Painting Digitally

Hi ... here is another portrait ... this time of a painter friend of mine. He's in his studio with some of his paintings behind him.

Here's a charcoal drawing of a young miner from Andalusia. I got his photograph from the web (great photo!).

I drew it on Canson Mi-Teintes paper with a light grayish color (this is the background color). I also used some white charcoal for highlights (because the paper color is too dark for areas like the eyes and nose/cheek highlights).

I may use this drawing as an underpainting for a pastel painting ... after all it has all that's needed.

I have released a new set of tools for CS6 and CC (not CS5 or pre-CS5). This release gives a mechanism to omit brushes and tool presets from the full set: so you can keep only the brushes/tool presets you commonly use. You could also use the mechanism to keep multiple sets: for example one for pastels, one for charcoal, one for gouache, and one for watercolors.

The release number is v9.2.2. To get this release download your tools again and re-install them (the same link that you had for the previous release will work).

For a short explanation of how to use the new feature please see http://www.paintingdigitally.com/PI-help.htm %20Brushes

I will publish a short video in the next days showing the mechanism in practice.

I hope you like this addition: it should make brush/tool selection much easier.

Please let me know if you have any problems with the release.

Robert

Hi .. here is a painting that I published on the PaintingDigitally group a while back.

In the background I've tried to give the impression of lots of tones and movement and also a sort of dreamy feeling with the fading out at the bottom, with splashes like notes. As an experiment I painted the girl in a posterized way (I put down the lightest tone then a darker one on it, and another one on it (5 in all). It looks odd close up but is quite effective when viewed from a few feet away ... or you can squint your eyes a bit to get a similar effect). Painting in this way is quite a good exercise because it forces one to paint shapes rather than parts of a body or thing.

New installation instructions for PC

Hi, If you need to re-install for Photoshop CC 2018 (or previous versions) please view the new installation instructions here:
http://www.paintingdigitally.com/PV-installation.htm

Cheers

Robert

Painting Digitally - Installation Instructions for Photoshop