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Your Questions About Corel Painter Tutorials

Helen asks…

Where can I get good Corel Painter X tutorials?

Hi guys , I need some good tutorials about painting in corel painter like a pro .. just like the folks in cgsociety and conceptart !!! .. plz ?? I already looked in Corel website, they’re good, but I want more tutorials on Corel Painter X. Can you offer me links and such?

Timo answers:

Hi! There are lots of links to Corel Painter tutorials if you just do a Google search for them. Of course we have a ton of free things here are the magazine blog. Subscribe to the mag for sure, then check out our forum at Digital Painting Forum, look at the Digital Art Academy as well. If that doesn’t satisfy the need for good tuts here are some others that will get you started:

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Content&pid=1047022702185&cid=1047022737328

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-85904.html

http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Graphics/Image_Editing/Painter/FAQs,_Help,_and_Tutorials/

http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Portal:Tutorials

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68000

http://apps.corel.com/newsletter/paintercanvas/2006/04/index.html

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1166553885783#tabview=tab0

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/corel_painter/

http://www.pixelalley.com/

http://apps.corel.com/painterx/us/community_links.html

http://www.paintermagazine.co.uk/

Also there are a number of tutorials on http://www.deviantart.com/

Photo to Art Paint Like the Old Masters with Odwin Rensen

If you are looking for information on converting Photo to Art, this is one webinar that you should not miss. We had an AWESOME webinar with Odwin Rensen. People have been waiting for a long time for Odwin to share his digital painting techniques. We were not disappointed.

Odwin shared for over two and a half hours and held nothing back. He showed us his precise workflow and developed the image below as we watched and asked questions.

Photo to Art, Paint Like the Old Masters

Photo to art, or digital painting from photo reference has been on the rise for the last two years. It has virtually exploded. A ton of new art software has been released and more is on the way. In this webinar Odwin utilizes Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop to create the images above.

The other resources that Odwin put together for you took him some time. He produced at nice PDF that answers all of the questions that came up in the chat box. He also outlined the brushes used as well as providing the full PSD file so you can see what he was doing in each step while he was in Photoshop.

Thanks Odwin for giving the readers of Digital Paint Magazine and our classmates at Digital Art Academy a huge bang for their buck! You set the bar really high for the remaining webinars with the Summer Digital Art Summit.

If you have not purchased any webinars or you are interested in the videos from the webinars you can see the whole schedule at at:

http://www.digital-art-summit.com/index.html

If you are one of the lucky viewers of this webinar you can grab your resources at Odwin Rensen Webinar Resources.

Your password has been mailed to you if you have already purchased. If you are a new purchaser the pass will be mailed within 24 hours.

If you are interested in purchasing the brushes that Odwin uses in this webinar you can find them at Kelby Training. Tamara Fry-Pietsch is a DVD production editor at Kelby and was gracious enough to send me the following information.

All of the Brushes he used in the demo come from two DVD’s by Fay Sarkis:

The Majority of the brushes are from the
Celebration of Art, Weddings Portrait and Faces DVD Set:

Da Vinci
Vermeer
Cezanne
Rembrandt
Background
Portrait Hair Brushes

The remaining ones come from:

A Celebration of Art, Wild About Animals

Dog Hair Brushes
Wild Life Hair Brushes

The brushes were imbedded in the first DVD ONLY. The two DVD’s listed contain the brushes in a separate folder:) The whole workspace thing was too problematic, it worked for some machines and not others, so all of the brushes are accessible on those two discs with having to scrap them out of the workspace:)

Both DVD’s can be purchased @

http://www.kelbytraining.com/dvds/index.html