I was meaning to try out the watercolour function in Corel Painter 9, but I can’t understand how it worked (am I the only one with these sort of problems?). I was trying to imitate the style of another artist I found online, and was using their picture for reference, but I couldn’t figure out how they did their colouring. I LOOKED sorta like watercolour, but it probably wasn’t… anyway, I couldn’t get the watercolour working, so I tried to imitate the effect with airbrushing instead. And the result, the girl below with the rent-a-frame, looks NOTHING like what I want it to be. But at least it’s a different colouring method to the first airbrushed picture I did. Definately less “cute”. I could probably use this colouring style for “The Dreaming” pin-ups. Discovering new colouring styles are fun (even if that wasn’t my intention in the first place).

 

 

The original picture was a lot lighter than this one – I played around with the Gamma in Corel Photo-paint, and decided it looked much better with darker colours. I discovered the “sponge” tool and the “Airbrush – FineSpray” functions today. 🙂