Tuesday, December 22, 2009

First try with Painter

So I just installed Painter11, and gave it a whirl with the latest SuicideGirls.com image I drew.

Few things I noted as compared to Photoshop.
The redraw sucks - at certain zoom sizes everything gets very crunky. They still haven't fixed the crazy line issues when you move your image around from the border.
I'm going to have to completely re-hotkey everything since their ideas of hotkeys are a joke.
I need to buy a new wacom art pen - one of the chisel tips. Their brushes beg for it and I haven't found my PShop hack way of doing it.

Other than the fact that I'm slow as hell with it because its new I see a lot of potential.

Original Sketch. The model is Diaz from her "Passion" photoshoot.
Process. The sketch took about an hour. No idea how long the painting took - maybe three? I tried going straight to Painter but was getting terrible results, so I quickly laid in the colors with PShop.

2 comments:

Brent LaDue said...

Is there anything about Painter you like better? Like, a specific reason to use it instead of PS?

do another one, use some craaaazyy brushes! :)

Tam said...

hey i realllly like this one. love the colors.