Painter drawing freehand brushwork style Figure painting Tutorial

To the users of the painter software to the detailed analysis to share the painting freehand style portrait of the tutorial.

Tutorial Sharing:

1. Open painter 8 software, press "CTRL + N" key combination to create a blank file, set the appropriate resolution and image size. Press the "Ctrl+4" key combination to open "Layers" (The Layers panel), a new layer named sketch, set to "Multiply" (multiply). (Figure 1.1) Press "B" to switch to the Brush tool, select the brush variant of "pencils"/"2B Pencil" (Pencil/2b pencil), select a medium gray in the color panel, and draw a Baimiao draft for the whole. (Fig. 1.2) since the Wacom Intuos2 Digital Board fully supports the brushes in the painter software, the 1024-level pressure sensing function allows 2B pencil to be painted with paper identical.

Figure 1.1

Figure 1.2

2. Create a new layer named line. (as shown in Figure 2)

Figure 2

3. Use black, choose "Calligraphy"/"Dry Ink" (Calligraphy pen/dry pen) of the brush variant, in line layer on the drawing of ink draft processing. (Fig. 3) There are many expressions in freehand brushwork style of Chinese painting, here we still use the Moxian to erect the bone with a comparatively conservative method. "Dry Ink" variant of the feeling is very similar to the traditional dry brush, and the changes in strokes and brushwork pressure is very large, especially with the use of INTUOS2 Digital board, since INTUOS2 can automatically identify our brushwork angle and pen, more can "Dry Ink" Brush characteristics to play incisively and vividly.

Figure 3

4. Create a new layer colorize. (as shown in Figure 4)

Figure 4

5. Choose a brush variant of "Didital Water Color"/"Coarse Mop Brush" (Digital watercolor/rough smudge pen) to paint a thin face on the colorize layer. "Coarse Mop Brush" strokes some of the edge of the appearance of infiltration, very much like paper on the brush dyeing effect. (as shown in Figure 5)

Figure 5

6. Continue to use the "coarse Mop Brush" brush to draw the volume of hair relationship, pay attention to the angle of the pen and the overall trend of hair consistent. (as shown in Figure 6)

Figure 6

7. With the warm color of the ochre, paint the hair by the light part of the strokes, so that the colour of the hair has a certain warm and cold contrast, will appear richer and more vivid. (as shown in Figure 7)

Figure 7

8. Draw the color of the clothes, in order to highlight the color of the ruddy, where the use of green as the main color of clothing. In order to show the thin texture of clothing, hold down the ALT key to draw the skin color of the neck, in the clothes at random draw a few strokes, as a hint of transparent texture. (as shown in Figure 8)

Figure 8

9. Save the copy file in the RIF format, click on the association menu of the Layers board, and follow the instructions for "Drop all" to merge all layers. (as shown in Figure 9)

Figure 9

10. In the "Papers" (Paper grain panel) found in the "ribbed pastel" paper lines (this paper is painter 6 paper grain library inside. ) Change the scale of the paper grain to 30%. (as shown in Figure 10)

Figure 10

11. Perform "Effects"/"Surface Control"/"Apply Surface texture" (Effect/surface controls/use surface texture) menu commands. (as shown in Figure 11)

Figure 11

12. In the "Apply Surface Texture" dialog box, the option to set a using value of Paper,shine to 0,amount is adjusted to about 12%. So the whole picture will be added to a layer of natural paper grain effect. (Figure 12.1 and Figure 12.2)

Figure 12.1

OK, the above information is small make up to you painter of this software users to bring the detailed drawing freehand brushwork style figure painting of the whole content of the tutorial, you see the users here, now small make sure you are very clear drawing method, Then you will go to follow the small series of tutorials yourself to try to draw under it.