1 post tagged “digital painting”
I just love ArtRage, the trial version is limited, but not greatly, and it does not expire...but as I said with Photofilter, I suggest that this shareware is worth the $19.95 they want for the full version and then some...so if you download it, like it and plan to use it, please pay up when you can, it's the only way the developers have motivation to develop more great affordable programs. The best feature is the trace option. You can load in any picture and trace over it, then remove the original...so for art quilters this feature takes the struggle out of converting a photo to a sketch when making an art quilt, it would also be useful for people trying to learn to draw, while learning to contour and make features. The following is my latest dabble with ArtRage. Original photo of my oldest daughter is on the left, my ArtRage painting is on the right... I am teaching myself to blend and shade with it. I should mention, what I do with it HAS been a bit of a struggle, I use this program with a mouse ( I do not have a special drawing pad or pencil). It's tricky, in fact at times it is downright frustrating but practice helps, so does a stiff drink and the undo feature ;) Ramie this one is for you.... it took me almost a month of working at it very part time, I finished it tonight. The shading is a tad off, and the mouth is under defined but I am pretty pleased with it anyway
