Painter XI Experiment

For the next 9 weeks, I have decided to devote my time to learning to create digital paintings using Corel Painter XI. On this blog I will display all the steps to completion on all pieces created. The first image I decided to paint is a portrait of Michael Angelo Batio, one of my personal favorite musicians.


Shown is a quick sketch create using pencil, scanned and ready for initial blocking.



Next, I added a darker tone over the entire image. Afterwards I went in with a eraser and created some light highlights, no pure white created. Just a general idea of where the final highlights will lie.



Then I just added more highlights and shadows, really trying to push the contrast. Once I have some of my darkest tones, I start to blend and erase some of my sketch lines.



After several modification and tweaking, displayed is the final tonal value study.




Next I added color, cleaned up the image and here we are. Enjoy!

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If you would like ask Stephen a question, contact him at: stephenbryant@srbproductions.net