Digital Painting
This page shows how to create digital paintings with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Corel Painter programs, with realistic-looking traditional painterly strokes.
For any questions, please send me an email ([email protected]).
The Monument Valley
The Twin Fishes
The Flowers
The Image Nozzle Tool
Corel Painter’s Image Nozzle Tool could be used to create objects from readily available images. New images could be created and added to the Image Nozzle Library.
My Mountainous Village
Flower Patterns
Figure DP-8. In the images on the left and in the middle, the Canvas size has been enlarged three times in both horizontal and vertical dimensions; the single layer in Figure DP-7B has been duplicated a number x of times and rotated at multiples of 15 degrees by holding down the Shift key while dragging the corner after selecting the Rotate Tool; next, the Opacity of all duplicated layers has been changed to a new number (360 divided by x) so that the images will show through; finally, the Canvas Size has been decreased in both horizontal and vertical dimensions and further changes could be made. The image on the right is based on the image in the middle with Hue and Color Balance of various areas changed from a warm to a cool color scheme.
Tree Trunk Patterns
Twisting Patterns
Figure DP-10A. The original image of interlaced leaves (left) has been created with Corel Painter’s Image Nozzle Tool. The 2D pattern (middle) has been created using similar methods explored in Figure DP-7A through 7C and Figure DP-8. Photoshop’s Oil Paint Filter has been applied to the image in the middle to create the image on the right.
Tree Leaf Patterns
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Textures Created with Corel Painter's Image Nozzle Tool
Suggested Project:
Right-click on the images in Figure DP-5B or 7A for the short-cut menu, select the “Save Image As …” option to download the images. Use the images to create squared 2D patterns using the methods explored in this page. Set images to 72 dpi resolution; set the image sizes to less than 7 inch by 7 inch; save them in JPEG. Select the most interesting ones, email them together with the original source image to me with a short paragraph stating your request and authorization to publish it on my website’s Student Works Section, including your name and the name of your school; if you want viewers to contact you through email, please indicate so.
The Village by the River Bank
Figure DP-13A. Separate Layers for birds, buildings, trees, flowers, grass, and background have been created in Corel Painter; the Image Nozzle Tool has been used to create the above objects on their corresponding Layers; and the file has been exported as a Photoshop .psd file with Layers. Next, the Photoshop file has been duplicated into several versions for different treatments.
Flying in the Morning Sky
Figure DP-14A. Same as in Figure DP-12A, separate Layers for birds, trees, flowers, grass, rocks, and background have been created in Corel Painter; the Image Nozzle Tool has been used to create the above objects on their corresponding Layers; and the file has been exported as a Photoshop .psd file with Layers.
The Blossoming Tree
Let One Hundred Flowers Blossom!
Figure DP-16D. Same as in Figure DP-16A, separate Layers for flowers, leaves, and background have been created in Corel Painter; the Image Nozzle Tool has been used to create the above objects on their corresponding Layers; and the file has been exported as a Photoshop .psd file with Layers (not shown here). Next, the Photoshop file has been duplicated into several versions for different treatments. In each of the Layers of the different versions of Photoshop file, special effects from the Filters menu, especially those from the Filter Gallery submenu, have been applied.
The Sun Light Rock
The Monument of the Manchu Nation is an outdoor landscape
sculpture featuring the images of the Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince
and the Eldest Princess of the Great Qing Empire of China, as viewed from four
different angles, designed in celebration of the 370th anniversary of the liberation of all 56 ethnic groups of China from the totalitarian and genocidal regimes of Ming and Shun Dynasties by the coalition armies of the Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese Eight Banners (April 22, 1644 - 2014).
The Heavenly Lake of the Holy Ever-White (Chang Bai) Mountain Range
About the Heavenly Lake of the Holy Ever-White (Chang Bai) Mountain Range (长白圣山天池) ...
According to legend, the ancestors of the Aisinjioro Imperial House that founded the Great Qing Empire of China, the first genuinely multi-cultural and multi-racial nation-state in Asia, was born in the Holy Place where the Heavenly Lake of the Holy Ever-White Mountain is located. |
Figure DP-18D. The image of the Heavenly Lake of the Holy Ever-White (Chang Bai) Mountain Range has been created in Photoshop with selected graphic elements shown in Figure DP-17A through 17C, and saved in several versions of Photoshop .psd. files.Poster Edge and Plastic Wrap Filters have been used in some Layers in this version of Photoshop files.
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Textbooks
Digital Painting (Photoshop and Painter)
Digital Painting (Photoshop and Painter)
- 3dtotal.com, Digital Painting Techniques: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters (Digital Art Masters Series), ISBN 978-0-240-52174-9 (Edward Locke's Note: This book offers great skills on digital painting using Photoshop and other tools. The author of this book, 3dtotal.com, is a great website of inspiration for digital arts)
- Chee Ming Wong, Digital Painting Techniques, Volume 5, ISBN 978-1-90941401-3, Pasadena Hill Lib. Call No. 776 DIG v.5
- Threinen-Pendarvis, Painter Wow! Book, ISBN 978-0132826044
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