John Drago mdefender Location: Red Hook, USA Language(s):
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Having fumbled around with Painter X for a couple of months - I finally came across some good speed-painting videos where I was able to see the brushes and setting used to make some of these stunning Painter images.
Using only the Oils > Standard Round brush - along with the Blender > Just add water brush - I was finally able to use the program the way I used to paint traditionally, which is, paint a little - blend a little - paint a little - blend a little.
As usual, the simplest tools and methods proved to be the easiest and most efficient. Took me about 10 hours in Corel Painter X using a Wacom Intuos 4.
Morgan Freeman is one of my favorite actors - just googled him and downloaded a picture for reference: http://johndrago.com/images/mfreeman-ref.jpg
Halfway through, I realized that I wasn't really looking at a picture of Morgan Freeman. It's his wax dummy duplicate. Pretty funny.
Thanks for looking. Critiques welcome since this is my first serious piece done in Painter X.
