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Today I decided to go a step further than my last Painter 11 beginner tutorial by attempting to paint a portrait of Angelina Jolie. I used brush techniques found on the Corel Painter 11 tutorial page to quickly and easily create a realistic oil paint rendition of a photograph.
The tutorial video below will walk you through this process, step by step, so you can learn the fundamental techniques involved with portrait painting. This tutorial relies on the clone coloring technique to simplify the painting process. Clone coloring uses a base photograph to gather color information for the canvas. It is a unique process that is inherantly flawed to give your art that realistic, hand-painted look.
Using cloned brushes makes painting much easier, but it still requires time and a skilled hand. All of the brush strokes are your own, and the final portrait will be uniquely yours. This process also teaches new artists the basics of color and visualizing color placement on the canvas. Hopefully after a few cloned portraits you will develop the skills to try painting on your own.
Check out my YouTube tutorial of how to create a great looking portrait of Angelina Jolie in just a few minutes.
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Mercy Okoye says:
June 25, 2009 at 7:51 pm (UTC -7 )
I am currently trying to paint a picture just like this one but I need to create the “Grainy Sargent” but I don’t know how please make a video showing me how you made that exact brush and send it to my e-mail address.—> mercyokoye@yahoo.com
damian Rodríguez says:
July 9, 2009 at 8:02 pm (UTC -7 )
I´m just as Mercy Okoye, how I can create that tool? sorry for my english.
Kevin says:
July 10, 2009 at 4:21 pm (UTC -7 )
First, select the Sargent brush from the Artists’ brushes. Open up the brush creator from the fly-out menu. Then make the following changes: Stroke Type set to Rake; Method set to Cover; Sub Category set to Grainy Hard; Expression set to Pressure; Grain set to 18%. Then switch to the Stroke Designer tab. Select the top left profile (the pointy one) and set the size to 37.8%, min size to 8%, Expression to Pressure, and Size Step to 1%. Next, open the Well settings and make the following changes: Resaturation set to 76%, Bleed to 0, Expression to 0, and Dryout to 268. Then, change Rake to 10 and make sure to turn Impasto off. You’re done! Make sure to save the new brush.
Ginger says:
January 3, 2010 at 5:31 pm (UTC -7 )
I just bought painter 11 and I have no rake brush.
I can’t get the rake perameter to highlight (it’s greyed out) in the brush creator.
I use rake brushes alot in “real life” and was hoping to have my same tools electronically.
I do a lot of wildlife/fur.
Can somebody please reply to my email address please please please…
Kevin says:
January 4, 2010 at 8:26 am (UTC -7 )
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16932499/Corel-Painter-11-Official-User-Guide-Manual
“Some stroke types may be grayed out depending on the currently selected brush variant and dab type.”
“For example, Rake controls are active only when a rake brush variant is selected, regardless of brush category.”
chandan says:
January 20, 2010 at 10:18 pm (UTC -7 )
tihs is good portrait i like very much
good work
hackleonheart says:
March 12, 2010 at 7:18 pm (UTC -7 )
I can’t make the custom brush ‘Grainy Sargent’. I can’t find which Rake do I need to change to 10, and which Impasto do I need to turn off.
When I brush it to the cloned canvas, it did not show the ‘angelina jolie’ image behind it (I brush it on the New Layer above the cloned image).
Help me please.Thank you.
Regards.
Kevin says:
March 15, 2010 at 10:03 am (UTC -7 )
From Corel – “First, select the Sargent brush in the Artists brush category. Then open up the Show Brush Creator link, which is accessed from the fly-out arrow to the right of the Brush Selector palette. Select the General category from the list on the left-hand side of the Stroke Designer page in the Brush Creator and make the following changes: Stroke Type set to Rake; Method set to Cover; Sub Category set to Grainy Hard; Expression set to Pressure, and the Grain set to 18 per cent. Remember that the visible paper texture increases as the value set reduces. Aim to use about 16 percent. Select Size from the left of the Stroke Designer page. Change the brush profile to the pointed one top-left, Size to 37.8 per cent, Minimum Size to eight per cent, Expression to Pressure and Size Step to one percent. Open the Well settings and change Resaturation to 76 per cent, Bleed to 0 percent, Expression to 0 and Dryout to 268.6. Finally, change Rake to ten and make sure that Impasto, which gives depth to brushstrokes, is turned off. You’ll need to save the customised brush – it is easy to forget to do this! Open the fly-out menu next to the Brush Selector and click on Save Variant. Name it Grainy Sargent and it will then appear at the bottom of the list of brushes in the Artists category, without replacing the Sargent.”