I finally got my hands on Corel Painter 9! And guess what, I don’t know what most of the functions do. I spent at least 4 hours yesterday attempting to try airbrushing for the first time, and it turned out surprisingly well for a first attempt. I was expecting pure garbage to result so I scanned some crappy sketch in and just coloured it – this is a grown-up Tilis from Keeper of the Soul. The background is pretty forgettable – I didn’t have a background in mind when I scanned in the crappy sketch and so had a rent-a-moon and rent-a-starry sky taken straight from Amber’s “The Dreaming” pic further down this page (Amber: you biatch!).

 

 

I had to port the background into Corel Photopaint and add it in there. I have no idea how to add glows to the characters in Painter – or perhaps you can’t do it at all?! I tried to look through the “help” part but no luck. If anyone knows, please tell me, it would be greatly appreciated. And I don’t understand why the “select” function is such a pain in the butt. At least you can actually PAINT in this program.