scenic painting with pi5
Alan Carpenter
Anybody watched the American artist named Ross on satellite TV (I think
Europe only) on channel "Home and Leisure" around 11-30pm UK time?
He only uses a large paintbrush for most of the time, and his techniques
are truly amazing. He did a seascape with crashing waves last night
(Thursday) and it was truly spectacular stuff. He did in half an hour
that would take me three weeks or more !!!
So I thought 'I could do that in PI5' Yes I know, I know. It's not that
easy heh heh!! But I had something resembling trees etc. Setting up the
brush and airbrush parameters is a bit long winded, but educational.
Wonder if anybody else has tried scenic painting with PI5 and what brush
settings do you use.
I feel another learning curve coming up !!
regards Alan
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email: al...@romdatsys.demon.co.uk
Alan Carpenter
Kelly Sweet
I've done a few paintings with PI. Never tried the Bob Ross techniques, "I
think there's a happy little bush down here". But you're right, he was very
talented.
I have a few urls that you could look at, though.
Mount 5 was made using another package (and a mouse only) about 4 years
ago, (I was unaware of PI at the time), the others were made using PI5/6,
and a graphire.
http://www.geocities.com/kayceeess73/images/mount5.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/kayceeess73/images/cloudynight.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/kayceeess73/images/seascape.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/kayceeess73/images/cloudynightsky.jpg
I highly recommend the Wacom Graphire drawing pad, it gives spectacular
results, and you may vary the width and transparency of your lines with
pressure. I generally use PI's warp brush to move paint around, but
occasionally use the smudge brush as well. No filters were used in the
creation of these.
If you have other questions, come to Stephanie's bb at
www.westofthemoon.net/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi . There are several
threads there regarding this topic. I may even put up a challenge of this
nature there.
I hope this helps, Alan! Have fun.
Kelly
dk_...@my-deja.com
to design commissioned paintings I'm painting for customers and find it
very useful since it can give a good color image (instead of graphite
drawings to show ideas to people who commission something). My painting
style is very stylized and I find I can get a close resemblance on the
comuter using PI6 (I upgraded!) and can show these images to the people
who commission something for approval of an idea before I paint the
painting. Here's a few examples (a couple may be just images made on
the computer with no intention for painting them)
http://dk_art.tripod.com/commissions/lisa_taul/boats_at_sea.jpg
http://dk_art.tripod.com/Stuff/lighthouse_dk_art.jpg
http://dk_art.tripod.com/Stuff/tree_moon.jpg
http://dk_art.tripod.com/Stuff/my_portrait.jpg
http://dk_art.tripod.com/Stuff/dolphin1.jpg
I use the path tools for shapes as long as i can and then need to
change them to image objects to adjust them more. But I keep them as
path objects as long as possible. Near the end, I have to merge objects
to do more additional alterations. Use of the drawing tools and other
tools is mainly for altering the images I make with the path tools and
textures and lighting.
David K
Paintings at http://members.tripod.com/dk_art
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striking. Do you do these digitally and then when approved do them in
another medium, i.e., watercolor, oil paint, etc?.
Becky
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Rebecca Lott
pencil sketch to the finished PI image. That's a great technique. I
imagine other people have done this sort of thing but yours are the first
I've seen. It would be interesting to see them side by side on a webpage.
Great work.
Becky
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> Thanks ! I used to just do some pencil drawings for any commission I
> had to do. I do quite a number online by sending several sketches with
> an e-mail to the person after we discuss a general idea. They would
> pick the one they liked or maybe (not usually) have a small suggestion
> or something. The sketches were just outlines though and had no color.
> I've just started using PI to work out designs for commissioned
> painting (instead of doing pencil sketches). And I could possibly still
> us the image and go further with it and maybe make some greeting cards
> or something ... I'll see.
>
> I have also done some pencil sketches that I've photographed (digital
> camera ... I have no scanner so I have to photograph them) and brought
> into PhotoImpact and made path objects for the various parts of the
> drawing and then created something more from there. That lighthouse
> image was taken from a pencil sketch I did and I worked over the photo
> in PI5 (started by making path objects for all the items in the
> drawing). The pencil sketch can be seen at the first link below, then
> an intermediate stage and lastly, the finished image :
>
> http://dk_art.tripod.com/Stuff/lighthouse_sketch.jpg
>
> http://dk_art.tripod.com/Stuff/lighthouse.jpg
>
> http://dk_art.tripod.com/Stuff/lighthouse_dk_art.jpg
>
>
>
> David K
>
>
>
>
>
> In article <suhuvpm...@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Rebecca Lott" <rebec...@cableone.net> wrote:
> > These are beautiful. The lighthouse and Tree Moon are particularly
> > striking. Do you do these digitally and then when approved do them in
> > another medium, i.e., watercolor, oil paint, etc?.
> >
> > Becky
>
>
Alan Carpenter
>Hi Alan,
>
>I have a few urls that you could look at, though.
>Mount 5 was made using another package (and a mouse only) about 4 years
>ago, (I was unaware of PI at the time), the others were made using PI5/6,
>and a graphire.
>
>http://www.geocities.com/kayceeess73/images/mount5.jpg
>http://www.geocities.com/kayceeess73/images/cloudynight.jpg
>http://www.geocities.com/kayceeess73/images/seascape.jpg
>http://www.geocities.com/kayceeess73/images/cloudynightsky.jpg
>
are really excellent. You should do tutorials on them. Especially the
egg shape with the bottle showing through. I liked that one.
>I highly recommend the Wacom Graphire drawing pad, it gives spectacular
>results, and you may vary the width and transparency of your lines with
>pressure. I generally use PI's warp brush to move paint around, but
>occasionally use the smudge brush as well. No filters were used in the
>creation of these.
I have the cheaper Hyper Pen graphics pad, which works real fine. Seems
to have the same facilities as the Wacom.
>If you have other questions, come to Stephanie's bb at
>www.westofthemoon.net/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi . There are several
>threads there regarding this topic. I may even put up a challenge of this
>nature there.
Will do.
Thanks for your comments Kelly.
best regards Alan
dk_...@my-deja.com
dk_...@my-deja.com
stages and then at the end compile an animated gif out of it ... i did
that once with a painting (I took digital pics of it at various stages
until it was done ... it didnt turn out to be a very good gif
though ... I used a free gif program ... that was before I used ulead's
gif animator). Thanks again for the kind words!
David King
In article <sui8dc...@corp.supernews.com>,
"Rebecca Lott" <rebec...@cableone.net> wrote:
> I followed each link and was greatly impressed how the image grew
from the
> pencil sketch to the finished PI image. That's a great technique. I
> imagine other people have done this sort of thing but yours are the
first
> I've seen. It would be interesting to see them side by side on a
webpage.
> Great work.
>
> Becky
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Kelly Sweet
thought provoking, as well. I agree, an animated gif would be a great way
to pass on the general technique. Thanks for posting.
Kelly