My Painting Studies

[worldInShades]

Hello there everyone.

I've just discovered Art Rage, and how I wish I've found about it earlier.
Started doing some painting studies with Art Rage. I've been having lots of fun.
Haven't had a chance to explore the app in detail yet but I really love it so far.
Just learning to paint again after a decade of hiatus... Life just got so busy.

Anyways, please feel free to crit any of the work.

Used the grid tool with a reference image, very convenient!
Painted from photo reference. 1.5 hours.


Reference image:

[Caesar]

A most promising start in this excercise.
Welcome!!!

[pat1940]

This is a very good piece, so well done, welcome and hope to see many more

[worldInShades]

Thanks guys!
There's a lot of awesome stuff in the forums. I could spend hours going through it all.


This one was pretty tough. Struggled a lot with the values and the subject.
Still a bit flat and I kind of gave up. Ambient lighting is really hard to work out.
Used a grid again, it really makes things too easy. I shouldn't rely on this so much, I can see this becoming a bad habit.
I couldn't really figure out how to add in speckles. No setting was imitating light dry brush dabbing you would with a real brush.

2 hours from photo reference.


Reference photo:

[gxhpainter2]

some very nice work here! Painting with artrage or any digital software that emulates traditional media sometimes requires a new workflow and thought process to translate what you would do
with traditional media into how to get that look in artrage. for example to the a stipple look please investigate using the Sticker spray tool and the Art Brushes group, in there you will find some amazing tools. by spraying some Airbrush Spats on a new layer above your main drawing you can add the stipple and erase away any stray dots, and adjust the blend mode to multiply or some other and the opacity of that layer. Just some ideas for you to explore..

[DarkOwnt]

Although it doesn't mimic a dry brush completely, you could try this, and tweak as needed, it is very faint: