The Digital world of Skip Allen

In the beginning of the year when I started doing educational work for publishers, I’ve changed over to digital watercolours as it is easier to do changes on the illustrations.

I started out with Corel Painter 9 and I struggled to get the same feeling as when painting with original watercolours. I gave up and tweaked my work that it is almost the same but I was never happy with the final work.

I got Corel Painter 12 a week back and I was burning to try it out but I was still working on educational posters. The drafts are sending through to the publisher today and while I’m waiting for the go-ahead I thought I will try out Painter.

Everything looks different and sleeker and I was excited with the new things that Painter 12 is giving me. But I wasn’t very impressed with the brushes and I started searching on the internet for digital painters that used Painter 12. I came across a few that the work look so real that it blows my mind away.

On all the websites that I’ve visited they mentioned that they are using Skip Allen's Paint  brushes. I thought why not, if their work looks so wicked, mine can look like that as well. So I visited Skip’s blog and I was so fascinated! He got brush downloads and he even got videos showing how to install them. As you know I’m not very clued up with computers and this came very handy indeed!

I downloaded the brushes, installed them and I started trying it out. With every brush I tried, my smile got bigger and bigger. The brushes give the real effect I was looking for and my work look better!

Thanks Skip!

This is a picture that I did in my Moleskin

 

This one is done digitally with Skip's brushes