

Spring thoughts in mid winter

A christmas bear sketch

Been trying to figure out what it was about the sketch that was off besides the mouse and the sled needing to be nudged up a bit , I think I found it - the bear's legs are too thin. :)

thinking of Christmas :)

Making a list

A little drawing :)
The scroll comes with compliments from http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/?order=9&q=paper+scroll#/d2yqzjd
Cheers.

A ghoul crew on Sunday

Playing with some line art I did this week for Sophia's  Sunday Sketches.
 Hope you have a great day. :)

A little school bus sketch on a Sunday

On a little mini work break while my parents are in town and catching up on some sketches and such :) Here is a little rough sketch of some kids going to school  for  Sophia's  Sunday Sketches.  Hope you have a great day. :)

P.S Here is a really good link to a guide on facial expression
http://cedarseed.deviantart.com/art/Emotions-and-Facial-Expression-47118559?q=boost%3Apopular%20emotions%20tutorial&qo=6

opps!

This is an illustration I am working on  for a book for young kids that went horribly wrong LOL. It was meant to be a cute happy eager little girl asking the reader a question. However she turned out zealous and a bit scary LOL. When I did a little pick flip between her now and the altered version I almost fell off my stool laughing at how scary she does look. She did not look so scary in the sketches, it is amazing what colour can do. The corrected version is still a WIP.

fabulous and fifty sketch

Hey blog-land it has been a while. Just thought I would post a 5 minute sketch I just did on an idea. It told me I have to go and finish the I heart drawing course. I got a mini holiday coming up so I think I will get to finish my lessons.  Well off to exercise in the hope that when I reach 50 I will be more pear shape than apple LOL.
hugs.