more painting

[egypturnash]

Finished that painting of the Nameless Monster Girl today.

I love the camelhair-stroke based brushes, but am endlessly annoyed that you can't, say, dip them into eraser instead of paint, or other weird effects. Painter's handling of low pressure on layers is broken, too; I can't really use some brushes because a light touch on them deposits canvas color, not selected paint color with lots of transparency.

I think I started to get a little overdetailed and fiddly with her right leg; I was tempted to erase the offending parts and start from the underpainting again, but didn't. This is just a piece to experiment with and learn from, not a Potential Masterpiece In Its Own Right.


I also had fun doing it with people watching over my shoulder. Not literally; I started up Snapperhead and mentioned the URL for semi-live screenshots to the folks hanging around the Peak on Here Lies Monsters. I think I shall have to try something like that again, the next time I'm working on art at the computer.

Comments

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Oh! To fix that thingy with Painter and the super-light strokes, try hitting the little "Use Underlying Color" box on the--I think it's the objects menu, but anyway, the one where the layers show up, right under the preserve transparency one. If I'm understanding the problem, that fixes it. (Or I could be on crack...)

Peace!